Dr Emma Newport

Lockdown Live | Bringing Students Together Across Continents

Lockdown Live | Bringing Students Together Across Continents

With the global pandemic transforming education and shifting education online, a new collaboration has seen a number of global students come together to talk about their experiences of living through the pandemic. Lockdown Live, an online series that aimed to unite students remotely, brought together Sussex Writes, a community project which sends Sussex students into schools to work with pupils on creative projects and writing projects and The Youth Café – a pan-African NGO which has a mission to advance youth-led approaches on a number of global issues.

Lockdown Live! | Finding Youth-Led Solutions To COVID-19 | The Youth Cafe

Lockdown Live! | Finding Youth-Led Solutions To COVID-19 | The Youth Cafe

A new series of events aimed at bringing together students situated on two different continents is set to begin next month, with the aim of discussing the current Covid-19 global crisis.

The Youth Cafe Shares Its Innovative Communication Strategies With Six Municipalities | The Youth Cafe

The Youth Cafe Shares Its Innovative Communication Strategies With Six Municipalities | The Youth Cafe

Between 3rd and 5th of March 2020, the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) and The Youth Café met to share innovative communication strategies and dissemination approaches at the Municipal Partnership Programme Dissemination conference. The conference was held at the Gelian Hotel in Machakos, Kenya, and was attended by five municipal partnerships between Sweden, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.