The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills

Our Purpose

Karanga, Māori for "a call out in welcome", is the Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills. 

The Alliance was developed out of a series of social and emotional learning sessions in 2018/19 in Salzburg Global's Education for Tomorrow’s World program.

Karanga’s mission is to inspire and equip practitioners, policy makers and researchers from across the world to promote quality and equitable Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills through initiatives that connect, coordinate, and drive action.

The network continues to meet online every first Tuesday of the month. 


SEL Global Leadership Series

The Social and Emotional Learning Global Leadership series was a collaboration between Salzburg Global, Karanga, and Knowledgehook that brought together leading thinkers, practitioners and change-makers each month to talk about innovative work they are doing around social and emotional learning.


Latest Insights

Education Update
Reconnecting Education and Earth: A Policy Pathway To Nature-Based Education
Salzburg Global Fellow Kathryn Scott believes it’s time to reconnect classrooms with the natural world - and use behavior change theory to make it happen
Nov 07, 2025
Education Update
Building Community Through Stories
Longtime faculty member Sanjeev Chatterjee held the annual Bailey Morris-Eck Lecture at the 19th Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Oct 20, 2025
Education Update
How Can Academics Center Africa? Start By Reading African Scholarship
Everyone can be more intentional about reading, citing, and assigning scholarship about Africa and by African scholars
Sep 11, 2025
Education Update
Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change Examines Local Media and Democratic Health
19th Media Academy enables young creative minds to reinvent local media with compassion, care, and community 
Aug 21, 2025
Education Update
16 Lessons From 16 Days at the Media Academy
Salzburg Global Fellow Madeline Waltman reflects on lessons learned about herself and others during the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Apr 24, 2025
Education Update
Back and Forward: A Trio and a Degree
Salzburg Global Fellow Israel Campos reflects on friendship, belonging, and the moments that shaped his time at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Apr 11, 2025
Education Update
Arrival, Adaptation, Affection
Salzburg Global Fellow Mia Yang reflects on her journey of belonging and self-discovery at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Mar 18, 2025
Education Update
A Toolkit to Pursue Belonging
Salzburg Global Fellow Logan Ward presents a toolkit for a "strong global community that contributes to a flourishing, accessible knowledge base and maintains a radical acceptance of differences"
Mar 05, 2025
Education Update
Reflections on the Living Library
Salzburg Global Fellows reflect on how the Living Library fostered empathy, understanding, and connection during the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Feb 26, 2025


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