All of UIL's activities are geared towards mobilizing and sensitizing for lifelong learning as an overarching principle for reforming teaching and learning systems. This includes the promotion of the right to education and learning of all, and an enhanced understanding of adult learning as a right, a tool, a shared responsibility and a fundamental joy. Learners themselves, with their aspirations, their specific projects and their different learning practices, are increasingly at the focus of the mobilization strategies, as target groups but also as advocates.

Ultimately, advocacy for UIL envisions making learning and education a means for impacting on personal, community and human development and empowerment, for active citizenship, and for improving the lives of people.

International Adult Learners Week

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