The LearningPlanet Festival is a place to share, connect and celebrate. As Ibrahima Guimba Saidou states, "it is a matter of togetherness (...) We need to focus on converging, on pulling our resources together and working as one: it's really about having one team. We only have one planet, so we need to all focus on making this planet a better place to live”. To build convergence, to allow collective intelligence, we need to gather and discuss. This is the first raison d’être of the Festival: bringing more and more education pioneers together in the same space - whether physical or and/or virtual  - to share experiences and ideas, to scale successful experiments and proven methods, to spread learnings and dreams beyond boundaries. Once connected, the changemakers are the backbone of a global ecosystem of support and collaboration between local players over the long term.

The Festival also has the ambitious aim of contributing to build a new understanding of what education is, one that is more collective and collaborative, and less competitive. The new narratives that are being shared at the LearningPlanet Festival provide a broader picture that expands learning to non-traditional disciplines, alternative methodologies and experimental approaches. Our common purpose is to transform initiatives into sustainable systems open and available for all. Olivier Bréchard sums it up: our vision is “to respond collectively to the complex issues raised by the transition, to support youth in their commitment and the education system in its transformation.”

Valerie Hannon asserts it bluntly: “We have recognised that we are wrecking our planet and that we cannot thrive if our planet does not. If we fry the planet, we are toasted.” Therefore, the goal of this radical transformation of education that drives us at the Festival and our 300+ partners around the world is peace, inclusivity, health and well-being for all, enforceable rights for the youth and sustainability for the planet.