In the past, IFIP & UNESCO have supported the co-operation of the World Informatics communities in designing curricula (IFIP-UNESCO [5], [6]), conducting workshops on strategic planning (UNESCO [8], UNESCO-RINSEAP [17]), implementing (UNESCO RINSEAP [14]) and managing (UNESCO [15], [16]) Informatics-supported teaching and learning programs. The need for such internationally co-operative initiat...

"That [fundamental] task [of UNESCO] is to help the emergence of a single world culture, with its own philosophy and background of ideas, and with its own broad purpose. This is opportune, since this is the first time in history that the scaffolding and the mechanisms for world unification have become available, and also the first time that

Rupert Maclean (Australia) Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO, Paris, since April 2000, prior to which he was Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO PROAP, Bangkok. Before joining UNESCO in 1992 he was for two years the UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor in Myanmar for a UNDP-funded project to strengthen and upgrade teacher educat...

the unesco chair in health education in tums (tums), iran, was established in immunology, asthma and allergy research institute in april 2004. the purpose of this chair is to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation activities in the field of health education. the target group includes the public, health care workers, students, trainees and researchers. ...

The Borobudur temple (Indonesia) is one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world, now listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The present state of the temple is the result of restorations after being exposed to natural disasters several times. Today there is still a growing rate of deterioration of the building stones whose causes need further researches. Monitoring programs, supported ...

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