World Child Forum 2026

Five days. Children and adults from around the world. A kind of collaboration you won't find anywhere else. The World Child Forum is not a conference. No panels, no presentations, no
ready-made answers. Instead: a space where people open up – to each other and to questions that don't yet have shape. Play is the method. Not as a diversion, but as what it
truly is: the oldest and most honest way of discovering something new.

Children carry something that adults have often lost. The ability to ask without already knowing the answer. The willingness not to know. The trust that the world responds when you engage with it. We need this awareness back – not as nostalgia, but as a compass. In January, children, young people and adults gather questions on the streets of Davos with a luminous giant puppet – while the World Economic Forum meets next door. In July, these
questions arrive here, in the same congress centre where the world's most powerful usually sit. In January 2027, the insights return. A cycle begins. The Davos Loop.

What happens during these five days is hard to describe in advance. There will be play, exploration, debate, wonder – indoors and outdoors, in the mountains, in the open air.
Nothing stays isolated. Nothing insists on itself. Things touch and flow into one another. Children and adults become allies – friends in the truest sense. If this sounds naive, you're probably not ready yet. If it sparks curiosity, you might be exactly right for this.