UNESCO, in collaboration with UNICEF, will host the 6th Asia-Pacific Meeting on Education 2030 (APMED 6) in Bangkok, Thailand, from 10 to 13 September 2024. The overarching theme of APMED 6 is 'Accelerating actions: Transforming the what and how of learning for a sustainable future’.

As the lead for SDG 4 coordination in Asia-Pacific, the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok will organize APMED 6, in collaboration with the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (UNICEF EAPRO), and the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (UNICEF ROSA). The collaboration is carried out under the umbrella of the Asia-Pacific Learning and Education 2030+ (LE2030+) Networking Group, for which UNESCO Bangkok serves as Secretariat. Further supported for APMED 6 is provided by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), of the Government of Japan. 

Over the course of four days, APMED 6 will examine actions taken since the 2022 Bangkok Statement, and the National Statements of Commitment to Transform Education, as well as review new initiatives to transform education towards becoming more relevant, inclusive, resilient, and environmentally sustainable. The meeting will advance the central principle of Sustainable Goal 4, which is to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.’ Representatives from countries in the region, youth, and invited experts will explore innovative practices and ideas to address the regional learning crisis to transform the ‘what’ and ‘how’ we learn, and to accelerate actions to realize learning – including early learning – for all children, adolescents and youth in Asia-Pacific. 

This meeting will also contribute inputs from Asia-Pacific to the 2024 Global Education Meeting, to take place from 31 October to 1 November 2024, in Fortaleza, Brazil.