Gaia Changemakers Program
Points forts
- Développement holistique
- Diversité culturelle sur trois sites
- L'apprentissage par l'expérience, qui dure toute la vie
- Corporate networking opportunities
Focused on STEM for an enriched camp experience.
Vue d'ensemble
The Gaia ChangeMakers Program combines fun, challenge and transformation. A camp to inspire 15 to 19 year-olds over three weeks to discover themselves, their values, inner strength and potential. The camp starts in Zurich, then Prague, and finishes in the beautiful Swiss Alps. Students explore global challenges like meeting energy demands, circular economies and sustainability, and a solutions based approach to build the hope, skills, and values needed to address them.
EXPÉRIENCES CLÉS :
- Immersive art and engineering projects (e.g. painting a mural in a Swiss Village and building a remote controlled hydrogen fuelled car)
- Hands-on workshops (e.g. Inner Transition work to take action, Climate Fresk to understand the causes and effects of climate change, conflict management skills...)
- Company visits, and expert talks around circular economy, supply chain and more (e.g. Patagonia, Panasonic, Planted Foods and more)
- Excursions and activities in a variety of urban and natural settings. (e.g. staying on a glacier, hikes, swimming in the lakes, visiting a Swiss Chocolate factory, sightseeing and more!)
PRINCIPALES RÉALISATIONS :
- Develop skills that set you up for life, and universities and employers highly value in their best recruits, such as systems thinking (complexity awareness), problem solving like an innovator (using design thinking) and conflict management (leadership and communication).
- Using the "Inner Development Goals" skills are coupled with values like empathy building, developing a sense of being, inclusion, respect and resilience.
- Students are challenged to consider possible careers, even ones that may not yet exist.
- International Baccalaureate Diploma students may use the program to meet a number of the "CAS" (Creativity, Activity, Service) requirements.
- Learning and friends to last a lifetime.
Le programme a été créé par Make The Change, fondé par Diya Kanoria. Elle a mené de nombreux voyages à l'étranger avec des étudiants, au cours de sa longue expérience en tant qu'enseignante dans le secondaire au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis et en Suisse. Grâce à l'enseignement et en tant qu'ancienne responsable du programme d'études à l'école internationale de Zurich, Diya a une profonde appréciation du pouvoir de transformation de l'éducation. Elle est titulaire de deux masters de l'université de Cambridge et de l'université Duke.
The program is the product of several collaborations and partnerships, for example with Felix Keller, Professor at the University ETH Zurich, UNESCO Bioreserve Engadin, Netpathie, the TransformActionLab, APAG Elektronik, Freitag Lab, Planted Foods, Patagonia and more.
Students can participate as semi or fully residential students. Semi-residential students do not need accommodation in Zurich, and will be with their families on the weekends. We know three weeks may seem long during summer vacations, but meaningful transformation takes time, and we are confident you will want it to be longer once you take part!
All participants receive a Gaia ChangeMaker Certificate, and will be invited to join our "Gaia Fellowship Program", with lifelong access to the Community, a safe and secure way for Fellows to collaborate on projects and to explore curated content and exchange ideas.
15-19 ans
From July 14th to August 1st
3 semaines
De $6,452
Anglais
Max 30 campeurs
Co-Education
Partagé
Activités
Académique
Calendrier
Hébergement et installations
In Zurich, Prague, and the Engadin accommodation will be in modern youth hostels with high safety and cleanliness standards. Rooms will be shared with other program participants of the same sex. Gender considerations may be discussed on a case-by-case basis. Private bathrooms are a possibility, but unfortunately, we are not able to guarantee this. In the mountains, we will be in a remote and traditional Swiss Mountain Hut for 2 nights that we will hike to. Mountain huts of Switzerland are unique and world-renowned for allowing access to some of the remotest locations of the Alps. Hence, accommodation is simple. Students will have shared accommodation with other participants and shared bathrooms.
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Q&R
Once a participant has filled out the registration form, an invoice will be issued and must be paid in full by the due date to complete the registration process. Payment can be made in installments in certain cases if agreed upon with Make The Change GmbH. To help with your planning as best as we can, until 1st January 2025, you can cancel within 2 weeks of paying for your space and get a full refund, minus a CHF 200 processing fee. With any cancellation after 2 weeks of paying, or from 1st January 2024 until 1st February 2025, you can get a 50% refund. All cancellations from 1st February 2025 onward will be fully charged. We advise students to take out appropriate insurance to cover cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances such as illness, inability to obtain an entry visa for Switzerland, force majeure circumstances such as events/occurrences that are out of the control of the participant or Make The Change GMBH such as, but not limited to, natural disasters, pandemics, airport strikes, accidents, technical difficulties, conflicts, fire, and bad weather conditions. No refund will be made for a shortened stay, missed activities or workshops, withdrawal or dismissal during the camp, or force majeure circumstances.
Localisation
The nearest airport to Gaia Changemakers Program is Zurich. Airport pickup is available upon request. Fully-residential participants will be met and greeted at Zurich airport, or the main Zurich train station. Transfer to/from the airport to the program will be arranged 1 day before the program begins, and up to 1 day after the program ends. Transfers to/from other airports or stations or on other days can be arranged.
Son dévouement à la durabilité (Diya) est une source d'inspiration et c'est quelque chose que je veux imiter dans mon avenir. Plus important encore, elle m'a montré que la durabilité ne se limite pas à un seul secteur. Ce sentiment m'a donné beaucoup d'espoir, car avant ce cours, je pensais que les carrières durables se limitaient aux sciences de l'environnement ou à l'urbanisme.
Mme Kanoria a eu un impact profond sur mon développement personnel en tant qu'enseignante, mentor et confidente. Je me souviens avec émotion des voyages que nous avons effectués ensemble, comme la construction de maisons en Roumanie ou la navigation dans les arbres au parc de cordes. Elle m'a soutenue pendant des années d'adolescence atypiques et instables, et elle m'a motivée en me faisant confiance pour faire mieux à l'école et en dehors de l'école.
Alexander Degenhardt
Fondateur de Cikumas GmbH
Étudiant à l'université de Saint-Gall
Non seulement Diya est réfléchie et se soucie réellement de ses élèves, mais elle est aussi profondément passionnée par son métier et par l'idée d'offrir aux apprenants l'éducation la plus efficace et la plus percutante possible. Ainsi, elle ouvre franchement la voie à nos futurs apprenants, enseignants et scientifiques. Par sa gentillesse, sa détermination à changer et sa passion pour l'enseignement, elle a joué un rôle déterminant dans ma formation. C'est un privilège d'avoir reçu l'enseignement d'une personne comme elle et d'avoir eu la chance de la considérer comme un mentor, un professeur et un modèle.
Lucy Sparks,
Étudiante à l'université de Maastricht