Hive-Worcester: ICAE VIII World Assembly

The ICAE World Assembly is a forum that brings together people and organizations working on lifelong learning and adult education around the world and it takes place every four years, as a celebration of the importance of adult education for the construction of just and equitable societies. The first one was held in 1976 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, under the presidency of Julius Nyerere.
ICAE World Assembly is open to members, partners, and friends and also to all those networks that work or are linked to the adult education movement promoting adults’ right to learn. It will be an excellent opportunity to reflect on the changing current context and the challenges for the education movement.
It will take place from June 14 to 16, back to back with the General Assembly of the European Association of Adult Education (EAEA), a Swedish national conference on Popular Education and a Conference of the Nordic Folk High Schools (NFR).
Objectives:
- To provide a collective space to strongly affirm the right to lifelong learning and education for all and to assert the immense value of adult education and learning in enabling citizens to build a world worth living in.
- To identify the priorities of lifelong learning and education and to develop proposals for action at a global, regional and local level.
After this global event ICAE General Assembly will take place on June 17 where new authorities will be elected.
The International Council for Adult Education, ICAE, formed in 1973, is the main global network promoting Youth and Adult Education and Learning and doing advocacy for the right to learn of young people and adults.
It provides support and operates as a link for cooperation and solidarity among national and regional networks. While supporting capacity building for nongovernmental agencies in the area of Youth and Adult Learning –in line with objectives 3 and 4 of EFA (Education for All) - it also plays a role in development processes in the South. ICAE is an NGO in formal consultative relations with UNESCO and with consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
ICAE is formed by NGOs, associations, sectoral, national and regional networks as well as individuals, in more than 75 countries and has regional members in 7 regions: Africa, Arab Region, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and North America.
You will find more information about the assembly at: VIII WORLD ASSEMBLY ICAE Facebook, www.icae.org.uy, ICAE Facebook, ICAEWA2011 YouTube and through our electronic bulletin: Voices Rising.
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