The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) organised a special International Consultative Meeting on Lifelong Learning to discuss a coming Handbook on Lifelong Learning Policy and its four chapters, one of them on Learnnig Cities, with more than 30 invited experts on lifelong learning from 18 countries in plenaries and workshop dialogues.

Dr. Balázs Németh, a PASCAL Co-director for Central Europe and special advisor of the UNESCO Global Learning City Pécs Programme represented the PASCAL International Observatory at this event.

The discussion focused on better implementation of lifelong learning policies in the following aspects:

• Understanding lifelong learning from a governance perspective;
• Sector-wide and intersectoral approaches to lifelong learning;
• Multi-level governance for realizing lifelong learning;
• Partnerships to implement lifelong learning;
• Thematic inputs for operationalizing lifelong learning – e.g. Mainstreaming gender gender equality in lifelong learning strategies and programmes;
• Discussion in groups around the Handbook for Lifelong Learning: Policy and Practice:

1. Lifelong Learning as an Integrated Approach to the Development of SD
2. Analysing the Policy Context and Monitoring of Lifelong Learning
3. Operationalizing Lifelong Learning Policy and Practice
4. Learning Cities: Implementation at the Local Level

Further information can accessed at: www.uil.unesco.org

The director of UIL, Mr. David Atchoarena, and his colleagues dealing with the Global Learning City focus expressed their wish that the PASCAL International Observatory be involved in the further development of the Policy Context to underline the involvement and roles for Higher Education Institutions in the development of lifelong learning and its implementation in local-regional environment based on collaborate models to be disseminated through their accessible databases and websites.

UIL is very interested to continue an intensive policy dialogue to consider the role SDGs and lifelong learning with the remit of learning city development.

The participants of the UNESCO Consultative Meeting participated the opening Ceremony of the 14th Lifelong Learning Week for All at the East China Normal University in Shanghai during the afternoon of 20th October 2018 and meet several organisors of this specific learning city event.

Photos taken at International Consultatitive Meeting on Lifelong Learning in Shanghai, 18-19 September, 2018 (click to enlarge)