Siam Commercial Bank joined with 12 private sector organizations to collaborate on public education, basic education and leadership development in the Leadership Program for Sustainable Education (CONNEXT ED). It aims to promote and raise the standards of basic education and leadership development, to increase the competitiveness of society, and to reduce social inequality using sustainable education as the basis of national development.

The project is a powerful force for development of systematic education in the country. Senior executives from 12 private enterprises serve as school sponsors or as primary sponsors, providing strategic counseling and budgeting through Bank volunteers.  Each volunteer works as a school partner to support and coordinate each school's development with school directors under a public-private collaborative project. The first phase of the project, during 2016-2017, included 3,342 public schools. It is expanding to 7,424 schools in all districts nationwide within three years (end of 2018).