4 October 2022
For Rodney Naidoo, a teacher in the UNESCO Learning City of Durban, helping the most vulnerable students is more than a career, it’s a birthright.
1 March 2022
On Tuesday 22 February 2022, Mr David Atchoarena, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Mr Abdessamih Mahmoud, Director of the Agence Nationale de Lutte contre l'Analphabétisme (ANLCA) and Ms Hélène Guiol, Head of the Education Programme at the UNESCO Office for the...
24 January 2022
URBANET blog post by Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education
The world is at a turning point. The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as an accelerator of technological disruption and inequalities,...
24 January 2022
The theme of this year’s International Day of Education on 24 January is ‘Changing course, transforming education’. Our world stands at a turning point: persistent inequalities, a hurting planet, growing polarization and the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic puts us on the precipice of...
14 December 2021
Members of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) are requested to submit their biennial progress report by 17 January 2022.
According to the UNESCO GNLC membership concept note , this biennial report is...
29 October 2021
On 29 October 2021, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning launched its publication 'Inclusive lifelong learning in cities: Policies and practices for vulnerable' groups at the book fair of the fifth International Conference...
29 October 2021
With the adoption of the Yeonsu Declaration at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), UNESCO learning cities from around the world pledged to place lifelong learning...
27 October 2021
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Ten cities with outstanding achievements in the implementation of the learning city...
27 October 2021
From 27 to 30 October 2021, representatives from UNESCO learning cities and further experts from around the world will come together for the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), hosted by the UNESCO learning city of Yeonsu, Republic of Korea. Under the theme ‘From emergency...
9 September 2021
When the COVID-19 global pandemic hit in 2020, governments around the world temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. But how did learning continue for young and old during this time?
In our new publication Snapshots of learning...