Events

The High-level Political Forum, United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, provides for the full and effective participation of all States Members of the United Nations and States members of specialized agencies.

The UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development will be held as a virtual conference from 17 to 19 May 2021.

The CIES 2021 Program Chair and Planning Committee welcomes you to the 65th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society! The 2021 CIES conference will take place virtually April 25 – May 2, 2021. We anticipate a vibrant engagement of researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers, in a welcoming and inspiring professional community.

The 2021 conference theme, Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts, focuses our attention on closely examining the work we do and how others in the field experience our work, in a changing environment with a growing variety of actors who may or may not share the same visions for the future. As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we see rapid changes in political, economic, environmental, cultural, and social spaces. Along with these changes is an increasing variety of actors, including non-state actors who are now more involved. These changes influence education globally and locally. This calls for revisiting the relationships among context, actors, visions, and action, and our own collective social responsibility.

Starting on March 22 and through April 2, you will be able to follow the sessions virtually. Sessions hosted by the World Bank Group will be livestreamed here. Sessions hosted by the International Monetary Fund will be livestreamed on their website: https://www.imf.org/cso

Annual conference “Trends in education development”

https://www.msses.ru/announcement/konferentsiya-tendentsii-razvitiya-obrazovaniya-globalnaya-vyzovy-i-neravnye-vozmozhnosti/

A growing number of countries are taking part in International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs). What are the political, economic, technical, and socio-cultural reasons that motivate them? What is the role of international organizations involved in their development and the private sector, which can lobby for ILSAs? Recognising the interests of a diverse set of actors involved with ILSAs is key to understanding their uses, costs and benefits, and how they may evolve.

Join us on 2 December 2019 for our next Strategic Debate with Camilla Addey, a Marie Curie Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and Lecturer at Teacher’s College at Columbia University, in the United States. Noah Webster Sobe, Senior Project officer for Education Research and Foresight at UNESCO, will join as the Discussant, and Suzanne Grant Lewis, Director of IIEP-UNESCO, will moderate the debate.

When: Monday 2 December 2019, 4 pm – 6 pm (CET)
Where: IIEP-UNESCO auditorium
7-9 rue Eugène Delacroix, 75116 Paris, France