2026 Taiwan General Education Conference and Annual Meeting of the Taiwan General Education Strategic Alliance and Quality Enhancement Committee
Background of the Project
At its 2023 General Conference in Paris, the UNESCO highlighted Peace and Climate Change as dual core themes, emphasizing the crucial role of educational planning, multi-level learning, and educators in fostering peaceful societies and maintaining the ecological balance of our planet.
At the same time, the International Telecommunication Union has been actively advancing its AI for Good global initiative—launched in 2017—to explore how artificial intelligence can help address sustainability challenges and human needs. The AI for Good Global Summit 2025, held in Geneva, Switzerland, further envisions a future where AI contributes positively to the world.
In response to these global trends, the 2026 Taiwan General Education Conference aims to provide a platform for academic exchange, bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, graduate students, and young researchers across Taiwan. The conference seeks to explore how general education can play a more proactive role in addressing societal conflicts through technological applications, promoting human rights, and fostering coexistence with climate change. It also emphasizes the need for enhanced educational resources and innovative pedagogical approaches.
Significance of the Conference
The early summer of 2026 marks the annual conference season of the Taiwan General Education Strategic Alliance and its Quality Enhancement Committee. This year, in collaboration with National Pingtung University of Science and Technology and 14 public and private universities across Taiwan, the conference will be held under the theme:
“Sustainable Peace, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, and the Diverse Challenges of Teaching Practice.”
The conference aims to examine forward-looking issues in the context of rapid technological advancement and evolving global policies in the 21st-century socio-economic landscape. It calls on higher education educators and researchers to stay ahead of emerging trends, integrate cutting-edge developments into teaching, and continuously innovate curricula to align with the fast-changing “New Economy.”
Such efforts are essential to nurturing future-ready talent capable of adapting to the evolving labor market, as projected in the “Future of Jobs Report 2025” by the World Economic Forum, which estimates the emergence of up to 170 million new jobs over the next decade.
This conference is envisioned as a preparatory platform for an unprecedented human future. It not only invites scholars to simulate and anticipate a world enriched by AI-driven products and services, but also encourages critical reflection on how human decisions and natural disasters may either intensify or alleviate conflicts—among individuals, nations, and even between humans and other species—while creating new opportunities for coexistence and shared prosperity.
https://tgea2026.npust.edu.tw/