The National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE) of the Republic of Korea published the first issue of Lifelong Learning in Korea to report on the progress and the current situation of the Lifelong Learning City (LLC) project, which has been carried out since 2001.
In 1999,...
PASCAL International Observatory published a new policy briefing entitled “Learning Cities: the Role of the ‘Region–intensive’ University”.
Earlier Policy Briefings from PASCAL International Observatory have highlighted the importance of learning for the future of cities and of city...
The UN-Habitat launched the Global Urban Lecture Series on its website. The series is offered as a free resource by UN-Habitat, aimed at universities, urban practitioners, and policy makers, as well as general public who is interested in cities and sustainable urbanization.
The series...
During the International Conference of Learning Cities, held in October 2013 in Beijing, the participants adopted the Beijing Declaration on Building Learning Cities and committed themselves to advancing the development of learning cities. Turning this commitment into action, city authorities in...
On January 10 2014, Mr Qian Tang, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education, officially dispatched the Beijing Declaration on Building...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
