The following pages bear witness to the wide array of advocacy activities, research, seminars, conferences, capacity-building workshops and publications, in which UIL has been involved in the past three months.
In the context of a larger consultation process to develop a new education strategy, the German Ministry for Cooperation and Development organised an expert meeting in Bonn on Thursday 7 July.
To assert the value of adult education and learning in enabling citizens to build a world worth living in, the Eighth World Assembly was held in Malmö from 14 to 17 June 2011.
Arne Carlsen from Denmark has been appointed as the new Director of UIL by the Director-General of UNESCO.
In recognition of the World Expo's status as a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences relating to lifelong learning, UNESCO, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy (CSEDS) and the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO joined forces ...
The Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE/2006-2015) is a major UNESCO activity designed to accelerate literacy in the 35 countries in which literacy poses a critical challenge.
The Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) closed on 4 December with a call for governments to "take forward, with a sense of urgency and at an accelerated pace, the agenda of adult learning and education" ...
The Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE/2006-2015) is a major UNESCO activity designed to accelerate literacy in the 35 countries in which literacy poses a critical challenge.
At the end of October 2008, 142 national reports on the development and state of the art of adult learning and education have been prepared by UNESCO Member States and submitted to UIL ...
CONFINTEA VI will take place from 19 to 22 May 2009 in Belém (State of Pará), Brazil, under the title Living and Learning for a Viable Future – The Power of Adult Learning".
The date for the CONFINTEA International Conference in Brazil has now been fixed for 19–22 May 2009.
The 34th session of the General Conference of UNESCO took place from 16 October to 3 November 2007.
Literacy is a very important issue in Africa. Of the 35 LIFE priority countries, 20 are African countries with a literacy rate of less than 50 per cent or a population of more than 10 million without literacy competencies.
The Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE/2006-2015) is a major UNESCO activity designed to accelerate literacy in the 35 countries in which literacy poses a critical challenge.
On 21 February 2001 the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, and the Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed in Berlin the Host Country Agreement ...
Following the transformation of the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) into the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) ... a new logo has been created.