Known throughout the world for celebrating learning and uniting to transform education, we are excited to bring you the 5th edition of the LearningPlanet Festival, from 24th to 27th January, 2024.
Our festival kicks off by bringing together the global learning community – Planetizens Unite! – to mark International day of Education on 24th Jan, an event that saw more than 60,000 of you celebrating learning to take care of oneself, each other, and our planet last year, and promises to be even greater in 2024!
Our annual gathering continues with 3-days (25-27th January) dedicated to reinventing learning in the 21st century. Our aim is to foster human flourishing and a thriving environment. Under the theme Architects for Tomorrow: Building a Learning Planet, our team is already planning a rich programme with a special emphasis on three core dimensions: Intergenerational Societies, Lifelong Learning, and truly Transformative Action.
This year again, we’re inviting the members of our LearningPlanet Alliance and all change agents from education, communities, governments, businesses and grass-roots organisations to join us in creating an even more exciting Festival.
During our 4 days together, we expect more than 500 physical, digital and hybrid partner-led events, including hackathons, conferences, workshops, performances, and screenings, that together make up the LearningPlanet Festival. We can’t wait to see you there!
Event Submissions for the Festival are open to everyone. Events outside Festival dates require Alliance Partnership. Not a partner yet? Learn more and join the LearningPlanet Alliance!
Jan 17, 2024 - 08:00
Mohammad Issa, President Creativity Lab for Empowerment and Innovation
Jan 20 - 00:00 to Jan 22, 2024 - 02:00
Jan 22 - 00:00 to Jan 31, 2024 - 19:00
Jan 23 - 00:00 to Jan 26, 2024 - 17:00
Uri Noy Meir, Host-Facilitator ImaginAction Mentoring
Jan 23, 2024 - 19:00
Annick de Witt, Founding director Worldview Journeys
Jan 24 - 00:00 to Jan 27, 2024 - 13:30
Speakers :
Uniting to Transform Education – the LearningPlanet Alliance’s mission – has been embodied in previous years’ festivals by bringing together the global education and learning community and ensuring youth inclusion and active participation in all gatherings.
For this 5th edition, we seek to stretch beyond these actions in putting a special focus on 3 critical areas: Intergenerational Societies, Transformative Action and Life-Long Learning, and as such, use the Festival to unite and bring together a wider range of actors, all the Learning Planetizens!
We are living and working longer, and so the traditional ‘7 ages of man’ (Infancy, School, Teenager, Young Adult, Middle Aged, Old Aged, End of life) with clearly defined ‘age-related activities and values’ needs revising.
For a Learning Planet, the future of our society must harness all, and be Intergenerational.
We have ideas, but more than ever, humanity needs radical actions. Turning great vision into reality requires ideas, research and learning, lived-experiences, an appetite for risk.
For a Learning Planet the future must unite individuals and organisations, from education and beyond, to build truly Transformative actions.
When we hear ‘Education’ or ‘Learning’ and think ‘Kids/Youth, School / University’ we are restricting ourselves. Today we need to be continuously learning throughout our lives in order to survive in school, work, society, and our ever-changing environment.
For a Learning Planet, the future of learning must be Life-long.
The Festival programme starts on the International Day of Education, Wednesday 24 January, and runs until Saturday 27 January, but we know the transformation and gathering never stops. This is why we will, once again, extend the Festival programme dates from 17 to 31 January, to take into account different holiday periods and activities, especially for those partners in the Southern hemisphere.
This Festival is yours and now is the time to start designing your events and contacting speakers and guests.
While the collective elaboration of the 2024 edition will progress in the coming weeks, and will fully take shape by early January, we are happy to give you a sneak preview of what is being built.
Learning to take care of oneself, others and the planet
Planetizens Unite! To mark International day of Education on 24th January, in close partnership with UNESCO, the LearningPlanet Festival is the annual gathering of the Alliance and of the educational community at large: teachers’ networks, universities, students and youth movements, artists, activists, institutions, social entrepreneurs, start-ups and companies… With 500+ physical, online and hybrid events organised by hundreds of partners, it has become the global event to showcase transformation efforts, join forces on ideas, share data and learnings, and to celebrate and power up our education transformation ambitions.
This year again, we welcome all planetizens to join us in equipping ourselves with the learnings and education needed to protect and nourish us as individuals, as active members in society, and as inhabitants of our planet.
This day is yours to celebrate and events you will be creating with your communities will help make the January 2024 edition even greater and an opportunity for new collaborations, and a launchpad for your initiatives.
On the International Day of Education 2024, our special 4-hour LP Vision* features Thought Leaders and Deliverers – Architects for Tomorrow – to illustrate where great ideas have been taken from vision to reality, thus already contributing to Building a Learning Planet with a focus on our three core dimensions:
For Living (Society, Environment, Economy, Ecosystems, Health & Well-being)
For Learning (K-12, Higher Education, and Lifelong)
For Working (Business, Social enterprise, Not-for-Profit)
Stay tuned. More information coming soon.
*LP Vision is the LearningPlanet Alliance’s ‘searchlight’: scanning the globe for innovative ways of teaching and learning, notably by using digital tools and technologies to create new education narratives. Learn more about this series here
For 3 days, the LP Assembly is the opportunity for Festival partners to connect and contribute to transforming education, and to enrich our wider communities. Through enlightening online gatherings and workshops, mini-keynotes, real-world examples, and curated discussions, we will ignite ideas, showcase member expertise, and foster valuable connections. Join us in shaping the future of education at the LearningPlanet Assembly, where collaboration sparks transformation.
With a range of allies, we already are in the mood for advancing impactful initiatives such as:
The Planetizen University – learn more
Youth Fellows – join the Youth Fellows
Ikigai+ – Find out more about this innovative online training programme
Intergenerational Leadership – learn more in our Intergenerational convening guide
Learning Ecosystems – learn more, and read our latest research report
Teachers for the Planet – learn more, discover the repository (coming soon)
Imagination in Every Classroom – learn more
And many more that we look forward to building out with you:
We are only in the first phase of the LearningPlanet Assembly’s 3-day programme design. More detailed information will be available towards the end of November. Meanwhile, please contact us if you want to make suggestions and/or contribute to the above topics.
The LearningPlanet Festival draws its strength from the contributions of the 500+ Alliance partners who have been creating events and co-designing the programme of the four past editions. This year again, we count on your mobilisation to create an ever more meaningfun Festival, with distributed events in multiple venues around the world and online.
While the collective elaboration of the 2024 edition will progress in the coming weeks, and will fully take shape by early January, we are happy to give you a sneak preview of what is being built.
Please note that only Alliance partners can submit events. If you are not a LearningPlanet Alliance partner yet, learn more and join us!
Former Prime Minister, New Zealand. Board Chair, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health,
Gaming User Experience Designer and Cognitive Psychology expert, Formerly at Ubisoft, LucasArts, and Epic Games (Fortnite)
Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Ministry of Education Sierra Leone
Co-founder & Director, Universidad del Medio Ambiente, Mexico (University of the Environment)
Co-Founder and Executive President, Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development, Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development
