Focus on documenting and promoting the diversity of learning systems and opportunities through the participatory production of video documentaries. At this stage, the initiative is carried out in India, Lebanon and Brazil.

Video promotes intercultural dialogue and collective work through the production of video documentaries. It believes that a participatory approach in conceptualizing, developing and disseminating films, is instrumental in deconstructing the articulations of images and messages conveyed by mass media and supports people in the critical analysis of their work, environment and lives.

Learning through New Eyes was created in the framework of several initiatives and events:
· the follow-up of dialogues on education and alternative learning organized at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (2003) and in Mumbai (2004);
· the contribution of UNESCO to a process of exchange with the network of "Learning Societies";
· the initiation by UNESCO of international research on the new concepts on Community Learning.

In Asia - Indian Project

The project in India involves youth who have left school and are engaged in meaningful pursuits of livelihoods based on their values, dreams, and convictions. It explores the reasons that shaped their decision to free themselves from school/institutionalized education, their struggle and confusion, their values and perspective, and the choices that lead to their current situation. The film also tries to understand different life-experiences of the "walkouts" and their unique and different learning systems. The walkouts work with Shikshantar and Abhivyakti.

Shikshantar – The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development
Shikshantar is a not-for-profit movement founded to challenge the culture of schooling and institutions of thought-control in India and beyond. It believes that factory-schooling and literacy are suppressing many diverse forms of human learning, relationships and expression, as well as organic processes towards just and harmonious social regeneration. It is committed to creating spaces where individuals and communities can together engage in dialogue to: