Another successful Global Learning Festival (GLF) has wrapped up for 2021. With over 95 live and recorded events delivered from across Australia, the USA, the U.K, Israel, Northern Ireland, Taiwan, Canada, Bangladesh, Kenya, Benin, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Lithuania, and Turkey, the 2021 GLF truly represented global learning.

Co-hosted by Wyndham and Melton Councils, in Victoria, Australia, along with over 20 learning communities around the world, the Global Learning Festival ran for the 2^nd time in 2021. The GLF aims to bring unity and connection to communities all over the world, and to give learners a firsthand experience of the benefits that lifelong learning can bring, particularly during uncertain and challenging times.

The live events were scheduled between 8-11 November, and a number of recorded events can still be viewed on the Global Learning Festival website.

Topics included Cooking, History, Environment & Sustainability, International Development, Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Reconciliation, Gardening, Cooking, Hope & Attachment, Hope & Resilience, Mentoring, Mental health and self-care, STEM, Author Talks, Career Change, Peace-Building, Human Rights, even a Virtual Tour of Victoria’s Parliament House.....there was truly something for everyone!

Participants, event providers and members of the working group were surveyed to gain valuable feedback to inform planning for 2022. A final report is now available.

The full report is featured below and attached; also here.

Diane Tabbagh