The Global Citizenship Commission of EDUCSI (the network of Jesuit educational centers in Spain) was set up in Madrid on February 7th. The meeting was a starting point for deepening and responding to the sixth challenge that Fr. General proposed to the Jesuit schools in his speech to the delegates at JESEDU-Rio 2017:

“Although the concept of the “global citizen” is still under construction, our education should be a creative actor in this. Our presence in so many places and cultures around the world allows us to create and offer educational proposals for an intercultural view of the world, in which all human beings and their peoples possess a “global citizenship”, where rights and duties are connected. This is beyond culture itself, nationalism or political or cultural fanaticism, which prevent the recognition of our radical brotherhood”

Being a constitutive meeting, it was very focused on planning the work to do. The Agenda 2030 of Sustainable Development Objectives and the Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus, as well as the speeches of the last Jesuit Generals and other documents were marked as inspiration for the processes of the commission.

Antoni Parellada, president of the commission affirmed that "it is global citizenship that inspires the actions of our centers in the social sphere". Likewise, Parellada affirms that the Commission "wishes to be in full harmony with all the work that both JECSE and the task force of the Secretariat of Education have begun to carry out in order to promote and develop a transformative education for Global Citizenship in the Jesuit schools ".