Upcoming Events

Launch of WHEC2022 – Global Student Declaration
Read the WHEC 2022 – Global Student Declaration developed by the Global Student Forum in cooperation with the All-Africa Students’ Union, the Commonwealth Students Association, the European Students’ Union, the Latin-American and Caribbean Continental Student Organisation, and the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions.

The GSF @ Learning Planet Festival – A new social Contract for Education
Reflections from the Learning Planet Festival Panel on the UNESCO Futures of Education Report

European Student Consultation for the UNESCO WHEC 2022
The 23rd of November the Global Student Forum organizes the European Student Consultation to provide input towards the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022. Hosted by the Global Student Forum, in partnership with the European Students’ Union, the meeting will...

GSF Partnership with UNRISD and IFSW for 2022 Global Summit on a New Eco-Social World
The Global Student Forum (GSF) is an official partner in the global people's summit Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind, 29 June - 2 July 2022. This summit is hosted by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the...

GPE Side Event – Resistance and Resilience – Financing Youth and Student Education Agendas
Date: 24 July 2021
Time: 1 pm SAST I 7 pm Philippines Time I 11 am GMT
Languages: English I French I Spanish I Portugues I Arabic

Encuentro Mundial de los Estudiantes de Secundaria
Cualquier estudiante de secundaria interesado está invitado a reunirse y aportar su perspectiva única sobre la relevancia de la acción y representación estudiantil de la escuela.

Independent Student Journalism and Human Rights – Capacity Building
The Global Student Forum in partnership with Global Voices organises a two-day capacity building seminar for student representatives titled: “Student Voices, Global Stories: Workshop on Independent Journalism and Human Rights”

Vaccine Justice through Fairness, Trust and Responsibility – Global Student Summit
An unfair and uneven distribution of vaccines globally can worsen the immediate and long-term harms of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. For this reason, the Global Student Forum is hosting a student summit on vaccine justice. This summit will reiterate demands to global leaders and governments for economic fairness and a just distribution of patent free vaccines.
Past Events

Mahindra Seminar – Student Impact on Higher Education Globally
The Harvard University – Mahindra Seminar: “Student impact on higher education globally – perspectives from leaders of regional student union federations and the Global Student Forum” – will take place on:
Join us on Monday, the 14th of June 2021 (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm ET/ 18:30 pm to 20:00 pm CEST)

Thank you for your participation: Student Summit on Climate Action and Biodiversity
Yesterday we had the pleasure to meet with learners and activists from every part of the planet to discuss learners’ role in the fight against climate change and the biodiversity crisis.
We wanted to start hearing from student leaders and environmental activists from different levels, to understand what’s happening on a key global topic that is so relevant for the future of Humanity.

Global Youth Caucus ahead of the HLPF 2021
The 100 Million Campaign and the Global Student Forum are holding a global youth caucus on 28th May 2021 to shape our collective demands for what should be on the agenda during the HLPF.
Through this dialogue, we hope to both directly influence the Ministerial Declaration itself, and plan other advocacy routes to to influence the outcomes of the HLPF in July and beyond.

Launch Event – End Child Labour: Youth & Student Resources
Today, 1 in 10 of the world’s children – 152 million – are still being forced to work and are denied their right to education and childhood.
That’s why we are uniting as child labour survivors, the world’s largest representative student unions, and the 100 Million campaign to invite student leaders across the world to host an event and campaign side-by-side with child labour survivor advocates to demand action.

Worldwide Student Summit on Climate Action and Biodiversity
The worldwide student summit “Environmental justice activism post-COVID-19 – Rebuilding momentum, coming back stronger!” will look into the role students and youth have played in the climate and pro-biodiversity movement of the past decade, analysing and trying to learn from best practices and strategic mistakes that were made along the way, following the overarching aim to become more resilient and strategic when facilitating climate action in a world post COVID-19.

Webinar on Student Participation co-hosted with the Magna Charta Observatory
Together with the Magna Charta Observatory, we are co-hosting a webinar on the importance of student participation in higher education decision making on the 19th of April.
Register now to join the event.

GSF World Student Congress on International Women’s Day 2021
The GSF World Student Congress on International Women’s Day 2021 will take place online, on the 8th of March from 06:00 – 08:00 pm CET.

Work Plan Kick-Off Conference with the All-Africa Students Union
Together with the national delegations of African unions of students, we explored and discussed the work plan, the upcoming GSF activities and their relevance to organisations and movements in Africa to ensure that the African perspective is well represented within the Global Student Forum and its future endeavours.

Y20 Summit: A fair share for our future
In November 2020 over one hundred students, youth, activists, and leaders came together to speak truth to power and demand a fair share for our future from the 20 biggest economies of the world - The G20. This event was organised by the 100 Million Campaign in...

#AllmeansALL – UNESCO Eurasia Report on Inclusion and Education
To mark Zero Discrimination Day 2021 the GEM Report team and Global Student Forum will convene an interactive webinar on the findings and recommendations from the 2021 regional report.