Education Above All Foundation at WISE 12
24 - 26 November 2025
Get an overview of our sessions and exhibition at this year’s World Innovation Summit for Education
November 24–25, 2025 Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC)
Day 1 | Monday, November 24
10:00 – 10:45
Civic Agency Under Fire: How Displaced Youth Use Education and Advocacy to Reclaim Power
Education Above All and Bard College explore how education becomes a frontline for identity, civic agency, and human rights, highlighting youth-led advocacy and higher education access for displaced learners.
11:30 – 12:15
Human-Centered Climate Change Education: Best Practices and Success Stories
Education Above All and UNICEF, and UNDP, showcase how human-centred climate education connects learning with local realities and community resilience, from Zanzibar to Uzbekistan to Kenya’s refugee camps.
13:00 – 13:45
Falling Forward: Learning from Innovation Mistakes
Education Above All partners including IRC, VVOB, and Mantra Social Services unpack lessons from failed pilots and explore how learning from mistakes drives more resilient, scalable education innovations.
14:30 – 15:15
Innovative Financing: Building a Social Investment Market in Qatar to Finance Global Education and Economic Empowerment
With startling gaps in the financing needed for education and youth employment around the world, Qatar can pioneer ways to bring in private capital.
Day 2 | Tuesday, November 25
9:00 - 10:00
Everything Begins with Education: Pathways from Access to Opportunities
Our high-level plenary, explores how education transforms access into opportunity, linking learning to employment, resilience, and community empowerment.
10:00 – 10:45
From Data to Dignity: Technology and the Right to Education
Education Above All, UNICEF, UNDP, and Insecurity Insight discuss how AI and digital tools can bridge data gaps, track attacks on education, and strengthen protection and equity for all learners.
12:15 – 13:00
From Camps to Campuses: Policy, Partnerships and Pathways for Higher Education Access
This session highlights data-driven models for refugee higher education access, led by Education Above All’s Public Policy Observatory and global academic partners.
13:45 – 14:30
Future Ready: AI, Education and Green Entrepreneurship for Youth
A forward-looking dialogue on how AI and green skills can equip youth to lead in the digital and green economy, featuring innovators, government representatives, INGOs, and Education Above All youth advocates.
Visit the Education Above All Exhibition Booth
Discover how, together with our partners, we are breaking barriers to education, skills, and opportunity, helping millions of children and young people reach their full potential.
