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he UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education (GHE) will co-host this webinar as part of a series aimed at developing a roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities, adopted at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 5) in October 2021. The webinar will take place on 1 June 2022, from 13.00 – 14.30 CEST.

This is the first webinar in a three-part webinar series entitled ‘Lifelong learning for health: Enacting the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities’. This first webinar will look at ways of conceptualizing lifelong learning for health (LLLH) so that it can be adapted to different city contexts. It will also address raising awareness of the importance of cities for spearheading LLLH initiatives, including initiatives promoting health literacy and citizenship for health. In addition, the webinar will explore the plausibility of establishing city-level intersectoral taskforces who oversee LLLH policy. 

More specifically, the following thematic focuses will be on the agenda: 

• Thematic Focus 1: Conceptualizing LLLH in order to build policies that recognize local contexts and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; 
• Thematic Focus 2: Raising awareness of and garnering private and public support for cities to facilitate LLLH promotion, including for health literacy and citizenship for health; 
• Thematic Focus 3: Establishing intersectoral taskforces to initiate and oversee LLLH policy development. 

The webinar will be held in English, French and Spanish.

For more information and registration.

About the webinar series 

This three-part webinar series will result in a final co-created roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities. UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) members will work towards the development of LLLH policies, inventories of initiatives and step-by-step action plans to build a health learning pathway for all. For cities and partners beyond the UNESCO GNLC, the webinars are an opportunity to join a rich exchange on LLLH policy development and initiatives and explore the diverse learning city development processes of UNESCO GNLC members. This could serve as a starting point for further involvement and, in some cases, future membership in the network. 

The UNESCO Chair Sexual Health & Human Rights is offering the English version of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Rights, Sex & Education” as well as its original French version in June 2022. They have created new mini-MOOCs on human rights and sexual health with new content, new experts, new formats, which will all be available on a new platform in mid-June! From comics to animated videos, Q&A’s with experts and detailed infographics, they have worked on a dynamic concept that lasts less than 1 hour per mini-MOOC.

Follow them on Instagram @mysexmyrights and check out their website to be updated on the launch of the new “Rights, Sex & Education” mini-MOOCs!

It is with great pleasure that we celebrated the launch of the professional degree in health education and health promotion (EPROS) in Dakar on Monday 9 May 2022. The welcoming of the first class of the EPROS degree marks the first outcome of the intensive work carried out for many years by the teams of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, the School Medical Control Division (Division du Contrôle Médical Scolaire) (DCMS) of the Ministry of National Education (MEN) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education (Clermont Auvergne University). The training programme was co-developed with a large network of local, national and international partners[1] and the support of the local offices of UNESCO, UNICEF and WHO. The training programme aims to develop the capacities of professionals to work together with communities, in their own context, to promote individual and community health, to create healthy living ecosystems, and to develop the resilience of individuals, organisations and societies. It is based on a detailed needs assessment in order to ensure the relevance of the programme and its ability to respond effectively and sustainably to the needs of the various stakeholders.

A multidisciplinary programme, focused on the needs of stakeholders

This training programme is part of a health promotion perspective, particularly aimed at acting on the protective factors and social determinants of health. It integrates the two components necessary to build sustainable and effective responses to health challenges: the development of capacities (of individuals, communities, professionals, institutions, etc.) and action on the ecosystems of life to create environments supportive of health.

To do this, it offers a multidisciplinary programme, combining public health, education sciences, medicine, nursing sciences, and human and social sciences, and is focused on practical knowledge. In order to adapt the content of the courses to the socio-economic realities and the local situation, it provides space for professionals, and aims to combine scientific knowledge, experimental and professional knowledge and community knowledge. It is based on competencies validated by the international health promotion framework (Comp HP, IUHPE), and is anchored in a global health and sustainable development perspective.

A complete training system for professionalization and qualification

The needs assessment has shown the importance of covering both the initial training of future professionals in charge of prevention and the continuing education of professionals. The aim of this professional degree is to provide a first step in the development of a complete training course (degree – master), in order to cover the needs of all the actors: managers and professionals in the field, in particular those who work in rural areas. It is a training and professional development programme, organised in a hybrid mode with the aim of making the training compatible with the practice of professionals in continuing education and to allow the recruitment of students at the national level, and in particular to promote the inclusion of students from rural areas farthest from urban centres.

Capacity development of actors, key for promoting population health

By combining capacity development and action on environments, health promotion approaches make it possible to build sustainable and effective responses to health challenges, reduce inequalities and build the resilience of individuals, structures and societies to crises. By training and developing the capacities of professionals who work in the field of health on a daily basis, in the regions and local communities, the EPROS system aims to contribute to the development of these practices and policies that promote the health of individuals and populations, with a view to achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations.

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[1] Including REFIPS