This edition of the proceedings of international cooperation presents the reports of the participants of the first stage of the 15th (anniversary) international conference “Education Throughout Life: Continuing Education for Sustainable Development”, which was held in Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan. The conference participants focused on the issues of training competent specialists, models, methods, technologies and organizational forms of continuing education used in pedagogical practice. The authors paid special attention to new pedagogical and organizational strategies for continuing education of adults, people with disabilities and the "third age", as well as spiritual, moral, ethical and democratic values in the context of upbringing in continuing education.