Deeming that there should be commonly-recognised and agreed understandings and operative definitions, without which confusion and lack of precision will continue to hamper policy and practice in the region of Latin America, UIL agreed to develop a glossary together with the Organisation of Ibero...
Sweden organises an annual conference on adult education, that attracts 600 to 800 participants from municipalities, formal adult education institutions, private providers, folk high schools, trade unions and libraries as well as politicians, etc. The conference was this year organised 19-20...
The European Union’s new Agenda for Adult Learning was launched by the European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou at an event in Brussels on 28 February. It focuses...
The third issue of the electronic CONFINTEA VI Follow-up Bulletin features activities undertaken in pursuit of the Belém Framework for Action from July 2011 to January 2012, both within and across countries. It highlights efforts invested to produce national progress reports on the state of...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is adopting a sector-wide approach in establishing a decentralised education system. The country is revising the normative frameworks of its three education sub-sectors – (i) adult and non-formal education, (ii) primary, secondary and professional education and (...
Meetings are being organised in some Latin American countries to support the preparation of National CONFINTEA VI Progress Reports. In Brazil, for example, the National Literacy and Youth and Adult Education Commission (CNAEJA) which includes stakeholders from different sectors around the...
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...
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....
