More than 1,500 participants will gather in Barcelona, Spain, for the third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, to chart a renewed vision for higher education in the next decade.
The conference, running from Wednesday 18 May to Friday 20 May, will launch a global conversation to “reshape ideas and practices in higher education to ensure sustainable development for the planet and humanity”, UNESCO says, and to create a common roadmap for higher education to 2030.
How higher education can be adapted to global and local challenges, such as sustainable development, will be high on the agenda. Other key issues are how international mobility can be supported and how higher education institutions can be adapted to become lifelong learning institutions.