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Think Tank Report: Empowering Communities through Citizenship Education and Lifelong Learning Year of publication: 2025 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This short, explorator y repor t from the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is the outcome of โPlacing citizenship education within a lifelong learning perspective: From research to actionโ, a think tank meeting held in Hamburg in 2023. The meeting brought together experts from international organizations and academia and was organized by UIL in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding. The report reflects the inputs of participants while also drawing on the proposals of the International Commission on the Futures of Education (ICFE, 2021); the findings of the Fifth Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE 5) (UIL, 2022a); the Marrakech Framework for Action (UIL, 2022b); and the outcomes of the United Nations Transforming Education Summit of September 2022 (UN, 2023a; UN 2023b); as well as UNESCOโs Revised Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace (UNESCO, 2023). It makes a case for putting citizenship education, interpreted not as a means of reproducing the status quo but as a catalyst for civic and social empowerment, at the heart of efforts to create more equitable, tolerant and just societies for all. It argues that citizenship, so construed, should be woven into the fabric of education, throughout and across the life course, recognizing its role in narrowing social and economic inequalities, overcoming social fragmentation, addressing the climate crisis and tackling the backlash against human rights and gender equality. This report calls for citizenship education and lifelong learning to be core pillars of a systems-level transformation in education, and provides recommendations for policy-makers, national and local governments, educators and civil society organizations to make citizenship education a priority in their policies and practices. 
Global Alliance for Literacy within the Framework of Lifelong Learning (GAL): Strategy 2020โ2025 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This strategy presents GALโs vision, mission, goals and objectives for the period from 2020 to 2025. It builds upon GALโs achievements from 2016 and 2019, and upon UNESCOโs previous initiatives supporting youth and adult literacy, including the UN Literacy Decade (2003โ2012), Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) from 2006 to 2015, and the 2015 Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education (RALE).