This news is from CityNet Yokohama Project Office (CYO)

SDGs Youth Action Program

Continuing from the past program in 2023, CYO promoted SDGs Youth Action Program in 2024. The biggest difference compared to previous year’s program is that the program started to utilize VR technology for exchanging activities. In the VR room, students can show their presentation material and communicate with each other by operating VR characters. On Nov 8th, the first online exchange meeting was held between Minatomiraihoncho Elementary School, Japan and Ulaanbaatar 23rd School, Mongolia. The 4th grade students from both of schools presented their daily activity on SDGs and asked various questions to each other. For example, “How do Japanese students clean rooms by themselves?”, “Are there enough trash boxes in your city area?” and “When you discuss with your classmate, what opinions on upcycle were suggested?” As both school students consider SDGs in their daily life, everyone got interested in the other countries’ environmental issues and opinions on it. On Jan 23rd, the second online exchange meeting was held between Minatomiraihoncho Elementary School and Pedurungan Tengah 2 Elementary School in Semarang city, Indonesia. In this exchange meeting, not only presentations on student’s daily SDGs activities but also opinions on the future city they want to live in were discussed. These opinions were organized and students got fully familiar with each other. CYO will continuously support their exchange activities toward fostering the next generation.

This news was created by Ms. Akiko Yamakoshi at CityNet Yokohama Project Office (CYO).