Call to Action (R)éveil humanitaire
(R)éveil humanitaire, the inter-school challenge
From Luxembourg, go beyond the borders of silence to make our patients' voices heard.
How can we raise awareness amongst secondary school pupils about crises that receive little coverage in the media and amongst young people?
How can we encourage them to think critically?
How can we give them the tools they need to develop a form of civic engagement that reflects who they are?
Register your class for Médecins Sans Frontières' (R)éveil humanitaire !
Through supervised group work from November until March, the pupils themselves become actors in their own learning about a forgotten and/or neglected humanitarian crisis. At the same time as assimilating information about this crisis, they are invited to become active allies of humanitarian actors trying to respond to it.
At present, the voices of our patients and staff are still struggling to be heard by as many people as possible. By creating their own awareness-raising materials, secondary school students are making a tangible contribution to highlighting forgotten or neglected crises and to the success of our testimonial campaign.
Registration for the 2026–2027 edition of (R)éveil humanitaire will open from mid-August. Documents relating to the challenge and the timetable will be available below.
Edition 2026-2027 : Ebola diseases
On 15 May 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus. Whilst this outbreak is the most severe ever recorded, resources, the international response and media attention remain limited. This situation should prompt us to reflect and take action across several areas of our social life: disease prevention, access to healthcare, (mis)information in a crisis context, and civic engagement.
For all these reasons, this issue will be at the heart of (R)éveil Humanitaire 2026–2027. Participants in the challenge will be able to choose from these themes to run their awareness-raising campaigns, thereby combining an understanding of a humanitarian crisis with local action.
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2025–2026 edition: young people living with HIV
For this edition, 119 students from six Luxembourg schools across the Grand Duchy signed up to participate in the Call to Action (R)éveil Humanitaire launched by the Luxembourg section of Médecins Sans Frontières in June 2025.
From October to December, they all attended a presentation by MSF Luxembourg on this year's challenge: young people living with HIV. During this time, they also discussed what makes a ‘good’ awareness campaign and were given resources to help them devise and design a relevant campaign project.
The classes submitted their campaign projects to the jury at the end of 2025. The jury received 21 projects and shortlisted six of them at the beginning of January 2026:
- Lycée Edward Steichen Clervaux : "VIH & Jeunes : S’informer pour se protéger" & "Testé·e, c’est assurer"
- Lycée Michel Rodange Luxembourg : "Just use it"
- EIMAB : "Jeunes informés, jeunes protégés"
- Lycée Fieldgen : "Protect to Respect"
- Lycée Classique de Diekirch : "Lutte contre le VIH: Ensemble pour la santé."
At the end of February 2026, the groups presented their full campaign proposals to a jury comprising MSF staff and volunteers, experts in infectious diseases, education and advocacy. Each group presented their campaign proposal and answered questions from the jury. The discussions focused on key topics, such as the stigma faced by people living with HIV, prevention, the most vulnerable groups, and the role of schools and peers in accessing health information.
Following deliberations, the jury selected three finalist projects: the two projects from the Lycée Edward Steichen Clervaux and the project from the Lycée Classique de Diekirch.
These groups were able to refine their campaigns based on the feedback provided by the jury before they were officially launched to the target audiences identified by the students in March. The jury met again in May to assess the final versions of each campaign and analyse their impact.
The closing ceremony, held on 11 May, saw the winning team receive their prize: a visit to MSF Supply, MSF’s central supply hub in Brussels. This visit will take place in July.
Take a look at the three finalist campaigns
Find out the results for the three finalist campaigns
Well done to everyone for your dedication and hard work, and a big thank you to all the teachers for placing their trust in us to bring this project to life!
Stay tuned for the launch of the next edition...
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