The International Council for Science (ICSU) and UNESCO have today formalised a partnership on one of the fastest growing areas of public science endeavor – the provision of science advice for public policy.
Prehistoric research, in the dawn of the third millennium, faces contradictory challenges. While scientific advances and technological resources allow for new analytical procedures, with relevant new knowledge being produced and conveyed, institutional and financial resources for research are growingly put into question, and in several countries contextual instability prevents any field or laboratory research to pursue. In this context, scholars face the need to strengthen their research networks across countries and continents, attempting that no constraints, beyond the needs of research, condition their participation in investigation programmes, meetings or congresses.
UNESCO and the Tolerance Centre will organize a conference on “Migration for Sustainable Development: Social Transformations, Media Narratives and Education” at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 6 July 2016. The conference responds to the ongoing challenges related to the increasing refugee flows all over the world, sources of profound transformations in origin, transit and destination countries alike.
The General Assembly of CIPSH met in Beijing, at the Friendship Hotel, the 7th December 2015, on the occasion of the XXXII General Assembly of the CIPSH.
The 13th Asian New Humanities Net Annual Meeting, titled ‘Port Cities in the Global Era’, was held today (22 April) at the University of Macau (UM).
In today’s increasingly diverse societies, UNESCO continues to accomplish every day its fundamental humanist mission to support people in understanding each other and working together to build lasting peace. UNESCO also helps to enable people to create and use knowledge for just and inclusive societies.
The management of the International Social Science Journal (ISSJ) has been transferred from UNESCO to UK-based publishers John Wiley and Sons. A contract to this effect has been signed by both parties and the handover took effect on 1 July 2015.
From 18 to 19 March 2016 the Steering Committee of the International Network for the Silk Road Online Platform will meet in Valencia, Spain. The meeting will be organized in collaboration with the UNESCO Center of Valencia and the Municipality of Valencia. It aims to prepare the agenda of the Second Meeting of International Network to be held in Valencia in June 2016.
The objective of this Congress is to review implementation of the Madrid Action Plan for Biosphere Reserves 2008-2013, the Seville Strategy and the Statutory Framework of 1995. The Congress will assess lessons learned and new challenges faced by the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, and will develop and launch an Action Plan for Biosphere Reserves for 2016-2025.
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