Educommunication for global citizenship promoting the transformative potential of adolescents in the era of information

How is it possible to realize an educational approach that is able to value adolescents by promoting rights, transmitting competences and attitudes, and fostering motivation to participate and transform the globalized world of today? On the basis of various contributions collected with different stakeholders, the Thesis presents a conceptual and practice-oriented reflection on this question and identifies Educommunication as a successful paradigm in promoting everyone’s opportunity and capacity to change the world with a human rights-based perspective. As a concrete example, this Thesis refers to Let’s Take Care of the Planet - Europe (LTCP), an Educommunication-based project organized in Europe since 2009 and inspired by three National Youth Conferences and one International Children and Youth Conference for the Environment held in Brazil starting from 2003. LTCP aims at mobilizing students, teachers and the whole “educational community” to promote political actions in the field of human rights education, education for global citizenship and socio-environmental education.