Public Square | Seameo Innotech to host first Asean youth education summit

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This was the essence of the Youth Declaration that was launched during the 2022 Transforming Education Summit of the United Nations held in New York. The summit succeeded in elevating the crisis in education to the top of global and national political agendas.

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On June 27 and 28, 2023, the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization-Regional Center for Innovative Educational Technology (Seameo Innotech) and its partners will heed this call by gathering around 150 youth leaders from 10 countries in a two-day summit geared toward transforming education across the Southeast Asia region. Participants will come from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam and the Philippines.

The “Youth Summit 2023: Transforming Education in Southeast Asia” is designed as a youth-led event that will be managed by the youth leaders themselves by sharing their own innovations and programs and leading the process of reflection on how the Youth Declaration can be adopted and succeed in the classroom, school and community. It will be held at Seameo Innotech, Commonwealth Avenue in Diliman, Quezon City.

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“These youth are truly innovators and leaders of the future. They have seen the challenges in education that either hinder learning or have identified those opportunities to strengthen learning and have formulated and conceptualized methods that could very well revolutionize how we teach and how we learn,” Innotech Center Director and former Education secretary Leonor Briones said.

The summit will kick off with the Youth Declaration, laying out their collective recommendations on the transformation they want to see, along with their commitments for action on education.

Innotech also invited the Ministries of Education and other development organizations to identify concrete recommendations on youth innovations and working models. Its partners include the Department of Education, Seameo Secretariat, Asean Secretariat and Unicef Philippines.