The 8th WFFCE convened over 500 researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners from across the globe to examine the profound transformations reshaping education systems worldwide.
Building on UNESCO’s Reimagining Our Futures Together (2021), the Forum addressed five converging challenges: widening inequalities, climate change, biodiversity loss, democratic backsliding, and technological disruption.
The event was co-organised by Beijing Normal University’s Institute of International and Comparative Education (IICE) ā China’s leading centre for comparative education research since 1961 ā alongside the BNU Center for International Education Research, UNESCO-INRULED, and Zhejiang University’s UNESCO Research Center.
BNU has hosted all eight editions of the WFFCE, establishing Beijing as the institutional anchor of the global comparative education community.