Join us at the forefront of educational innovation and international collaboration!

FinCEED and Education Finland are once again thrilled to host the Global Education Partnerships Forum, taking place in Helsinki on 29–30 October 2025. This premier event brings together thought leaders, educators, and stakeholders to explore, discuss, and showcase the latest advancements in educational development and commercial cooperation.

This year, the Forum's theme is "Future of Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation Environment​ – Where and How to Navigate Next?"

The Forum provides participants with matchmaking opportunities to foster synergy, establish partnerships, and collect and identify recommendations for developing innovative multistakeholder collaboration in the education sector. Particular focus is placed on co-creation between different sectors and actors in Finland and internationally. The aim is to identify innovative and practical solutions that foster international collaboration in the education sector. 
 
The target group consists of education actors in trade and development such as educational institutions, private sector representatives, public authorities, non-governmental organisations, researchers etc. The event covers all educational levels from pre-school education to higher education and research. 
 
The Forum will be a live event. Only the opening and closing plenaries will be streamed online. All event materials will be available digitally afterwards. The registration for participation will open in autumn 2025. 

Call for Session Proposals

We are now opening a call for session proposals for multistakeholder actors. Sessions are 45-90 minutes long, in-person sessions at the event venue.

Session Proposals must

1. Align with the Forum's theme “Future of Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation Environment – Where and How to Navigate Next?", and relate to one or more of the following key areas:

• The Rising Role of Vocational Training Globally: Importance of vocational education is on a rise throughout the globe. Sessions under this area can cover effect of entrepreneurial skills in VET as a path to self-employment, approach and results of impactful cooperation with local working life, importance of transversal skills in VET, as well inclusion and special needs in vocational education and training.

• Current Trends in Digital Education: Digital education provides countless opportunities and solutions in development of education and learning. Sessions under this area can showcase the latest trends in digital education, e-learning materials and EdTech, i.e. AI and its effect on the formal and informal education, best practices of research-based education technologies. They may also address how digital solutions promote inclusion, ethics, data protection, and human rights in education.

• Key Lessons for Successful Commercial Cooperation and Development Partnerships: As the international education development environment is constantly evolving, peer-learning and sharing of best practices should be at the core of cooperation. These sessions can explore the transformation of the education development sector, financing tools, and effective multi-stakeholder models. Topics may also include ethics and responsibility in collaboration, as well as future forecasting and weak signals in education. 

2. Include elements of interactive and/or participative methods

3. Foster and provide examples of co-creation for international education collaboration

4. Fall under one of these session types:

• Training is a learning-oriented session including a variety of methods. Training must include elements of participative methods and focus in building the capacity of the participants in the chosen subject. (90 minutes)
• Workshops are interactive, topic-oriented sessions that enable organisers to involve the audience in proposing concrete recommendations through facilitated group problem-solving. At every level, participants and facilitators can put forward their ideas and discuss innovative solutions for chosen challenges. Session may have up to 4 facilitators introducing the topic and facilitating the discussion. (45 or 90 minutes)
• Ask the Expert is a presentation and moderated round of Q&A between the speaker and audience. Ideal session introduces shortly an innovation, best practise or achievement in a very practical way and afterwards there will be a round of Q&A with the audience. (45 minutes)
• Pitching is a brief presentation and Q&A session for you to share your solution or project idea, receive recommendations from the audience and find potential partners. (5 min pitching + 10 discussion)

Submission Details

Proposals can be submitted via the link below by Sunday, 1 June 2025. Hosting a session is complimentary, and there are no fees for participants. Selections will be made by the GEP Forum team, and notifications will be sent via email.

We look forward to your innovative contributions to shape the future of international education. Submit your proposal today and be part of a transformative educational journey!

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Organizers

FinCEED - The Finnish Centre of expertise in Education and Development

Education Finland -programme