Between October and November 2023, Annaba University, Algeria, with professor Fella Benabed in the lead, organized a COIL project titled Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), consisting of six online workshops.

Each session focused on a different type of sustainability, the first one introducing its four pillars and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The others focused on human, social, economic, and environmental sustainability, and the last session discussed global peace and partnership. The participants, consisting of university and grammar school students from Algeria, Slovakia, and Hungary, experienced activity-oriented lessons with focus on reception, production, interaction, and self-reflection, all designed to help them get inspired and learn various strategies of making their lifestyles friendlier to our planet from all possible angles. 

Most of the students admitted to not being familiar with the principles presented in the sessions before participating, and afterwards many shared that they loved discussing things they had learned during the workshops with people around them, and were feeling motivated to start living more sustainably.