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CTAUN Global Citizen Award

With this award CTAUN is recognizing persons or organizations who have contributed in a major way and on a global scale to education, and in particular to promoting global citizenship. The CTAUN Global Citizen Award in memory of Barbara M. Walker was created to honor our founder who passed away in 2016.  The first recipient was Dr. Fernando Reimers from Harvard University, who was honored at our 2017 conference. In 2018 the award was given to The Right Honorable Gordon Brown. The 2019 recipient of the CTAUN Global Citizen Award is Richard Curtis, noted film director and SDG Champion. Mr. Curtis was unable to be present in person but he sent a video message. The 2020 recipient is Cora Weiss

CURRENT EVENTS

Due to COVID-19 we are organizing a series of webinars online until it is safe again to hold in-person conferences at UN Headquarters in New York. Our most recent webinar "CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL HEATING: WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER TO RESTORE OUR BROKEN PLANET" took place April 22, 2022. Details and a link to the video are on the CONFERENCE page.

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

"MULTILINGUALISM - THE NEW GLOBAL COMPETENCE STANDARD: MOTHER LANGUAGE +2" took take place Monday February 21, 2022
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Our 21st CTAUN Conference at UN Headquarters in New York "WAR NO MORE" honored the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and its purpose as outlined in the Charter.
Click here for information on previous conferences

The CTAUN GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARD was established in 2017 to honor the memory of CTAUN co-founder Barbara Walker. The first recipient was The Right Honorable Gordon Brown in 2018, followed by Richard Curtis in 2019. The 2020 recipient was Cora Weiss.

TEACHER RESOURCES

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are for everyone and everyone needs to know about them and participate in their implementation. Look for inspiration to teach about the SDGs and other UN topics under the Teacher Resources tab.