UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites

World Heritage Management Over Time - Maintaining Values and Significance
Apr 15, 2007 - Apr 20, 2007
Hiroshima, Japan

This training workshop is part of the UNITAR Series which aims to facilitate a better utilization of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention through providing support to national policy making and planning, and information exchange on best practices and case studies.

30 participants from the Asia-Pacific region will be selected for the 2007 workshop which will further develop the values-based approach to heritage management.

Supporting Links

The Workshop -Objectives, Methodology, and Application Process
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific (HOAP)

UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites

World Heritage Management Over Time - Maintaining Values and Significance
Apr 15, 2007 - Apr 20, 2007
Hiroshima, Japan

This training workshop is part of the UNITAR Series which aims to facilitate a better utilization of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention through providing support to national policy making and planning, and information exchange on best practices and case studies.

30 participants from the Asia-Pacific region will be selected for the 2007 workshop which will further develop the values-based approach to heritage management.

Supporting Links

The Workshop -Objectives, Methodology, and Application Process
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific (HOAP)

Globalizing Knowledge Forum

A regional research seminar to be held today and tomorrow in UNESCO, Paris is focusing on transformations, challenges and emerging patterns in higher education systems.

The seminar, “Globalizing Knowledge: European and North American Regions and Policies addressing the priority issues of other UNESCO Regions,” is organized by the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge.

The objective of the seminar is to sum up the main achievements of the Forum’s Regional Scientific Committee for Europe and North America.

Globalizing Knowledge Forum

A regional research seminar to be held today and tomorrow in UNESCO, Paris is focusing on transformations, challenges and emerging patterns in higher education systems.

The seminar, “Globalizing Knowledge: European and North American Regions and Policies addressing the priority issues of other UNESCO Regions,” is organized by the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge.

The objective of the seminar is to sum up the main achievements of the Forum’s Regional Scientific Committee for Europe and North America.

Year- 2009; Subject - Adult Education

Planning has already begun for UNESCO’s Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI), a major strategic meeting to be held in 2009.

A variety of international, regional and national partners have been invited to participate in the first planning meeting for CONFINTEA VI on 1 and 2 March 2007 in Elsinore, Denmark.

Year- 2009; Subject - Adult Education

Planning has already begun for UNESCO’s Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI), a major strategic meeting to be held in 2009.

A variety of international, regional and national partners have been invited to participate in the first planning meeting for CONFINTEA VI on 1 and 2 March 2007 in Elsinore, Denmark.

Unesco conference to devise initiatives to cut Arab illiteracy rates

Doha: Qatar will host the first Unesco Regional Conference in Support of Global Literacy here from March 12 to 14.

The event under the theme 'Literacy in the Arab States: Building Partnerships and Promoting Innovative Approaches' will seek ways to reduce illiteracy in the Arab states, where approximately 58 million adults are illiterate. Of that figure 66 per cent are women.

Present to address the conference will be Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of Unesco, Mousa Bin Ja'afar Bin Hassan, President of Unesco General Conference and Permanent Delegate of the Sultanate of Oman to Unesco, and Amr Mousa, President of the Arab League.

Mrs. Laura Bush, Honorary Ambassador for the United Nations Literacy Decade and a passionate promoter for literacy in the United States, will make a video address.

In a press statement, Shaika Mouza said, "Literacy oxygenates families, schools, civil society, and all types of institutions and businesses. This is why when we speak of genuine reform in our region and the path to peace, we must keep literacy at the very core of this agenda."

Sources:
Gulfnews.com
Whitehouse.gov

Supporting links:
The Conference - for more information and downloads
UNESCO Regional Conferences
United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD), 2003 - 2012
UNESCO Literacy Portal