The Seventeenth ordinary session of IESALC’s Governing Board will take place on April 20 and 21, 2021, at 16:00 h (Paris GTM).

Within the framework of the actions aimed at promoting the ratification of the New Regional Convention on studies, the Virtual Forum "The New Regional Convention: challenges and opportunities for its implementation" will be held on May 4 at 9:00 a.m. Caracas time (GMT -4).  The discussion will be attended by recognized authorities on the subject, such as María José Lemaitre (Chile) and Paulo Falcón (Argentina), who will debate on the following questions: Why has it been so difficult to move forward with the ratification of the New Regional Convention? What circumstances have prevented progress toward a framework of shared principles […]

In preparation of the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, UNESCO is organizing a series of online workshops on the transformative power of Education for sustainable development for redesigning a more sustainable and just world beyond Covid-19. The conference is organized by UNESCO in cooperation with and generously supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, and with the German Commission for UNESCO as advisory partner. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is crucial to empower people to have the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to meet these crises and other sustainable development challenges. The new ESD for 2030 […]

The journal Educación Superior y Sociedad ESS (Higher Education and Society) reaches its thirtieth anniversary and celebrates it with a virtual meeting in consonance with its academic and intellectual work. The meeting’s agenda includes the presentation of the contents of its anniversary issue Tres décadas de investigación en educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe: pasado, presente y futuro (Three decades of research in higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean: past, present and future, number 1, Vol. 33, year 2021), which brings a retrospective and visionary view on the research carried out in the field of higher education […]

The EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network) 2021 Virtual Annual Conference will be hosted by the National Distance Education University UNED in Madrid, Spain under the title “Lessons from a pandemic for the future of education”. This year’s conference is intended as a continuation of the efforts of EDEN to support educators by providing a space to explore the issues and insights that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. IESALC director, Francesc Pedró, will give a keynote at the conference. Read more on the Conference call Know more about the EDEN 2021 Virtual Annual Conference. 

In view of the global health crisis, the World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2021), to be held in October 2021 in Barcelona (Spain), has been postponed until mid-2022, as agreed by UNESCO and the Government of Spain. New dates and modalities of participation will be announced soon. The goals and strategic scope of the conference remain the same, and the new time frame represents an opportunity to deepen and expand our common efforts of knowledge production, policy dialogue, exchange, and networking. UNESCO considers this process of collective construction as the greatest richness of this conference, which aims to become a global conversation […]