The flagship and the international activities, suggested by UNESCO, are related to the themes mentioneted before:

• This is ourT ime Project offers  a concentrated, an intercultural and a real-time dialogue that allows participants to investigate a theme and enrich it with other points of view through pedagogic activities online organised  by the students in each country

www.timeproject.org

• The flagship Baltic Sea Project, created in 1989, through the agreement between 300 Associated Schools of nine countries around the Baltic Sea, allowed students to study water quality, costal observation and environmental history to succeed in improving the environment of the sea that unites them.

www.b-s-p.org

• The flagship Western Mediterranean Sea Project, was launched in 1994 in countries to the North and South of the Mediterranean like: Algeria, Andorra, France, Italy, Libia, Morocco, Spain e Tunisia. The international Coordination has been assigned to UNESCOcat (Centre UNESCO of Catalonia). Schools in nine countries are working under this project on themes connected with: ethnography, water, habitat and biodiversuty.

www.unescocat.org

• The flagship Caribbean Sea Project has been mobilizing schools in the Caribbean on the theme of the environment since 1994. Thanks to the scientific and technological content of its pedagogical meterials, students are able to investigate, for example, solutions to protect the corals or mangroves of their region. This project has led  to the creation of another, The Sandwatch Project, the aim of which is to train students in scientific coastal observation and sample collection so as to help reduce the pollution of the Caribbean Sea.

• The pedagogical Kit on Combating Desertification was produced in cooperation with UNESCO’s Science Sector and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (www.unccd.int/), and tasted in Associated Schools. The overall message is positive: desertification is not inevitabile and we all have a role to play at our own level. (kit: 30 euro, unesco.org/publications. Contact: Thomas Schaaf, Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. )

• Ramsar, a game produced  with the International Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, gives players pedagogical and scientific advice on the vital importance of such zones for the ecological balance of the world. It has been tested in Associated Schools the world over

www.ramsar.org

• The youthXchange Project on sustainable consumption is a joint creation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and UNESCO and aims to help associations and teachers to raise awareness in young people, who are the consumers of tomorrow. A guide published in 13 languages and website offer concrete, accessibile solutions for adopting sustainable forms of consumption. The project also deals with the basic issues and questions of ethics, with a view to encouraging young people to look carefully at their values and choices.

www.youthxchange.net

• Breaking the Silence, a flagship project on the transatlantic slave trade, brings together Associated Schools from the three continents that share this charter of  history (Africa, Europe, America). Since 1998, this project has aimed to increase knowledge on causes and awareness on consequences of slavery and the slave trade and discover the contribution made by Aficans to the development of the America and Western Europe. This project foresees also the analysis of  modern forms of slavery and racism. Is also possible to use a comic strip called  The slave ship Fredensborg that develops the history of the last  slave-ship. The original publication, in Norwegian, written by Kurt Aust, Leif Svalesen e Kin Wessel, had a great success. For that reason, was translated in 13 languages. The material, produced by UNEP in collaboration with UNESCO, and is translation in italian, were realized, for the national Coordination, by Stefania Mozzino, Alice Felterovitch and Donato di Bartolomeo. The italian version called “Gli schiavi della Fredensborg”, was published in 2001 by the Centre of Studies Erickson of Trento.

• The international campaign All Equal in Diversity: Mobilizing Schools Against Racism, Discrimination and Exclusion was launched in 2005 among Associated Schools as part of this flagship project. Schools make commitment for three years, during which they carry out campaign activities such as analysing the media, researching on the Internet, or organizing conferences. A support Kit containing  a practical manual, a CD-ROM, a poster and stickers is available in English or French at the CNI.

• With Mondialogo School Contest for secondary schools, launched in 2003, students twinned in teams learn to understand and appreciate one another as they work on the concrete realization of joint projects

www.mondialogo.org

• The project World Heritage in Young Hands, was launched in 1994 with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, to awaken students and teachers to the value of monuments and natural sites part of the UNESCO’s World Heritage list. A Kit, that brings the same name of the project, a valid aid for teachers, was translated in 25 languages. The italian version, created with the financial support of Cassa di Risparmio Foundation of Rome, is available in every Armando Editore store.