Lifelong learning means that

opportunities are ensured by participation and action learning in non-formal education, skills and community development, and engagement in organizations and networks.

Educational opportunities and skills development throughout life need to be ensured. Quality basic education, personal development and vocational/skills development should also be accessible as a second chance for children, young and adult people who were not able to receive an education earlier in life, often as a result of fragile situations or crisis. Learning processes also take place in non-formal settings and participation in community, organizational and collective action. This learning strengthens the resilience of both people and communities and builds the adaptive, absorptive and transformative capacities of learners, enabling them to navigate in new situations and manage changes and shocks.

To increase the awareness of digital rights, sensitization and educational initiatives are needed for learners to become aware, critical and analytical in their consumption of information, especially on social media, and to be able to discern and dismiss fake news and radical tendencies, which are created to sow division between people.