Global Citizenship at the Heart of Education: QRTA Forum 2025 Reimagines Tomorrow

In today’s rapidly changing world, education is no longer simply a means of transmitting knowledge. It has become a strategic tool to prepare individuals to navigate the complexities of our time, address global challenges, and build societies that are more just, sustainable, and interconnected.

With this vision, the Queen Rania Teacher Academy (QRTA) has chosen a timely and critical theme for its 2025 Forum: “Educating for Tomorrow: Cultivating Citizenship & Values in a Changing World.” The theme reflects a deep awareness of the urgent need to redefine the role of education amid global upheavals and transformative shifts.  

Why Citizenship and Values — and Why Now?  

QRTA’s focus on citizenship and values is not coincidental. It is a deliberate response to an increasingly complex global reality shaped by unprecedented challenges: climate change highlighting values such as sustainability and environmental responsibility and digital transformations that are reshaping how human beings relate, interact, and create.  

In this context, citizenship and a renewed emphasis on values emerge as guiding principles rethinking the relationship between individuals and their communities, between the local and the global, and between education and life itself.

Citizenship today extends far beyond geographical areas. It means active engagement with humanity’s shared concerns, coupled with a sense of ethical, social, and environmental responsibility. Education, through this lens, is the most powerful intervention we have to nurture critical thinking, empathy, collaboration, and leadership for change. It is about shaping a generation ready to safeguard the future with wisdom and responsibility.   

The Forum’s Vision: Educating for Tomorrow

The QRTA Forum 2025 will be held virtually on October 25–26, 2025, serving as a dynamic platform for educators to exchange knowledge, experiences, and practices that reinforce the role of citizenship and values in education.

Day One will feature workshops led by practitioners, researchers, and education leaders, creating a collaborative space to explore frameworks, emerging trends, and shared insights. Day Two will highlight impactful projects and innovative initiatives from schools and educators worldwide, focusing on five thematic areas that reflect the dimensions of citizenship in education:

• Active citizenship and individual responsibility 

• Education for sustainable development 

• Digital citizenship in its many forms 

• Integrating values into daily practice 

• Empowering educators as agents of change

A Platform for Global Dialogue

QRTA envisions the Forum not only as an academic gathering, but also as a global dialogue platform one that challenges educators to rethink the purpose of education and reconnect it with shared human values. It is a call to recognize humanity’s responsibility toward natural and environmental systems, and to question unchecked practices that may compromise the very foundations of life.

Participants will have the opportunity to share perspectives, propose initiatives, and explore solutions for embedding values and citizenship into education, reaffirming the idea that educating for citizenship is not optional — it is essential. It is the cornerstone of sustaining humanity’s wisdom, responsibility, and stewardship of the planet’s resources.  

A Call to Action

QRTA Forum 2025 is more than an event. It is a call to educators, school leaders, and institutions worldwide to be part of a global meeting that reimagines education, placing citizenship and values at its very core.  

Because in a world of constant change, education for citizenship is not simply a choice — it is the path to ensuring a better tomorrow.