Radical changes in education are urgently needed to achieve human security and sustainable development for all. This conference is in support of HS4A global campaign on Human Security for All, an initiative of the UN Trust Fund on Human Security and the World Academy of Art & Science. It is being organized by WAAS, SNSPA Romania, SDSN Europe, BSUN, and World University Consortium.

The purpose of the conference is to identify practical steps that can be taken to reorient educational content, pedagogy and delivery systems to accelerate progress on the 7 dimensions of human security and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

This International Conference on Future Education will be the sixth in a series that includes five international conferences on future education at UC Berkeley (2013), Rome (2015), Rio de Janeiro (2017), Belgrade (2019) and online (2021). It is intended to generate awareness and initiate active discussion among leading educators and policy-makers on the central importance of the United Nations’ Human Security Approach as an integrating framework for educational reform. Its theme is aligned with the principles that the UNESCO roadmap charted out in the 2022 report ‘Beyond Limits: New Ways to Reinvent Higher Education‘, namely, inclusion, equity, participation of all stakeholders, critical thinking, creativity, sustainability, social responsibility and values. The conference will be followed by a publication of selected papers in book form by Springer.

Invitation to submit proposals for session topics, questions for discussion, strategies to address specific needs as well as presentations, papers and proposals to organize special sessions. Maximum length of proposals 250 words. Proposals are invited for submission by January 20, 2023. Fill this form to send your proposals.