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WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY · 20 NOVEMBER 2026

24 hours.
One world.
Education in motion.

From New Zealand to Hawaii, the conversation travels across time zones. Students, schools and education leaders share the projects and ideas changing what learning can be.

🇳🇿🇫🇯🇦🇺🇻🇳🇷🇴🇱🇧🇬🇧🇪🇸🇦🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸Voices from around the world
CHANGE
TRAVELS
FAR
🇳🇿 10:00START · NZ 🌍 24 HOURSONE RELAY 🇺🇸 10:00FINISH · HAWAII
THE WORLDWIDE EDUCATION RELAYNOVEMBER 20 · 2026FOLLOW THE SUN

ABOUT THE EVENT

One continuous conversation. Countless possibilities.

On November 20, voices from around the globe come together for a 24-hour relay of ideas, experiences and action. Every hour offers a new perspective on how education is evolving—and what we can build next.

The stage belongs not only to experts and institutions, but also to the students helping shape the future of learning.

24hContinuous global conversation
01Shared day, across the planet
2026World Children’s Day · November 20

WHY IT MATTERS

01 / VOICES

Students at the center

Hear students speak for themselves: their projects, their challenges, and their vision of what learning could become.

02 / PRACTICE

Change you can see

Discover approaches already being tried in schools and educational communities—grounded in real experience.

03 / CONNECTION

A global perspective

Different contexts, shared questions. A relay that brings diverse educational communities into one conversation.

FOLLOW THE SUN

A world of possibilities.

Meet the host organizations connecting this year’s event. Select a flag on the map to discover the hosts representing that region.

2026 GLOBAL RELAY · FROM NEW ZEALAND TO HAWAII

Pins indicate host regions, not precise campus locations. Two Brisbane hosts and two Argentina-based hosts appear together on their respective map pins.

THE 2026 RELAY

The journey, hour by hour.

These are the segments represented by the organizations in our current host list. Other segments may be announced separately.

Friday 20 Nov at host locations
SEG01
New Zealand
Future Makers
10:00Host local
18:00Argentina · Thu 19 Nov
SEG12
Lebanon
TAMAM
10:00Host local
05:00Argentina · Fri 20 Nov
SEG15
Madrid, Spain
Colegios Zola
12:00Host local
08:00Argentina · Fri 20 Nov
SEG17
Argentina
HumanEdu
10:00Host local
10:00Argentina · Fri 20 Nov
SEG21
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Kamm Solutions
10:00Host local
14:00Argentina · Fri 20 Nov
SEG23
Argentina
ESSARP
16:00Host local
16:00Argentina · Fri 20 Nov

Timing note: This relay uses fixed, consecutive one-hour slots. A few local starts differ from 10:00 a.m. to accommodate time-zone differences. ESSARP, based in Argentina, hosts segment 23 at 16:00 Argentine time.

BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION

Change in education begins with people.

Share the broadcast, follow the ideas, and bring the conversation into your school or community.

Atlas of Change in Education cover

FROM THE PREVIOUS EDITION

The stories don’t end when the clock stops.

Explore the Atlas of Change in Education and recordings from the previous global relay. The ideas continue beyond the event itself.