What’s happening in the world of Transformative Education?
Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship and Transformative Learning
This course equips educators with the knowledge and skills to integrate the concepts of sustainable development and global citizenship into education, using the Earth Charter as an ethical guide.
Green Careers Week 2025
Green Careers Week is an exciting event that raises aspiration, supports diversity, challenges stereotypes, and promotes real opportunities for young people to have a career that will genuinely make a difference.
NAAEE 2025 Conference: Forward Together
NAAEE’s Annual Conference and Research Symposium is one of the largest professional environmental education gatherings worldwide.
Climate-U Network Conference: Higher Education and the Climate Crisis
The 2025 Climate-U Conference provides a space for debate, exchange of ideas and sharing of new research on diverse aspects of the higher education-climate crisis-sustainability axis.
Second World Summit for Social Development
Thirty years after the landmark 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, the global community will gather for the Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2). In a world facing growing inequalities, demographic shifts, and rapid technological transformation, the need for a renewed commitment to social progress has never been more urgent.
Civic Education for Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development
The exhibition showcases the SDG Academy as a digital civic education model empowering global citizens through storytelling, interactive tools, and partnerships to foster inclusion, democracy, and sustainable development.
Education as a Foundation for Social Integration
Direct Aid’s exhibition will showcase its education-driven approach to building inclusive, resilient societies across Africa and Yemen, highlighting programs that break the cycle of poverty and empower marginalized communities.
Education, Employment and Justice
The exhibition will feature a modern, interactive booth showcasing its work in education access, youth empowerment, and innovative projects through thematic zones, multimedia displays, and immersive experiences.
Knowledge for Life
This exhibition showcases various projects by Humanity First worldwide including schools in remote areas, providing development and enriching society.
Peace and Value Education
The exhibition will promote peace and universal human values through interactive activities and global programs that integrate education, intercultural learning, and inclusive training for all age groups.
Effective Partnerships for Education, Culture, and Sustainable Development
The Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science showcases Qatar’s leadership in advancing education, culture, and sustainable development through global partnerships, UNESCO programs, and community initiatives promoting equity and lifelong learning.
The Role of Academic Institutions in Social Inclusion and Youth Employment Support
Qatar University’s exhibition will highlight the role of education and research in promoting social inclusion and preparing youth for the labour market through academic studies, field training, and community initiatives
Transforming Education for Just and Inclusive Development
The exhibition highlights Qatar’s commitment to leveraging education as a catalyst for social transformation and sustainable development, showcasing inclusive initiatives, global partnerships, and scalable best practices.
Future in Action: Youth Innovation and Practice for Social Development
Solutions session on youth employment challenges: tackling NEET rates, skills gaps, and accountability, featuring Dorcelus Empowerment & Nanjing Ivy Youth Center with global partners.
Higher Education’s Value Proposition for Inclusive Futures for All: Cross-cutting multi-stakeholder solutions to advance Social Development
This side event will showcase some multistakeholder collaboration on the cross-cutting higher education-related instruments outlined in the WSSD2 draft political declaration.
Education as a Tool for Social Justice and Inclusion
Session on advancing equitable, inclusive, and digital education to meet diverse learners’ needs and promote social justice and sustainable development
G-SEL Conference 2025
This three-day event will bring together thought leaders, policymakers, academias, and industry experts to explore cutting-edge solutions at the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and equity and to strengthen partnerships and collaborations towards achieving a sustainable future through just energy transition.
Promoting Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work for Africa’s Youth: Advancing Skills Development for the Future of Work
The event will explore how education systems, training programs, and labor market policies can be better aligned to address skill gaps to prepare young people for rapidly evolving industries.
The Social Accelerator: Glocal Training and Research for Inclusive Growth
The session offers a scalable, high-impact model for the role of training and research in inclusive growth and social development.
Educating for a Healthy Planet and People: Strengthening Partnerships on the Road to COP30
This event seeks to explore the transformative role of education in preparing societies for the urgent transitions demanded by the climate crisis, aligning with COP30’s agenda and the broader SDGs, and building upon frameworks such as the Planetary Health Educational Framework, Education for Sustainable Development, and One Health education, among others.
Empowering Communities: Pathways to Poverty Eradication and a Sustainable Future
This Solutions Session brings together interfaith and community-based organizations to showcase innovative, practical models for eradicating poverty, promoting social protection, and advancing sustainable futures.
Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible en la Práctica: Tips para educadores
El tema de este seminario web es «Incorporando la sostenibilidad en los cursos universitarios». La idea es aprender, a partir de ejemplos concretos, cómo los profesores universitarios han logrado integrar la pedagogía y los contenidos o temas relacionados con la sostenibilidad en sus cursos, qué retos han afrontado y qué estrategias han utilizado para superarlos.
Empowering social development through higher education efforts: Scalable leadership solutions from LEAP-FAST
Anchored in the global vision of the Second World Summit for Social Development, the discussion will explore how academic institutions serve as catalysts for implementing the Summit’s priorities through innovation, capacity-building, and inclusive approaches.
Education is a Key Pillar for Poverty Eradication, Employment and Social Inclusion
Centering education as a key pillar of social development – enrolling out of school children as the basis for eradicating poverty, enabling decent work, improving health and fostering inclusion.
Pathways to Future Skills: Multistakeholder Solutions for a Sustainable and Inclusive Labour Market For All
The WSSD2 side event, hosted by the SDSN and BuildSkills Academy seeks to showcase the multistakeholder initiatives that are focusing on enabling a labour market that is more sustainable, inclusive and that support employability for all.
30th ICDE World Conference
The design of inclusive, scalable, and sustainable education is central to the futures of global higher education, a priority for practice around the globe. The conference emphasises the 'ako' of reciprocal teaching and learning as it relates to improving educational inclusivity, scalability, and sustainability across all delegates.
COP30
The 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 29) to the UNFCCC will convene from 10-21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil.
International Conference on Transformative Education 2025
The International Conference on Transformative Education 2025, themed "Transforming Education for Human and Planetary Flourishing" is focused on bringing together thousands of education leaders, policymakers, practitioners, and educators from more than 70 countries to share their experiences garnered in the education field.
Creating change through communities of hope
Join this event to hear Faaria Ahmad explore the relationship between the role of hope and the school and community programmes.
3rd Annual Meeting of the Greening Education Partnership
The annual COP meetings represent critical advocacy moments for UNESCO and the Greening Education Partnership. The Partnership has been organizing its annual meetings since 2023 during the COP meetings, leveraging the political momentum they generate around climate action.
Reimagining Global Citizenship Education
UNESCO-IBE and the Global Citizenship Education Interview Series will present the Prospects Special Issue: “Reimagining Global Citizenship Education through De-colonial, Ethical, and Critical Lenses.”
COP30 Ministerial Roundtable on Greening Education
UNESCO and the Greening Education Partnership (GEP) will join COP30 in Brazil during the thematic Education Days. The participation will focus on advancing ongoing initiatives, strengthening international commitments, and showcasing the vital role of education in driving effective climate action.
Launch of the Greening Communities Guidance: Lifelong Learning for Climate and Sustainability Action
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and its partners are pleased to announce the launch of the Greening Communities Guidance: Lifelong Learning for Climate and Sustainability Action.
TeachersCOP
TeachersCOP is an international event created by the Office for Climate Education that brings together teachers from around the world during COPs. It highlights the crucial role of educators in addressing climate change, offering them a platform to showcase their classroom projects, exchange practices, and advocate for climate education on a global stage.
Conflict and Peace (Primary): Teaching controversial issues
This interactive workshop will explore approaches to teaching peace building to address conflicts ranging from polarised views to warfare.
La relevancia de la Memoria Democrática en la Ciudadanía Global
¿Has visto la actividad que la Xarxa d'Educadores i Educadors per a una Ciutadania Global ha preparado para la Semana para la Educacion Global?
2025 Higher Education Summit
The 2025 Higher Education Summit aims to be a space for collective reflection, discussion, and co-creation for those engaged in transforming higher education into a more sustainable, regenerative learning environment.
Charting New Horizons for Education for Sustainable Development
This conference will bring together researchers, educators, administrators, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to ESD.
Award Ceremony: UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development
The 2025 Award Ceremony will celebrate three laureates whose initiatives demonstrate innovative, inclusive, and transformative approaches to sustainability through education.
World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence Annual Global Symposium 2025
Join the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence for the upcoming Global Symposium, featuring inspiring speakers and thought-provoking workshops focused on global collaboration, innovation, and intercultural leadership.
What kind of Climate Change and Sustainability Education do we need in complex times?
Join Prof. Lizzie Rushton from the University of Stirling as she explores the ways in which school leadership can constraint or enhance teachers’ capacity to identify, move between and create interconnected spaces of agency which respond to the spatial and temporal complexities inherent in both education and environmental crises.
From Heatwaves to Hope: Education in the Age of Climate Change
This half-day conference will bring together policymakers, educators, development partners, and youth leaders to explore how climate education can build resilience and inspire action in a rapidly changing world.
What’s next for greening communities?
The final webinar of the series “On The Road to COP30” looks back at COP 30 and its key takeaways related to greening communities. It will unpack possible ways forward for promoting climate change education for social transformation through whole-community approaches.
11th ADB International Education and Skills Forum
The 11th edition of the ADP International Education and Skills Forum will enable education systems to respond quickly to transformational trends, and to better redress persistent challenges in the education and skills development sector.
Social and emotional learning for sustainability
The webinar will explore the dual role of SEL in broadening the educational process, and equipping learners with the competencies to address challenges to lasting peace and sustainable development.
International Conference on Education, Teaching and Practice in a Changing World
In a world shaped by rapid technological advancements and pressing environmental challenges, this conference will explore how teaching, education, and professional practice can evolve to meet the demands of a smarter, greener, and more resilient future.
SDG Teach In 2026 Introduction Webinar
This webinar will introduce the SDG Teach In and impact to date, provide an overview of SDGs and social-environmental justice, how educators and students can get involved, and give an opportunity to ask any questions.
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminar 36
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminars are short-term learning abroad experiences that transform how students understand local/global interconnections and their role in addressing complex challenges—from sustainability and social justice to human rights, democracy, cultural competency, and ethical leadership.
2026 SDG Teach In
The SDG Teach In is an annual campaign to integrate the SDGs across all stages of education, subjects, and professions.
21st Education and Development Conference
The Education and Development Conference (EDC) offers a unique platform for exploring innovative educational practices and developmental strategies. EDC is the premier international interdisciplinary academic conference for exploring transformative ideas in education, global collaboration, and innovative solutions to today’s educational challenges.
FOBISIA Student Sustainability Conference 2026
Join FOBISIA students from across the region for two inspiring days of hands-on workshops, student-led sessions, and shared learning.
CIES 2026: Re-examining Education and Peace in a Divided World
The theme "Re-examining Education and Peace in a Divided World" for the CIES 2026 conference aims to address pressing global and local concerns that resonate across regions experiencing division and conflict.
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminar 37
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminars are short-term learning abroad experiences that transform how students understand local/global interconnections and their role in addressing complex challenges—from sustainability and social justice to human rights, democracy, cultural competency, and ethical leadership.
7th MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum
This 7th edition of MENA-HELF will serve as a platform to explore bold ideas, exchange best practices, and foster collaboration to ensure HEIs remain resilient, innovative, and impactful in shaping knowledge economies and driving social progress.
18th International Sustainable Campus Network Conference
The 2026 ISCN Conference will bring together sustainability leaders from around the world to share insights, foster collaboration, and explore innovative solutions for a more sustainable future.
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminar 38
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminars are short-term learning abroad experiences that transform how students understand local/global interconnections and their role in addressing complex challenges—from sustainability and social justice to human rights, democracy, cultural competency, and ethical leadership.
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminar 39
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminars are short-term learning abroad experiences that transform how students understand local/global interconnections and their role in addressing complex challenges—from sustainability and social justice to human rights, democracy, cultural competency, and ethical leadership.
2026 EAUC Annual Conference
Join the EAUC in shaping a future where sustainability isn't just a goal but an ingrained part of our societal DNA.
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminar 40
Global Citizenship Alliance Seminars are short-term learning abroad experiences that transform how students understand local/global interconnections and their role in addressing complex challenges—from sustainability and social justice to human rights, democracy, cultural competency, and ethical leadership.
13th World Environmental Education Congress
The WEEC is a premier international congress dedicated to the progression of environmental education and advancement of education for sustainability. It serves as a platform for global dialogue, learning, and the exchange of ideas on environmental education programs.
10th NYC Green School Conference
This milestone edition will convene educators, policymakers, climate leaders, and youth advocates from around the world to reimagine the next era of sustainable education—where every learner is climate-ready and every school is a hub of environmental leadership.
Learning for Climate Resilience: Integrated Pathways for Poverty Eradication, Jobs & Inclusion
This high-level panel discussion will feature high-level leaders, grassroots practitioners, and youth voices, discussing these interlinked issues and showcasing community-driven models that are transforming lives and building pathways for sustainable development.
Education as a Foundation for Social Integration
Explore how Direct Aid’s education model reduces poverty, creates employment, and fosters inclusive societies.
Strengthening Education for Peace, Dignity, and Justice: Transformative models and initiatives
Organized by SDSN’s SDG Academy and Columbia University, this WSSD2 side event highlights ideas at the forefront of the peace education movement, exploring virtues, values, & holistic learning, knowledge systems & epistemic justice, and social & environmental peace.
Preparing Future Generations: Expanding Access and Quality Education in the OIC Region
A distinguished session exploring inclusive strategies to expand access and quality education for youth across the OIC region, aligned with SDG 4 and lifelong learning goals.
Education as the Foundation of the New Social Contract
This high-level session will call for reimagining education as a lifelong right and a cornerstone of the new social contract for social justice and development.
Launch of IDEA's Theory of Impact for GCE
Building on work done by IDEA over many years, this Theory of Impact represents the next stage of IDEA’s effort to ‘develop a consistent approach to measuring impact among the sector’.
Empowering Young Professionals Through Education and Skill Development for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
The session focuses on tools developed by partner organizations, discuss future directions, and examine the role of digital platforms with focus on Beyond GDP, inclusion and inequality.
Greening Universities and Colleges: Equipping Educators to embed Sustainability into Teaching
This webinar, hosted by EAUC, will explore how the Higher Education and TVET sector can strengthen collaboration with their teaching and academic communities to better equip them to embed sustainability in their work
Foundations for the Future: Basic Education as a Pathway to Skills and Jobs
This session highlights the importance of basic education as a critical driver of future economic growth by delivering building blocks that enable children to thrive and prepare them for jobs of the future.
Our Shared World: Learning Lunch - Peacemakers
How can peace education help us learn to live with difference in an increasingly polarised world?
Unlocking Skills, Livelihoods, and Resilient Food Systems in Kenya: Enabling Public-Private Partnerships and Scaling up National Programmes
Session on unlocking skills, employment, and resilient food systems in Kenya through public–private partnerships and scaled national programmes for inclusive economic empowerment.
Education Policies and Initiatives to Align Labor Market Needs Amid Economic and Technological Transformations
Session on aligning education with labor market needs and empowering youth for smooth transition into productive, value-added employment opportunities
Climate resilience in the classroom: Embedding the education sector in NAP processes
This webinar will launch the ‘Education in NAP Processes’ report, published by the NAP Global Network Secretariat and Save the Children, and will focus on showcasing the extent to which the education sector has been integrated into countries’ NAP processes.
Global Citizenship Education for All: Advancing Social Inclusion through Equitable Access to Quality Education
The WSSD2 side event invites education policymakers and practitioners, civil society organizations, youth networks, and private-sector stakeholders to explore the transformative potential of GCED for advancing social inclusion, and to exchange best practices and lessons learned from two exemplary models.
Human Rights Education as a Solution to Support Social Integration and Advance Gender Equality
This session address Commitments 4 and 5 of the Copenhagen Declaration focusing on advancing social integration through protection of human rights, non-discrimination, dignity and gender equality.
International Forum on Education for the Post-2030 Agenda
Join leading experts to discuss the future of Global Citizenship Education and its role in addressing global risks in the 21st century!
Education for Sustainable Development in Practice: Tips from Educators
The theme of this webinar is “Embedding sustainability in university courses”, the idea is to learn from concrete examples about how university professors have been able to integrate pedagogy and content or themes associated with sustainability in their courses, which challenges they have faced and strategies to overcome those challenges.
Schools for Goal 7: Bringing Energy, Education, and STEAM into the Classroom
This session will explore how schools can drive action toward SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, empowering educators and students to advance sustainability through education and innovation.
Transformative Skills Guide Online Launch Event
The Transformative Skills Guide is the first SDG-specific application of the Inner Development Goals - focused on SDG 13: Climate Action. The guide invites readers to imagine how IDG capacities can drive the economic transition toward a just, sustainable, and regenerative future.
Educating for Tomorrow: Cultivating Citizenship and Values in a Changing World
This event brings together educators, policymakers, and researchers in a collaborative space to explore how education can cultivate values, nurture citizenship, and drive lasting impact.
Youth consultation on a education for peace, human rights, and sustainable development
Global youth: UNESCO wants to hear your voice to develop a guide on education for peace, human rights and sustainable development!
Education for Climate Day 2025
Explore how formal and informal educational institutions, digital learning platforms and community-based initiatives can equip us with the necessary skills to build a climate-ready society.
Global Skills Forum 2025
The Global Skills Forum (GSF) is a global platform for discussions on shaping skills development in rapidly evolving economies and societies, emphasising lifelong learning.
IAU 2025 International Conference
Given the inextricable relationship between universities and trust afforded to them over time, this conference wishes to ask what it is that creates trust in higher education? What must universities do to retain it across all their missions?
Getting ready to promote greener communities at COP 30
The fifth webinar of this series will provide a space to explore key messages and strategies to promote greener communities, particularly around COP 30 in Belém, Brazil.
Criterios de sostenibilidad en los sistemas de acreditación nacionales e internacionales
Escucharemos a expertas que compartirán sus experiencias en Chile y Colombia sobre cómo incorporar la sostenibilidad como eje estratégico de mejora continua
14th Global RCE Conference
The 14th Global Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Conference will bring together RCE members and key stakeholders to exchange knowledge, celebrate achievements and shape the future of ESD.
Building Future-Ready Graduates: Designing Employability Ecosystems and Pedagogies
CLICKS and the Oman Association for Quality in Higher Education will host a workshop on “Building Future-Ready Graduates: Designing Employability Ecosystems and Pedagogies.”
Taking Doughnut Economics to Schools & Education: The Journey So Far!
Join the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) to celebrate the journey of the Doughnut Economics foundational tools for Schools and Education so far. Hear from teachers and learners around the world who are already using them and get started in your own place!
SSATL-ESD Community of Practice Launch
Join this thriving and unique hub of practitioners, trainers, policy makers, and researchers coming together to collectively unpack new insights and directions in teacher leadership for sustainable development.