First Planning Committee Meeting

Beijing, China

The first closed-door meeting including only the steering Committee members and representatives in order to effectively build up the organization and plan future forums.

First Annual Conference

OECD Conference Centre 2, rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, Paris

The inaugural FWE annual conference will convene global leaders in business, education, the sciences and the arts, along with next gen leadership for an ambitious and far-reaching discussion of the future of education, serving as a platform for moving thought to action in the transformation of education systems around the world. The event will be in concert with OECD’s formal launch of the 2018 PISA results.

Early Childhood Education Roundtable

China National Convention Center, Room 309A No.8-1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Beijing

This hallmark roundtable will shine a spotlight on Early Childhood Education and its essential role in the development of the individual and of society, its prosperity and sustainability. The event will gather together key business and thought leaders with policy makers, and will be held in Beijing, China in conjunction with the CACIE’s annual education conference, the largest of its kind in Asia.

Session One | Education disrupted – education rebuilt: How does the pandemic shape the future of education?

Online Webinar

Webinar Series: Where Do We Go from Here? --Meet the Challenges Posed by COVID-19 Pandemic to the Future of Our Worldwide Education Infrastructure Over the past three months, 1.5 billion students and their parents learned that education must get urgently ready for the digital world. What lessons should we take from digital learning during the

Session Two | What can we do together?

Online Webinar

Time July 22 9 AM EDT (UTC-4) Education is still largely a domestic, if not local, field of public policy. But in this age of accelerations, we will only succeed through awareness-based collective action. The future will be with those education systems that don’t feel threatened by alternative ways of thinking but that are open

Session Three | Business Leaders & FWE’s Young Leaders: How do we finance the future of education and align resources with needs?

Online Webinar

Time September 15th 9:30 am EDT (UTC-4) The economic crisis following the pandemic will push policy-makers to think harder about how to invest limited resources best, and how to strike a balance between resourcing the present and securing the future. Inevitably, this will mean reconciling the needs of people by demographics, geography and social background.

Session Three | Part Two – Higher Education: How do we finance the future of education and align resources with needs?

Online Webinar

Time September 22nd 9:30 am EDT (UTC-4) The economic crisis following the pandemic will push policy-makers to think harder about how to invest limited resources best, and how to strike a balance between resourcing the present and securing the future. Inevitably, this will mean reconciling the needs of people by demographics, geography and social background.

Session Four | Covid-19: The economic impacts of learning losses? How do we evaluate learning?

Online Webinar

Time: October 27th 9:30 am EDT (UTC-4) The economic crisis following the pandemic will push policy-makers to think harder about how to invest limited resources best, and how to strike a balance between resourcing the present and securing the future. Inevitably, this will mean reconciling the needs of people by demographics, geography and social background.

FWE Webinar | Lessons from How People Learn II: Opportunities and Imperatives for Education in a Post-COVID World.

Date: January 26th, 2021 Time: 8:30 am EST (UTC-5) Meet the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic to the future of our worldwide education infrastructure:     Link to the report Lessons from How People Learn II: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24783/how-people-learn-ii-learners-contexts-and-cultures   Heidi Schweingruber: Presentation PowerPoint Slides - HPLII Slides FWE overview   Ken Koedinger: Presentation PowerPoint Slides -