RewirEd Summit

RewirEd Summit 2021

RewirEd Summit, held between 12-14 December 2021 at Expo 2020 Dubai, focused on three key pressing areas in Education globally: Youth, Skills and the Future of Work; Innovation in Education; and Education Financing. The Summit convened education stakeholders including educationalists and front liners, policy makers, youth, the private sector, international organizations, and foundations, among others together in one place for three days to engage in discussions, panels, hands-on workshops, and to launch exciting initiatives and experiments, and much more. Held as a hybrid event against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic’s massive impact on education, the Summit featured 500 speakers and brought together over 4,000 participants joining in-person. Altogether, they represented over 140 nationalities, resulting in a truly global conversation on the future of education. The first edition of the Summit focused on three main areas: Youth and Future Skills, Innovation in Education and Education Financing. The key recommendations from the discussions and insights shared during the Summit have been captured in the ‘Rewiring Education for People and Planet’ Report, which offers six concrete “win-win” solutions that promote a cross-sectoral ecosystem approach to align thinking and action for transformational education outcomes and to further achieve progress across the SDGs.

RewirEd Summit 2023

The second edition of the RewirEd Summit took place at COP28 UAE and focused on placing education at the forefront of the climate agenda. It convened climate and education actors and united them in their commitment towards global education transformation as a powerful solution to achieve climate ambitions and education goals. Taking place on COP28’s “Youth, Children, Education and Skills” Thematic Day on 8th of December 2023, RewirEd Summit 2023 brought together diverse voices and sectors including heads of state, ministers, heads of UN agencies and multilaterals in addition to experts, youth and grassroot entities. It prioritized aligning agendas, commitments, and financing, as well as enabled the sharing and inspiring of solutions, while ensuring that climate agendas and investments are linked to education priorities, and that education strategies and commitments respond to the climate agenda today and in the future. The Summit’s programming focused on four areas: Rewiring Lifelong Learning for Green Jobs and Green Economy; Transformative Policy and Innovative Financing at the Nexus of Education and Climate Action; Leveraging Technology and Connectivity to Rewire Education Systems for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation; and People and Knowledge at the Heart of Transformation for People and Planet.

RewirEd Summit was the first ever global education summit on climate that brought together more than 1,000 participants, including 2 heads of state, 22 ministers, and 28 CEOs, with 260 speakers, representing 209 entities and 76 countries, leading a global discussion that showcased the powerful solutions that exist at the climate-education intersection.