The Adult Education section of the German Society for Educational Sciences marked its 40th anniversary at its annual meeting on 22 September 2011. Speaking at the event, UIL Director Arne Carlsen expressed his intention to intensify UIL’s fruitful collaboration with the hosts of the meeting –...
UIL staff gave a presentation on the CONFINTEA VI follow-up process at a regional conference on community learning centres (CLCs), held in Bangkok, Thailand, 31 August - 3 September. The Conference addressed a key recommendation of the Belém Framework for Action (BFA), to create 'multi-purpose...
Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, 2011 is a Special Edition, entitled CONFINTEA VI follow-up: The challenges of moving from rhetoric to action, and g uest-edited by Carolyn Medel-Añonuevo, Carlos Alberto Torres and Richard Desjardins.
The edition includes articles that survey the adult education...
The second issue of the “CONFINTEA VI Follow-up News” reports on recent activities undertaken in pursuit of the Belém Framework for Action, both within and across countries. In addition to highlighting a series of events at country level, it includes information on the first Regional CONFINTEA...
To assert the value of adult education and learning in enabling citizens to build a world worth living in, some 700 ICAE members and partners met at its Eighth World Assembly in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, from 14 to 17 June 2011.
A first day full of welcome activities and...
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...
Entitled “ From Commitment to Action: Taking the CONFINTEA Agenda Forward” , the first regional CONFINTEA VI Follow-up Meeting will take place from 25 to 27 May 2011 in Mexico City, for the Latin America and Caribbean region. The CONFINTEA agenda is to develop adult literacy and adult...
To support the implementation of the commitments made at CONFINTEA VI, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning is offering four fellowships for key personnel from Member States. Participants should be government officials and senior specialists in adult education. As part of their...
