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New e-course gives you the tools to prevent food waste across all stages of the food chain
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Food waste is a serious problem that greatly contributes to the climate crisis. How can you or your business prevent food from being thrown away? Unpack this and many other questions in our new Food Waste Prevention e-course, jointly developed with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Available in English and Portuguese.

How can countries address the growing plastic waste problem?Our new e-course provides you with the answers
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Plastic waste is everywhere around us, from the streets to the oceans, damaging both the environment and human health. Tackling it has never been so important. Our new Plastic Waste and the Basel Convention e-course helps you understand this issue while explaining the mechanisms in place trying to address it. Learn more.

Learn more about persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from our new e-course
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What are persistent organic pollutants (POPs)? Where can they be found? Why are they hazardous? The new National Implementation Plans and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants e-course unravels these questions for you. Find out more.

New affiliated e-course on the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
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Air pollution has been damaging people's health and contributing to environmental degradation for a long time. This new affiliated e-course explains the Air Convention and its Protocols and lays out the current efforts by UNECE and its member states to address this issue. Learn more. Also available in Russian.

More from UN CC:Learn

Ramping up climate change education: UN CC:Learn has entered its fifth implementation phase with the goal of strengthening its work around four key pillars. Read more.

Putting gender at the core: UN CC:Learn took part in a week-long training on gender and climate change that will help shape the programme's activities moving forward. Find out more.

UNCC:Learn @ The GreenTech Festival: In June 2022, UN CC:Learn was invited to attend the GreenTech Festival, a Berlin-based event hosted by former Formula 1 Champion Nico Rosberg, to see how the corporate world is preparing its shift towards greener business models. Get a glimpse of it.

UN CC:Learn @ SB56: The SB56 took place in June 2022 and UN CC:Learn was there to advance the climate change education agenda along with other UN partners. Read more. 

Enhancing knowledge in the Asia-Pacific region: Two-day workshop trained  100 people on the interlinkages of gender equality, human rights, climate action and renewable energy. Learn more about it.

Empowering teachers: UN CC:Learn organised an online lab as part of the World Food Forum event series. The UN CC:Learn Lab for Teachers brought together 85 teachers from across the globe to discuss the importance of promoting climate change in schools. Find out more about the Lab.

Over 200,000 certificates have been issued from our e-learning platform!

Thanks to your support, we have reached another important milestone: the issuance of the 200,000th certificate of course completion from our e-learning platform. To mark this achievement, we're collecting climate stories from our alumni to select the 2022 UN CC:Learn Champions. Submit your climate story today!

Climate Classroom @ NDC Partnership Youth Engagement Forum

How can we shift towards greener and more sustainable societies? Having the right knowledge and skills is key to making it happen. This edition of the Climate Classroom at the NDC Partnership Youth Engagement Forum will provide an overview of several free UN learning resources that introduce climate finance, green economy, as well as other climate-related topics. Register for the sessions on 21 July 2022 and 28 July 2022. 

 One Ocean Learn: the new knowledge portal that's improving the way that ocean knowledge is created and shared

One Ocean Learn (OOL) is an online platform which aims to support global capacity building by translating ocean knowledge into action-oriented learning for everyone, from enthusiasts and activists to policymakers and researchers. OLL was jointly developed by One Ocean Hub and UNITAR, with support from UK Research and Innovation. Follow OOL on Twitterand LinkedIn.
 

About UN CC:Learn

UN CC:Learn is a partnership of more than 30 multilateral organizations supporting countries to design and implement systematic, recurrent and results-oriented climate change learning. Through its engagement, UN CC:Learn contributes to the implementation of Article 6 of the UNFCCC on training, education and public awareness-raising, and the 2012-2020 Doha Work Programme. Funding is provided by the Swiss Government and UN partners. The Secretariat for UN CC:Learn is hosted by the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

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Nominations for the 2022 UNESCO ICM Martial Arts Education Prize are now open for individuals, groups or organizations who have made a significant contribution to the development of martial arts training activities.

The UNESCO ICM Martial Arts Education Prize is granted to an individual, group or organization who has made a significant contribution to the development and social engagement of youth and women through martial arts training activities. The prize winner will be awarded USD 10,000.

Who can apply?

The award is open to all individuals, groups or organizations who have made significant contribution through martial arts training activities in accordance with one of the following criteria:

  • Helping youth to overcome underprivileged circumstances through martial arts education
  • Improving women’s rights and enhances women’s social engagement through martial arts education for women
  • Creating a safe environment in local communities through martial arts education activities
  • Contributing to ensuring that the socially-underprivileged build self-reliance while overcoming hardships through martial arts education

What do you need to apply?

To apply, individuals, groups or organizations must submit the following:

  • A letter or recommendation from relevant organizations/institutions (organizations relevatnt to UNESCO, including UNESCO National Commissions, Chairs and UNITWIN networks, Category I and II centres or international networks that are in an official partner of UNESCO through authorization or agreements) or governmental or non-governmental organizations in the field of martial arts and sports.
  • Other materials that support your activities or programmes (e.g. official documents, project plans, photos, videos, publications, website, etc.)
  • Photo and video materials for the production of a promotional video, if selected (video will be produced within 1-2 months after the winner is announced)

Submission period

Applications for the award will be accepted starting 22 June. The deadline to apply is 17 August at midnight, KST.

How to apply?

Submit the required documents on the online application form. This includes the letter of recommendation and any other supporting documents (maximum of 10 materials.

Selection criteria

The winners will be selected based on the following criteria:

  • Contribution (outcome and result): How much contribution has been made for the target of martial arts education, in terms of development and change?
  • Innovation: How much innovation has been made through new thinking, in terms of targets and objectives or processes and measures?
  • Collective assessment: Further assessment will be based considering the situation, condition, field circumstances, etc. of the candidate or activity

Award ceremony

The ceremony will be held in November 2022 (subject to change, depending on circumstances, at the UNESCO ICM in Chungju City in the Republic of Korea. One individual, group or organization will be selected and presented with a cash prize of USD 10,000, a prize certificate and a medal.

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Signing of MoU to implement UNESCO funded five projects under the Participation Programme – 2020/2021 was successfully held on 18th Feb. 2022 at the Ministry of Education, “Isurupaya” premises with the gracious presence of Hon. Dinesh Gunewardena, Minister of Education/ Chairman of the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO and Prof. Kapila Perera, Secretary of Education/ Vice Chairman of the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO.

Representing the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO Prof. Kapila Perera singed the MOUs with Dr. Upali Sedera, the State Secretary of the State Ministry of Education Reforms, Open Universities and Distance Learning Promotion and Mr. E.A. Senarath Wickramasinghe, Director (Cultural) of the Dept. of National Museums while awarding three projects to the divisions of the Ministry of Education to implement island-wide.

The five projects namely, Simulation study of the Feasibility of Redevelopment of Public School Teachers in Sri Lanka, Re-production of Three Rare Publications, published by Department of National Museums- Sri Lanka,  Science Popularization in Schools, Revival of the UNESCO Associated School Network in Sri Lanka and Inter-Regional ASPNet Initiative led by the Sri Lanka ASPNet on Learning for Empathy with ASP Networks of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Japan submitted by the GOSL were approved and funded by UNESCO Headquarters in 2021 amounting to USD 105,000 with the purpose of developing UNESCO crosscutting areas in the Country.

Mr. W.M.N.J. Pushpakumara, Secretary General of the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO (Acting), Ms. Himali Jinadasa- Country Focal Point of UNESCO, Mr. Prithiviraj Perera- Former Secretary General of  the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO and fore front officers of the Ministry of Education were participated at this momentous occasion.

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The call for applications of the 2022 edition of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes is now open.

The thematic focus of this year edition is ‘Transforming literacy learning spaces’.

Deadline is on 20 June 2022

Since 1967, UNESCO International Literacy Prizes have rewarded excellence and innovation in the field of literacy. 506 projects and programmes undertaken by governments, non-governmental organizations and individuals around the world have been recognized. Through these prestigious Prizes, UNESCO seeks to support effective literacy practices and encourages the promotion of dynamic literate societies.

Currently there are two UNESCO International Literacy Prizes:

  • The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize (3 awards)

Established in 1989, with the support of the Government of the Republic of Korea. It gives special consideration to mother language-based literacy development. 
 - Read the statutes.

Each of the three UNESCO King Sejong prizewinners receives a medal, a diploma and US$20.000.

  • The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy (3 awards)

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, established in 2005, with the support of the Government of the People’s Republic of China. It gives special consideration functional literacy, leveraging technological environments, in support of adults in rural areas and out-of-school youth.
 - Read the statutes.

Each of the three UNESCO Confucius prizewinners receives a medal, a diploma and US$30.000.

 Find out more about the Prizes now!

https://en.unesco.org/themes/literacy/prizes/selection

Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO is inviting all suitable candidates to submit this applications/ Project Proposals for UNESCO Participation Programme for 2022 – 2023 which dues on 18th February 2022.

The online applications of the programmes and relevant information all available via the following links:

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380181_eng

https://unesco.sharepoint.com/sites/committees/pp/SitePages/Home.aspx

  1. Meeting on ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’
  2. Secretary General, Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO moderates Asia-Pacific consultations
  3. A New Executive Director for the South Asian Centre for Teacher Development (SACTD)
  4. Recruitment of Experts-Consultants for the UNESCO Category 2, South Asian Centre for Teacher Development (SACTD)