Dear members and partners, It is our great pleasure to invite you apply to join ICAE’s Academy of LifeLong Learning Advocacy – IALLA! IALLA is one of the main pillars of ICAE’s work for years. It is a full training course – the main international capacity building programme that ICAE has designed with aims of …
Why do we need safe spaces in adult learning, and whose responsibility is it to ensure them? The first result of the SAFE project, the Guide on Safe Spaces for Learning, provides some answers. (Original Article from EAEA website) The Safe spAces For lEarning (SAFE) project aims to investigate the triangular relationship between safety and …
Read moreTowards more understanding and solidarity: first results of the SAFE project now available
The United Nations Secretary-General is convening the Transforming Education Summit during the 77th UN General Assembly. The summit will be held on 16 – 19 September 2022 in New York. The Summit seeks to mobilize political ambition, action, solutions and solidarity to transform education: to take stock of efforts to recover pandemic-related learning losses; to reimagine education systems for the world …
2022 SDGs Learning, Training & PracticeSESSION 4 Wed 06 Jul 2022, 14:00-15:45 NY Time Also this year again, ICAE was co-organizing a SDGs Learning, Training and Practice Session, this time together with the World Bank; UNDP Namibia in partnership with Office of the Prime Minister and the Statistics Division/UN DESA. Moderated by Shermaine Barrett, ICAE …
Tue 5 July, 13:00-14:30 NY time The ICAE is co-organising a side event as part of the Education and Academia Stakeholder Group. The side-event focuses on the enabling potential of the right to education and how SDG4 is a lever for the entire Sustainable Development Agenda. Find more information here. The event is planned for …
During the 2009 Belem Civil Society Forum (FISC) that preceded CONFINTEA VI, I remember teaching this action song to our CSO participants. We sang it at the start of the day (because FISC went for 3 days) to energise the participants. But I also recall singing it during our bus ride from the main venue …
Read moreYour ICAE is Alive, Alert, Awake, Enthusiastic – Message from ICAE President Robbie
A new handbook ‘Making Lifelong Learning a Reality’ was launched by UIL at CONFINTEA VII! ICAE as well as colleagues from academia and international organizations contributed their expertise to further advance the content of this publication. The handbook provides information, evidence and basic conceptual models to facilitate the implementation of lifelong learning at national and local levels. …
The Marrakesh Framework for Action (MFA) has been adopted unanimously by more than 140 UNESCO member states during the closing of CONFINTEA VII today! We secured important wins as we have strongly advocated for the CSO positions in the Drafting Committee, particularly in strengthening commitments to: Increasing public funding and resource mobilisation for ALE and preventing regression in existing …
Read moreCONFINTEA VII Marrakesh Framework of Action adopted
We the representatives of CSOs, members and partners of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), gathered in Marrakech, Morocco on 14 June 2022, as part of our sustained engagement in the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII) would like to offer this Statement as our contribution to this important global policy process …
Read moreCONFINTEA VII – Declaration of the Civil Society Forum Marrakech
The Fifth Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE 5) was launched today at ConfinteaVII. It finds the greatest challenge in ALE remains reaching those who need it most. Read more here https://bit.ly/3xThKV6 UNESCO Press release The main challenge for adult learning and education across the globe is to reach those who need it …
Read moreAdult education does not reach those who need it most, said GRALE 5