‘Learning cities are really drivers of change. I hope that many more communities around the world will become learning cities and contribute to lifelong access to quality education and learning opportunities’ – Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education
Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, will host the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities, scheduled to take place next year.
Today, Medellín is recognized for its innovativeness: in 2013, it won the Wall Street Journal and Citi ‘City of the Year’ award and, in 2016, the...
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) has released new membership guidelines that take effect as of 1 October 2018.
Since its inception in 2015, the UNESCO GNLC has...
On 28 June 2018, a delegation from Suwon City, Republic of Korea, including the Vice Mayor, Mr Han Kyu Lee and the Head of the Department of Education and Youth, Yong Deok Kim, paid a visit to the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) to discuss how the city can engage in strengthening...
The application process for the UNESCO Learning City Award 2019 is now open. This award recognizes the commitment and efforts made at local level to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 4 on education and lifelong learning.
Since the 2030...
Since its endorsement by the UNESCO General Conference in 2013 as a follow-up to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the Global Action Plan (GAP) has implemented actions in five key areas: advancing policy, transforming learning and training environments, building capacities...
‘Learning to live sustainably in cities: Implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in learning cities’ was the theme of a regional conference held in Aswan, Egypt, from 5 to 7 March 2018. Around 50 participants from more than 15 countries, including city leaders and other...
Cities across Mexico continue to adopt the learning city concept following the second International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), which took place in...
Cork, Ireland, 18 September 2017 - More than 700 local government representatives from more than 80 countries across the world will attend UNESCO’s third International Conference on Learning Cities , which opens...
