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Global Learning Council

Improving Learning Outcomes for All

The world is in the middle of a learning revolution. The ever-accelerating pace of development and adoption of technology is poised to further disrupt and transform education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds around the globe. Access to content alone does not directly translate to effective learning, particularly in a world that is being reshaped by systemic changes, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, impacting multiple generations.

About Us

The Global Learning Council (GLC) uniquely connects practitioners in education and learning with those at the cutting edge of technology and those with the ability to drive impact at scale, by leveraging intergeneration, interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches.

GLC's vision is to advance the use of science and technology in learning and education to:

  • improve learning outcomes for learners of all ages across communities
  • address critical global challenges; (1) planetary health (2) evolution of AI and technology
  • reimagine future-ready learning paradigms
  • innovate learning modes, tools, and techniques to equip learners with knowledge, skills, and values
  • achieve impact at scale through systems-level change across traditional boundaries

Our Projects & Events

Current GLC Initiatives:

Global Learning Conference

15-16 June 2025

The Global Learning Conference 2025 will take place on 15 and 16 June 2025 in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. This Conference will bring together thought leaders, practitioners as well as learners and changemakers from around the globe.

GLC - HP Global Hackathon on “Ensuring the veracity of AI in learning”

From January to April 2024, a global hackathon on how to improve learning outcomes and access to technology for all is taking place in 4 destinations across Switzerland, India, Rwanda, and Kenya. The hackathon finalists will give presentations and the grand competition will take place at the GLC Annual Meeting in Villars in June 2024.

ÆTHER - The AI Assistant for Sustainability Learning

Æther is an AI assistant that enables users to understand the complex interplay between human activities and planetary health, fostering the insights needed to create a more sustainable future by coupling modern machine learning (ML) with established science.

GLC Research Fellows Network

A global network of GLC Research Fellows has been created to connect researchers from different fields on interdisciplinary projects related to the context of education, learning, planetary health and technology. The first results of the research projects were presented at the GLC Annual Meeting in June 2024.

GLC Summer University Student Internships at CERN, from Summer 2024

A selected young group of STEM-inspired students will benefit from a 2-month internship at CERN, with a focus on sustainability in energy and environment. Following the internship, the Common Team Project on Energy Sustainability will serve to nurture and catalyze students' novel ideas for solutions to complex multidisciplinary and intergenerational challenges related to learning outcomes for all, which will be presented at the GLC Annual Meeting in June 2024.

Partnership with HP Futures

HP Futures is a leadership initiative that fosters and promotes innovative thinking to shape a more resilient, equitable future for education. HP Futures is a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary network of more than 100 international thought leaders from across the education sector - from academia and government to business and civil society.

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To provide access to the world of information and give individuals the tools to have their voices heard, every country and society should invest in the design of powerful learning tools.
Subra Suresh