GEF Forum Moscow 2016

GEF Forum Moscow 2016 GEF Forum Curator(s) Name(s) of key person(s) who faciliatate the event KeySponsor(s) KeySponsor(s) Host(s) Host(s) Thinking Types Types of thinking engages Methods/Technologies Write the methodologies and technologies used Place Moscow, Russia Date(s) Feb 29 – Mar , 2016 Person in charge write the person in charge of the event Type of participants Senior Education Change makers, Junior Education Change Makers Number of participants max 60 Total Duration 5 days Link(s) Link(s) to press release(s)

The GEF Forum Moscow 2016 meeting

Location

Moscow, Russia

GLOBAL EDUCATION FUTURES: MOSCOW MEETING February 29 – March 2, 2016

The purpose of this gathering is threefold:
• to present current results of GEF initiative and reflect on its journey (frank reflection & feedback on strong & weak points, suggestion for improvement)
• to discuss practical collaborative activities that can start building bridge(s) from the present into the desirable future
• to connect with initiatives that exist in Russia and can become part of the global movement for education redesign (including roadmap on the future of childhood & school education developed with the Agency of Strategic Initiatives)

Before the meeting: around February 22, materials will be sent to participants for the revision:
GEF vision, structure of GEF Agenda 2.0 report, and ASI roadmap on the future of childhood

MEETING AGENDA (subject to further alternations)
Participants arrive on February 28 or earlier.

Day 1 (February 29): GEF Revision and Mapping Intentions
Attendees: GEF core group (international experts + key national partners, ca. 15-20 individuals total)
Venue: “The Boiling Point” Coworking of the Agency of Strategic Initiatives,
Maly Konyushkovsky pereulok 2, 3rd Floor

8.30 – 9.00 Welcoming coffee
9.00 – 10.00 Welcome and participants self-introduction
10.00 – 11.30 Global Education Futures: Reflection on the journey
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 – 13.00 GEF 2016: chartering plans & opportunities
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (served at The Boiling Point)
14.00 – 15.30 Presentation of ASI Roadmap on Childhood & School Education, revision & discussion by GEF group
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 17.30 Planning of collaborative activities (with particular focus on organizations that will not be represented on Day 3)

Day 2 (March 1): Public Conference “How do we catch up with the Global Future of Education”
Attendees: GEF core group + ca. 60-70 Russian individuals interested in transforming education (university deans & school principals, representatives of the Ministry of Education and other government agencies, corporate HRs and heads of corporate universities, venture investors, startup founders, etc.)
Venue: SKOLKOVO School of Management, Clusters “Singapore” and “Russia”
Novaya Street 100, Skolkovo, Odintskovsky District, Moscow Oblast

9.00 – 9.30 Welcome Coffee
9.30 – 9.45 Welcoming from conference partners:
Andrei Sharonov, Dean, Skolkovo School of Management
Svetlana Chupsheva, Director for Social Projects Division, Agency of Strategic Initiatives
9.45 – 10.45 Panel 1: “Global Challenges and Call for Education Redesign”
In this panel we want to present “grand vision of the future”, the inspiring image of “reassembled” education that will serve lifelong learner needs and will meet 21 century challenges
Speakers:
Pavel Luksha, GEF: Results of Global Education Futures foresight
Anthony Mackay, GELP: Visions that drive Global Education Leaders Partnership
Alexander Laszlo, ITBA: Vision of Systemic Transformation of Education (Bela Banathy group and beyond)
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 2: “New Education – who will take responsibility for its transformation?”
In this panel, we want to discuss candidate stakeholders (e.g. government, NGOs, corporate sector, venture economy, etc.) who will push the transformation of education and will become key changemakers
Facilitated by Pavel Luksha
Discussants: Ondrej Liska (Ashoka, Austria), Anthony Mackay (GELP, Australia), Francois Taddei (CRI, France), Luping Xu (Tsinghua University, China), Sherrie Donaldson (AdCorp and BRICS SDWG, South Africa), Rajesh Pankai (FICCI, India), Yiannis Laouris (NETS University, Cyprus), Cees Donkers (City as a Lab, Holland), Alexander Laszlo (ITBA, Argentina), Denis Konanchuk (Skolkovo)
12.30 – 13.00 Open Space discussions by attendees
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Short case presentations: “When we try to transform education, what do we actually achieve?”
In this series of short presentations, we want to revise success stories of making new education and present them as frank stories with their own internal failures, unrealized hopes, and multiple pivots. We want frank conversation of changemakers about the journeys they have been through, to inspire other people to follow in their footstep
Proposed cases:

- Researcher education in 21 century (Francois Taddei / Luping Xu)
- Relaunching urban planner education (Cees Donkers)
- Teaching global activism to 1000 young global leaders (Yiannis Laouris)
- How can we launch educational ecosystems in countries like Russia? (Michael Kozharinov)
- Voice of children: what kind of school do we really want? (Kahlia Laszlo)

15.30 – 16.00 Reflection of the meeting

Day 3 (March 2): Going Beyond GEF – Action Planning
Attendees: GEF core group
Venue: “The Boiling Point” Coworking of the Agency of Strategic Initiatives,
Maly Konyushkovsky pereulok 2, 3rd Floor

Our purpose of Day 3 is to discuss pilot program for transformational leaders of education that can be run in multiple locations around the world (and any adjacent activities that will be discussed during Day 1 & 2). We want to finish the day with commitments from attendees that will channel our energy after we leave Moscow
Tentative program – subject to further modifications (upon results of Day 1 & 2)
8.30 – 9.00 Welcoming coffee
9.00 – 11.00 Reflection on interaction with Russian educators – state of affairs and perspectives
11.00 – 13.00 Specific projects to be discussed:
• Education for global problem solving: creating a global hub
• Program for development of learning ecosystems
• Transforming cities through urban education: pilot projects in Russia, EU, and beyond
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 17.00 Discussion continues. Action planning
17.00 – 17.30 Closing remarks