📣 20th of January – Today, we celebrate the World Day of Social Justice, an annual milestone for EfVET mission: recognizing the need to promote social justice, which includes efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion, gender inequality, unemployment, human rights, and social protections. 

📌 This year’s theme, “Empowering Inclusion: Bridging Gaps for Social Justice”, highlights the significance of inclusive policies and social protection in managing systematic inequality. 🔎 Learn more: https://www.un.org/en/observances/social-justice-day 

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📒 As we celebrate this day, it’s important to face the key challenge of defending VET as an educational pathway to avoid inequality and promote social justice. To this extent, EfVET, alongside many other VET organizations, is working on developing effective strategies that form students in an appropriate way, focusing on developing inclusive policies. 

⏩ This desire was reflected also in the recent event that EfVET attended, the Speak&Act project, part of the Erasmus+ initiative, focused on integrating Public Speaking (PS) as a methodology for teaching and learning Citizenship Education in secondary schools. 

📒 A group of Italian students delivered inspiring TED Talks addressing various needs related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They advocated for the importance of Erasmus+ in promoting European Citizenship, the universal right to education, gender equality, and human rights, topics extremely related to Social Justice. 

📷 Check out the playlist here with #TedTalks from the students: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSuWresNr6oNegoWXhc0g0tTxBIowFpl 

📣 Read the full event report: https://efvet.org/speakact-global-citizenship-public-speaking/ 

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📌 Finally, we recall the crucial role of #NGOs in providing VET services, but more importantly, the recognition of the crucial role played by VET in #inclusion, supporting people with #disadvantage.  

More info: Inclusive Vocational Excellence Hub. 

Discover more on the report

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