European Centre for Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)’s and UNESCO’s are jointly developing an international handbook on defining, writing and applying learning outcomes. Given the growing importance of learning outcomes in international education and training policies, the process involved in preparing the Handbook (2019-2020) allows for a closer dialogue and cooperation between international experts (including from Asia and Europe) in this field. The final product (due end 2020) will support a more consistent use of learning outcomes, a necessary condition for increased international transparency of qualifications.

Aims and objectives

• Handbook to support loser dialogue and cooperation between international experts
• more consistent use of learning outcomes, a necessary condition for increased international transparency of qualifications.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and Stakeholders involved

The handbook is developed by the European Centre for Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)’s and UNESCO. All ´óÏó´«Ã½ partners and stakeholder can make use of it.

Plans and expected outcomes

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The handbook is being prepared in 2019-2020 (due 2020)

The Project contributes to:

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This two-volume publication gives an update on the national qualification frameworks around the world. It provides information on national and regional developments as well as selected themes. It is the result of collaborative work between Cedefop, ETF, UNESCO and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.

Through the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Education process this publication is being promoted to use in all ´óÏó´«Ã½ Partner countries and an updated version is being presented during each Ministerial meeting.

The publication can be dowloaded here: and 

Aims and objectives

• Give an update on the *Give an update on the national qualification frameworks (NQFs) around the world;
• Provide information on national and regional developments as well as selected themesnational qualification frameworks (NQFs) around the world;
• Provide information on national and regional developments as well as selected themes

´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and Stakeholders involved

Cedefop, ETF, UNESCO and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. The publication benefits all ´óÏó´«Ã½ Partner countries.

Progress and Achievements

• Within countries, deepening of NQF development and implementation;
• In some world regions, development of regional qualifications frameworks;
• Production of an updated Global Inventory for ´óÏó´«Ã½ ME7.

Status

overall initiative ongoing; publication is being updated and presented at each ministerial meeting.

Plans and expected outcomes

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• Production of 5^th edition of Inventory in 2021
• Updated Version of Global Inventory of Regional and National Qualification Framework
• Publication is widely promoted within ´óÏó´«Ã½ Education community
• ´óÏó´«Ã½ Education Partners are involved in feedback and input rounds for updated version

The Project contributes to:

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The (´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub) is an official network for university cooperation in Lifelong Learning Research between Asia and Europe since 2004.

The timeline below provides an overview of the milestones in the history of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub’s operation is part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Education Process and is currently chaired by and hosted at the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) of the Kingdom of Thailand. The Hub brings together researchers in clusters and networks, organises conferences, like the Global Lifelong Learning Week, promotes collaborative and comparative research on lifelong learning and disseminated research results.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub is advised by an International Advisory Council composed by ministries of education and flagship international organisations, chaired by Kazakhstan and co-chaired by Italy.

´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub Regional Centres for Promoting Lifelong Learning in Central Asia, South Asia and Europe contribute to further regional and interregional cooperation and initiatives.

Further information can be found here:

From 2019 to November 2025, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub was hosted by the University College Cork, Ireland supported by the Irish government, especially the Department of Education & Skills and the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. From 2005 to 2018, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub was hosted by the Aarhus University Denmark and funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).

Aims and objectives

´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and Stakeholders involved

Universities, researcher, ministries, and organisations from all (´óÏó´«Ã½) can be involved. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub is currently hosted by the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Progress and Achievements

All research publications, initiatives and events are available on the

Status and plans

The initiative is ongoing and has recently been taken over by the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub, considered one of the largest international networks of researchers, was officially transferred from Ireland to Thailand at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 1^st Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM1) in Bucharest, Romania, on 18 November 2025. Prof Wilert Puriwat, President of the Chulalongkorn University was announced as the Chair of ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub. The Thai Secretariat of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub at the Chulalongkorn University aims to maximise the direct benefits for Thailand and the community in Asia and Europe over the term of Thailand’s stewardship.

The is aligned to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Education Strategy 2030 and global targets for lifelong learning and sustainability.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ LLL Hub functions within the the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Education Process (AEP) and works in partnership with the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).

The Project contributes to:

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UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning contributes a set of animated video tutorials to support cities in the process of implementing lifelong learning to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners. The tutorials consist of seven infographic animation videos for cities to enable them to become centres for lifelong learning. In addition, UIL has developed a thematic video tutorial focusing on education for sustainable development (ESD) – how ESD can be integrated in learning cities. The tutorials were showcased during the two weeks of the International Capacity Building Workshop on Lifelong Learning held in Shanghai in October 2018 which was targeted at policy-makers from Vietnam and Indonesia. The Ministers acknowledged that the tutorials support the reinforcement of the cooperation between the national and local levels of European and Asian countries as well as among cities by focusing on how lifelong learning can be implemented at the local level.

UIL is also developing a set of seven training modules to support cities in the process of becoming learning cities. The objectives of the training modules are to help project leaders and stakeholders in cities understand the concept of a learning city, and to facilitate learning city project leaders’ efforts to build capacities and provide opportunities for practitioners to learn strategic approaches in building dynamic and sustainable learning cities. The modules will be launched in October 2019 for the Fourth International Conference on Learning Cities.

Both the tutorials and the training modules will be further used to develop MOOCs and to provide training and capacity building workshops in all UNESCO Regions in order to develop Learning Cities and contribute to SDG4. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners are encouraged to use these MOOCs for their own LLL Policy developmnent Processes.

Aims and objectives

• Support cities in the process of implementing lifelong learning with video tutorials based on the Guidelines for Building Learning Cities;
• Support project leaders and stakeholders in cities to understand the concept of a learning city and use the Guidelines to facilitate lifelong learning for all in their cities

´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and Stakeholders involved

UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Partners of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Network of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), all ´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners can make use of the materials

Progress and Achievements

• set of video tutorials to support cities in the process of implementing lifelong learning
• knowledge and experience sharing between Asia and Europe (where the tutorials were developed)
• The tutorials were showcased during the two weeks of the International Capacity Building Workshop on Lifelong Learning held in Shanghai in October 2018 which was targeted at policy-makers from Vietnam and Indonesia.

Status

ongoing (2019-2021)

Plans and expected outcomes

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• Training and capacity-building workshops (including video tutorials) in all UNESCO regions;
  • developing a set of seven training modules and animated video tutorials to support cities in the process of becoming learning cities.
• Developming a Handbook and Toolkit for Lifelong Learning policy-making.
• development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
• Use of these materials by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and Stakeholders to support the development of Learning Cities and policy development on Lifelong Learning

The Project contributes to:

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In recent years, MOOCs are increasingly being recognized and adopted as a new educational strategy in many countries, amidst social innovations rapidly changing the educational environments and labor demands. Against the backdrop, the Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea has suggested the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Network of MOOCs program during the 1st Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM1) for the 6th ´óÏó´«Ã½ Education Ministers’ Meeting in November 2016. The program includes the ´óÏó´«Ã½Â MOOC Stakeholders’ Meeting, joint development of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOC contents and degree courses, development of the guidelines for contents development and management, identifying best practicesÌý´Ç²ÔÌýrecognition of learning outcomes and others.

As one of the major tasks for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Network of MOOCs Initiative, the Joint development of ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOC contents aims to contribute towards enhancing mutual understanding and regional cooperation throughÌý³¦´Ç-»å±ð±¹±ð±ô´Ç±è³¾±ð²Ôt, mutual use of quality MOOC contents, and their exchanges within ´óÏó´«Ã½ partner countries.  More specifically, the project will focus upon the joint development of three to four MOOC contents by the universities in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ partner countries which are designated by, and in cooperation with, MOOC platform-operating institutions in the region. The priority area will tentatively be those of hospitality and tourism, data science, and language and culture, depending upon the availability of participants and funds. The number of MOOC courses is expected to three to four, all of which will be offered and operated under the title of a credential or degree course as a pilot.

Aims and objectives

• Conduct regular ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOC Stakeholders’ Meeting;
• Develop MOOC contents and exchange MOOCs;
• Develop a Quality Assurance (QA) Guideline for MOOCs; and
• Identify best practices of usage and recognition of MOOCs.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and Stakeholders involved

Brunei Darussalam (University Brunei Darussalam, China, Indonesia, (Xuetangx), Malaysia, (Malaysia MOOC), Republic of Korea, (NILE), Thailand, (TCU), the Philippines, (University of Philippines Open University), Belgium (Flemish Community), France, (FUN-MOOC Network), Japan (JMOOC), Germany (DAAD), Myanmar (Department of Higher Education), EU (European Commission)

Progress and Achievements

• Joint development of MOOC contents is in process;
• national guidelines development for a QA guideline for ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOCs is also in process;
• best practice survey for MOOC platform-operating institutions was conveyed for the year of 2018 was conducted and reported to all ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOCs partners and will be analysed upon collection of the questionnaires.

Status

ongoing

Plans and expected outcomes

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• All activities will be continued (e.g. Best Practice survey will be analysed and shared with ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOC members;
• ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOCs Stakeholders’ forum WG meeting for initiatives will take place once a year;
• More organisations will be invited to participate in the initiative;
• Website for initiative members will be created to provide a common communication space.
• Improve course exchange and content development between MOOCs Initiative Partner Institutions
• Increase cooperation in ´óÏó´«Ã½ Network of MOOCs Initiative Project Leaders` via WG Meetings and communication.
• Promote Quality Assurance (Q) guideline development for MOOCs
• Inform best practice survey outcomes of MOOC platform operating institutions to ´óÏó´«Ã½ MOOCs Initiative partners for the year of 2019

The Project contributes to:

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UNESCO is leading the development of World Reference Levels (WRL) of learning outcomes, which can be used to compare qualifications, credentials and other sets of outcome statements to support the recognition of skills and competencies across borders

Aims and objectives

• Establish an accessible tool that people around the world can use to compare qualifications, credentials and other sets of outcome statements to support the recognition of skills and competencies across borders

´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and Stakeholders involved

Progress and Achievements

• World Reference Levels (WRL) expert group representing national, regional and international organisations working in the field of skills development and recognition, met at UNESCO Headquarters on 26 to 27 November 2018
• discussed how to further improve the WRL tool and its function to support regional qualification frameworks and standardise the way in which learning outcomes, qualifications and credentials are described

Status

Partly completed and ongoing

Plans and expected outcomes

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• The formulation of learning outcomes to support cross-country recognition of qualifications, and the contribution of learning outcomes-based qualifications systems to region quality assurance processes.

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The goal is to exchange the best practices on TVET policies in ´óÏó´«Ã½ countries through dialogue, specifically focusing on presenting examples of involvement of industry in TVET planning, education and training process, skills development and international cooperation.

Aims and objectives

• To exchange practices between seminar participants from Europe and Asia on topical matters related to TVET developments in policy planning and methodology areas

´óÏó´«Ã½ Partners and stakeholders involved

Initiative: Latvia. Open to all representatives from all ´óÏó´«Ã½ countries representing ministries, agencies, or stakeholder organizations.

First meeting was organised by Lativa and attended by Austria, Brunei Darussalam, Belgium (Flemish Community), France, Germany, Indonesia,  the Netherlands, the Philippines and the Russian Federation

Progress and Achievements

• First ´óÏó´«Ã½ Seminar on TVET: Riga, Latvia, 24-25 April 2018
• Participants agreed that:
  • AEP can foster mutual learning and exchange regarding TVET in order to strengthen TVET systems both in Europe and Asia;
  • exchange and collaboration should be achieved both at policy level and by sharing experiences from practice.

Status

Aims of the first seminar achieved. Initiative ongoing.

Plans and expected outcomes

´óÏó´«Ã½ME7: Chair’s Conclusion 42

During ´óÏó´«Ã½ME7, The Russion Federation took the initative to organise a follow-up seminar

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