About the Global Issues Network

Global Issues Network Mission: ​

To empower young people to collaborate locally, regionally and globally in order to create sustainable solutions for global issues.

Global Issues Networks (GINs) are successfully connecting students as they research and seek sustainable solutions to global issues around the world-currently in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America. GINs are groups of students and teachers, working internationally, to develop solutions for global issues. GINs challenge students and teachers to immerse themselves in a chosen issue and to collaborate with peers and other international members to create networks, to think and act critically and creatively. GINs work towards creating innovative sustainable solutions to address real-world global issues. The GIN Conferences, like the one in April, bring these student groups together to network, get inspiration, and learn from each other.​

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The Global Issues Network (GIN) Conferences empower young people to develop sustainable solutions to address global problems and to implement their ideas with the support of the network. The key ideas are based on the book, High Noon- 20 Global Problems, 20 years to Solve Them by Jean Francois Rischard.

​"I strongly believe that it will take the combination of a new method of global problem solving and a new mindset … Schools have a pressing responsibility in this regard to expose the next generations more systematically to these global problems and to help develop the new mindset that is needed --- the 'global citizens first' mindset…tomorrow’s generations must develop a networking-oriented mindset if they are going to solve the burning global problems that stare us in the face.” - Jean Francois Rischard