Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Challenges and the Future of Education

The geoeconomic and geopolitical landscape is closely connected to our educational systems, as education plays a critical role in helping us navigate the complexities of our global society. This chapter reflects on the need for an economic paradigm shift supported by technology and innovation. The global economy needs alternative thinking, proactive learning, and working methods to foster economic growth and development in alignment with countries’ diverse realities and cognisant of planetary boundaries and environmental degradation. We argue the need to allow new economic models to emerge in response to contemporary challenges. Rather than a radical and abrupt change, looking at economic adaptive resilience and how it can help countries and regions prepare for change and redirect from shocks and disruption is vital. The global economy requires mechanisms to promote and support a gradual and continuous transition to long-term sustainable growth, where the economy prospers in harmony with the environment and society’s well-being. This approach recognises the interconnectedness between economic, social, and environmental systems, seeking to create positive synergies that drive human progress while protecting essential natural resources for current and future generations while putting forward the progress and advance of human talent as a driver of change and sustainable progress.