The International Baccalaureate aims to produce students who are educated, enquiring, good communicators, open-minded, thinkers, bold, caring, well-rounded, informed, balanced and reflective.
This educational project promotes intercultural understanding and respect as an essential aspect of life in the 21st century. All these objectives are summarised in the IB's mission statement:
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop caring, knowledgeable and informed young people who can contribute to a better and more peaceful world through mutual understanding and intercultural respect.
In pursuit of this goal, the organisation works with schools, governments and international organisations to create and develop challenging international education programmes and rigorous assessment methods.
These programmes encourage students around the world to be active lifelong learners, to be compassionate and to understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.