- What happens when children lead the conversation?
- Can play be a tool for peace?
- What questions are we afraid to ask?
- Can play unlock what logic cannot?
- What if play is how we learn to shape the world?
- How do children solve problems adults can't see?
- What if the answers we need aren't new, but forgotten?
This is the World Child Forum in Davos: 5 days, 3 questions, once per year.
Because the questions that will reshape our world in 2026 don't need better answers. They need better ways of being asked.
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WCF Davos
In the heart of global decision-making, we create space for a different kind of conversation.
Davos isn't just where the world's problems are discussed—it's where they can be reimagined
Why WCF is relevant
We are WCF
We are 8 and 80, dreamers and doers, children who ask the impossible questions and grown-ups who still remember how to wonder.
We are the humans who make WCF happen.
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Partnerships
We invite you to help support this realm of possibilities. As a financial supporter, as an enabler.
Because what emerges here is more than a forum. It is a movement towards a new way of shaping the world together. A collaboration that has been missing.
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We don't gather to find solutions. We gather to let questions transform themselves— through play, through the fearless curiosity of children, through the courage to not-know.
Because we believe innovation begins with an attitude of wondering. In July 2026, these questions will reshape how we think about our world's most pressing challenges.
Read more about the why, what and who.
It began in 2023 with 120 young voices and a bold experiment in questioning. The first time children and adults gathered as equals to explore what becomes possible when curiosity leads.
In 2024 250+ children from across the globe—including Palestine, Israel, Ukraine, Russia—proving that the biggest questions can bring together even the most divided worlds.
Free play is a serious means of learning about the world. It is an elixir of life, a social practice. And yet this fundamental right, enshrined in Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is overlooked, suppressed and devalued worldwide.
This playful power is the basis for everything that holds us together as a society: dialogue, empathy, conflict resolution skills, imagination.
In play, people meet on equal terms. Rules are created anew, negotiated, changed. Boundaries dissolve. Children show us how understanding can be achieved – beyond language, origin, status. They ask questions where we long ago believed we knew the answers.
Why ThisMatters Now
We've optimized for answers when what we need is better questioning. We've perfected control when what we need is curiosity. We've chosen knowing when what we need is wonder.
The World Child Forum doesn't compete with existing solutions. It complements them by opening the space where transformation becomes possible.
This is What We Do
No lectures, no panels, no predetermined outcomes.
Just living workshops, thinking landscapes, and open stages where children and adults discover what becomes possible when curiosity leads.
This is How You Join
Starting January 2026, you can register your interest in being part of WCF26. Whether you're 8 or 80, curious or certain, seeker or finder—if you believe questions can change the world, this is for you.