On 21 and 22 April 2021, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) brought together representatives of six UNESCO Member States – Cambodia, Kenya, Namibia, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines and Viet Nam – to discuss the development of education systems from a lifelong learning perspective.
UNESCO has opened its call for applications and encourages all champions in the field of literacy learning to apply for the prestigious UNESCO International Literacy Prizes . This is also a call for nomination entities to be ready to...
UNESCO has launched the call for nominations for the 2021...
As we mark World Book Day, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning spoke to Dawn Stitzel , National Program Director of the Library of Congress Literacy Awards (USA), about the importance of literacy and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic of two internationally...
To mark this year’s World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April, the German Prison Library Support Group, in cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the German reading project KonTEXT in Munich, will launch its first...
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) empowers learners to take informed decisions and responsible actions for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society. It is therefore key to the future development of cities such as Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, which is a...
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) is an international policy-oriented network providing inspiration, know-how and best practice in lifelong learning at urban level. In 2021, the following dates are key to the work of the network.
UNESCO Learning City Award...
The University of Hamburg, Germany, is hiring a junior professor for adult education. The individual will be part of the education faculty’s lifelong learning group, which cooperates closely with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
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Over the past 12 months of the pandemic, millions of citizens around the world have ‘unlearned’ old ways of being, while learning new behaviours. For rural communities in India, lockdown created greater reliance on local sources of food, water and preventive health care. For urban communities,...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) published its 2020 Virtual Annual Report . The report demonstrates how the Institute rose to the...
