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backEventsExplore the variety of events Salzburg Global hosts within Austria and in the rest of the world. Learn more about our programs and what else happens at Schloss Leopoldskron.Upcoming EventsDec 01 - Dec 06, 2025Peace & JusticeAdvancing Youth Safety and Justice: Transformative Policies, Community Solutions, and Accountable PracticesGlobal Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety and JusticeDec 08 - Dec 13, 2025EducationSkills for Tomorrow: Building the Next Generation of Vocational LearningEducation for Tomorrow's World
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Education
How Can Education Systems Transform To Equip Learners for the Century Ahead?
Our Programs
These programs, which fall under the Salzburg Global Center for Education Transformation, explore how education is shaping the skills, knowledge and mindsets of individuals and contributing to the development of more inclusive and sustainable societies.
Our Themes
Education in Emergencies
Education Leadership
Language Policy
Inclusive Futures
Social, Emotional & Creative Skills
Regenerative Education
Our Annual Lectures
Since 2022, the Salzburg Global Center for Education Transformation has held an annual lecture open to members of the public. These lectures have taken place during sessions and been delivered by a participant. Learn more about each lecture below, and watch a recording on YouTube.
2022: How a City Used Access to Education to Work for Women
On December 14, 2022, the Salzburg Global Center for Education Transformation held its first public lecture during “Education Transformation and Gender – Better Outcomes for Everyone.”
In her lecture "How a City Used Access to Education to Work for Women," Shanaaz Majiet framed a South African story that revealed ways we can intervene in systems to confront the gender gap in how educational opportunities in cities work for women.
Shanaaz argues cities like Tshwane (Pretoria) are places of abundance, opportunity, and hope. At the same time, she adds cities worldwide are also places of unmet aspirations, despair, precariousness, vulnerability, and marginalization.
In South Africa, Shanaaz says democratic local governments must respond effectively to the reality of inequality by increasing access to growth and development opportunities for the youth, the vulnerable, and the urban poor and underserved citizens.
She believes that too many institutional failures in local government reveal the complexity of governance, leadership challenges, and the need for citizen-focused capacity-building interventions that deliver services and results that matter to the people served.
Shanaaz Majiet is a practitioner, master coach, coach mentor, trainer, and facilitator of leadership development with 27 years of experience. She assists individuals, teams, and organizations in building healthy institutions which rehumanize workplaces, one leader and team at a time.
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2023: Empathy and Community as Antidotes to Misinformation
Solutions to the challenge of misinformation have tended to focus on making journalism more transparent or credible, doing more fact-checking, or teaching audiences media literacy skills. An overlooked area of emphasis is the emotional well-being and connectedness of the audience, and how building up community and cultivating empathy within audiences can lead them to be more committed to finding shared sets of facts to build consensus, and thus less susceptible to misinformation and its negative effects.
Jessica Roberts is an assistant professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is co-author of the 2018 book, American journalism and "fake news": Examining the facts, and her research on citizen journalism and social media has been published in Journalism and the International Journal of Communication, among other publications. Roberts earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland and her M.A. at the University of Southern California.
Held on November 16, 2023, this lecture was kindly supported by the US Embassy in Vienna and was delivered as part of Salzburg Global's session on “Civic and Civil Education: Identity, Belonging and Education in the 21st Century.”
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2024: Teaching in a Paradigm of Love & Justice
In a time of escalating polycrises, education systems worldwide are being tested as inequities grow and connections weaken. How can education reorient itself to address the needs of the most vulnerable, fostering a world built on love and justice?
Romana Shaikh, global education leader and co-founder of Kizazi, invites us to explore a shift to a new paradigm of education—one that aspires to a thriving life for every child. Her vision centers on self-discovery, togetherness, and service to our planet as the shared responsibility of our time.
Join her for an inspiring lecture at Salzburg Global to reimagine education as the cornerstone of a just and loving future for generations to come.
This lecture was delivered on December 10, 2024, within Salzburg Global's “The Future of Teaching” session.
Our Writing Residencies
We live in an era of convergent diplomatic, health, societal, economic, and environmental crises. Education has a critical role to play in addressing these current crises and in helping populations develop the skills and behaviors to navigate — or, better still, avoid—similar crises in the future.
The Salzburg Global Center for Education Transformation supports a wide range of activities designed to help develop new approaches to critical and emerging issues in education.
We have a particular focus on education leadership, social, emotional, and creative skills, regenerative education, language policy, the potential of education to create a more inclusive future, and education in emergencies.
Since 2023, the Center has offered three writing residencies each year to support the development and dissemination of new thinking on education transformation.
Our inspiring environment at Schloss Leopoldskron allows people from across the globe to work in a new setting, away from the restrictions and pressures of their everyday lives. It provides time and space for individuals to develop their work and explore new ideas creatively.
2025
Iman Albertini - Cultural Stereotypes and Invisible Disabilities in Western Schools
Oksana Matiiash - Transforming Ukraine’s Education System for Stronger Human Capital
Thelma Obiakor - Nigeria's Linguistic Landscape and Its Impact on Education
2024
Chandrika Kaul - Gandhi's Impact on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Regenerative Education (RE)
Angga Dwi Martha - Reimagining Intergenerational Dialogue
Ben Wildavsky - Global Comparative Analysis of Education and Workforce Success
2023
Rena Deitz - SEL in Conflict
Franco Mosso - A New Purpose and a New Approach to Education
Hoang Viet Nguyen - Transforming Schools Through Regenerative Education
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