In April and May 2021, over 170 participants from more than 50 countries successfully completed the second online training course on family and intergenerational literacy and learning (FILL) organized by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). The...

Between March and June 2020, UIL hosted a series of webinars to explore how learning cities gauged the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in individual contexts, and how they were responding to the sudden, emergent and urgent challenges it posed. In this publication, we present 13 responses by...

The horrific images from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and other places, and the astonishing heatwaves in North America, which saw new record temperatures four or five degrees higher than the previous ones, are a wake-up call, with regard not only to climate change and the...

Approximately 11 million people are in prisons worldwide, a number that is constantly growing. Many prisons are overcrowded and at crisis point, unable to provide education – a fundamental human right to which all prisoners should have access. To identify current trends, progress and challenges...

Lifelong learning is widely recognized as a powerful tool for developing more sustainable societies, economies and living environments. In order to address the challenges of the twenty-first century and shape a sustainable future for all, the concept of lifelong learning must be adopted in its...

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched a new publication, Integrated Approaches to Literacy and Skills Development: Examples of Best...

Speakers and participants at a UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) webinar about the measurement of youth and adult literacy sent a clear message: We need better data for efficient policies. Only with direct skills assessments and high-quality data will we be able to fully leverage...