Citizenship, Democracy and Lifelong Learning is an outcome of an international seminar organized by the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) in partnership with the Faculty of Education of the University of Hamburg in June, 2002. As part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of UIE, the seminar „Strengthening Democracy and Critical Citizenship through Lifelong Learning“ was an opportunity to revisit the theme of the first-ever seminar organized by UIE in 1952.

This publication contains a selection of papers representing key issues that were addressed during the seminar. It does not claim to contain an exhaustive discussion on citizenship, democracy and lifelong learning but it aims to highlight questions that are not often raised.

With this publication, UIE hopes to contribute to a deeper understanding of the relationship between democracy and education in the context of lifelong learning.