'A footprint means pressing down and global means world, so 'global footprint' means pressing down on the world and we don't want to press too hard' (child's definition of a Global Footprint)

Global Footprints home

Welcome to Global Footprints, the website of HEC, the Global Learning Centre for London. Find out more.

This website provides information, links, activities and opportunities for engagement around global learning and the global dimension, particularly in schools.

There are many new areas on the new updated site, and our popular 'Globalfootprints Children's quiz' is still available, along with a similar quiz aimed at the wider school community. Find it here.

Use the homepage side bar to find out who we are, what we do and how the site began.

Use the top icons to look at the issues we believe are important in global learning, ideas on how you and students can act on that learning, some games to play for students, and resources on how to teach using a range of relevant resources.

what is sustainability? what about climate change? what about child rights?

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