10 January 2014
On January 10 2014, Mr Qian Tang, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education, officially dispatched the Beijing Declaration on Building...
17 December 2013
On 17 December 2013, a National Workshop on Building a Learning Society: From Vision to Action took place in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. The Workshop was organised by the National Steering Committee for Building a Learning Society in Viet Nam, the National Council on Education and Human Resource...
22 November 2013
More than five hundred mayors, city education executives and experts from over 100 countries met at the International Conference on Learning Cities from 21 to 23 October in Beijing to discuss how to make cities...
22 October 2013
On 21 October, the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, opened the first International Conference on Learning Cities, with Excellency Ms Liu Yandong, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Excellency Mr Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education, and Honorable Mr Wang Anshun, Mayor of the...
9 August 2013
As the international branch of the German Adult Education Association, dvv International focuses on development through adult and youth education. It is active on a global scale, with more than 200 partners in over 30 countries. On 9 August 2013, UIL welcomed the new Director of dvv...
15 July 2013
Festo Didactic, a world leader in industrial education solutions, has agreed to support the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in establishing the International Platform for Learning Cities (IPLC) and preparing for the International Conference on...
3 June 2013
On 3 June 2013, UIL co-hosted the Lifelong Learning Planet Forum in Suwon, Republic of Korea, in collaboration with the National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE) and the Gyeonggi Do Provincial Institute for Lifelong Learning (GILL). Two hundred participants discussed how to enhance...
26 April 2013
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 Europe 2020 Smart Regions, in Espoo , Finland. The purpose of the Conference...