Nomination call for UNESCO-Hamdan Prize 2015-2016
The fourth edition of the UNESCO-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers has opened the call for nominations. The prize is awarded every two years and it recognizes initiatives that contribute to improving educational practices around the world, with priority given to developing countries and to marginalized and disadvantaged […]
Higher Education MENA
Dates: 19 – 22 October 2015 Event URL: http://www.highereducationmena.com Venue: The Address Hotel, Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE Twitter: #HigherEd Description: The Middle East is rapidly positioning itself as an emerging global hub for excellence in international higher and further education. In order to maintain this trajectory, universities and colleges are under increasing pressure to innovate – […]
Sustainable Development Goals for 2030: The Land Beyond Borders for our Planetary Youth
Interconnecting dreams in the land beyond borders. Photo in Vitsa, Greece. Spanish version Around the world, young people of both sexes look to the future, and question current socio-economic models that are based on the irrational exploitation of natural resources. While it is true that capitalist systems have brought enormous material benefits, their functionalist view subordinates […]
Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de 2030: una tierra más allá de las fronteras para nuestra juventud planetaria
Interconectando sueños en la tierra del más allá de las fronteras. Foto en Vitsa, Grecia. Versión inglés En todo el mundo, los jóvenes de ambos sexos miramos hacia el futuro y nos cuestionamos los modelos socio-económicos actuales que se basan en la explotación irracional de recursos naturales. Si bien es cierto que el sistema capitalista ha […]
International Youth Day: Interview with Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
2014 Peace Nobel Award Kailash Satyarthi during his speech in the World Education Forum 2015 . Javier Collado Ruano: Dear Kailash Satyarthi, my name is Javier Collado-Ruano. I am working in Brazil as a professor in the University, and we have followed an approach with the nattier, indigenous people, and with poor people living in the […]
Interview with Aya Chebbi, African Youth Movement Founder
Javier Collado Ruano: Dear readers, it is a pleasure for me to introduce my friend Aya Chebbi, a well-known Pan-African Tunisian blogger and activist. I met her during the Global Citizens Movement of CIVICUS World Alliance, which took place in Johannesburg late in the year 2013, and I am still impressed with all her achievements. […]
Youth, Stand up for Economic Citizenship!
Eva Lestant Child and Youth Finance International e.lestant@outlook.com . Jared Penner Child and Youth Finance International Jared@childfinance.org / web: www.childfinance.org . Abstract: The 2008 economic crisis of 2008 brought awareness to stakeholders around the world that the lack of financial literacy, combined with financial deregulation, has brought many households to bankruptcy and poverty. Over the […]
Bodour Al Qasimi to Champion Youth Empowerment at World Economic Forum 2015
Sheikha Bodour is the first Emirati woman to co-chair the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), encouraged youth empowerment during the upcoming World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, which hold at the […]
2015 UNESCO Literacy Prizes go to organizations in Chile, Madagascar, Mozambique, Slovakia and Sri Lanka
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has named this year’s laureates of UNESCO’s International Literacy Prizes: Associação Progresso in Mozambique and Sri Lanka’s National Institute of Education will receive the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize, while Madagascar’s Platform of Associations in Charge of ASAMA and Post-ASAMA will receive theUNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy alongside Juan Luis Vives School of Valparaiso in […]
UNESCO Makes Case for Investing in Education at 3rd Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, will take part in the Third Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where world leaders will seek to raise funds for achieving the sustainable development goals that will be adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in September. In Addis Ababa, the Director-General will promote […]
