UNESCO: Digital Skills Unleashed – Launch of global multi-lingual course for literacy educators

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UNESCO: Digital Skills Unleashed – Launch of global multi-lingual course for literacy educators

UNESCO: Digital Skills Unleashed – Launch of global multi-lingual course for literacy educators

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Digital Skills Unleashed – Launch of global multi-lingual course for literacy educators

18 February 2026, 13:30-15:00h CET
We warmly invite you to join the global launch webinar of the new course ‘Improving the digital competencies of literacy educators’, designed to support literacy educators worldwide.

Webinar information
Literacy educators play a vital role in ensuring inclusive, equitable and high‑quality education. Yet many still face limited professional development opportunities, unstable working conditions and rapid digital changes that challenge their ability to support learners, especially in low‑resource or crisis‑affected contexts.

To help address these gaps, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), with support from the Global Alliance for Literacy associate member Huawei, has developed Improving the digital competencies of literacy educators, a free, open‑access course available in English, French, Arabic and Spanish on the UIL Learning Hub.

Grounded in the UNESCO Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education, the Marrakech Framework for Action and the DELTA framework, the course offers a flexible pathway to strengthen the professionalisation of literacy educators worldwide. Participants receive a certificate upon completion.

The global launch webinar will present the new course, discuss the evolving role of literacy educators in digital learning environments and highlight regional priorities for capacity‑building.

Date and time
18 February 2026, 13:30 to 15:00h (CET)

Registration
Zoom https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GQ9cgWqrR5O4xsT5XN1Wng 

Languages
Arabic, English, French and Spanish

Programme
13:30h: Opening Remarks 

  • Ms Isabell Kempf, Director, UIL
  • Huawei intervention (tbc)

Moderator: Ms Samah Shalaby, Programme Specialist, UIL
13:40h: Panel session: Empowering literacy educators in the digital age: Regional and national perspectives

  • Mr John Edeh Onimisi, Director of Literacy and Development, National Mass Education Commission (NMEC), Nigeria
  • Mr Khalid Fettah, Head of the Engineering and Programmes Department, National Agency for the Fight against Illiteracy (ANLCA), Kingdom of Morocco
  • Mr Lazare Golo, Directeur de l’Alphabétisation et de laPromotion des langues nationales, Ministère de l’Education nationale et de la Promotion Civique, Chad
  • Mr Rajiv Kumar Singh, Director (Academic), National Institute for Open Schooling, India
  • Mr Batjargal Batkhuyag, Capacity Support and Advocacy Adviser (CSAA), ASPBAE – Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education
  • Mr Mauricio Velasco, Regional Project Coordinator, DVV International (Latin America)
  • Panel synthesis: Ms Rakhat Zholdoshalieva, Team Leader, UIL

Moderator: Ms Madina Bolly, Senior Programme Specialist, UIL14:35h: Course overview and launch 

  • Ms Annapurna Ayyappan, Programme Specialist, UIL
  • Testimonial: Ms Blessing Anyikwa, Professor, Adult Basic Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Further information
UNESCO Global Alliance for Literacy
UIL Learning Hub

To register for this event please visit the following URL: http:// https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GQ9cgWqrR5O4xsT5XN1Wng  →

 

Date And Time

02-18-26 @ 13:30 to
02-18-26 @ 15:00
 

Location

Online event
 

Event Types

Live Stream Webinar
 

Event Category

Family & Education

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