Tag: UNESCO

UNESCO and Twitter team up for media and information literacy

Stuart Mitchell

Social media conglomerates are often looked upon with suspicion when it comes to the management of their platforms and collaboration for social development. Media and information literacy is a potent way to help people to critically navigate these information superhighways while enabling them to understand that they have the autonomy to choose what they do online or not. In a unique partnership with UNESCO, Twitter is launching its updated Teaching and Learning with Twitter Guide during the Global MIL Week celebrations from 24-31 October 2019. The Twitter Learning Guide now has…

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UNESCO Celebrates World Cities Day on 31 October 2019

Stuart Mitchell

Changing the World: Innovations and Better Life for Future Generations, is the theme of this year’s celebration of World Cities Day and the subject of a daylong conference that UNESCO will host at its Headquarters in Paris on 31 October. The conference will bring together representatives of some 24 municipalities from all parts of the globe for four panel discussions covering issues including: sustainability and climate action, urban regeneration and social inclusion, as well as technological innovation. Experts and policy-makers will have an opportunity to share information about the innovative…

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UNESCO launches Futures of Education global initiative at United Nations General Assembly

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO, launched the Futures of Education initiative to reimagine how knowledge and learning can shape the futures of humanity in a context of increasing complexity, uncertainty and precarity during a high level event at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 25 September. The initiative aims to reconsider how knowledge and learning can contribute to the common good of humanity, said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. Speaking of UNESCO’s leadership role in education, Ms Azoulay said “Our deeply humanist DNA cannot let us reduce education to a technical or…

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UNESCO and Friends of Socotra Launch the Connect2Socotra Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

The 18th International Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Socotra (FoS) is taking place in Palermo, Sicily, between 27-29 September 2019. The conference aims to promote awareness for the conservation of the unique cultural and natural heritage of Socotra Island, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Property. It will also serve as a platform for naturalists, botanists, marine biologists, geographers, sociologists, linguists, archaeologists, explorers, writers and travelers interested in Socotra to discuss and present their ongoing projects and scientific research about the island. A number of governmental representatives, international organizations,…

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L’Oréal, UNESCO and ABC announce the seven winners of the “Para Mulheres na Ciência” Programme 2019

Stuart Mitchell

The Programme, which is in its 14th edition, acknowledges and encourages female participation in Brazilian science and awards $ 50,000 to each of the winners. Finding solutions to diseases that affect the production of oranges in Brazil, investigating why stars stop being produced in some galaxies and encouraging the marketing of food plants are some of the winning works in the Program edition of this year. The Para Mulheres na Ciência (For Women in Science) Programme is dedicated to young Brazilian scientists and it is developed by L’Oréal Brasil in partnership…

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