The ANGEL Conference 2025 will mark the fifth edition of the Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL) international conferences on Global Education and Learning. Over the years, the ANGEL conferences have grown into a crucial event for Global Education research, showcasing policy-related research work in the field and providing a platform for sharing new research and fostering collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. Our successful 2023 event was the largest yet, held in partnership with UNESCO at their HQ in Paris. View information, and pictures, of the 2023 event here.

Hosted at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin between 4-6 June (4th June is dedicated to Early Career Research), the 2025 Conference takes the title „Research in Global Education and Learning: For Democracy, Peace, Human Rights, Sustainability, and Global Social Justice„, and is designed as a major international gathering with several key objectives:

• Promote dialogue between policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, encouraging reflection on the value of research for policymaking
• Explore international policy frameworks and their effects on Global Education
• Provide researchers with a platform to present their current work and engage in meaningful dialogue with experts and peers
• Support and nurture Early Career Researchers

The Conference also aims at furthering the vision of the European Declaration on Global Education to 2050 (‘Dublin Declaration’):

„A world characterized by greater social and climate justice, peace, solidarity, equity, equality, planetary sustainability, international understanding, respect for diversity, inclusion, the realization of human rights for all, and a decent life for all, particularly the most vulnerable and excluded, both locally and globally“

Additionally, it seeks to encourage educational research aligned with the new UNESCO Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development (which replaced the ‘1974 Recommendation’).

Global Education and Learning is defined in the Dublin Declaration as „education that enables people to reflect critically on the world and their place in it… empower(ing) people to understand, imagine, hope, and act to bring about a world of social and climate justice, peace, solidarity, equity and equality, planetary sustainability, and international understanding”. Global Education is an umbrella term to bring together related concepts including: Development Education, Global Citizenship Education, Education for Global Citizenship and International Solidarity, Education for Sustainable Development, Global Learning, Human Rights Education, Intercultural Education, Peace Education and Anti-racist Education.