Working with international organizations and governments to widen exchange and cooperation.
Together with international organizations and government agencies abroad, Better World promotes international exchange and cooperation between civil society and governments.
As the global coordinating body of World Heritage Volunteers, the UNESCO WHV Global Coordination works with UNESCO to carry out World Heritage volunteer projects successfully. Better World ran the projects of the Asia-Pacific region for eight years from 2015, and since 2023 has served as the Global Coordination, overseeing projects worldwide. In 2023, Sinan County in Jeollanam-do began providing financial support for the operation of the UNESCO WHV Global Coordination.
Better World and UNESCO held photo exhibitions to raise awareness of World Heritage and of the importance of youth participation.
Since 2008, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS) have carried out activities so that many young people around the world can volunteer for the preservation of World Heritage. In 2012, Better World organized the UNESCO World Heritage Asia-Pacific Regional Forum, building international cooperation and solidarity.
Held as part of the UNESCO World Heritage education program, for managers of volunteer projects at World Heritage sites. Participants came from ten countries.
As Korean culture spreads across Asia, interest in Korean youth culture and youth work is also growing. A delegation sent by an association of youth leaders in Hong Kong visited Korea, hosted by Better World, visiting Korean youth institutions, experiencing Korea's IT infrastructure and exploring directions for youth work in Hong Kong.
To contribute to the understanding of global issues and to professional development, Better World held a training course for next-generation leaders of Asia and Europe in 2010. At this event, held with the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the Council of Europe, young environmental experts from Asian and European countries held in-depth discussions on environmental rights.
Better World and the International Workcamp Organization have valued cooperation with youth volunteer organizations in Asia and Europe. The Asia-Europe Volunteering Networking Conference, held in Korea in 2008 jointly with ASEF and CCIVS, with 39 participants from 29 countries, was part of the effort to strengthen cooperation with organizations abroad.
Better World and the International Workcamp Organization took part as the organizing body of this General Assembly, held in an Asian country for the second time, 34 years after 1980. 110 participants from 42 organizations in 30 countries attended.
Having sent volunteer teams to Asia and countries around the world, Better World actively cooperates not only with youth organizations but also with government agencies in host countries. The Philippines, where Better World has long sent volunteer teams, is a leading example: the team sent in 2007 was carried out in cooperation with the National Youth Commission of the Philippines.
A leading program of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) for training and retraining international exchange practitioners. Twice, together with ASEF, Better World has brought international exchange practitioners from Asian and European countries to Korea to broaden their understanding and knowledge of international exchange and to research and develop education programs.
Art of Social Innovators is a project in which six organizations in five countries of Asia and Europe cooperated so that young people, youth workers, entrepreneurs and social innovators could share learning, develop learning tools and stimulate social innovation. It aims to promote the circular economy as a tool for spreading active citizenship, solidarity, employability and entrepreneurship among young people in Europe and Asia.
The LENO (Leave No One Behind) youth exchange project, part of the Erasmus+ programme, is for young people who are marginalized for physical, economic, political, social or regional reasons. Participants selected in seven countries come together for international and cultural exchange activities, to show their talents, regain confidence and self-esteem, and grow up healthy.
Non-formal education in Erasmus+ means learner-centered, experience-centered, whole-person education, as distinct from the formal education of lectures, examinations and assessment mainly found in public schooling. Bringing the two together is essential to better education. Better World held an international conference on non-formal education in 2019.
Held as part of the Madrasah Education Development Program led by the Indonesian religious affairs authority, to develop teaching methods and learning environments. The principals visited schools in Korea to study the Korean education system and educational environment, and toured an education museum and the KERIS future classroom to see the past and future of Korean education.
