This, the 1er Forum Echecs et Education will take place in Geneva (Institut Notre Dame du Lac) on Sunday 26 June. It is part of La semaine du jeu d'échecs et de la francophonie. You can download the programme here of the week's events.

The forum timetable is:

09.00-09.15

Introduction by Madame Anne Emery-Torracinta, Conseillère d'Etat in charge of the Dept for Education, Culture and Sport

09.15-10.15

Teaching chess by Kevin O'Connell

10.15-10.30

Break

10.30-11.00

The FGE (Fédération Genevoise d'Echecs) and what it does by GM Gilles Miralles

11.00-12.00 & 12.30-13.00

3 working groups (finance for chess teaching projects, professionalisation of chess teaching, cooperation for chess teaching among Francophone countries)

13.00-13.15

Closing speech by Sama Kanaan, Conseiller administratif of the Department of Culture and Sport