The Role of Education in Addressing Future Challenges

This report, ‘The role of Education in addressing future challenges’, was prepared in response to UNESCO’s Futures of Education consultation. 

Through this initiative, UNESCO proposes to consider the role of education as a common good in 2050 and beyond. In other words, education is key to building a more sustainable planet and equal societies. In this report, Bridge 47 will focus on the role of education that is transformative and value-based to adapt and respond to the multiple challenges the world is currently facing. Bridge 47 considers as transformative any education that fosters global citizenship, sustainable development, human rights, equality, peace and cultural diversity, as captured in Target 4.7. of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Bridge 47 sees education from a holistic perspective, ie. learning that is lifelong and extends beyond formal learning, and life-wide, that takes place in a multitude of contexts and environments. Formal, non-formal and informal learning all have a key role to play.