GLOBAL FORUM

APRIL 25, 2021
"The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Education"
Keynote Speaker: L.I.E. Roger Errejon Alaniz, Coordinador de la Zona Centro Altiplano, de Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de San Luis Potosi, Republica Federal de Mexico.
Guest Speaker: Prof.Rocco Romeo, Universidad G. MARCONI, de Roma, Italia
5pm CET | 11am EST | 8am PST

The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection. More important than ever, the goals provide a critical framework for COVID-19 recovery.

Education enables upward socioeconomic mobility and is a key to escaping poverty. Over the past decade, major progress was made towards increasing access to education and school enrollment rates at all levels, particularly for girls. Nevertheless, about 260 million children were still out of school in 2018 — nearly one fifth of the global population in that age group. And more than half of all children and adolescents worldwide are not meeting minimum proficiency standards in reading and mathematics.

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