This means goodbye, au revoir, adios, do svidania!
Today, following 11 years in office, is my last day as Director of UIL. After almost 30 years devoted to UNESCO, most of the period exclusively to UIE and UIL, I am retiring at the end of this month. On this occasion I would like to...
The provision of non-formal literacy programmes for adolescents and adults is very diverse. On the one hand this diversity is a rich source because of the flexibility it offers, on the other hand it makes the governance of literacy policies more complex. UIL has initiated a multi-country action...
At the invitation of the Slovenian Ministry for Education and Sports and organised by dvv international in cooperation with the Slovenian Adult Education Association, about 40 government representatives and experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...
Following the CONFINTEA Regional Follow-up Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean (25-27 May 2011), the second meeting of the CONFINTEA Advisory Group was held on 28 May in Mexico City. The Advisory Group was constituted by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) at the beginning...
A regional meeting entitled “From Commitment to Action: Taking the CONFINTEA Agenda Forward” took place in Mexico City from 25 to 27 May 2011, for the Latin America and Caribbean region. It was the first regional follow-up meeting held since CONFINTEA VI in Brazil in 2009. Around 250...
On 1 June, Arne Carlsen, the new Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), and Adama Ouane, the outgoing Director, were received by the Lord Mayor of Hamburg, Mr Olaf Scholz. The occasion was to greet Mr Carlsen on his first day of office and to wish Mr Ouane well for the...
On 1 June, I will take office as Director of UIL, succeeding Adama Ouane. This is a very important day for me, as I take on such a weighty responsibility. It is my strongly-held belief that UIL’s work is of the greatest significance.
Although UIL is by no means the only international...
Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy invited the spouses of the heads of state and government taking part in the G8 Summit in Deauville to join her for a working session about overcoming illiteracy. Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy wished to exchange with them about the battle that she leads in France to tackle...
L’alphabétisation étant un droit fundamental pour tous et toutes, comment expliquer que 62 % des femmes en Afrique se voient refuser le droit à l’alphabétisme ? Comment infléchir les tendances actuelles pour éviter que près de 800 millions d’adultes parmi lesquels une forte proportion de femmes...
Arne Carlsen from Denmark has been appointed as the new Director of UIL by the Director-General of UNESCO. Mr Carlsen, Director for International Affairs at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University in Copenhagen, has a long-standing professional background in teaching and research...
