Commission meetings

UNESCO’s Futures of Education: Learning to Become initiative was launched at the UN General Assembly in September 2019. The establishment of an International Commission to be chaired by Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde was announced at the event. (Additional information about the launch event is available here.)

The International Commission on the Futures of Education held its first meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 28-29 January 2020.

• Agenda

• Reference document

• Minutes

• Outcome document “Visioning and Framing the Futures of Education" (also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish)

At the beginning of April the International Commission held a special meeting to discuss the COVID-19 crisis and prepared the following:.

• Joint Statement "Protecting and Transforming Education for Shared Futures and Common Humanity"  (also available in Arabic, French and Spanish)

• Individual Statements from members of the International Commission "Protecting and Transforming Education for Shared Futures and Common Humanity"

The next meetings of the International Commission on the Futures of Education are scheduled for September 2020 and March 2021.