Thank you - Full deployment and continental mobilization ongoing
Quick update on the work ongoing, invitation to spread the word on the roll-out of interoperable systems to eradicate abuse, reduce poverty and restore sanitary conditions through education in schools
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Executive summary: all remaining EU BEACON One Health education systems will be deployed within days. The action is already scaling into the thousands, pending a big expansion round. We call on scientists, educators, administrators, civil servants and policymakers across every region and level to mobilize in support of one health and education as top priorities. Our mandate is as urgent and important as it gets: to ready and activate a resilient continental network, EU COST area-wide, capable of rising up new generations skilled and willing to face the current crisis they are set to inherit, eradicating abuse and neglect along the way, reduces poverty, and restore the social and sanitary conditions required for durable public wellbeing. This initiative pursues measurable prevention, accountable governance and restorative care so that every child and family can reclaim dignity and opportunity.
Please, unsubscribe in case you are not interested in this, your action if you wish, any longer. The bare basic infrastructure to run it is almost ready. Technical platforms, communication channels, governance and organization utils, and all first deployment procedures are being tested, readying to be rolled out in the next few days. It is required for teams across participating institutions to be prepared to provide training, local hosting and on-the-ground support so that schools, health centers and municipal offices can connect and operate autonomously using our stack, once needed. The action leadership will provide all materials and induction sessions in order to enable and support the current deployment. Implementation emphasizes interoperability, data protection and low bandwidth resilience so that services perform reliably in urban and remote settings alike. This and more, all will be part of our first year of funded action, through new consortia and funded missions, all working groups engaged, with enough quorum and expertise engaged on all fronts. Next steps will allow us to share a detailed road map for the next few funded years, and a clear map to the calls and short term objectives to be achieved. Following is the script of a new video, coming soon:
Wars, extinctions, conflict, violence.
These are not distant words.
They are the world into which children are born.
Pandemics, hunger, displacement.
A damaged climate, collapsing ecosystems, weakened institutions.
Each connected to the others.
Human health, animal health, environmental health.
One system.
Break one part, and all collapse together.
The question is direct.
What difference will it make to prepare children for this reality.
The difference is everything.
Education can be a shield.
Education can be a tool.
Education can be a cure.
Children prepared in this way do not simply inherit collapse.
They grow into knowledge.
They grow into skill.
They grow into courage.
They grow into responsibility.
And they act.
Picture students in classrooms not memorizing abstractions.
Picture them testing water, measuring air, monitoring biodiversity.
Picture them mapping disease, tracing misinformation, debating decisions.
Picture their results shared across borders, compared, improved, and acted on.
This is not enrichment for a few.
This is the new foundation of education.
Curricula built for resilience, peace, and health.
Apprenticeships, extra projects, exchanges across countries, challenge-based learning.
Homework that brings science into families.
Teachers guiding children through real-world problems.
Headmasters and professors anchoring change in institutions.
Public and private actors working together.
Children learning open science and open technology as shared tools.
Not closed products.
Not gated privileges.
Open.
Transparent.
Reproducible.
Shared by all.
Open science means knowledge, methods, and data are not locked away.
They are published, tested, and shared.
They are improved by many minds, not hidden behind paywalls or vendor contracts.
This is how vaccines were developed at record speed.
This is how climate data is understood.
This is how trust is built.
Highest standards of science at the hands of students.
State of the art methods made usable in classrooms.
A few decades ago, a video like this could not reach an audience.
Today, technology makes sharing knowledge instant.
The same must be true for science.
The tools of analysis, translation, collaboration, communication.
Placed directly into the hands of students.
So that their world is not only explained to them.
It becomes workable.
Healing, not harming.
Understanding, not dividing.
For diseases, for ecosystems, for societies torn by violence.
Not gene editing, not reckless speculation.
The focus is on prevention, on health, on recovery.
On fitting humanity to its best capacities.
This is not one initiative alone.
It is a network of allies.
Teachers, professors, professionals.
Civil society organizations, ministries, school districts, universities.
Governments, communities, families.
Victims in war zones who need relief.
Communities facing floods, droughts, or pandemics who need solutions.
It is urgent for them.
It is urgent for all.
Across Europe, schools and ministries already use these methods.
Videoconferencing platforms made for education, not business.
Translation tools for cross-border work.
Messaging systems that secure identities.
Governance platforms that allow students to debate, propose, and decide.
These are not ideas on paper.
They are deployed and growing.
Children learn with them today.
And with each use, with each mission, more allies join.
Headmasters decide to adopt.
Teachers decide to introduce projects.
Professors decide to mentor.
Students decide to participate.
Communities decide to support.
The work is urgent.
Victims of war need recovery.
Victims of hunger need solutions.
Victims of disease need prevention.
The children of every neighborhood, every region, every state, need education that fits reality.
This cannot wait.
It cannot be delayed until after the next conflict, the next pandemic, the next collapse.
The responsibility belongs to all, today.
The technological foundation is already being provided.
Videoconferencing, communication, project management, governance, translation, data collection.
Open-source, transparent, sovereign.
The strictest methods are already applied.
Standards of science, reproducibility, and ethical governance.
Placed into the hands of children, teachers, and communities.
This is education designed for a connected, demanding world.
Not training for exams alone.
Training for survival.
Training for sustainability.
Training for prosperity.
The future can be bright.
It can bring health, longevity, and even the opening of the space age.
But only if children learn to face reality as it is.
Not filtered, not hidden, not simplified beyond recognition.
Reality measured, analyzed, debated, acted upon.
This is what makes the difference.
The difference between collapse and recovery.
Between despair and resilience.
Between decline and renewal.
Teachers know this.
Professors know this.
Headmasters know this.
Professionals across fields know this.
They see what children face.
They see what is at stake.
And they see how urgent it is.
The invitation is open.
To teachers, professors, and headmasters.
To scientists and professionals.
To ministries and civil society.
To parents and communities.
To students themselves.
Join.
Contribute.
Communicate.
Disseminate.
Help make this sustainable.
Help make it impactful.
Every ally strengthens the work.
Every member expands the reach.
Every participant multiplies the effect.
This is the foundation.
Open science, open technology, strictest methods.
Education designed to meet wars, extinctions, conflict, and violence.
Children equipped to solve problems across borders and disciplines.
The future made workable.
The future made bright, as bright as collective will allows.
Participation is not optional.
It is the difference.
The difference between leaving children defenseless,
and giving them the tools to rebuild.
It is our collective hope to, someday soon, see this reposted on social media, as well as shared in more conventional channels. Several other multimedia materials are now under development. Please, spread the word. Invite in, join us if not yet a member. The objective is systemic and measurable. We aim to place one health and comprehensive education at the centre of public policy by promoting coordinated prevention, early intervention and continuous evaluation. Interventions will combine curricular reform, teacher capacity building, community outreach and integrated surveillance for social determinants of health. Performance will be tracked with transparent indicators covering coverage, quality, equity and outcomes so that resources are directed where they generate the greatest benefit.
https://health.int.eu.org/membership.html
The human imperative guides our work. We seek to abolish practices that inflict physical and psychological harm and to repair the social systems that permit cruelty to persist. Programs will prioritize trauma-informed care, legal support pathways and restorative services that enable recovery and reintegration. Ethical safeguards, community oversight and clear accountability mechanisms will accompany all activities to prevent unintended harms and protect vulnerable populations.
It is in our hands, for this ongoing effort to succeed or not. Sustainability depends on broad participation. We invite school districts, professional associations, civil society organisations and elected officials to join this effort by committing resources, hosting pilots and facilitating local adoption. Partnerships with universities and non-profit research centers will support evidence generation and continuous improvement. Funding models combine public support, philanthropic contributions and in-kind institutional backing to ensure independence and continuity.
If you are involved in education, health, law making, public administration, or work in any other capacity that can help, and want to contribute, please, sign in. The action will set you in contact with your regional coordinator, or register with the local hub to receive deployment materials, training schedules and governance documentation in the next few weeks. You can be a leader in the action, please state your willingness. Collective commitment and organised collaboration are the only paths to eliminate systemic abuse, reduce poverty and secure the conditions for lasting health and educational opportunity. Join us to make that commitment real. Thanks for joining in.
My apologies for all delays in the collective ongoing works I should be contributing. This was prioritized. Yet, all is on track, despite hateful ones still destroying our work. It is our role to prevent, ensure law is enforced, in all our jurisdictions. Thanks again.