Here you can find good ideas, teaching activities and materials which put global challenges, intercultural understanding, human rights and sustainable development on the agenda of pupils and teachers alike.
The UNESCO school network started in 1953, and can therefore celebrate its 50^th anniversary with over 7,000 participating schools spread over the world in 171 countries. The school network is also known as ASP-net where ASP denotes the Associated Schools Project Network.

The aims of this network of schools affiliated to UNESCO is to enhance dialogue and co-operation across the boundaries of countries, cultures and continents and in doing so contribute to peaceful co-existence and to the development of a culture and education for peace, thereby supporting the tasks and fundamental values of the UN and UNESCO.

The participating schools are regarded as pilot schools, who, through the development of experimental teaching and materials and work with international themes, can transmit their results and inspire and encourage relevance and quality in education and learning on a local, national and international level. In doing so ASP can also contribute to the work aimed at the objectives of UNESCO - quality and education for all.

The ASP projects cover work incorporating the following four themes:

- Peace, security and international co-operation and the role of the UN
- Human rights and the fight against racism, discrimination and intolerance
- Intercultural education and understanding
- Regional and global issues on the environment and sustainable development

To update these values and to make them relevant for all pupils the Danish school network has until now focused on the following projects: The Baltic Sea Project (BSP), The Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project (TST) and The World Heritage Education Project. (WHE)

The activities are based on a solid foundation of present school subjects where a purposeful and systematic development of skills, knowledge and personal competence is at the forefront. At the same time the pupils are inspired to clarify their own values and opinions, and by doing so they develop the tools needed to live and act in a world of perpetual globalisation and to take responsibility for the forming of a common future.