Mexico City, Mexico

This conference is organized in cooperation with the Mexican National Institute for Adult Education (INEA) on behalf of the Government of Mexico, the UNESCO Regional Bureau for in Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago de Chile (OREALC), the UNESCO Office for United Nations Priorities (ED/UNP) and the UNESCO Office Mexico.

Cape Town, South Africa

The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) is holding the forth Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy (IALLA IV) in Cape Town, South Africa. This three-week training session is designed to give emerging leaders in adult learning and social movement activists the opportunity to empower themselves and acquire skills to advocate for and support adult learning for active citizenship. The objectives of the course are to:

• generate a broader vision on youth and adult education within the framework of human rights and active citizenship, developing linkages with the most important globalisation issues that are currently affecting the world;
• support the emergence of a new leadership for the global network of adult educators committed and trained to work as a global team, to secure the regeneration of ICAE, in particular, and the movements for lifelong learning in general;
• and follow-up and facilitate the exchange among participants to promote the continuity of the learning process by sharing their own experience after the IALLA course.

For more information please visit:  http://www.comminit.com/en/node/272304

Paris, France

The World Forum on Lifelong Learning is organized by the World Committee for Lifelong Learning with many partners. The International Honorary Board, chaired by Paul Bellanger (Canada), Chairman of the International Council of Adult Education (ICAE) , is made up of international experts and personalities, including Jacques Delors, President of the International Commission of Unesco on educating the twenty-first century .

The objective of this event is to take stock of education and training throughout life, twelve years after the Delors report of April 1996 "Education, the Treasure Within", advances in the systems of education, training and learning throughout life in all its forms, as well as the innovative practices developed in all parts of the world. It will also analyze multiple effects of globalization on education and training throughout life, marry economic efficiency and social ambitions and set up common perspectives.

Newport, United Kingdom
The University of Wales

The transformative potential of regeneration is identified in policy, nationally and internationally, as an instrument which can be both visual and psychological, raising aspirations, improving skills and improving the environment whilst introducing dynamism to an area. The goal of the Regeneration and Learning Conference is to provide academics, professionals and practitioners working in related fields with the opportunity to come together and learn from each other, acknowledging the diversity and cross disciplinary nature of the regeneration agenda. The themes of the conference will centre on

• lifelong learning
• education as a tool for regeneration
• building social capital and social cohesion through regeneration
• sustainable regeneration and education

Milano, Italy
European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, ESREA

Abstracts
Abstracts and proposals are called for to be submitted by 17th December 2008: on one side of A4 only, with names, affiliations and contact details on a separate sheet. Please mail to : j.coe@campus.unimib.it

Please note that ESREA will be offering 2 bursaries (250 EUR each) for doctorate students.

Belem (State of Para), Brazil

The Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) will provide an important platform for policy dialogue and advocacy on adult learning and non-formal education at global level, involving UNESCO Member States, United Nations agencies, multi-and bi-lateral cooperation agencies, organizations from civil society, the private sector and learners from all world regions. CONFINTEA VI will strengthen the recognition of adult learning and non-formal education within the perspective of life-wide and lifelong learning.

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Glasgow University

The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) Annual Conference 2008 will be hosted by the Department of Adult and Continuing Education, Scotland.  In this conference the theme of internationalisation and its multiple meanings wil be explored for governments, universities, futher education providers, schools and other education agencies.   To what degree is internationlisation merely a convenient label for the commercial exploitation of education? Does internationlisation mean the same as globalisation?  How is local culure compromised or enhanced by an emphasis on international education?  How is difference configured into an international social, cultural, economic and eudcational agenda?  Is the idea of social justice subservient to economic considerations in internationalisation discourse?  These and other related questions will be explored throughout this 2008 Conference.  For further details please visit: http://www.baice.ac.uk/events/forthcoming_events.shtml

Seville, Spain

Educational Journeys and Changing Lives

Deadline for submission of Papers  is September 8.  For further information about the conference you may contact  Barbara Merrill at: Barbara.Merrill@warwick.ac.uk

Dakar, Senegal

eLearning Africa is delighted to announce that next year’s conference, the fourth in the highly successful series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in Senegal.

Moving to Senegal in 2009, eLearning Africa continues to build and expand a worldwide network for people involved in all aspects of technology-enhanced education and training in Africa, including management and policymaking. As with the previous conferences, eLearning Africa 2009 will be conducted in both English and French. The eLearning Africa website will keep you up to date with the latest information and developments. Details about the themes, the local venue and other components of the event will be available soon.

Faro, Portugal

The conference focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically balanced and sustainable development in rural areas. An important question related to this is how to take advantage of the potential of towns and rural areas and how to increase their competitiveness, encouraging their advantages over more urbanized areas. Important issues are for example the challenges created by learning and knowledge diffusion in towns and rural areas, the potential of towns in bottom-up policies such as the Leader+ approach, the importance of knowledge in rural areas and the function of towns in rural-urban (knowledge) networks.