World's Largest Lesson in general education

Hungary joined the World’s Largest Lesson global initiative in 2015. Since then, each year there has been a growing interest in the program. The aim of the program is to educate about SDGs with a special focus on one of the SDGs each year.  The World’s Largest Lesson in Hungary provides a lesson in live streaming, lesson plans, resources and online teacher trainings (all in Hungarian, accessible online) along with national campaigns linked to the one-week program.

The program is coordinated by the Ministry of Human Capacities, it is announced in the agenda of school years and is also promoted in various channels.

The program took place between 4^th and 8^th October 2021, with the topics of SDG4 and SDG13, and the program had several side events, besides it offered lesson plans and other materials for school. The side event hosted by the President of State of Hungary had 44.000 views on the platform. In 2021, 504 schools (11 from neighbouring countries) with 82883 students from 3825 classes registered to the online program.

An online campaign is also linked to the program. In the campaign, schools are invited to establigh challenges for themselves, then prepare project plans and pilot them. One of the awarded projects from primary schools, for example, organized a food waste campaign. Their goal was to keep school students from throwing out food to the trash, asking for only as much lunch in the school canteen as they eat; another piloted with means to minimize their communal waste for a week (while trying techniques of repairing, repurposing, refurbishing, reshaping, recycling, reusing and reconditioning). In an awarded secondry school, initiated by the students, the entire school took part in a 1.5km city parade to keep the 1.5-degree warm-up in the spirit of the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow, while in another one, students organized a sewing circle where they made new ones from used clothes.