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ECOSOC High Level Segment, UNESCO hosts Ministerial Roundtable Breakfast on
Science, Technology and Innovation policy: key to sustainable development
The Director General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, hosted a Breakfast Round Table at the High Level Segment of the ECOSOC, New York, 1 July 2008, on the theme: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy : Key to Sustainable Development. The ECOSOC Ambassador from Madagascar, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from Egypt and the Minister of Communication, Science and Technology of Tanzania were invited speakers.
Speakers :
Prof. Peter Msolla, Minister for Communications, Science and Technology
Dr. Hany Helal, Minister of Higher Education and State for Scientific Research
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Benin to host first e-learning centre for African Virtual Campus
9 July - Benin became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to host the African Virtual Campus on 8 July, with the official opening of the e-learning centre at the University of Abomey-Calavi. Pictured are Marcio Barbosa, Deputy Director-General of UNESCO, Mustafa El Tayeb, Director of the Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development at UNESCO, Noureini Tijani-Serpos, Assistant Director-General for the Africa Department at UNESCO, the Ministers of Higher Education and Primary Education of Benin and Osman Benchickh, responsible for renewable energies at UNESCO. For details of the African Virtual Campus, see the news item below or contact the project coordinator Mohamed Miloudi.
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An introduction to the African Virtual Campus
8 July - UNESCO’s Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development has just published a bilingual
brochure in English and French explaining the goals of the African Virtual Campus. This flagship project is
developing a network of fully operational e-learning Avicenna Centres across Africa – one per country – by 2012.
The network will be used for large-scale student and teacher training. Among the modules produced and translated by
each participating institution – most of them universities – will be courses in science policy. The virtual campus is
a contribution to the African Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (CPA); the project was endorsed by
UNESCO’s General Conference in October last year. The African Virtual Campus will work closely with existing educational
institutions around the Mediterranean which belong to the first network within the project, that of the Avicenna Virtual
Campus launched by UNESCO in 2002.
Read the brochure.
For details, contact the coordinator.
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Workshop on the fundamentals of science park management
14 September
UNESCO and the International Association of Science Parks are organizing a pre-conference workshop at
Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Click here
for details (PDF) or go to the conference website.
Read about UNESCO’s contribution to the development of science park governance via its
University-Industry Partnerships programme.
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International training workshop in the development of high-tech clusters
9-11 October
UNESCO and the World Technopolis Association (WTA) are organizing a training workshop during the WTA General Assembly.
The workshop is part of the UNESCO- WTA Cooperative Project, which is
designed to help developing nations build technological capacity by providing them with technical support and policy
advice in the development of high-tech clusters. The training workshop is being held in Daejeon Metropolitan City in
the Republic of Korea. For details of the workshop,
click here.
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Science Policy
