Organizing Partners
Strategic partners
THE SUMMIT
CELEBRATING I CAN
The largest all-faith, international gathering of children coming from over 40 countries filled with the
I CAN MINDSET designing
REAL solutions and creating
REAL impact
THE INVITATION
“Dear Children…Please, don’t just observe life from the balcony! Meet the challenges... You must make noise; you are the seed of change of this society.” - POPE FRANCIS
Message from our well wishers
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Andreas Schleicher Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills
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Dr. Howard Gardner Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard University and Graduate School
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Marcelo Suarez-orozco Wasserman Dean and Distinguished Professor of Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
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Rahul Bose Actor, Activist and DFC India Brand Ambassador
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Amitabh Bachchan Legend and DFC Advocate
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DFC Bhtan
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DFC Bulgaria
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DFC Nederlands
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DFC New Zealand
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DFC Uruguay
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DFC Venezuela
THE 4 DAYS
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INSPIRATION
DAY 127 Nov '19
The children gather for the opening ceremony at the Palazzo dei Congressi to be welcomed to the city of Rome
The children will then be making visible their power, potential and ideas for a better world by engaging in flash mobs, dancing, singing and chanting.
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CELEBRATION
DAY 2 & 328 & 29 NOV.‘19
These two days will be showcasing the children's solutions, punctuated by activities and energisers.
This will be when the children can truly celebrate their solutions of change with other changemakers from all around the world
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SHARING
DAY 430 NOV.’19
Concluding their journey, the closing ceremony at the Aula Paula VI will include
- Launch of the I CAN Marketplace
- Videos/speeches of dignitaries from around the world congratulating the children
- Speech by the Pope addressing the children
* This agenda is subject to change.
THE LAUNCH OF THEI CAN MARKETPLACE
An online marketplace with
easy, proven and scalable solutions
by children to address the Global Goals.
Your role
Get Inspired | Scale | Measure Impact
AND CHANGE A BILLION LIVES
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Denmark
- Domincan Republic
- Dubai
- Ecuador
- France
- Ghana
- India
- Indonesia
- Italy
- Israel
- Ireland
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Lithuania
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Madagascar
- Macau
- Moldova
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Palestine
- Peru
- Phillipines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovakia (Teach for Slovakia)
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Ukraine
- USA
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe
