UWC Day is the annual global celebration of the UWC mission and values, which takes place during the week of 21 September every year, to coincide with the UN International Day of Peace.

Today is the World Reading Day. UWC Changshu China would like to highlight its book recommendation campaign “Books to Inspire” and share with you 10 books recommended by the community members.

April 17th, 2021 marked the annual One World Concert in UWC Changshu China, an event that has, for many years, been the highlight across multiple UWC campuses. The theme of this year’s concert was “Building Bridges”, a theme that reflects on how these hard times of being apart has shown us the need to build even more and stronger bridges. With so many members of our community still not with us, One World Concert became an opportunity for us to support and listen to each other, either physically or virtually, and celebrate music, poetry, dance, but mostly, our differences and connections.

Do you have incredible ideas, but you don’t know how to turn them into tangible outcomes？ You are good at solving problems and managing projects, but have you been practicing on real projects in an iterative manner？

Hackability, which started in Turin, Italy in 2015, aims at using technology to help people with disabilities and/or special needs. In the past few years, Hackability’s activities have been extended from Italy to other European countries such as France, and recently to China. In 2019, the event was successfully held at New York University Shanghai. This year, with the support and help from Changshu Disabled People Federation and UWC Changshu China, a 4-session hackability has been launched at the Yushan Academy Centre for Design and Innovation of UWC Changshu China.

On November 14, 2020, leaders of China centers of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago and Cornell, visited UWC Changshu China. They held a panel discussion to share their views and outlook in the field of higher education with students and teachers of UWC and CWA.

UWC Day is the annual global celebration of the UWC mission and values, which takes place on 21st September every year, to coincide with the UN International Day of Peace. Each year, UWC Day is celebrated by thousands of people worldwide, including students and staff at UWC schools and colleges, national committees, UWC alumni and friends.

Twenty students sitting in a circle, responding to facilitator’s questions. Some students got closer to each other. Some estranged themselves from the group.

At the entrance to a mall in downtown Beijing, shoppers take out their smartphones and scan a QR code to verify whether they pose a risk of carrying COVID-19. This provides them with the ‘green code’ required to access public spaces and the process doesn’t take long. Everyone quickly moves past the checkpoint - except for 19-year-old Zhao Chen.