Education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility. However, today, 258 million children and youth still do not attend school; some four million children and youth refugees are out of school; and 773 million adults around the world cannot read or write, most of them women....
‘Aswan keenly promotes quality education for all,’ stresses Ahmed Ebrahem, Mayor of the UNESCO Learning City of Aswan. Located in the south of Egypt, the city has made great strides in implementing lifelong learning for its approximately 300,000 inhabitants that will be showcased on...
Poverty, the availability of educational facilities, health and sanitary infrastructure, as well as basic infrastructure to support the local economy, are severe challenges in the UNESCO Learning City of Mayo-Baléo, located in the department of Faro-et-Déo in Cameroon’s Adamawa Region. Its...
‘In our municipality we must admit that the family you grow up in determines the opportunities you get in life,’ says Carine Bloemhoff, Deputy Mayor of Groningen, Netherlands. ‘We want to change that. Together we want to work on social inclusion trough education.’
The city of Groningen...
The report of the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 4) is now available. It provides a detailed account of the conversations and knowledge exchange that took place during this important event in...
On International Migrants Day learn how cities can promote the inclusion of migrants and refugees through education. Nikolaos Angelakis, Deputy Mayor for Education, Lifelong Learning and Youth Issues of the UNESCO learning city of Heraklion, Greece, shares his city’s success story.
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Learning cities are key drivers to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Over half the world’s people live in cities. With the right learning structures in place, cities can make an important contribution to sustainable development at local level and beyond. The power of cities,...
New strategy and fund to support lifelong learning programmes in cities around the world
With the adoption today of the Medellín Manifesto during the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), members of...
Ten cities from around the world received the 2019 UNESCO Learning City Award on 30 September in Medellín, Colombia on the eve of the opening of the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities .
‘The...
President of Colombia to open the conference
More than half the world’s population lives in cities today. The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities has 170 active members from 53 countries in every region of the world. Each city in the network has implemented effective lifelong...
