UL Education and Outreach

UL Education and Outreach programs serve as a catalyst for the global safety movement. Through research and strategic interventions, UL Education and Outreach inspires educational solutions to improve human health and well-being, to advance environmental sustainability, and, ultimately, to save lives.

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Core Programs

UL Education and Outreach – in partnership with organizations whose mission is to build safer and more environmentally sustainable systems – takes a role of leadership in several core programs. Each of these programs leverages UL’s longstanding history of producing safety education content, as well as UL’s global resources in science and engineering.

Safety Smart

UL and The Walt Disney Company believe that childhood injuries and deaths are predictable and preventable. Through this unique commitment,…

UL and The Walt Disney Company believe that childhood injuries and deaths are predictable and preventable. Through this unique commitment, the partnership for Safety Smart was developed - a global educational program designed to improve children's awareness and understanding of fire and water safety, human health and wellbeing, the environment as well as cyber security, and road safety. Safety Smart educates, engages, and empowers children ages four-nine with a multitude of cause-and-effect scenario-style educational resources in 34 languages.

UL Xplorlabs

UL Xplorlabs is an innovative module-based digital learning platform that puts science and engineering challenges into the hands of students.…

UL Xplorlabs is an innovative module-based digital learning platform that puts science and engineering challenges into the hands of students. Focused on engaging students ages 10-16, Xplorlabs is an invitation to engage with real-world safety issues with fire and lithium-ion batteries and solve through science both online and in classroom extensions.

UL Innovative Education Award

The UL Innovative Education Award (ULIEA) is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to invest US $250,000 annually in environmental and STEM…

The UL Innovative Education Award (ULIEA) is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to invest US $250,000 annually in environmental and STEM education, sustainable communities, and youth empowerment. We offer recognition awards to increase the impact of innovative non-profit programs that use the environment as a pathway to STEM Learning (E->STEM). These outstanding programs showcase the value of student lead investigations, problem solving and critical thinking as it applies to critical challenges in their communities.

Safer Public Bus Transportation (WRI)

The Safer Public Bus Transportation project is implemented in partnership with the World Resources Institute (WRI) with the aim of…

The Safer Public Bus Transportation project is implemented in partnership with the World Resources Institute (WRI) with the aim of reducing road crash deaths and injuries involving public buses in India by adopting multi-level evidence-based interventions. Through this initiative, WRI and UL collaborate with the bus transit agencies for developing solutions to address specific safety concerns and measuring the impact on crash reduction.

National Safety Science Campaign

The National Safety Science Campaign (NSSC) aims to build awareness and inform India’s children and youth about safety as a…

The National Safety Science Campaign (NSSC) aims to build awareness and inform India’s children and youth about safety as a science and instil the culture of safety in their minds, thereby creating India's next generation of safety ambassadors.

Safer Schools, Safer India

Safer Schools Safer India (SSSI) is a unique train-the-trainer model implemented in collaboration with the Directorate of Fire and Emergency…

Safer Schools Safer India (SSSI) is a unique train-the-trainer model implemented in collaboration with the Directorate of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) and Directorate of Education (DoE) in Goa since 2015. The primary objective of this initiative is to raise the level of prevention and preparedness of children in Goa to minimize loss from fire and non-fire emergencies and to develop a safety consciousness among children and the general public.

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UL Crime College

UL’s brand protection initiatives help safeguard and maintain the integrity of the UL Marks. This work keeps potentially hazardous counterfeit…

UL’s brand protection initiatives help safeguard and maintain the integrity of the UL Marks. This work keeps potentially hazardous counterfeit products out of the stream of commerce and helps protect people, products and places. A longstanding partnership between UL and INTERPOL resulted in the formation of the International IP Crime Investigators College. The IIPCIC is the premier training center for global law enforcement, regulatory authorities and private sector investigators to receive the critical knowledge needed to combat current and emerging threats from IP Crime. More on this significant resource coming soon.

Themes: Explore by Area of Interest

UL Education and Outreach is a globally focused team, dedicated to building content, creating partnerships, conducting research, facilitating delivery channels, and developing activities to help solve some of the most critical and complex safety problems of our time. Our organizational expertise, along with the potential to create tangible impacts, provide the means by which our thematic areas focus.

Spotlight: Approaches to Safety Education

We are fortunate to partner with outstanding organizations and educators from around the world. Together, we focus on critical areas of safety (including unintentional injury), STEM education, engineering, environmental sustainability, and much more. Explore the efforts of our work and get a deeper understanding of how our combined approaches successfully engage and empower the innovators of tomorrow.

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Future City Asks Students: How Can We Make the World Better?

Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural areas. This is expected to …

Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural areas. This is expected to grow. By 2050, it is estimated that 68% of the world’s population (or more than 6.2 billion don’t think billion should be capitalized people) will live in urban areas. This is a massive change from only 50 years ago where […]

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