Every year at the beginning of March, open education is celebrated during OEWeek (Open Education Week), promoted by Open Education Global. This is an event during which groups from around the world promote ideas and projects related to open education.

In 2025, with the help of our friends at the UNESCO RELIA chair, the UNOE network and the European University of Wellbeing EUniWell, we identified 23 good reasons in favour of open education. We then put out a call for contributions and “recruited” authors from 13 countries. In March 2025, we published their contributions… 23 articles in 8 languages!

This year, sharing is our guiding thread. All educators and teachers will choose to define what they do with the verb “to share”. And yet, when we look more closely, this sharing is often very limited.

This time, we have identified 16 obstacles or challenges to sharing: some are real and may be linked to a lack of technological or legal skills. Others are linked to our own limitations, fears and desires. However, in 2026, we need to share better, so understanding what is holding us back and gathering ideas and solutions from all continents is one way forward…

As last year, we put out a call for contributions and quickly found volunteers. There are now 27 of them, representing 15 countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.

A surprise for this 2026 edition. We are pleased to add a first article by Ahmed Galai to launch the series, on the relationship between teaching and sharing. Mr Ahmed Ben Tahar Galai is a human and peoples’ rights activist, member of the steering committee of the Tunisian Human Rights League from 2000 to 2016 (Nobel Peace Prize 2015 with the National Dialogue Quartet). He is also a member of the scientific council of the Arab Institute for Human Rights and the national commission for the reform of the Tunisian education system.

A Nobel Prize winner to launch our series on 2 March… It’s hard to imagine anything better.

The teams in charge of the three blogs on which the articles will be published are very enthusiastic, even if they also have to deal with some interesting (and expected) difficulties, particularly with regard to the different ways of managing multilingualism: once again, we have encouraged authors to write in their own language. At the time of writing this introduction, we are working on half a dozen languages.

Finally, all contributions will be licensed under CC BY to facilitate their dissemination and reuse. We are available to answer any questions or provide assistance, for example with the republication of articles.

We look forward to seeing you in a few weeks’ time to discover our sixteen challenges over the course of a month.

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