The existence of a critical mass of talented scientists in the fields of Biophysics and Neurobiology in Latin America gave impetus to efforts to foster cooperation at the regional level. Following on from ameeting of scientists from five South American countries in Caracas in 1989, a survey was carried out to determine which laboratories in the region were conducting leading-edge research in th...

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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...

The document The State of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Quality Education for All – 2015 was produced under the supervision of the UNESCO Bureau in Santiago, by a group of researchers from the University of Chile’s Centre for Advanced Education Research: Cristián Bellei (coordinator), Ximena Poblete, Paulina Sepúlveda, Víctor Orellana and Geraldine Abarca. The report i...

Kaashef is a project with the aim of Talent Management in Entrepreneurial Competencies in Iran. In this project, students (children) are trained over the years in order to learn how to establish their own business in the future. This project, which has developed through collaboration of Faculty of Entrepreneurship of University of Teheran, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Labour and Social...

he Cuban Ministry of Science and Technology (S&T) and UNESCO are organizing a regional conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development from 1 to 3 December in Havana. The organizers are deliberately departing from a business-as-usual approach. Rather than aiming for the adoption of a set of recommendations – the more usual outcome of conferences of this kind – they ...

This paper presents an overview of principles and problems connected with the preparation of an electronic edition of the largest Old Church Slavonic manuscript, the Codex Suprasliensis, in the context of a project funded by UNESCO. Specifications of the manuscript, its history, and previous paper-based and electronic editions are discussed, together with a strategy for the preparation of a com...

ince its founding in 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been a leading convener and advocate for the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Every year since 2001, on 10 November, UNESCO’s World Science Day reminds us of the importance of science for sustainable development and peace. This year’s theme, “Science for Global Understand...

various types of expertise and technologies. The St@rt project (Sciences and Technologies for the Artistic, Architectural and Archaeological Tuscan heritage), funded by the region of Tuscany (Italy) for the three year period 2007-2010, aimed at integrating different research and administrative expertise in the field of cultural heritage. The project’s activities focused on the 13th century “Rog...

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 ...