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The inaugural World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day will be held on 9 August 2011. This will fall on the second day of the 19th Biennial World Conference of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. As a sign of the increasing international connectedness of the gifted education and advocacy community across a variety of social media platforms, the World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day was first announced via Facebook.

The World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day aims to extend the success and impact of other gifted awareness events, including New Zealand Gifted Awareness Week, National Gifted Education Awareness Day in Ireland, and EU Talent Day. These events have raised awareness of the needs of gifted children, and of the services and provisions that are needed or available to meet these needs. The existing gifted awareness events have also had some success in gaining acknowledgement from governments.

The lead-up to the World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day will include an international gifted education photoquotes campaign. Inspired by a similar campaign in the Purpose Education movement, this campaign aims to create an image bank showcasing quotations that succinctly explain the importance of key concepts within gifted education. Images will have Creative Commons licenses so that they can be used widely by people advocating for more appropriate educational provision for gifted and talented children.