UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) aims at reshaping ideas and practices in higher education to ensure sustainable development for the planet and humanity.
In the view of the global health crisis, UNESCO and the Government of Spain have agreed to postpone the 3rd World Higher Education Conference (WHEC) until mid-2022.
The goals and strategic scope of the conference remain, and the new time frame represents an opportunity to deepen and expand our common efforts of knowledge production, policy dialogue, exchange, and networking. UNESCO considers the process of collective construction as the greatest richness of this conference, which aims to become a global conversation nurtured by diverse narratives on higher education.
UNESCO thanks all organisations and individuals that have already expressed interest and are working to collaborate with and substantively contribute to the WHEC and even beyond. We encourage those who have not yet consider engagement to do so and coordinate via the WHEC Secretariat: whec2022@unesco.org(link sends e-mail)
The WHEC will maintain a hybrid format to provide opportunities for broad participation. The Conference’s Secretariat is already working in updating the concept note, guidelines, and templates for what has become: WHEC2022. Updated deadlines and relevant information (including the new dates of the conference) will be available soon through this web page.