The opening session of the Moscow Youth Forum “Moscow – City of Many Faces and Diverse Languages” took place on 26 February 2016 in Moscow at School № 170 named after A. P. Chekhov. Read more UNESCO IITE participated in the opening of the Moscow Youth Forum “Moscow – City of Many Faces and Diverse Languages”
UNESCO is to establish a dedicated Steering Committee to ensure the global coordination of the Sustainable Development Goal no. 4, which focuses on providing quality education by 2030. Read more UNESCO’s action plan to drive the Education 2030 agenda in 2016
On 15-17 February 2016, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) took part in the International Congress of practitioners of inclusive education dedicated to the 20th anniversary of teaching people with disabilities. Read more UNESCO IITE took part in the International Congress of practitioners of inclusive education
The virtual working meeting of the UNESCO IITE Governing Board was held on 18 February 2016. Read more The Virtual Working Meeting of the IITE Governing Board
The Zero Project Conference 2016, convened by the Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria was held on 10-12 February 2016. The event, which gathered innovators from more than 70 countries, highlighted 98 innovative policies and practices concerning inclusive education and/or ICTs from around the world in 35 plenary sessions and workshops. UNESCO IITE was invited to participate in the the panel discussion devoted to accessible ICT and inclusive education. Read more UNESCO IITE took part in the Zero Project Conference 2016
A Competition for UNESCO Chairs and universities was organized within the framework of the project “Access, Equity and Quality: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education in a Digital Age”. Read more The winners of the first round of the UNESCO IITE Competition
On 3 February 2015, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and eNANO company held a meeting and discussed the possibilities of joint development of educational programmes with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and a new project “Virtual school”. The meeting concluded with the signing a Memorandum of Cooperation between UNESCO IITE and eNANO. Read more UNESCO IITE and eNANO company signed a Memorandum of Cooperation
Head a.i. of UNESCO IITE prof. Alexander Khoroshilov visited the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and signed a Memorandum of Cooperation between UNESCO Institute for information Technologies in Education (IITE) and the Government of Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Read more UNESCO IITE signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
In commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of UNESCO, the Secretariat of the Organization held a quiz, which included 70 questions on the history of UNESCO. Participants of the quiz could demonstrate their knowledge by answering questions such as: In which country the First National Commission for UNESCO was established? Who of the UNESCO staff was awarded the Nobel Prize? What was the first UNESCO programme? What animals are admitted to enter the UNESCO building? Read more The results of the quiz on the 70th Anniversary of UNESCO
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova awarded the 2015 UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education to the Omar Dengo Foundation’s National Programme of Educational Informatics in Costa Rica and the Open Source Physics project developed by Singapore’s Ministry of Education during a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters on 13 January 2015. Read more ICT in Education Prize Honours Projects from Costa Rica and Singapore
The online-course “New Technologies in Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the Context of Mongolia, elaborated by the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) at the request of IITE and based on IITE's publication and on-line course "Information and Communication Technologies in Education", was launched in December 2015. The course is developed in Mongolian language and is designed for higher education teachers and learners in Mongolia. Read more Publication of an online course for higher education teachers and learners in Mongolia
On 21-22 December 2015, the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) took part in the International Forum for Partnerships on the Qingdao Declaration “Seize digital opportunities, lead education transformation” held in Qingdao, China. The main goal of the Forum was to formalize global partnerships for the operationalization of the Qingdao Declaration, identify main lines of action, and set up the operational strategies for cooperation. Read more The International Forum for Partnerships on the Qingdao Declaration