Prof. Mayo to deliver keynote address at Global Lifelong Learning Coordination Group Meeting

Professor Peter Mayo, Professor at the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education within our Faculty of Education, UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education, and who is due to receive an Honorary Doctorate in the field of Adult Education by the School of Humanities at the Hellenic Open University (HOU) in Patras, Greece later on this year, has been officially invited to deliver the keynote address during the 4^th meeting of the Coordination Group on Global Policy Dialogue on 18 February 2026.

The 4^th meeting of the CG GPD will focus on the matter of lifelong learning, particularly the topics of skills and enhancement of human development, flexible learning pathways, micro-credentials, and Qualification Frameworks, as well as credit transfer systems.  

LLL has been a recurrent topic in European policy over the last two decades. It is referred to in all the Communiqués signed by Ministers responsible for higher education in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), starting with the 1998 Paris Declaration and the 1999 Bologna Declaration.

Thanks to a number of presentations, peer-learning activities and sharing of the latest developments in the field from a number of international, European and regional organisations, experts from across the continent will give their input which will then inform the Global Policy Statement that will in turn be adopted at the Global Policy Forum in 2027.

Prof. Mayo’s Keynote address will tackle LLL in the next 20 years, which is projected to shift from a predominantly economic imperative to one which is cosmic, therefore encompassing learning as relational beings - relational with other humans and the rest of nature in which humans are rooted.

The full programme of the event is available online.