For the sixth time, Learn for Life (Denmark) and the China Education 30 Forum (China) bring together key educational stakeholders from China and Denmark for the China–Denmark Education Forum. For the second consecutive year, the forum will be held in China—this time in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, at Four Seasons School

This year’s theme once again addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing education systems worldwide: young people’s well-being and motivation for learning. Under the headline “Combining Hand, Heart and Mind: The Key to Wellbeing and Restoring Young People’s Motivation for Learning,” the forum will explore how holistic and practice-oriented approaches can strengthen academic learning, relationships, and students’ sense of meaning and engagement.

Programme and Dates

The China–Denmark Education Forum will take place over one and a half days in February 2026:

7 February 2026

•          Morning: Keynote presentations

•          Afternoon: Continued presentations and a Sino-Danish roundtable discussion

8 February 2026

•          Morning: Six parallel, experience-based workshops facilitated by Danish educators

Workshops Focused on Practice and Reflection

Day two features six workshops offering participants concrete insights into working with well-being, relationships, and learning. The workshop format emphasises personal reflection, small-group dialogue, and practical “aha moments”. Participants will be invited to capture the day’s key insights on a shared wall, creating a visual representation of the forum’s collective “well-being landscape.”
 

Looking to the Future

The aim of the China–Denmark Education Forum is for participants—and the wider Chinese audience—to return home with new perspectives, renewed dialogue, and concrete avenues for action in their work with children’s and young people’s well-being and motivation for learning. With its sixth edition, the forum continues the Sino-Danish collaboration’s ambition to build bridges between Chinese and Nordic experiences and to engage closely with national and global educational challenges related to well-being and learning motivation.

About the Forum and Participants

The China–Denmark Education Forum (CDEF) is a Sino-Danish platform addressing current and socially relevant educational themes. Over the past five years, the forum has been held five times, with well-being as a consistent thread, explored from the perspectives of teachers, school leaders, students, parents, and researchers. Three editions were conducted online, while two took place as in-person conferences in Denmark and China respectively.

Participants from China include:

•          Li Zhenxi, Co-Chair, President of New Educational Research Institute

•          Li Meijin, Criminologist and Professor

•          Wu Chonghan, Leading Researcher in School–Home Collaboration

•          Guan Chenghua, Vice Chair of the University Council, Beijing Normal University

•          Jiang Yueping (Michael), Translator of The Nordic Secret

•          Zhang Hao, Party Secretary and Principal, Sijiseasons School Education Group ELLER Four Seasons School

•          William Yip, Theatre Director and Secretary-General, Beijing Jheng Charitable Foundation

•          Ma Guochuan, Secretary-General, China Education 30 Forum

Participants from Denmark include:

•          Mogens Godballe, Former Principal, Nordfyns Folk High School; Chair of Learn for Life; Danish Co-Chair of the Forum

•          Hans Henrik Knoop, Professor at Aarhus University and Denmark’s leading expert in well-being and positive psychology

•          Lis Zacho, Primary School Teacher at Lindevang School, TED speaker, and specialist in AI and digital education

•          Anders Nielsen, Boarding School Teacher, Langelands Efterskole

•          Andreas Buchhave Tofteberg, Boarding School Teacher, Langelands Efterskole

•          Marco Fortuna, Boarding School Teacher, Langelands Efterskole

•          Lisa Johansen, Secretary-General, Learn for Life