This course focuses on the main challenges that children and adolescents face in the world today. That is saying the challengs of humanity, its impact on children, how they cope, their proposals and how these should influence governments and corporate´s policies and practices.
In this course, students will be better equipped to speak about and deal with global issues, through the lens of children and adolescents, their lives and aspirations.

The course covers top global agenda issues as Povert and Inequality, Conflict or Climate Change, all of them with a children focus. Students are expected to know the basics of these big challenges although some general information will be given for each one of them in the sessions.

A key content of the course are the ideas, solutions and proposals coming from UN agencies as UNICEF and big iNGOs as Oxfam as well as from children and adolescents themselves. The Right to Participation is a central one in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Participation experiences and methodologies will be shared as well as proposals coming out of these spaces for the students to consider.

The course will cover the past, including those successes of humanity when tackling poverty or global diseases. We will stop in the situation that we have today, the regression in some children indicators, the expansion of authoritarism and conflict, and the impact of Climate Change. We will then focus on the role of governments and companies, and on the proposals for them to protect and preserve the future of humanity. The children and youth.