Shanghai, China, 18 October 2018 – High-level officials from universities and research institutes, national and local governments from 20 countries as well as representatives of international agencies have come together to discuss approaches to effective governance of lifelong...
Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, will host the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities, scheduled to take place next year.
Today, Medellín is recognized for its innovativeness: in 2013, it won the Wall Street Journal and Citi ‘City of the Year’ award and, in 2016, the...
ASPBAE/UIL project wins Education for International Understanding/Global Citizenship Education Best Practices 2018 award.
More than 30 country representatives from the Arab States came together at a Regional Policy Forum on Creating Pathways to Empowerment: Building Alternative Learning Pathways (ALP) and Recognising, Validating and Accrediting (RVA) Non-Formal and Informal Learning in the Arab States ,...
Ms Margarete Sachs-Israel, Chief Programme Coordinator of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, presented the United Nations Secretary-General’s report on Literacy for life: shaping future agendas and Education for Democracy at the Third...
The first e-learning course on mainstreaming adult learning and non-formal education into education sector plans will run from 2 October to 27 November 2018. Fifty-eight participants from ministries of education from nine countries will take part in the two-month course in order to equip...
A well-established resource of the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL), the Effective Literacy and Numeracy Practices Database (LitBase) has a new look.
Since 2009, LitBase has documented...
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) has released new membership guidelines that take effect as of 1 October 2018.
Since its inception in 2015, the UNESCO GNLC has...
Four scholars from Belize, Ethiopia, India and Lao PDR have joined the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) for one month in an effort to advance policy development, open and distance learning and adult literacy in their countries. During their stay at the Institute, the scholars will...
From 24 to 25 July 2018, around 20 adult-education experts from 12 Arab countries came together in Beirut, Lebanon, to review existing strategies and monitoring tools for adult learning and education in the Arab States.
Country representatives from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman,...
