In another presentation, Bianca Kopp from the Global Resource for Anti-Corruption Education and Youth Empowerment at the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) stressed the importance of education in the fight against corruption and crime.
The acquired knowledge was directly put into practice in the afternoon: in working groups the teachers developed lesson plans for their students to learn about the UN and SDG-related issues, such as environmental protection, health, and human rights. Afterward, the lesson plans were shared, demonstrating an impressive variety of creative approaches that could be used at schools. The teachers’ ideas ranged from film screenings to theatre plays and group works.
The day ended with the teachers expressing their gratitude for the interesting insights and takeaways from the workshop: “Thank you for the very fruitful, informative and enlightening workshop. I will certainly bring students to the UN in Vienna and work on the SDGs explicitly.”, one participant said afterwards. Denisa Ďuranová, Research and Project Officer for language policy and international cooperation at NIVAM, thanked UNIS Vienna for “a fantastic workshop with a pleasant atmosphere, full of interesting and beneficial information”.
