On 18 February 2026, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), together with Huawei, associate member of the Global Alliance for Literacy (GAL), will unveil a new global, multi-lingual course ...

Education is a fundamental human right, of which prisoners should not be deprived. Lifelong learning opportunities in penitentiary contexts can empower individuals by equipping them with the tools to ...

N/A On 4 December 2025, UNESCO welcomed 72 new cities from 46 countries to the Global Network of Learning Cities, recognizing their outstanding commitment to making the right to education across all ...

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in cooperation with Shanghai Open University (SOU), invites countries to apply to join the 2026 cohort of the programme Strengthening Lifelong ...

In response, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy and Digital Competencies Unit, today launched the Media and Information ...

Shanghai, 17 October 2025 — The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Shanghai Open University (SOU) have signed a landmark three-year partnership agreement to establish the UNESCO Global ...

The policy framework does not provide a definition of the concept of lifelong learning. The mission of the Ministry of Education is ‘to provide and sustain lifelong relevant and quality education for ...

The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) is pleased to invite member cities to apply to host the Seventh International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 7), scheduled for June 2027.

issued in 2000 This Memorandum takes up the Lisbon and Feira European Councils’ mandate to implement lifelong learning. Its purpose is to launch a European-wide debate on a comprehensive strategy for ...

The strategy for lifelong learning is based on the individual rather than systems and institutions, and is organized to support individual learning at different stages of life. The individual’s ...

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in partnership with Shanghai Open University (SOU), has unveiled the DELTA Framework — Digital Empowerment for Lifelong Learning and Transformative ...

The framework for the period 2012–2020 is a follow up of the reviewed implementation of the framework for the period 2005–2010. After obtaining a number of important results, the new policy aims to ...