Expo Dubai 2020 and Dubai Cares promote learning to create a better future for all
World Expo Dubai 2020 is organising Knowledge and Learning Week from 15-16 December to explore the future of education and how its reform is vital to reflect a change in the world for the benefit of children and society as a whole.
The virtual event, open to the public, will be held in partnership with the UAE-based global philanthropic organization Dubai Cares, with opening remarks by Reem bint Ibrahim al-Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General of the Expo Dubai 2020 Office; Hussain bin Ibrahim al-Hammadi, UAE Minister of Education; and Dr Tariq al-Gurg, Executive Director of Dubai Cares and member of its board.
They will discuss how knowledge can drive a global community to innovate for a better future for all, helping us to advance more than ever in science, medicine, sustainability, technology and other areas.
Topics will include the digitization of education, improving the skills of young Arabs and learning to move forward in a difficult global situation marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sessions will also cover intangible and tangible heritage, creative industries and knowledge economies, and tourism as a catalyst for community knowledge sharing.
Several international Expo 2020 participants, beneficiaries of the Expo 2020 global innovation and partnership programme, Expo Live, and projects supported by the Expo 2020 Global Best Practice Programme, a platform that highlights projects from around the world that have provided powerful and sustainable interventions by expanding them to other locations, will be presented during the two-day event, as the official Emirate agency WAM recalled.
These include the Expo Live beneficiary Seenaryo, a Lebanese-based arts and education organisation whose 'Kindergarten Playkit', a mobile application offered in Arabic, French and English, is transforming the teaching of refugee children, and The Citizens Foundation, a global best practice project that hires only female teachers and principals to deliver quality education to rural and underserved communities in Pakistan.
Dubai Cares will also host RewirEd, an international conference on education, over the two days, bringing together education leaders and professionals from around the world to engage in meaningful action-oriented dialogue to rethink and re-imagine attitudes to education.
Along with Knowledge and Learning Week, this virtual event will serve as a one year countdown to the RewirEd Summit that will take place in collaboration with Expo 2020 in Dubai during the Expo's Knowledge and Learning Week in 2021.
The Dubai World Expo 2020 will be the first World Expo to be held in the MEASA region (Middle East, Africa and South Asia), in the United Arab Emirates, and will run from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022 after it was postponed from this year due to the global impact of the coronavirus health crisis. This global conclave will bring together more than 190 countries to explore new ideas, form new connections and collectively tackle some of the greatest global challenges; remaining faithful to the main theme of Expo Dubai 2020: 'Connecting minds, creating the future'; all aimed at favouring global cooperation to face and solve global challenges by promoting the development of the most innovative technologies. Everything will revolve around the three main pillars of the world fair: Sustainability, Opportunity and Mobility.
