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The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Lifelong Learning Year of publication: 2015 Author: Yang Jin, Schneller.Chripa, Roche.Stephen Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) UNESCO’s vision of lifelong learning encompasses all contexts (formal, non-formal and informal) and ages (‘from cradle to grave’) of learning. The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and its predecessor, the UNESCO Institute for Education, have promoted policy and practice in this field for more than four decades. The decision to produce this volume was prompted by an observation that lifelong learning – both as a concept and in its many practical manifestations – is becoming a staple of education policy discourse around the globe. At the same time, we noted that understandings of lifelong learning differ widely, not only between countries, but also across the sub-sectors of education systems.This book, which emerged from a seminar held in 2012 to mark the 60th anniversary of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, addresses various ways that higher education can promote lifelong learning, paying due consideration to regional disparities and specificities. These include responses to the learning needs of senior citizens in China, the challenge of implementing recurrent education in Japan, European efforts to develop a common approach to life-long learning at university, and how a lifelong learning approach is put into practice in higher education in Australia. It is hoped that this book will help the reader gain a better understanding of the theoretical frameworks and practical implementation of lifelong learning in higher education, both within their own region and globally. 
DAFI ANNUAL REPORT 2018- Refugee Student Voices: Refugee Student In Higher Education Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The DAFI refugee scholarship programme was launched in 1992 by UNHCR and the German government. The programme has supported over 15,500 young refugees to date and is currently implemented in 51 countries, the vast majority of which are in the Global South.The DAFI programme aims to secure refugee students’ inclusion in national education systems, prioritising enrolment in public higher education institutions. Participation in public institutions enables refugee students to study alongside their host country peers and pursue nationally accredited degree programmes, as well as bringing resources into public higher education institutions. 
Evaluation of the Networks of Mediterranean Youth (NET-MED Youth) Project (2014-2018) Year of publication: 2019 Author: Maksymilian Fras | Yael Ohana | Kimiko Hibri Pedersen | Christophe Dietrich | Mamoun Besaiso Corporate author: UNESCO The Networks of Mediterranean Youth (NET-MED Youth) Project is a regional project funded by the European Union and implemented by UNESCO from 2014 until 2018. It followed a comprehensive approach through interdisciplinary activities in different thematic areas aimed at advancing youth legal and policy frameworks, enhancing youth representation in media, and reinforcing youth employability and skills in response to the challenges experienced by young women and men in the region regarding their transition to full autonomous citizenship in the civic, political, economic, social and cultural spheres. NET-MED Youth contributed to the creation of an enabling environment for young women and men from nine of the Southern countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy (i.e. Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia) to develop their competencies, to exercise their rights and meaningfully engage as active citizens in the development and implementation of national strategies on youth. The evaluation found that, overall, the NET-MED Youth Project was a successful initiative and created a momentum for Youth empowerment in the respective beneficiary countries. Its high relevance in the context of the Agenda 2030 resulted not least from UNESCO’s longstanding experience and good practices in working with youth organizations and youth-related stakeholders through youth engagement as partners and beneficiaries. The Project thus constituted a significant contribution to the UNESCO Operational Strategy on Youth 2014-2021. Gender equality was a central concern of NET-MED Youth, and systematically embedded throughout all activities as a transversal feature. In line with the Agenda 2030 commitment of leaving no one behind, several activities focused on issues of disadvantaged or traditionally underserved groups, such as youth with disabilities. Challenges identified are mainly related to the often difficult and in some countries unstable political environments. Together with the needs-based and rather context-specific approach in each country, this also affected to some extent the full implementation of the regional perspective. Furthermore, in the absence of a coherent and explicit longer-term exit strategy, the structures and results achieved risk not to be maintained, or scaled up over time, despite the strong local commitment and ownership created over the project duration. Through successfully incorporating youth aspirations in its design and implementation, the NET-MED Youth Project represented a new and innovative approach to youth engagement and empowerment in an interdisciplinary fashion, and should thus be considered as a basis for new thinking on which to build in the future. The high potential for replication of the NET-MED Youth Project, as a continuation or as an example of good practice for a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach is thus to be further explored. 
Strengthening Quality Assurance in Higher Education UNESCO-Shenzhen Project Update, June 2019 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO In 2016, UNESCO and the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government of China joined hands with 10 African countries, and initiated the UNESCO-Shenzhen Project, with an aim to strengthen higher education systems by developing quality assurance mechanisms. The three-year project implemented since 2017 represents the commitment of UNESCO to the realization of Target 4.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals to “ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university” and the Education 2030 agenda. 
Devlop’ Le journal de Louvain Coopération 8 - MARS 2019 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Louvain Coopération Dans ce numéro, nous partirons de Louvain-la-Neuve avec le plaidoyer agro-écologique de Philippe Baret, doyen de la faculté d’agronomie de l’UCLouvain ; nous nous envolerons ensuite vers le Cambodge où académiques et acteurs de terrains soutiennent des paysans cambodgiens dans la réappropriation de leurs activités ; nous transiterons chez nos partenaires boliviens, dans les quartiers marginalisés d’El Alto, qui eux aussi lancent des initiatives d’agriculture urbaine pour mieux atterrir en République démocratique du Congo où place est faite à l’agro-écologie. Finalement, nous reviendrons à Louvain-la-Neuve où les Ingénieux-Sud réfléchissent avec leurs contreparties locales à mettre en place des solutions intelligentes et adaptées aux problèmes agricoles rencontrés. Nous espérons qu’à la lecture de notre journal vous serez convaincus, comme nous, que tous ensemble, producteurs, consommateurs, gouvernements, entreprises privées, associations, face aux défis agricoles, nous sommes capables de transformer des risques en opportunités. 
Devlop’ Le journal de Louvain Coopération 9 - SEPTEMBRE 2019 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Louvain Coopération Le renforcement des capacites de nos partenaires locaux est pour nous un objectif crucial et un theme transversal a tous les projets de Louvain Cooperation, ceci dans le but d’augmenter l’autonomie et la resilience des populations. Alors, oui, il n’est pas evident de travailler dans le contexte socio-politico-economique de la RDC et, oui, nous devons parfois faire face a des echecs lorsque des evenements que nous ne pouvons controler surviennent. Mais nous pouvons aussi constater chaque jour l’utilite de nos actions et la difference concrete qu’elles peuvent faire pour les personnes qui en beneficient. Voila pourquoi nous croyons en notre travail et nous voulons continuer d’agir en RDC, malgre les difficultes rencontrees. Ce Devlop’ vous invite aujourd’hui a decouvrir ces beaux projets et a rencontrer celles et ceux qui les vivent et qui les font vivre au quotidien. 
Multiculturalism as a nation-building theory in Kazakhstan Year of publication: 2016 Author: Nazira E. Kukusheva In the article, the author explores the pressing problems of the nation-building of Kazakhstan as an independent state-gifts.The main problems considered are: 1) the process of formation of a new national identity; 2) the experience of building a multicultural society.The views of supporters and opponents of the policy of multiculturalism in Kazakhstan are given. From the author’s point of view, for the design and implementation of new multicultural ideologies in the practice of Kazakhstan, the creation of scientific centers for the study of interethnic processes is necessary. Мультикультурализм как теория нациестроительства в Казахстане Year of publication: 2016 Author: Nazira E. Kukusheva В статье автор исследует актуальные проблемы нациестроительства Казахстана как независимого госу- дарства.В качестве основных проблем рассматриваются:1) процесс формирования новой национальной идентичности; 2) опыт построения мультикультурного общества.Приведены взгляды сторонников и противников политики мультикультурализма в Казахстане. С точки зрения автора, для конструирования и внедрения новых мультикультурных идеологем в практику Казахстана необходимо создание научных центров по исследованию межэтнических процессов. 
Devlop’ Le journal de Louvain Coopération 1 - Oct 2015 Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Louvain Coopération "On ne fait pas un monde different avec des gens indifferents." Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir partager avec vous ce condense d’actions et de projets. L’ histoire de Louvain Cooperation se compte en dizaines d’annees et se deroule sur 4 continents. a travers les evolutions politiques, sociales, economiques et technologiques nous avons transforme nos pratiques, nos projets, nos methodologies pour maintenir notre action a la hauteur de nos ambitions en restant proche des populations au Sud. Aujourd’hui, le secteur des ONG se positionne de plus en plus precisement : declaration de Paris : accroissement de l’efficacite de l’aide, controle et evaluation des progres, adaptation aux situations nationales, les principes d’Istanbul, avec en vue la creation conjointe de savoirs et le renforcement des societes civiles de par le monde. C’est dans ce sens et avec vous que nous voulons regarder le present et jouer un role visa-vis des acteurs politiques, conomiques et des futurs citoyens qui se forment ici a l’UCL. Si nous pouvons participer a un monde meilleur, c’est notamment en encourageant les etudiants a imaginer leur arcour citoyen et professionnel dans un cadre de solidarite et de responsabilite. Cette annee encore, vous avez ete tres nombreux a soutenir activement tout ces projets. Vous, nos donateurs, nos partenaires, les bailleurs publics et prives et toutes les personnes qui nous font confiance. Nous tenons a vous remercier sincerement, au nom de toute l’equipe de Louvain Cooperation ! 
Guide for social advocates of domestic violence victims (guidebook) Year of publication: 2016 Author: S. Korneychuk | N, Gladyr | A. Ilyasova Corporate author: S. Korneychuk | N, Gladyr | A. Ilyasova This tutorial is aimed at strengthening the professional potential of specialists directly working with cases of domestic violence in order to maximize the needs of victims.