The ALADIN network has launched a new initiative, the ALADIN Online Alert , designed to share, on a bi-monthly basis, new online and full-text information and documents in the areas of adult learning, adult literacy,...

Ms Lily Asamoah (Institute of Continuing and Distance Education, Ministry of Education, Ghana) drafted the first non-formal education policy for Ghana. Upon her return to Ghana she shared the draft with her supervisors for their comments and feedbacks. Additionally, she shared her improved...

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the German-based Robert Bosch Foundation organized a two-day conference entitled “The Era of Citizens – How Civil Society and Foundations are Shaping the Future”.

A range of high-level speakers, including the President of Germany, the German...

The UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) was instrumental in ensuring the inclusion of sustainability as a key value into educational strategies in German educational provision inside and outside the formal system. A broad coalition of players, including government...

In September 2014, four education professionals from Asia and Africa spent four weeks conducting research at the UIL Library, as part of the UIL CONFINTEA Scholarship programme. This programme is funded by donations from the Nomura Center for Lifelong Integrated Education in Japan, Professor...

The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) and UIL have launched Zankey Faba, an innovative network to focus on the specific needs of vulnerable young people in Africa in the fields of literacy and...

UIL is pleased to announce the recipients of the CONFINTEA Scholarships for 2014. The scholarships are funded by the private donations of the Nomura Center for Lifelong Integrated Education in Japan, the British educationist Peter Jarvis and the publisher Taylor & Francis.

The 2014...

The Second Conference of the European Society of Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Network on Policy Studies in Adult Education entitled, Interrogating Sustainability in Adult Learning Policy: European and Global Perspectives took place from 18 to 20 June 2014 at the University of...

On 19 to 28 May 2014 experts from Africa, Asia and Germany met at the International Conference on Non-formal Adult Education in Wuppertal, Germany. The primary objective of this meeting was to generate recommendation-based action plans concerning adult education.

The event was organized...

As recommended by the Belém Framework for Action and approved in 2013 by UNESCO’s General Conference, UNESCO will revise the 1976 Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education...