Coordinating city for the GNLC ESD Shanghai (People’s Republic of China), Shanghai launched its Community Action Plan on ESD (2020–2021) on 20 August during an online meeting convened by the Shanghai Municipal Institute for Lifelong Education (SMILE). Participants included officials from the...
A new UNESCO issue note , produced by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), aims to support education policy-makers and planners in utilizing the power of non-formal and informal learning to respond to the COVID-19...
On 19 September 2020, the UNESCO learning city of Evry-Courcouronnes will host its first major learning city event on the topic of science and learning. It joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning in 2019.
The event celebrates the launch of Evry’s Micro-Folie, a digital...
A new UNESCO issue note , produced by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), aims to enhance higher education institutions’ engagement with local communities in the context of the current pandemic, now and in its...
Peter Biesenbach, Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous federal state, was presented with the German edition of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning’s recent publication on prison libraries, Books beyond bars , at a ceremony in August 2020....
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has published a new report setting out a future-focused vision of education and demanding a major shift towards a culture of lifelong learning by 2050.
On 8 July 2020, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), together with PASCAL International Observatory, hosted the second webinar in the ‘Learning cities’ COVID-19 recovery’ series. This most recent event looked at the challenges of planning learning initiatives, measuring their...
In addition to reducing recidivism rates and the financial and social costs of reoffending, education in prison equips prisoners with an opportunity to overcome disadvantage by improving their learning outcomes and building on new or improved skills in order to contribute more fully to society...
The multidimensional nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on the world’s cities, raising fundamental questions about sustainable social, cultural, economic, and environmental urban development.
In an attempt to answer some of these questions, the...
On 17 June 2020, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), together with the PASCAL Observatory, hosted the first webinar of the series entitled “Learning Cities’ COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice”. This session focused on The challenge of inclusion in learning cities,...
