What is global education at Palas Atena?
Global education at Palas Atena means forming students who see the world as reachable territory: with international range, the fluency to move between cultures, and belonging to a global network of schools. It happens through Portas para o Mundo and through the tie to UNESCO.
Plenty of people grow up in Manaus thinking the world is far away. Here the logic is different. From early on, students live experiences that bring cultures, languages and people closer, until moving through the world feels like the most natural thing there is.
This is not about preparing for a trip in some uncertain future. It is about forming, today, someone who thinks globally, respects difference and feels at ease anywhere on the planet. It is the antidote to any future that turns out too small.
Portas para o Mundo
How does Palas bring the world into the school?
Portas para o Mundo gathers international experiences that run across the whole journey, inside and outside the classroom.
International experiences
Projects, showcases and immersions that put students in direct contact with other cultures and realities.
Mobility and exchange
Exchange opportunities that turn the world into a classroom and widen horizons for life.
Connection between schools
Exchanges with students from other countries through the international network, from collaborative projects to friendships that cross borders.
Global citizenship
Themes such as sustainability, human rights and diversity at the center of the education, as UNESCO proposes.
What does it mean to be a UNESCO associated school?
Being a UNESCO associated school means belonging to an international network held together by quality standards and a shared agenda of global citizenship.
That tie is not a decorative seal. It places Palas Atena inside a worldwide community of schools that share projects, values and the same view of the future. It is the internationally recognized proof that an education from here speaks the language of the world.
For families it means a rare kind of calm: knowing your child attends a school in Manaus that meets an international standard, connected to institutions on every continent. The starting point is local. The horizon is the whole world.
An international network
Schools on every continent, under the same principles, and Palas Atena is one of them.
International standard
An outside, recognized benchmark of quality, not just a promise the school makes about itself.
A shared purpose
To form global citizens, ready to live alongside others, collaborate and lead in a world without borders.
Palas Atena belongs to the UNESCO Associated Schools Network. In 2025, four students spent a month in Denmark.
Questions about global education
What families ask about the world as the next step
Does Palas Atena offer exchanges and international experiences?
Yes. Through Portas para o Mundo, Palas Atena offers international experiences, exchange opportunities and collaborative projects with students from other countries. They run across the whole journey and grow deeper as students advance, turning the world into a natural extension of the classroom.
What is the Portas para o Mundo program?
Portas para o Mundo, Doors to the World, is the global education program at Palas Atena, gathering international experiences inside and outside school: cultural showcases, projects with schools in other countries, global citizenship themes and exchange opportunities. The aim is simple and ambitious: to make the world stop being a distant destination and become the student’s next step.
What is the UNESCO Associated Schools Network?
The UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) brings together schools from every continent, held together by international quality standards and a shared agenda of global citizenship. Belonging to it places Palas Atena inside a worldwide community of schools and proves, with outside recognition, the international standard of the education offered in Manaus.
Does global education start early, or only in Ensino Médio?
Global education starts early and runs the whole journey. From Educação Infantil on, students live the world through the language, the projects and the cultural exchanges, and that experience deepens at every stage. In Ensino Médio it joins the preparation for universities in Brazil and abroad, when the international horizon becomes a concrete path.
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