The High-Level Strategy describes the overall strategic goals and ambitions of the International Science Council. 1. Introduction 1.1 A Merger Between Two Councils A merger of the International Council for […]
The International Science Council currently has 141 Member Organizations, 39 Member Unions and Associations and 29 Affiliated Members.
In the 1960s, a teenager dreamed of escaping the cramped confines of his home in a poor neighbourhood in Montevideo, where he lived with his parents, who were barely literate. He wanted to go far, and went on to pursue a brilliant career in pure and applied mathematics in Brazil. He was eventually elected rector of the University of the Republic in Uruguay, in 2014. But before that, Roberto Markarian attended another kind of school – that of free thought – which he discovered within the pages of the UNESCO Courier.
The ICSU Annual Report for 2017 sums up the key achievements of the Council in the last year before its merger with the International Social Science Council.
Published under the direction of Phinith Chanthalangsy and John Crowley
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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 conviction that philosophy can make an essential contribution to human well-being, to addressing complexity, to advancing peace stands at the heart of World Philosophy Day.
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