Mission
In order to translate UNESCO’s ideals into concrete action, UNESCO launched the Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) in 1953. ASPnet is a network of committed schools
- engaged in fostering and delivering quality education
- in pursuit of peace, liberty, justice and human development
- in order to meet the pressing educational needs of children and young people throughout the world.
ASPnet schools are ‘navigators for peace’ and agents for positive change :
- They are instrumental to achieving Education for All as expressed in the six Dakar goals adopted by the World Education Forum, 2000;
- Work towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals;
- Contribute to the implementation of UNESCO’s strategies and programmes in education, science, culture and communication;
- Serve as laboratories of ideas on innovative approaches for quality education for all;
- Translate the four pillars of education for the 21st century -- learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together—into good practices of quality education.