The 2025 IVECA Global Youth Mentorship Program (iGYMP) Live Class, themed “STEAM for Sustainable Cities,” capped off a semester of shared learning between university mentors from the United States and high school students from South Korea. Exploring global challenges through the lens of education, dialogue and collaboration, the mentors from New York University, City University of New York and Anderson University (South Carolina) and students from Noeun High School in Daejeon

What does a sustainable city look like when viewed from different parts of the world? Through IVECA Live Classes, students from Cameroon, China, Korea, Mexico, and Singapore examined this question by connecting global challenges to the realities of their own communities. As they shared ideas on climate action, urban development, and social responsibility, it became clear that sustainability is shaped as much by local context as it is by global goals. These exchanges invited s

Friday, December 12th, marked a meaningful milestone in the life-long journey towards global citizenship for two middle school classes separated by thousands of miles. Following a semester of in-class and virtual collaboration, the students from South Carolina, USA, and Uttar Pradesh, India, joined their IVECA Live Class to present their research on problems identified in their countries and initiatives the youth in their communities can take  to improve people’s lives, imagi

In preparation for the upcoming IVECA Live Class sessions, teachers from Colombia, India, Korea, and South Africa convened virtually to...

On June 12, IVECA partners from India and South Korea joined together for their Live Class, presenting about inequalities in their...