UWC 2030 Strategy
Strengthening our movement and scaling our impact
Strengthening our movement and scaling our impact.
Our current strategy, UWC 2030, was approved by the UWC International Board on 22 June 2024, after an 18-month process that brought together voices from across all UWC communities. This highly collaborative approach allowed us to reflect on the progress that we’ve made with the UWC 2018 and Beyond strategy, while looking ahead to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Together, we have imagined the role that the UWC will play in shaping a more peaceful and sustainable future.
Over the past six years, we have focused inward on three core priorities: to seek, to educate and to inspire. In that time, we’ve strengthened our national committees, restored trust, responsibility and autonomy in the student experience and reignited the passion within the UWC community to live out our mission.
Now, as we look towards 2030, we’re ready to build on this foundation to meet the global challenges of tomorrow.
UWC 2030 strategy is a bold and ambitious strategy. We are broadening our focus beyond providing a transformative education to our students. We aim to become a truly global voice for values-based education – rooted in diversity, peace, sustainability and our commitment to offering needs-based financial assistance.
According to a recent UNESCO study on the top challenges peaceful societies will face by 2030, education-related solutions ranked first for seven out of the 11 challenges and were among the top five for all of them.*
Read the 2030 StrategySeek, Educate, Connect and Amplify.
These four words guide us now. They reflect what matters most to our diverse UWC family: our unique national committee system, which enables us to select students from over 150 countries and territories; our 18 schools and colleges spanning four continents; our 85,000+ alumni making an impact in every corner of the world; the invaluable partners and donors who make our work possible; and UWC International itself. Our new strategy also opens the door to even more partnerships and opportunities in education.
UWC 2030 strategy gives us a clear path forward. It outlines how we will achieve our goals and defines the roles of everyone involved. It does not offer a one-size-fits-all approach to the UWC mission and experience. Instead, we embrace the diversity within our movement and ensure that, while we each bring our own perspective, we remain united by our shared strategic direction and purpose.
We encourage every member of the UWC community – and anyone who shares our values – to explore the UWC 2030 strategy. By staying true to the mission and values that unite us, we can lead the way in educating for a more peaceful, sustainable future.