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About UIE
Founded in 1951, the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) is a non-profit international research, training, information, documentation and publishing centre of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). One of six educational institutes of UNESCO, UIE focuses mainly on adult and continuing education, adult literacy and non-formal basic education in the perspective of lifelong learning.
UIE provides services in its areas of competencies to UNESCO’s Member States, to NGOs, grassroots and community organizations, but also to partners in civil society and the private sector. In doing so, the Institute works in close collaboration with its Paris headquarters, with UNESCO field offices in different countries, with sister institutes, and with national and international partners.
The Senate (government) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg provides the Institute with premises close to the University, in a house protected as a historic monument.
Organizational Structure
The Institute has a Governing Board consisting of 11 members, nominated ‘intuiti personae’ by the Director-General of UNESCO. The Board is made up of outstanding specialists in the educational field from different regions of the world, who meet once a year to review the progress of the Institute’s work and plan future policy. The Institute is headed by a Director, appointed by the Director-General of UNESCO. About 35 people are employed by the Institute, including researchers, publications and editorial staff, library personnel and technical support staff (translators, computer and communication specialists, administrative and secretarial personnel).
The Mission of UIE
Organized learning throughout the life span is taking on a new urgency, in a world characterized by rapid socio-economic and technological changes, by the search for connectivity, the demand for participation in sustainable development, the claim for justice and democracy, and the struggle to protect individual identities and the global environment. Increasingly, education is recognized as a continuing process in which vitally important learning takes place in the post-school years and outside the walls of traditional educational institutions. Non-formal basic education, vocational and non-work-related adult education and re-training programmes, distance learning and similar developments are part of a vast and diversified learning effort that is changing the face of education throughout the globe. New developments are constantly arising which call for imaginative responses and far-sighted strategies. At the same time, a commensurately growing demand for non-formal education and adult learning often meets with very limited or fixed responses. UIE’s mandate is to undertake research on these issues, contribute to the building of a strong and high-quality knowledge base, provide a variety of related tailor-made services to strengthen local and national capacity, and promote networking and partnership among key actors and stakeholders.
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