Convening Fellows, Advocates, and Experts for Learning and Community Impact

Each year one of our partner universities hosts a 10-day series of activities focused on Global Citizenship. This “Celebration” convenes 100 Melton Fellows, faculty and leading Global Citizenship advocates, practitioners, and experts for three primary purposes:
 

1. To build a global community around Global Citizenship in order to promote the concept and its practice;
    
2. To further the learning and leadership development of Melton Fellows as global citizens and advocates of global citizenship
    
3. To deliver global citizenship to the “grassroots level” at the host university and surrounding local community.

We achieve these goals through training and workshops on global citizenship featuring outside experts and practitioners of Global Citizenship as well as through team building, homestays, and community outreach activities.

Transition from Symposium to Global Citizen Celebration

From 1991 to 2011 the Melton Foundation’s large annual event was its Symposium. Many of the successful learning and team-building features developed over 20 symposia will be carried over to the Global Citizenship Celebration.

Friedrich Schiller Universität will host our first Global Citizenship Celebration in August 2012, in Jena, Germany.