Learning and Education 2030 Networking Group

🎨 Ready to draw the future? Join the 2026 SDG 4.7 Day Global Chalk Art Showcase! 🌍✨

The SDG 4 Youth & Student Network and Global Changemaker Schools are calling on learners everywhere to grab their chalk and visualize our theme: “Educating Global Citizens for a Sustainable Future.” Whether you are an individual student, a class, or a community group, this is your chance to show how education can help build a more peaceful, sustainable, and responsible world. 📚🌱

How to participate:
1️⃣ Grab your chalk (chalk only, no paint or markers!) and find a permitted space like a school ground, park, or sidewalk.
2️⃣ Create your artwork (maximum size: 152 cm × 152 cm).
3️⃣ Snap a clear photo of your masterpiece before the weather changes!
4️⃣ Submit your entry by 15 May 2026.

Artworks will be celebrated in a global exhibition, and the top 10 entries with the most reactions will win the People’s Choice Award and a chance to be featured in Education 2030 publications! 🏆

👉 Get the full guidelines, submission forms, and creative prompts here: bit.ly/2026ChalkArt

Let’s bring sustainability and global citizenship to life—one artwork at a time!

The number of children and young people has risen for the seventh consecutive year, up to 273 million, driven by population growth, crises, and shrinking budgets. This is the main finding of the 2026 GEM Report Unesco, the world’s reference on the state of education.

One in six children of school age worldwide are excluded from education, and only two in three students complete secondary school. Yet many countries are making significant progress, highlighting the importance of national context when setting targets and designing policies.

Read the full press release: https://unes.co/q90i10

🌏 Education systems perform best when the people they serve help shape them.📚

For young people and students, participation in education decision-making is closely linked to the relevance, legitimacy and effectiveness of public policy.

International 2026 focuses on youth as co-creators of education at a time of rapid technological change, growing inequality and rising demands for democratic accountability.

The question is no longer whether youth should be involved in education governance, but whether participation is meaningful enough to influence decisions in practice.

🔎 Explore the 2026 Youth Report: Lead with youth by the Global Education Monitoring Report and the UN Youth Office:
https://bit.ly/2026youthreport-pub

💬 For many teachers, multilingual education is a way to ensure today's students connect more with themselves, improve their learning outcomes & develop relevant skills for future generations.

💭 What about you? What drives you to invest your time & energy in multilingual education?

👩‍🏫 Please let us know. Share it using & !

👨‍🏫 More on our campaign by Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group, co-chaired by UNESCO Bangkok & UNICEF East Asia & Pacific: bit.ly/43ZoSyA

🌏 Don’t miss this regional dialogue on advancing Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Asia and the Pacific!

Join experts, policymakers, and partners to explore new data, promising practices, and collective actions for every child’s right to quality early learning.

✍️ Register now: https://ow.ly/EZXB50XlMh2
🔗 Learn more: https://ow.ly/5k3b50XlMh3

Register for KIX EMAP Webinar 26: Advancing ECCE in Asia and the Pacific - A Call to Action
🗓️ 12 November 2025
🕑 9:00-11:00 (CET) / 15:00-17:00 (ICT)
📍 Online (Zoom)

Webinar 26 will spotlight the recently published Asia-Pacific Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Regional Factsheet and its call to action. It will provide governments, experts, and partners with an opportunity to share experiences, highlight promising practices, and discuss concrete actions to accelerate ECCE progress in the region.

✍️ Register: https://ow.ly/EZXB50XlMh2
🔗 Learn more: https://ow.ly/5k3b50XlMh3

UNESCO UNESCO Bangkok ARNEC Global Partnership for Education IDRC / CRDI NORRAG

Bangkok Climate Action Week matters because it brings together people who drive climate solutions in Asia’s cities and communities.

From 28 September to 4 October 2025, Bangkok will host a regional platform where diverse stakeholders share practical strategies for resilience, equity, and sustainability. And INECC will be there as well.

This year, our sessions focus on three priorities.
- Accessible climate finance.
- Practical green skills for a just transition.
- Localised adaptation and mitigation that turn plans into changes communities can feel.

INECC’s goal is clear: to keep people at the centre and make cities climate-ready.

You can access the registration links for our sessions here: https://shorturl.at/Cj43v

🧑‍🏫 How can we reduce the teacher gap and plan for equitable teaching?

💻 Join the upcoming online 3 by Unesco International Institute for Educational Planning - IIEP!

🗓️ 30 September 2025 (Tuesday) at 7.30 pm (GMT+7/Bangkok time)

🔗 Register here: https://my.iiep.unesco.org/2025-strategic-debate-3

Interested in learning more about ? Sign up for this free online course by UNESCO Bangkok with the support of Equitable Education Fund Thailand: https://www.edx.org/learn/education/sdg-academy-equity-and-inclusion-in-education

🌍✨ Join us for hashtag : How to engage young people in education policy and practice!

🗓 29 September 2025
🕒 3:30–4:30 PM CET
📍 Online (Zoom)

This online event — part of the hashtag Festival — will spotlight entities championing meaningful youth engagement in education decision-making and offer young people a direct platform to shape the global education agenda.

🔗 Learn more and register now: https://lnkd.in/eNJPgyYs

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