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The 51³Ô¹Ï Secretary-General will convene a Transforming Education Summit (TES) during the UN General Assembly this September. It will consist of a Leaders Day on 19 September 2022, which will be preceded by a TES: Mobilization Day on Friday, 16 September and a TES: Solutions day on 17 September.

The TES: Solutions Day will provide space for sessions and events to mobilize actions around the five Thematic Action Tracks of the Summit to take place at the 51³Ô¹Ï Headquarters.

The deadline is Thursday, 18 August 2022, 5 pm EDT (GMT-4).

Criteria for proposals

All proposed sessions/events should be explicitly and substantively linked to one of the Thematic Action Tracks of the Transforming Education Summit, with a view to mobilizing collective actions for transformation, drawing on the key recommendations of the respective discussion papers:

1. Inclusive, equitable, safe, and healthy schools
2. Learning and skills for life, work, and sustainable development
3. Teachers, teaching and the teaching profession
4. Digital learning and transformation 
5. Financing of education

A small number of sessions are more cross-cutting in nature, such as on education governance.

The Summit Secretariat will select sessions/events in close coordination with the Deputy Secretary-General. The sessions/events will be selected based on their relevance to the Summit and its Solutions Day objectives, ensuring regional diversity and balanced coverage of a range of topics. 

Member States, Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), UN entities, and other stakeholders, including NGOs and representatives from civil society, can be co-organizers for the sessions/events.

Given the objective mentioned above, each event should be co-organized by at least three entities: two Member States and one UN agency. One entity should be designated as a lead co-organizer to serve as the main communication point. this role can be played by any of the co-organizing Member States or organizations.

In view of the large number of proposals anticipated, only ONE proposal per entity serving as a lead co-organizer will be considered.

Co-organizers are encouraged to ensure gender and geographic diversity of speakers and include at least one youth representative. 

The possible duration of each session/event is 45, 60 or 90 minutes. Organizers are invited to respect the duration of the event and allow time in the end for transition to the following sessions/events, so all sessions/events can unroll in time as planned.  

Submission process

•  available in English, French and Spanish.
• Refer to the information on the Thematic Action Tracks
• The deadline is Thursday, 18 August 2022, 5 pm EDT (GMT-4). The Summit Secretariat will review all submissions after the deadline, and the selected organizers will receive information about their sessions/events by Thursday, 25 August 2022. 
• All queries related to the TES: Solutions Day side events should be addressed to: tes.actiontrack@unesco.org
• NOTE: The Secretariat will not produce fliers, distribute notices, or run other publicity efforts for sessions/events. All costs incurred for the sessions/events are to be borne by the organizers, including, where available, interpretation services. The costs associated with interpretations and meeting services will be communicated in due course.
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