Nobel Prize Teacher Summit
About the summit
The Nobel Prize Teacher Summit is an international event for teachers held by Nobel Prize Museum.
The initiative builds on the ability of the Nobel Prize to inspire people to seek out knowledge, to ask questions and to attempt to understand and improve the world.
What’s special with this summit?
What distinguishes this summit from our other teacher programmes is that one or more Nobel Prize laureates participate as speakers. The programme is made up of short lectures that are interspersed with panel discussions, interviews and group discussions.
The speakers are Nobel Prize laureates, scientists, educators and other experts who are invited to make the programme stimulating, topical, varied and in-depth. The speakers are carefully selected, based on their expertise. A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary mix illuminates the theme from different perspectives, but the focus is always on the role of teachers.
Learning from each other
Participating teachers connect the content to their teaching through group discussions based on clear sets of questions. A preschool teacher from northern Sweden, a British physics teacher and an Indian school principal can therefore discuss how artistic illustrations can breathe life into teaching about black holes or how radicalisation among vaccine opponents can best be prevented by schools.
While the content may be intellectually challenging, even complex at times, the summit aims for an inclusive and collegial atmosphere between speakers and participants.
Teaching is an academic profession with a high level of difficulty, both in terms of knowledge and methodology, as well as socially. By organising interesting high-level seminars featuring Nobel Prize laureates and other outstanding speakers, we want to contribute to in-depth knowledge, inspiration and collegial dialogue.
Our long-term ambition is to help increase the attractiveness of the teaching profession. Without excellent teachers – no new Nobel Prize laureates!
Themes throughout the years
Since the first Nobel Prize Teacher Summit in 2017, each edition has explored a theme reflecting important issues and questions of our time. Over the years, the programme has addressed a wide range of topics – from misinformation, intolerance and climate change to migration, democracy, global health and how our brains work.
The themes span science, society and the humanities, bringing different fields of knowledge and perspectives into the conversation. Some address urgent global challenges, while others explore fundamental questions about how we think, learn and live together. This range is an important part of the Nobel Prize Teacher Summit, allowing each year’s programme to approach education and the world around us from a new angle.
