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  • Writer's pictureIVECA Center
    • Jul 9, 2022
    • 1 min read

Mentors Are Getting Ready for the IVECA Global Virtual Summer Camp

Updated: Jul 16, 2022



IVECA has begun preparation for an exciting summer by welcoming instructors, mentors, and students to the 2022 Global Virtual Summer Camp. Throughout the two weeks, student participants will attend regular lectures by instructors specialized in Diplomacy for Achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mentors joining us from various educational backgrounds will play a special role leading students’ collaboration with their international peers. With the IVECA team, Mentors will encourage passion to take action for a better humanity..


This week the IVECA Team hosted the first Mentor Workshop. During this meeting, Mentors were able to get to meet one another and understand how to best support students during the camp. Each Mentor brought diverse ideas of global education and diplomacy but all shared a common goal of striving to learn alongside the students. Mentors are eager to meet their small groups and foster traits of compassion and empathy when it comes to learning about conflict and challenges from all over the world. Their enthusiasm and new perspectives will bring a new light to this year’s camp.


As summer camp begins July 22nd, stay tuned for student’s collaborative projects to find solutions to various SDGs through the application of new era diplomacy!



  • Writer's pictureIVECA Center
    • Jul 1, 2022
    • 2 min read

DHI students celebrate their 1st global virtual exchange project with Argentinian & Indian partners

Updated: Jul 1, 2022


On June 22, Daegu High School of International Studies (DHI) students from Korea had their first Live Class after DHI established a Global Partnership with IVECA by signing a Memorandum of Understanding earlier this year. Having the new initiative for the school, DHI teachers worked enthusiastically to arrange their classroom for the successful Live Class with their Argentinian and Indian IVECA partners.


This Live class came after three months of asynchronous collaborative work. Students from Korea and their partners from Argentina and India researched environmental issues in their countries and prepared their solutions to protect the natural environment of the global community as well as their country. Among the topics that interested Korean students were wildfires observed in many parts of the world, as it is also a serious environmental problem that occurs frequently especially in the eastern coast region of Korea.


Moreover, students were excited to learn about environmental problems from the partner countries. One Korean student shared, “It was a good opportunity to think about environmental problems that are common in our country and our partners' hard work to find solutions to them.” An Indian student said, “We were able to know about our country's environmental progress throughout the years thanks to IVECA and you all who made it possible.”


Celebrating the success of their first global virtual exchange, DHI principal expressed, “ Each school has shown their love and enthusiasm for their country and the protection of the environment in their country ... I believe that by working together we can learn and gain knowledge that will help us to be more internationally and environmentally minded people. Thank you for collaborating with us. I believe that together we can achieve and do more”.


  • Writer's pictureIVECA Center
    • Jun 25, 2022
    • 2 min read

Indian and Korean students promote the UN SDGs at the Global Creative Work Festival



Since April this semester, for two months, more than 200 IVECA students from India and Korea have been working together to prepare for a youth international virtual festival promoting creative works. Last week, the festival started as students presented creative works such as movies and literature from their countries and discussed the themes and ideas introduced in those works.


The international festival was not only to show creative works to each other for enjoyment. Besides learning about each other's cultures, the event aimed to highlight the relevance of the creative works with some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) and understand how creative works can help raise awareness about the SDGs locally and globally.


Students found that the creative works they worked on can be related to many Sustainable Development Goals, including Gender Equality, Quality Education, Reduced Inequalities, and many others. For example, a student from Korea shared that the director of the drama "Itaewon Class" intends to fight against an unreasonable society toward #SDG10, Reduced Inequalities. He added, "the solution of the gap between the rich and the poor in SDG10 can instill a desirable perception in people, by the appearance of the protagonist who protected small businesses from the tyranny of large companies". Indian students found that the movie "Dangal" is related to #SDG5 Gender Equality. They shared, "the movie is about a patriotic fighter who evolved his daughters into World Class Fighters."


Inspired by the presentations at the festival, A Korean student expressed, "I was able to learn the mindset of not giving up until the end and felt that I need to work hard to achieve my goals." One Indian student commented, "Through the Korean students' presentations, I got to learn about Korean culture and cinema. I also learned that social events can be shown through films as these works are the mirror of society".


This virtual festival allowed students to engage their international friends using their unique elucidation of the creative works. To do so, some Indian students made their own inspirational videos to introduce their homeland's creative work and the SDGs reflected in the work. The following example video presents students' insights on their society addressing gender inequality in their movie:




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