On 26 April 2013, the Commission for Education, Youth, Culture and Research ( EDUC Commission ) of the European Union’s Committee of the Regions held the International Conference on Pioneering...

Festo Didactic , a world leader in industrial education solutions, has agreed to support the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in establishing...

Two recent events on promoting learning cities were held in the Republic of Korea, against the backdrop of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning’s (UIL) initiative to establish an International Platform for Learning Cities (IPLC). On 3 June 2013, UIL co-hosted the Lifelong Learning Planet...

The Fourth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of Ministers for Education (ASEMME4)

was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13 and 14 May 2013 and attended by 152 participants from 34 ASEM members and 7 international organisations. The meeting was preceded by the Second Senior Officials Meeting (...

On June 19–21, 2013, the UNESCO Bangkok Office (Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education), in cooperation with the Government of Thailand, organized a with the theme of “National Qualifications Frameworks for Lifelong Learning and Skills Development”.

Attended by more than 500...

On 4–5 June 2013, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the Korean National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE) and the Jeju Institute for Lifelong Education, held the 2nd Meeting of the...

Over the past year, the UIL Taskforce for the establishment of the International Platform for Learning Cities (IPLC) has strived to develop a set of Key Features of Learning Cities (Features) as a self-assessment tool and ‘to-do list’ for cities wishing to promote lifelong learning.

UIL...

Learning outside schools, universities and vocational training establishments – both non-formal and informal learning – needs to be made visible, appropriately valued in society, and granted recognition and parity with formal learning outcomes. Two important milestones in this...

The Turkish Qualifications Framework (TQF) is currently being developed as a major initiative of the European Union Project “Strengthening Vocational Qualifications Authority and National Qualifications System in Turkey” (UYEP). The TQF offers a holistic lifelong learning approach with links...

The Annual Meeting of Research Network 4 (RN4) of the ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub took place at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) from 2 to 3 April 2013. About 30 participants from Australia, China, Denmark,...