The annual Slovenian Education Days conference in took place in Portorož at the end of March.

The flagship conference was held as part of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The European Commission has published a Communication on the Union of Skills.

UNESCO has launched its 2025 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) regional report for Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The report, entitled ‘Lead for inclusion’, focuses on the importance of school leadership for inclusive education systems. It outlines progress in inclusive education systems across the region in recent years and describes new challenges that have arisen, many resulting from language differences, ethnicity, migration and displacement.

The conference is part of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Finnish and Irish education stakeholders have taken part in a study visit to Vilnius, Lithuania, as part of a TSI project.

The Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia regional edition of UNESCO’s 2024/5 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report on leadership in education will launch on 26 February.

A collaboration between UNESCO and the Network of Education Policy Centers (NEPC), the regional report explores leadership in education across 27 countries. It looks at skills, training and working conditions for school leaders across the region, together with their attitudes and capacities to promote inclusive education.

As an active agent for policy change, the Agency aims to support all of its member countries to improve their policy for inclusive education. The Country Policy Development Support (CPDS) activity helps member countries to reflect on their own policy for inclusive education.

In December, the Swedish Agency for Participation hosted an online conference, titled ‘A barrier free future for every child’.

The conference took place under the Swedish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers. It aimed to share ways to enable all learners’ participation in education and strengthen networks of experts and organisations representing learners with disabilities in Europe, with a particular focus on Ukraine and Nordic and Baltic countries.

The first peer-learning event in the Agency’s Learners and Families Shaping Action (LFSA) activity took place in Brussels on 10 December 2024. This work is part of the Agency’s Thematic Country Cluster Activities (TCCA).

The event was a chance for cluster country representatives to share insights and discuss monitoring and evaluation strategies to involve hard-to-reach families in inclusive education.