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April 2025

The New Academic Committee of Shanghai Municipal Institute for Lifelong Education esatabilished.

May 2024

SMILE launched the construction of two liberal arts laboratories, Climate Change Education Laboratory and Educational Gerontology: Social Adaptation and Active Health Education Innovation Laboratory for the Elderly.

April 2, 2024

SMILE initiated the establishment of Family-School-Community Cooperative Research Alliance in Yangtze River Delta Area.

March 1, 2024

SMILE initiated the establishment of National Research Alliance on Climate Change Education.

December 15, 2023

SMILE initiated the establishment of National Research Alliance on Intergenerational Learning and National Research Alliance on the Work and Development of Family Council Directors.

2021

Shanghai received the “Learning City Award” from UNESCO for the first time in 2021, and is the only city in China to win the award that year. This information was recorded in the 2022 Shanghai Municipal Government Work Report. The Shanghai Municipal Education Commission issued a special letter of ap

2020

SMILE assisted in the establishment of two new professional institutions, namely, the Shanghai Lifelong Education Teacher Training Base and the Shanghai Senior Citizen Education Curriculum Research and Evaluation Guidance Center, and served as the academic support unit for the operation of the Shang

2019

SMILE has gathered research strengths and provided professional support to facilitate Shanghai successfully joining the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC).

2018

Internationally renowned scholars on lifelong education such as Katarina Popovic, Secretary General of International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), Henning Olesen, Professor of the Faculty of Human and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark, Raafat Radwan, Former Director of the Department of

May 4, 2017

SMILE and Pudong District Community College established the Pudong Branch of SMILE.

December 3, 2013

SMILE and Shanghai Changning Spare-time University established the Changning Branch of SMILE.

July 24, 2012

Shen Xiaoming, Vice Mayor of Shanghai, announced the establishment of the SMILE at the Shanghai Learning City Promotion Conference.