Rapid technological changes and the speed of social transformation in the Middle East and North Africa region are confronted with the limits of the existing education system to deal with the needs of youth and adults. Can lifelong learning provision respond to social developments and match...
The global mid-term evaluation report on UNESCO’s Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE, 2006-2015), produced by UIL on the basis of national and regional mid-term evaluation processes and reports, is now available...
On 24-25 May this year the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, UIL, will be celebrating the 60 th anniversary of UNESCO’s presence in Hamburg. The anniversary celebration will highlight the Institute’s impact on education policy and programmes throughout the 60 years of its work focussing on...
UIL has its premises in the Albert Ballin Villa, in Hamburg’s Pöseldorf district. Albert Ballin, who was Director-General of HAPAG, then the world’s largest shipping company, commissioned the construction of the villa in 1908. The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg now owns the Villa, and has...
Peter Jarvis is Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the founding editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education . He has been an eminent advocate for adult education and lifelong learning...
On 21 December 2011 the President of Hamburg University and the Director of UIL signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their cooperation in research and training activities. This includes joint efforts in fundraising from national and international donors, as well as developing...
A special feature of the EURO-ALPHA Network, of which UIL is a member, is the direct involvement of learners in a process to develop a manifesto with their demands. The overall goal of EURO-ALPHA is to document, share, generate and disseminate “good practice” in empowering approaches to literacy...
Following CONFINTEA VI, a multi-stakeholder CONFINTEA Advisory Group was set up in early 2010 to support UNESCO and UIL in the international coordination of the CONFINTEA process and in implementing and monitoring the Belém Framework for Action. The Advisory Group, whose original membership was...
Following a recommendation of UNESCO’s Third International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA III, Tokyo, 1972) UNESCO’s General Conference adopted, at its 19th session held in Nairobi in 1976, the...
UIL’s CONFINTEA Fellowship Programme is a means to strengthen capacities within Member States to implement the commitments of the Belém Framework for Action by providing guidance on decisions for the promotion and revitalization of adult education within the perspective of lifelong learning....
