UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Bulletin, August 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic will have an enduring impact on education systems and learning outcomes around the world. The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) aims to mitigate this impact by continuing to provide expertise and facilitate global dialogue regarding COVID-19 response and recovery.

With this issue of the UIL Bulletin you will learn more about how UNESCO learning cities are aiming at inclusion during the pandemic, preparations for International Literacy Day, the future of lifelong learning and much more.

Wishing you good reading!

David Atchoarena

19 August 2020

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Dear readers,

The COVID-19 pandemic will have an enduring impact on education systems and learning outcomes around the world. The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) aims to mitigate this impact by continuing to provide expertise and facilitate global dialogue regarding COVID-19 response and recovery.

With this issue of the UIL Bulletin you will learn more about how UNESCO learning cities are aiming at inclusion during the pandemic, preparations for International Literacy Day, the future of lifelong learning and much more.

Wishing you good reading!

David Atchoarena

Literacy

On 8 September 2020, UNESCO will celebrate International Literacy Day under the theme 'Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond'. The global virtual event, organized together with UIL, invites stakeholders to discuss how innovative and effective pedagogies and teaching methodologies can be used in youth and adult literacy programmes to face the pandemic. Learn more

COVID-19 has disrupted education worldwide in an unprecedented way. Millions of students have not been able to continue learning. As we look to rebuild, we must ensure that the global literacy challenge is finally and decisively met, writes Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, UNESCO Special Envoy on Literacy for Development, on the UIL blog. Learn more

Adult learning and education

From 21 to 29 July 2020, UIL in cooperation with DVV International and the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), held regional webinars on 'Enhancing national capacities for monitoring adult learning and education' to support the data collection process for the upcoming fifth Global Report on Adult Learning and Education. Learn more

UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities

Three members of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, coordinated by UIL, shared their expertise on how to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 during an event by the UNESCO Cities Platform (UCP) on 25 June 2020. Learn more about their strategies and actions by reading the full meeting report.

On 17 June 2020, UIL and the PASCAL Observatory hosted the webinar “Learning Cities’ COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice. The challenge of inclusion”. To find out how the participating UNESCO learning cities of Medellín, (Colombia), Mantes-la-Jolie (France) and Melton (Australia) rose to the challenge read our summary report.

Call for applications

UNESCO invites members of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities to submit their applications to host the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities in autumn 2021. Learn more

Lifelong Learning Festival

Join the 2020 Global Learning Festival (1 to 4 September 2020), organized by the UNESCO learning cities of Melton and Wyndham, Australia. Learn more

Lifelong learning policies

From 26 May to 12 June 2020, a group of 12 high-level experts from a variety of research disciplines engaged in an online consultation by UIL to discuss the futures of lifelong learning. Watch our video to learn more about the results of the consultation.

The UNESCO Chair of Applied Research for Education in Prison, in collaboration with the Institut de coopération pour l’éducation des adultes and UIL, is calling for papers for an international symposium on research and innovative practices in prison education. The event is scheduled to take place in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) from 25 to 27 May 2021. Learn more

In the post-pandemic world, institutions of higher education must find holistic approaches to re-connect with society around them, integrating a lifelong learning approach into their core missions of teaching, research and service, argue Budd Hall and Rajesh Tandon on the UIL blog. Learn more