While COVID-19 is still challenging education systems around the world, it also presents an opportunity to reimagine the education and lifelong learning we want for the future.

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning is seizing this opportunity in many ways. We have held a consultation process with high-level experts to develop a vision for lifelong learning within UNESCO's Futures of Education initiative. Moreover, many of our experts and partners have contributed to our laboratory of ideas by reflecting on the role and shape of learning in a post-COVID-19 society with contributions to our blog.

PASCAL Observatory is pleased to announce that the Latin American Cities of Acapulco (Mexico) and Medellín (Colombia) have become members of the Learning Cities Networks (LCN) initiative.

“We may be in the same storm, but we’re not in the same boat!” was the assertion from a community activist from a working-class area in Cape Town. We are all under `lockdown` during Novel Corona Virus pandemic – the virus does not differentiate between rich and poor, women or men – we are all vulnerable to COVID-19 which may cause ill health and possible death.