Since UNESCO has officially announced that Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII): ‘Adult learning and education for sustainable development – A transformative agenda’ will be held from 15 to 17 June 2022 in Marrakech, Morocco, ICAE has intensified the preparations for the event. We are taking part in Public online consultation on the preliminary draft CONFINTEA VII Marrakech Framework for Action, mobilised the members to take part and shared with them our analysis and response, as an orientation.

Further on, we will organise Civil Society Forum on 14 June, as a pre-conference of the CONFINTEA VII. In order to prepare it, we decided to initiate Regional preparatory meetings of civil society organisations, to get regional perspective, exchange, discuss and strategise.

We invite you to join us on April 21^st on Zoom, with the following Agenda:

• CONFINTEA VII in Morocco: update and plans
• Update on ICAE´s plans for CONFINTEA VII and CSF
• UNESCO´s Regional outcome document from Africa - an overview and discussion
• African CSO challenges and priorities in adult education – input to CONFINTEA VII
• Recommendations for CONFINTEA VII from African CSOs.

Language of the meeting: English

PROGRAMME

13.00 – 13.15 Welcoming word from Carole Avande Houndjo, Pamoja, ICAE vice president for Africa

CONFINTEA VII in Morocco: update and plans
Update on ICAE´s plans for CONFINTEA VII and CSF
Katarina Popovic, ICAE, Serbia

13.15 – 13.30 Questions and answers

13.30 – 13.45 UNESCO´s Regional outcome document from Africa - an overview and discussion
Ivor Baatjes, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

13.45 – 14.00 Questions and answers, discussion

14.00 – 14.30 Input for the discussion on the African CSO challenges and priorities in adult education
and recommendations for CONFINTEA VII
Robert Jjuuko, My Career Uganda, Uganda
NN, KTO, Tanzania (tbc)
Bolanle Simeon-Fayomi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

14.30 – 15.00 Discussion on Recommendations for CONFINTEA VII from African CSOs

Here is the Zoom link:

International Council for Adult Education is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: CONFINTEA VII - CSO preparatory meeting Africa

Time: Apr 21, 2022 01:00 PM Paris/Vienna

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86304832048?pwd=S2ZJQTcrN2Z3TGd1M3B4RksyT2E3dz09

Meeting ID: 863 0483 2048

Passcode: 983071

We are looking forward to seeing you and exchanging with you!

Carole Avande Houndjo, ICAE Vice-President for Africa Belgrade, April 10th, 2022

Katarina Popović. ICAE Secretary General

Global Briefing on Public Consulation of the CONFINTEA VII Draft Marrakech Framework for Action

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87369201380?pwd=SHJCTDNETlQzdmh5UjJHdituUUJVQT09

Meeting ID: 873 6920 1380

Passcode: 205335

DATE: 30 March 2022

PLACE: Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l'Image 'CNCI' - Cité de la Culture (Tunis) - Avenue Mohamed V - Tunis

ONLINE: Zoom link to the Exhibition-Debate of March 30, 2022
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fw6tyUg4SqW_ZCgXqQbSJw

LANGUAGES: Arabic / French / English with simultaneous translation

MODERATOR: Mr. Houssem Bel Hadj

You are invited to attend our upcoming learning webinar on Digital Principles for Development in partnership with Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) and GCE on February 25th, 2022, at 4.00pm SAST.

The purpose of the learning workshop in partnership with DIAL who will be to introduce their work and cover the 9 digital principles for development for an in depth understanding. The nine principles are a set of living guidance intended to help practitioners succeed in applying digital technologies to development programs.

Digital Principles for Development

February 25th 2022 4:00pm SAST/9.00am ET

The purpose of the learning webinar in partnership with DIAL, is to build capacity for participating individuals from national coalitions, and including those from the African countries participating in the GIZ scoping study, about the principles for digital development. The desired outcome would be to help the participating individuals contextualise the digital principles for development in the education sector.

We invite you to a participatory workshop that asks:

Climate Just Pedagogy – what lessons have we learned?

Over the last eighteen months PIMA, in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Studies in Adult Education (CASAE), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in Education of Adults (SCUTREA), has led a series of Climate Justice and Adult Learning and Education (ALE) webinars and has produced a special edition of the its PIMA Bulletin 39 (Nov 21) which captures climate justice themes and gives examples. With recurrent intensified climate events, yet no apparent sense of urgency in many regions, we wish to deepen the dialogue and educational actions.

Co-hosted by PIMA, CASAE, ALA, MOJA, SCUTREA Invitation to Virtual Workshop

Date: 2 March 2022

Time: PDT 8am (Vancouver); 16:00 BST (London, UK); 17:00 CAT/CEST (Harare, Berlin); 20:30 IST (India); 03:00 AEDT on 3 March (Sydney) Length: 2 hours

The PIMA Bulletin No 39 will serve as the common reference text for discussions. We will assume this has been read. https://drive.google.com/drive...

Please register in advance for this event:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuisrzMiGtDTMOEXNG-RsMA5jaqaSVcx

Co-host contacts:

PIMA: www.pimanetwork.com

CASAE: https://www.casae-aceea.ca/ ALA: https://ala.asn.au/

MOJA: https://www.mojaafrica.net/en/ SCUTREA: http://www.scutrea.ac.uk/ ;

CONFINTEA VII will take place in Morocco in June 2022. This event focuses on the effectiveness of adult learning and education policies within the overall framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNESCO Member States are encouraged to develop and implement policies, incentives, regulatory frameworks and institutional structures in support of adult education provision and delivery that build human rights, social justice and sustainability.

The main focus of CONFINTEA VII is the development of a new framework for action on adult learning and education. This new framework will replace the Belem Framework for Action (BFA) which was adopted at CONFINTEA VI.

TAP on TAPAS:

The Alternatives Project

WEBINAR: There are Plenty of Alternatives!

February 3

10:30 EST / 15:30 GMT-UTC

Zoom Meeting (2 hours) Translation in French and Spanish

REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-2qrjovHtHFgPhnZ6XpBuWruHXNklId

We live on a bountiful planet filled with extraordinary human beings but facing some truly existential crises – COVID, climate change and environmental destruction, virulent poverty and inequality, rampant racism and sexism, and widespread war and conflict, to name some. These crises are systemic, built into structures of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, ableism, and more. But this is not a time for despair, this is a time for alternatives! Contrary to Margaret Thatcher's TINA, There is No Alternative, David Bollier coined the acronym TAPAS, There are Plenty of Alternatives. In this webinar, we at The Alternatives Project bring together five other organizations to share, celebrate, and discuss their outstanding work in examining, fostering, and enhancing global efforts to find education, social, economic, and political alternatives to transform dysfunctional and destructive existing systems. PLEASE JOIN US!

CHAIR AND PANELIST

CAROL ANNE SPREEN | THE ALTERNATIVES PROJECT

TAP is a diverse, transnational collective of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and societal transformation.

PANELISTS

FRANCO AUGUSTO | REEVO

REEVO is an international collective project that since 2012 promotes the collaborative construction of knowledge and networks about alternatives to learning and unconventional educational experiences from a critical, collaborative, open, and non-commercial perspective.

UDI MANDEL | ECOVERSITIES

Ecoversities is about learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships, and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education.

AMANDA JANOO | WEAll WELLBEING ECONOMY ALLIANCE

WEAll is a collaboration of organizations, alliances, movements, and individuals working towards a well-being economy, delivering human and ecological well-being.

GAR ALPEROVITZ | THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT

The Next System Project is an initiative of The Democracy Collaborative aimed at bold thinking and action to address the systemic challenges we face now and in coming decades, functioning as a research and development lab for political-economic alternatives.

ASHISH KOTHARI | GLOBAL TAPESTRY OF ALTERNATIVES

The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence.