“…Such coordinating roles benefited from different forms of cognitive, normative, legal and palliative governance (Woodward, 2009). Major intergovernmental organisations with a global or continental reach (e.g., UNES CO, OECD, EU), but also nongovernmental organisations that lobby for adult education at a global scale (e.g., DVV International, International Council for Adult Education -ICAE), contributed to cognitive governance through the publication of reports, white papers, and professional journals, sometimes addressing the same audiences (i.e., more economically developed countries), sometimes targeting different policy or profession al networks across geographical and sociopolitical territories (see also Milana, 2016); however, UNESCO is the only organisation that from its early days supported this action through the organisation of international conferences on adult education open to repre sentatives from national governments, the academia and nongovernmental organisations from different regions of the world.…”