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On 23rd October, over 300 students and educators from 37 countries attended the first global symposium for students. Organized in online modality by the Uniservitate hub for Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East hub (CEE & ME), the event offered a preview of the variety of experiences shared two weeks later at the VI Uniservitate Global Symposium.
The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany hosted this five-hour student meeting, which was moderated by a team coordinated by Olha Mykhailyshyn. María Rosa Tapia, coordinator of Uniservitate, and Alina Rusu, professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), delivered the welcome speech.
The young students presented their of solidarity service-learning experiences, addressing community health and resilience in Palestine, emotional education and mental health in the Philippines, climate action and carbon emission reduction in India, research on spiritual and mental well-being in Kenya, social justice initiatives in the United States, cultural projects in war contexts in Ukraine, teaching children in rural areas in Tanzania, and digital literacy for elderly people with disabilities in Argentina.
It was a meeting full of discussions and active listening among young people worldwide, making a new edition next year a must.