New research in the International Review of Education explores how community-based literacy programmes can support the empowerment of immigrant women in Québec, Canada. Read now (in French)👉shorturl.at/ryHtp

A very warm thanks to the UIL Standing Committee, who is meeting today at UNESCO Headquarters, for their thoughtful guidance, continued support and positive feedback on the progress made during the first half of 2026 by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.

Join us on 24 June 2026 for the webinar ‘Learning amid crisis - Advancing literacy in conflict and post-conflict contexts’. Explore how literacy supports resilience and recovery in crisis settings. 🔗 Learn more and register: shorturl.at/LwX0j

What skills do we need for tomorrow – today? At the Future Skills workshop, hosted by DGUV Academy, UIL Director Isabell Kempf highlighted the power of futures literacy: 'Futures literacy combines the ability to think about the future with the ability to act in the here & now.'

As economies evolve, lifelong learning helps people adapt, reskill and access new opportunities. Join UIL’s webinar series exploring TVET, AI, learning cities & lifelong learning. 🔗shorturl.at/O1Lv7

Nouvelle étude de cas : les Ateliers Fanzine à Évry-Courcouronnes montrent comment l’art en milieu carcéral favorise l’expression, le dialogue et la réinsertion. Projet en partenariat avec la Scène nationale de l’Essonne et la prison de Fleury-Mérogis. 👉shorturl.at/MoEG4

🔧 How can cities elevate TVET in a fast-changing world of work? Join us on 17 June 2026 for the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities webinar ‘Building pathways to opportunity – Elevating TVET in learning cities’. shorturl.at/6NjND

Celebrating #LifelongLearning is at the heart of UNESCO #LearningCities - today Belfast brings this vision to life with its Learning Festival! 🎉 130 events - from woodcraft & robotics to gardening - showing how learning happens across the community. 🔗 belfastcity.gov.uk/Community…

Interview with Professor Yuan Wen, newly appointed to the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. She reflects on global cooperation, teachers as lifelong learners, & building inclusive lifelong learning systems for all. 👉 shorturl.at/jP5K3

This Sunday, 7 June, celebrate UNESCO World Heritage Day in the stunning Speicherstadt & Kontorhausviertel with us! Come meet us at the UIL booth at the Hamburg central celebration at Kesselhaus (11:00–15:00)! We’d love to connect and celebrate with you. tinyurl.com/2ryxunvw

This #WorldEnvironmentDay, let’s learn our way to greener communities. Our Greening Communities Guidance empowers cities to turn everyday spaces into hubs for climate learning & action. 📘 Explore how to engage all ages & sectors tinyurl.com/yc4vckdw #GreeningEducation

Education is at the core of UNESCO‘s mandate, because it’s a tool for peace & a necessity for development. Minister for Education @PrienKarin reiterated 🇩🇪‘s strong & reliable support to UNESCO in her meeting with @UNESCO_DG, & stressed the need of bringing people closer together

Thanks to Catrin Hannken & Alexander Renner @BMBFSFJ for an inspiring exchange on lifelong learning, adult education monitoring, learning later in life, digital inclusion & financial literacy. Looking forward to further deepening our collaboration!

Thank you Elmar Eich & Harald Herrmann from the German Federal Foreign Office, for the excellent exchange on German priorities within UNESCO, the pivotal role of UIL and next steps for joint engagement. We are grateful for Germany’s 🇩🇪 longstanding and steadfast support of UIL!

In Berlin, it was an honour to join the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Germany’s accession to @UNESCO and the establishment of the National Commission, alongside the Federal Minister of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Karin Prien; the President of the German Commission for UNESCO, Maria Böhmer; the State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office, Géza Andreas von Geyr. This milestone offers an important opportunity to pay tribute to Germany’s longstanding commitment to multilateral cooperation and to UNESCO’s mandate. Across the country, this commitment is reflected in a rich and diverse UNESCO network — from World Heritage sites, biosphere reserves, geoparks, creative cities and Memory of the World inscriptions, to Associated Schools, university Chairs, Learning Cities, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg and the UNESCO International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Bonn. Germany is one of UNESCO’s key partners. Its support is expressed not only through financial contributions, but also through the expertise, dedication and engagement of its institutions, educators, researchers, artists, youth and local communities. UNESCO is deeply grateful for this partnership, and I look forward to continuing to strengthen our cooperation. #ForThePeople

From empowering communities to promoting literacy & strengthening national learning systems, UIL is shaping lifelong learning across the globe - from its home in Hamburg. For 70 years, Germany’s support has made this impact possible. unesco.org/en/partnerships/g… #UNESCOxPartners

Thank you to Professor Sebastian Galindo, UNESCO Chair on Evaluation in Non-formal and Informal Learning Programmes (United States of America), for visiting UIL today. We greatly appreciated the valuable exchange and look very much forward to the further collaboration!

Thousands of #literacy educators worldwide have already joined UIL’s Digital Skills Training for Literacy Educators course, developed in partnership with @Huawei. Join the self-paced course, available in English, French, Spanish & Arabic 👉🏽 shorturl.at/CdC6X

Eid Mubarak! May we all draw inspiration from the values of empathy, charity & compassion that are celebrated during #EidAlAdha.

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