INTRODUCTION
Lifelong learning as a global challenge of the current time
In the 21
st
century humanity has to deal with a range of issues including the reduction of
poverty, ensuring a sustainable economic growth, creation of new jobs,
promotion of diversity
and equality, ensuring public security, as well as solving problems pertaining to demographic
transformations, migration, climate change and environmental challenges. These issues must
be tackled at different levels: international, regional and national levels, and at the individual
citizen level.
In 2015 at the Summit on Sustainable Development, the UN General Assembly adopted the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which sets ambitious goals on transforming our
world and balancing economic, social and environmental dimensions. The Agenda defines 17
new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a continuation of both benchmarks of
all previous UN documents on sustainable development and Millennium Development Goals
(MDG).
The 2030 Agenda is based on a transformative human rights-based concept of “a just,
equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable
are met”. The 2030 Agenda covers all dimensions of our life. One of the priorities is the Goal
4 (SDG 4) – “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
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