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CE2019: "Façam perguntas. Façam melhor. Façam barulho"
CE2019: "Ask questions and make some noise"
Day one of The Estoril Conferences 2019 kicked off at Nova Business School, Carcavelos, with a series of youth focused conferences. "Change the World Through Education," "Lets Support New Change makers" and "How to Resolve the Global Learning Crisis" where the themes debated during the event, with an audience composed mainly of undergrad college students.
Ahmad Nawaz, a young activist for peace and education from Pakistan, told the audience how he survived an attack from the Taliban in his native city of Peshawar, five years ago. At least 150 of his fellow students died in the attack. One of them was his younger brother. Ahmad Nawaz now lives in the UK, where he studies and manages projects aimed at combating radical speech and hate crimes. Ahmad asked the audience not to forget about the importance of education: "Before we try to change the world, we must value the education we benefit from and the opportunities he enjoyed in this part of the world we live in." Pedro Espírito Santo, the EU representative at the Y20, the G20 Youth Summit, that is taking place in Tokyo, said nationalism constitutes a major source of danger. Talking to other speakers and to the audience via Skype, he said the conferences are a way to empower Portuguese youth and include them in the Global debate.
Espírito Santo also said the European project is based in all aspects of freedom, but, in these times of uncertainty, freedom id threatened by four types of tyranny - the tyranny of the obvious, the tyranny of fear, the tyranny of indifference and the tyranny of inaction. "We must stop being Facebook activists and we must look to engage more socially and politically."
Portuguese surfer Teresa Bonvalot told the young audience how her experience as a professional surfer helped her growing as a person. She said her education took place not only in school, but by traveling alone to take part in surf tournaments all over the world. Bonvalot said she left her comfort zone and face different cultures and ways of living and that made her appreciate what she has at home and to understand that nothing is achieve without some degree of effort.
The Executive Director of Amnesty International Portugal, Pedro Neto, said it is important to "have students and teachers rebuild the trust they used to have in education." "Education is very important if we are trying to make this a better world," he said. "I don't want likes, I want engagement," Neto added. Finally, Pedro Almeida, the co-founder of Teach for All Portugal, took the floor. For him, the World has failed its children and underprivileged youth. Almeida thinks the global system is not ready to integrate children of all social classes in a framework were all enjoy the same opportunities.
The Youth Summit at Estoril Conferences 2019 ended with a demand from José Maria del Corral, one of the moderators. He said to the young audience they should continue "asking questions, making things better and making noise."
