The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) is pleased to announce its third edition of the Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy that will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, from September 24 to October 12, 2007.

The ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning, was first launched in Buskerud, Norway in 2004. Its second edition was also held in Norway in 2005 and it was not possible to hold the third edition in 2006, despite the great interest raised.

Therefore, with renewed energy and an updated programme according to the changing global context, we are launching this third edition that aims to give emerging leaders in adult learning and social movement activists the opportunity to empower themselves and acquire the skills to advocate for and support adult learning for active citizenship.

Our objective is to help them generate a broader vision of adult education and lifelong learning within the framework of human rights, developing linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently affecting the world, and support the emergence of a new leadership, for the global network of adult educators, to secure the regeneration of ICAE and the movements for lifelong learning in general.

This space for mutual learning will be key in the preparatory process towards next international adult education conference, CONFINTEA VI, to be held in Brazil in 2009.

The course will be in english and will involve lectures and discussions, case study presentations and analysis, as well as debates. Participants will be trained to work as a global team, by experienced and high-level experts from different regions who will give their perspectives on advocacy issues.

We attach the Call for Applications, Application Form and Proposal.

Deadline to apply is June 30, 2007.

Documentation must be sent to:
icaeialla@gmail.com

For more information contact:

Celia Eccher
Secretary General
ICAE
International Council for Adult Education
Av. 18 de Julio 2095 / 301
11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
Tel/fax: (598 - 2) 409 79 82
E-mail: secretariat@icae.org.uy
www.icae.org.uy

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Course overview

Date:          September 24 - October 12, 2007
Venue:     Hostería del Lago, Montevideo, Uruguay

Cost:          USD 2,000  (board, lodging, tuition costs) + airfare cost
Note: A limited number of scholarships (either full or partial) are
available for applicants from developing countries.

Organized by:  International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)

Accredited by:   International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)

Objective:
The aim of this three-week intensive session is to give emerging leaders in adult learning and social movement activists the opportunity to empower themselves and acquire the skills to advocate for and support adult learning for active citizenship.

Our objective is to help them generate a broader vision of adult education and lifelong learning within the framework of human rights, developing linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently affecting the world.

If you wish to see the testimonies or photographs of previous editions of this course (IALLA I & II) please visit our website: www.icae.org.uy

Requirements
The program is open to applicants who meet the following requirements:
-     advocacy experience
-     activism in the adult learning and social movement's field
-     graduates or equivalent education or advanced students
-     priority shall be given to young leaders
-     ability to communicate (oral and writing skills) effectively and
fluently in English. (No translation will be available)
-     availability to attend the whole course (from September 24 to
October 12, 2007)

Application process
Applicants should submit the following documents:
- Application form and curriculum vitae (not more than 4 pages) should be
sent by electronic means to:   icaeialla@gmail.com

- Letters of recommendation from two referees should be sent directly from the referees to the Selection Committee:
By email: icaeialla@gmail.com  (in letterhead sheet and with scanned signature) or by Fax: (598-2) 409 79 82

The deadline for the receipt of application form, curriculum vitae and
referee letters of recommendation, is June 30, 2007

Applicants will be notified about the selection by the end of July. A
formal letter may be sent, upon request, for the institution where you are applying for a scholarship.

Please note: Application forms, curriculum vitae or letters of
recommendation which are hand-written, incomplete, submitted after deadline, or which are not in English language, will not be accepted.

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PROPOSAL

General Objectives

To build the skills of educators and social movement activists in
supporting adult learning for change, and to consolidate ICAE as a global network committed to that end, through an annual residential programme on advocacy for adult learning.

Specific Objectives

1. To generate a broader vision on adult education within the framework of human rights and active citizenship, developing linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently affecting the world.

2. To support the emergence of a new leadership for the global network of adult educators committed and trained to work as a global team, to secure the regeneration of ICAE, in particular, and the movements for lifelong learning in general.

3. To follow-up and facilitate the exchange between participants to promote the continuity of the learning process by sharing their own experience after IALLA course.

Principles
The definition of the contents should take into account the new learning needs emerging from the current global context.

At a time in which the current globalizing model is characterized by
economic uncertainty, population displacement, war, the advance of
fundamentalisms, the difficulties regarding multilateralism, and the
greater interdependence in relation to all global policies unequally affecting the countries of the world, there is a pressing need to rethink deeply and critically the educational proposals at formal and informal levels, at all ages.

There is also a need to have an ethical approach within the framework of Human Rights and to develop teamwork capacity and skills at global level, instead of repeating what has been done for the past decades, which fostered competitiveness and individual work, and which does not allow to generate responses to extremely complex situations like the ones we are living.

Today it is no longer possible to think of a super team of a sole country, able to account for global situations. Today it is necessary to cultivate international teamwork, which would be able to recognize differences and generate synergies among this diversity of visions and skills, and which would have the capacity of generating new solutions and the subsequent advocacy for promoting change in the public policies at all levels.

We must generate an agile and proactive attitude in the participants, taking into account the unprecedented changing global times, whether participating in a campaign, whether promoting a research and other activities which could be fostered from global to local levels.

The education currently imparted is notoriously outdated so as to respond to these new situations.

Outcomes
.     To train 40 new leaders in global teamwork and advocacy on lifelong learning and adult learning.
.     To develop a shared understanding of a common broader vision on adult education.
.     To learn about different contexts and strategies for advocacy, and to relate them to participants' own advocacy for adult learners.
.     Practical proposals for advocacy work on behalf of adult learners with concrete objectives and a clear sense of who is to influence and how.
.     Sensitize participants to commonalities and diversity in their
experience so that they can work in groups and teams, at global level, in making the case for the popular learning dimension for social action.
.     Develop skills in marshalling arguments for evidence-based advocacy.
.     Develop capacity to work together and to enjoy teamwork.
.     Acknowledge and acquire the capacity to work in civil society
organizations, in networks (and network building) to promote work in a global network, and at different levels.
.     Make them start doing positive exercises regarding learning from
diversity, and from cross-cultural experience.
.     Identify strategies to influence policy and policy makers, using old skills in new ways.

Content
The course will be structured to provide a coherent learning process. The curriculum's development process is a challenging balance among core and solid contents, teamwork, and the search for opportunities aimed at innovative projects. Our challenge is how to provide a critical analysis/understanding while avoiding a feeling of powerlessness (links between personal and common projects).

The first module, will be mainly focused on the concept of civil society
and main actors, state, and rights; globalization and resistance; civil society engagement with UN process; new movements of the civil society such as women's movement, peace movements, and environmental movements; World Social Forum and Perspectives of the global movement; the action of civil society as an educational process.

The second module, will focus on the global governance complex and its actors; UN summits and conferences, participation of civil society in the UN environment; the role of regional and global networks in the present context; the state of the matter regarding the preparatory process towards CONFINTEA VI in Brazil, the follow up of EFA Global Monitoring Report and the Millennium Development Goals process; the right to education and lifelong learning; the right to quality public services for all women and men; the global advocacy landscape over the last 10 years: contextualization of the MDG process; the UN Reform process.

The third module will work mainly on the implications of shifting terrains and emerging issues arising from global geopolitics to advocacy on adult education: globalization & war/linking the local with the global, the intersection of religion, politics & struggles for economic justice, gender, race & class identity issues; collective construction of a new thinking on advocacy for adult education; strategic advocacy planning; looking at three-level objectives of advocacy and of different actors; assessing our organization's capacity for advocacy at national, regional and international spheres; techniques in identifying an advocacy issue and in formulating a policy solution to advocate on; steps in formulating an advocacy agenda at global sphere and national sphere.

Methodology
.     To develop a format that would allow the harmonization of
pedagogical progression and the learning process.
.     To alternate complementary methodological proposals such as
lectures, courses, workshops.
.     To combine conceptual inputs of theoretical analysis with practical experiences, especially those of participants and the host
country: "learning from diversity".
.     To foresee the presence of someone attentive to group dynamics, and to work with the participants; group dynamics is part of the learning process.
.     To provide the possibility of living together with several senior
education leaders and thinkers, with an appropriate regional balance.

Resource Persons
Paul Bélanger - Content Coordinator. He is President of the International Council for Adult Education, Former Director of the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIL), Professor at Université du Québec, Montréal, and Director of the Research Center on Lifelong Learning (CIRDEP).

Sergio Haddad - Convenor of the first module. He is Secretary General of Açao Educativa, Member of ICAE Executive Council and Member of the International Secretariat of the International Council of the World Social Forum.

Celita Eccher - Convenor of the second module. She is the Secretary General of ICAE, Regional Coordinator of DAWN for Latin America, and Former General Coordinator of REPEM.

Josefa Francisco - Convenor of the third module. She is the Regional Coordinator of DAWN/South East Asia (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era).

Professors' Profile:
Two kinds of professors: professors facilitating learning, and special
invitees for the conferences, seeking a regional balance.
The professors facilitating learning shall contribute with specific
contents and a political approach to the issue.
The lecturers should have achieved international recognition.
For the specific work on advocacy at different levels, we thought of
representatives of different global networks and national members.

Participants' Selection Process
.     The selection process will be conducted by the Selection Committee. This Committee may be comprised by 3 experts coming from different regions, in addition to ICAE Secretary-General.
.     Make a Call for Applications.
.     Receive the applications according to previously established
criteria.
.     The Selection Committee opens the evaluation period and selects the participants.

Identified criteria for the selection of participants:
.     ability to communicate effectively in English since no translation
will be available
.     process skills
.     new leadership in adult learning
.     networking skills
.     gender balance
.     a balance of representation

Duration: 3 weeks: September 24 - October 12, 2007

Venue: Hostería del Lago, Montevideo, Uruguay

Cost:  US$ 2,000 (covering lodging, board and tuition costs) plus airfare cost

Note: A limited number of scholarships (either full or partial) are
available for applicants from developing countries.

Deadline:  Deadline to submit application form is:  June 30, 2007