This handbook provides education stakeholders with practical guidance on lifelong learning. With an overview of key concepts, policy issues, technical knowledge and practical approaches, it demonstrates how lifelong learning can be strengthened in policy-making and implemented at national, regional, local and institutional levels. The handbook supports those experts and professionals in the field of education who wish to develop their understanding of lifelong learning, and offers tips, information and examples targeted at learners, facilitators, institutional leaders, policy-makers and legislators. More broadly, it illustrates how lifelong learning can address complex political, social, economic and environmental issues affecting people around the world.