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The fourth and final issue of the UIL Nexus Newsletter for 2012 reports on a large number of important activities in the international adult education community and in the field of lifelong learning. With this issue, UIL takes a step away from a culture of reporting on its activities, towards one of reporting results and impact. Many activities have, of course, a value in themselves.
2015, the target year of the Education for All (EFA) initiative, is fast approaching. In September, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr Ban Ki-moon, launched a five-year initiative to bolster global action on education.
Looking back, moving forward: 60 years of UNESCO in Hamburg - This was chosen as the epigrammatic slogan for UIL’s 60th anniversary on 24/25 May 2012. UIL is looking back to its illustrious history involving grand names in the history of adult education such as Montessori and Freire, but also to its impact on pedagogical thinking, policy and practice in the latter half of the 20th Century and the first decade of the 21st Century.
UIL’s involvement and action during the first quarter of 2012 focusses on a plethora of value-based learning and education activities that are being dealt with through advocacy, research, capacity-building and networking.
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.
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