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•Ten
years to develop centres of excellence in Africa
The
African Union (AU), its New Partnership for Africa's Development
(NEPAD) and UNESCO are to oversee a programme for developing
up to 30 regional centres of excellence on the African continent
over the next ten years (More)
•Time
to regulate deep-sea gold rush, experts say
Unexplored
until recently, the deep seabed is home to organisms found
nowhere else on Earth. (More)
•Fellowships
for African physicists
UNESCO
has launched the Mori Fellowships scheme to enable 20 PhD candidates
per year from Sub-Saharan Africa to finalize their doctoral
research at UNESCO's Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. (More)
•21
projects help to engineer a better world
The
development projects of twenty one teams of young engineers
have won Mondialogo Engineering Awards worth a total of €300,000.
(More)
•GRASP
vows to curb great ape loss by 2010
The
First Intergovernmental Meeting on the Great Apes Survival
Project (GRASP) has adopted a strategy and work plan for protecting
the great apes and their habitat. (More)
•Seven
natural sites enrich World Heritage
Vredefort
Dome in South Africa is one of seven natural sites inscribed
on the UNESCO World Heritage list on 14 July, bringing the total
to 160 natural sites and 24 mixed sites of outstanding universal
value. (More)
•23
new Biosphere Reserves
Twenty-two
new sites in 17 countries, as well as one transboundary site
shared by Senegal and Mauritania, have been added to the World
Network of Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere
(MAB) Programme, bringing the network to 482 sites in 102 countries.
(More)
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Saudi
Arabia gives boost to Palestinian higher education
The
Saudi Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People committed
US$15.2 million on 14 September to a UNESCO programme for
the benefit of Palestinian universities and students in need.
(More)
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