Take part

Do not just attend.
Choose your contribution.

The Forum brings different perspectives into the same working process. Find the pathway that best reflects what you know, what you can question and what you are positioned to carry forward.

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Participation by design

Everyone enters through a pathway. Everyone works across boundaries.

Your pathway gives you a clear starting point—it does not place you in a silo. Working Forums deliberately connect people who see different parts of the same challenge.

Eight ways into one Forum

Find your place.

01

Schools & Educators

Bring the realities of learning into the room.

Teachers, school leaders and education networks connect practice with the wider systems shaping young people. Share what is working, question what is not and help turn insight into better learning environments.

Who this brings together
Teachers, school leaders, counsellors, school networks and professional learning leaders
How you can contribute
Working Forums, practical cases, school-based questions and commitments that can be tested after Bratislava
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02

Universities

Give the change you believe in the power to move.

For university voices willing to engage the change question seriously: identify what higher education should protect and value differently, put credible commitments into the Declaration and build the alliances that empower others to act.

Who this brings together
Reform-minded institutions, senior leaders, admissions and international offices, higher-education researchers, pathway programmes and good-faith sceptics ready to engage
How you can contribute
Name the change, test it across sectors, clarify the signals schools follow and place meaningful commitments into the Bratislava Declaration
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03

Business & Employers

Help learning meet the world it is preparing people for.

Employers see changes in skills, technology and work as they happen. The Forum creates a place to move beyond lists of ‘future skills’ and build better bridges between learning, human development and opportunity.

Who this brings together
Employers, founders, talent leaders, industry associations and workforce innovators
How you can contribute
Future-skills questions, applied sessions, workplace perspectives, challenges for student teams and partnership pilots
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04

Government & Public Institutions

Turn agreement into authorised, backed and funded action.

Government and public institutions are the Forum’s delivery partners. They bring the mechanisms, permission structures and funding knowledge that keep the Forum from having to guess how good initiatives become real programmes.

Who this brings together
National, regional and city leaders, ministries, public agencies, delivery units, funders and foundations
How you can contribute
Shape the delivery lens before the Forum, identify owners and routes during it, and carry commitments toward authorisation and funding afterward
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05

Students & the Assembly

Do not just inherit the future. Help write it.

The Future of Learning Assembly is a Model United Nations–structured forum where students arrive prepared, deliberate across perspectives and contribute directly to the Bratislava Declaration.

Who this brings together
Secondary students, student delegations, MUN leaders, youth organisations and supporting educators
How you can contribute
Prepared positions, structured debate, student proposals and a clear voice in the Forum’s shared direction
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06

Sports & Coaching

Two systems. Same child.

Sport and education often sit inside the same public portfolio, yet rarely work together in practice. The Forum brings the schools, clubs, federations and coaches shaping the same young people into one developmental conversation.

Who this brings together
Federations, youth academies, community clubs, sport-for-development organisations, coach-education bodies, PE leaders and expert sports brands
How you can contribute
Development-first coaching frameworks, character-led coach learning, school–club pathways and commitments recorded in the Declaration
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07

Partners

Help create the Forum—not simply appear beside it.

Partners can lead Working Forums, support student voice, contribute research, create practical experiences or help carry the Declaration into year-round action. The strongest partnership begins with what you want to help make possible.

Who this brings together
Foundations, associations, NGOs, learning organisations, technology partners and mission-aligned sponsors
How you can contribute
Strategic Forum partnership, learning-community work, programme creation, pilots, resources and implementation
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08

IB Days: For the IB-Curious

Listen to IB. Then experience the larger Forum.

Schools and governments exploring IB can hear about its programmes, recognition, mission and community through dedicated IB Days sessions—then join the full cross-sector Forum in which learning becomes participatory.

Who this brings together
Non-IB and candidate schools, education ministries, public authorities, school leaders and teams exploring an IB pathway
How you can contribute
Bring your questions, hear directly from IB and its community, then test those ideas alongside schools, universities, employers, government and students
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University voices ready to move

Give the change you believe in enough power to travel.

The Forum is for university representatives who are already willing to engage the question of change—whether they arrive as committed reformers or sharp, good-faith sceptics.

They identify what should change, place credible commitments into the Declaration and build alliances with the schools, employers, students and public leaders who can carry that direction further.

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Government & public institutions

The Forum should not have to guess how change gets made.

Delivery partners are not invited merely to observe or endorse. They help the Forum understand how an initiative gets authorised, backed, funded and carried through the institutions that can make it real.

Before the Forum, they help shape a delivery lens so commitments are written to be implemented. After it, they carry the Declaration into the ministries, desks, coalitions and funding instruments where permission and money live.

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Coaching, clubs & federations

Two systems around each young person—finally in dialogue.

Central European sport has often been selection-first: identifying who is already good enough rather than building environments that help more young people develop. The Forum gives the sector a genuine strand built around its own argument—not a token PE slot.

Coaches, clubs, federations and schools will examine development-first frameworks, character-led coaching, athlete retention and shared pathways between school and sport. Different rooms, same developmental principles.

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IB Days within the Forum

Curious about IB? Come experience it inside a bigger conversation.

IB Days is integrated into the Bratislava Future of Learning Forum for schools and governments that want to understand IB—not only as a set of programmes, but in relation to the wider future of learning.

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Sessions · Listening

Hear directly from IB and its community.

Dedicated sessions introduce IB’s mission, programme pathways and regional recognition. Participants hear success stories and perspectives from IB, schools, educators, students, parents and community voices.

  • IB programmes: PYP, MYP, DP and CP
  • Recognition and pathways
  • School and community experience
  • Questions from schools and public systems
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The Forum · Participating

Move from hearing about learning to working inside it.

IB-curious participants then enter the full Forum: cross-sector Working Forums, student voice through the Assembly, live synthesis through The Commons and the shared work of shaping the Bratislava Declaration.

  • Work with—not only listen to—other sectors
  • Explore what the ideas mean in practice
  • Connect with an international learning community
  • Leave with relationships and possible next steps

The discovery

By the end, participants may recognise that they have not only attended IB sessions. They have experienced a Forum shaped through inquiry, conceptual thinking, international-mindedness and learning through participation.

The principles are experienced first. Their connection is named at the end.

Hosted with the International Baccalaureate3–5 March 2027 · Bratislava, Slovakia
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Not sure where you fit?

Start with the contribution you want to make.

You may belong in more than one pathway. Tell us what you want to bring, explore or help build, and we will connect you with the right part of the Forum.

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