YouTube and UNESCO Launch Free Educational Courses for Middle and High School Students in “My Classroom”

YouTube and UNESCO Launch Free Educational Courses for Middle and High School Students in “My Classroom”

YouTube connected to the UNESCO develop both free educational courses available in “My Classroom”: “Learn to teach with videos” and “Learn to engage”. These courses are designed to support the learning of middle school and high school students in their home countries. Course benefits: Find out how to improve your teaching through the power of … Read more

UNESCO releases collection from its World Digital Library

UNESCO releases collection from its World Digital Library

Paris. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released the collection in multilingual format of its World Digital Library, as seen today on its official website. The extensive and rich collection brings together around 20 thousand articles by authors from 194 countries and territories, in 145 languages, including documents of cultural relevance about … Read more

The Saeima will evaluate the President’s proposal to celebrate the International Teachers’ Day on October 5

The Saeima will evaluate the President’s proposal to celebrate the International Teachers’ Day on October 5

The session will start at 10 a.m., and it will take place in the meeting hall of the Saeima commissions, as well as remotely in the format of a video conference. Representatives from the Office of the President, the Latvian Education and Science Employees’ Union (LIZDA), the Association of Latvian Education Managers and the Legal … Read more

China celebrates an ancient tradition that reveres culture and the environment

China celebrates an ancient tradition that reveres culture and the environment

Dujiangyan. Under the premise of safeguarding culture and the environment, the ancient ceremony of releasing water from the irrigation system of the city of Dujiangyan, in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, was held, whose mechanism is recognized by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) as a world heritage site. “The … Read more

UNESCO alert for attacks on environmental journalists

UNESCO alert for attacks on environmental journalists

Paris. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today warned about the increasingly frequent attacks suffered by journalists who cover environmental issues. In a statement, the multilateral entity drew attention to the prevailing threats against these specialized reporters and announced the holding of a high-level conference in Chile to address the challenge, in … Read more

They will send a summary of humanity’s cultural heritage to the Moon

They will send a summary of humanity’s cultural heritage to the Moon

Paris. One of NASA’s Artemis missions will in a few years send a “summary” of humanity’s cultural heritage to the Moon, recorded on sapphire discs, to “transmit an intelligible message to future generations” or even to possible extraterrestrial civilizations. . The ‘Moon Sanctuary’ project, launched this week in collaboration with UNESCO and NASA, is inspired … Read more

The reason for new wars? Raise the alarm about the decrease in the availability of drinking water

The reason for new wars?  Raise the alarm about the decrease in the availability of drinking water

Water is the basis of all living things. Although water covers more than 70% of our planet, only 3.5% of it is potable water. It is this resource that may become a “scarce commodity” in some regions within the next 30 years, as a result of which peace may be threatened. The German statistics company … Read more

Treasure Recovery Mission: Government of Colombia Announces Efforts to Salvage San Jose Ship Wreck from 1708 – Billions of Dollars Worth of Wealth and Artifacts to be Recovered

Treasure Recovery Mission: Government of Colombia Announces Efforts to Salvage San Jose Ship Wreck from 1708 – Billions of Dollars Worth of Wealth and Artifacts to be Recovered

governmentColombiaAnnounced that efforts are being made to recover the remains.San Jose Boat (San José) which sank in the deep sea in 1708, which is believed to carried wealth and things of great value Billions of dollars shipSan Jose It is more than 300 years old. Even though it is now just a shipwreck in the … Read more

Summer Carnival in Rotterdam and Grassland Irrigation Added to UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage List

Summer Carnival in Rotterdam and Grassland Irrigation Added to UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage List

ANP NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 00:15 The Summer Carnival Rotterdam is now on the international UNESCO list of intangible heritage. The technique of grassland irrigation – in which water from a river or stream is led via channels through a meadow for irrigation – has also been included on the list. The Summer Carnival was already on … Read more