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Coffee, tea and soft drinks will be available for purchase in the Parliament Foyer and Trillium Ballroom. There will be mineral water available for participants from water coolers in the plenary room.

Congress will open at 17.00 hours on the 21st July. The two hour opening session will be followed by a welcome reception in the Parliament Foyer and the Trillium Ballroom at the Congress centre. All participants are invited to attend.

Registration is also open for pre-Congress events and break-out sessions.

On registration participants who require visas to enter Canada can download documents to assist them in applying for a visa. They must apply directly to the nearest Canadian visa issuing authority.

Over 1,700 people have registered already for the 7th World Congress. This includes approximately 950 delegates. The final date for registering delegates was 21st April.

The Congress Scheduling tab is now available on the registration section of the website! With this tool you can enter your flight details in order to ensure that we can arrange transportation to and from the airport for you in Ottawa and book your place at pre-Congress events, break-out sessions...

Early next month representatives from a wide variety of global health, education and UN organizations will meet to discuss issues of integrating disciplines such as health and social sustainability into schools as a way to leverage the strengths of programs in each separately to create a stronger and systemic whole.

President Susan Hopgood has brought Education International's message to the heart of the World Education Forum: a successful education agenda needs the inclusion and consultation of teachers and civil society.

French trade unions united within the Education Collective Against LGBT-phobia in Schools and Universities have called on public authorities to implement a long-awaited ambitious policy to combat LGBT-phobia in schools and universities.

Education International has presented its own assessment of the last 15 years of EFA at the World Education Forum in Korea, which states that without a consistent engagement of teachers in education policy, future strategies are bound to fail.

Education International has presented its own assessment of the last 15 years of EFA at the World Education Forum in Korea, which states that without a consistent engagement of teachers in education policy, future strategies are bound to fail.

Two Turkish trade unionists have been awarded the Febe Elisabeth Velasquez trade union award 2015 for their exceptional trade union work by the biggest trade union confederation in the Netherlands.

The Education International delegation represents the largest constituency group at the World Education Forum, bringing together education union leaders from five continents, pushing for a rights-based new global education agenda.

During a week of training, sharing experience and exchange, over 150 young teachers from all over Russia have come together to discuss strategies for on-the-ground trade union work in the Russian Federation’s roughly 60,000 schools.

The Independent Education Union of Australia, an affiliate of Education International, is lobbying the country’s government to reject the inclusion of educational services into the controversial Trade in Services Agreement.

Last week Education International had the opportunity to experience first-hand the devastation inflicted on Nepal after two major earthquakes rocked the country to its core, leaving communities in ruin and lives forever changed.

More than 130 NGOs have pushed for a stronger role of civil society and for the recognition of teachers within the post-2015 process two days ahead of the World Education Forum that will agree on a new global education agenda.

The proposed Sustainable Development Goal on education is being called the most ambitious commitment to education in history, but one which global leaders in education finance say requires greatly increased resources to pay for it.