Tag: UNESCO

Higher education as a common good

  The UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) has launched a series of Strategic Debates around its current major axes in the field of education. The March 12th Strategic Debate dealt with “Higher education (HE) as a common good in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)”. The key speaker was Prof. Simon…
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Recommendations from the NGO-UNESCO Forum on “Youth and their social impact”

On behalf of CIRAD, I was pleased to attend the NGO-UNESCO Forum entitled “Youth and their Social Impact”, organized by the UNESCO Liaison Committee in collaboration with the Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Foundation (MiSK), held in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) on 3-4 May, 2017. This event brought together NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO, youth…
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