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10.- Miscellaneous
2008
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Local Communities: Cultural Vitality and Human Rights. Call for
Papers
Guest Editors for Issue 2 are John Smithies, Director and Kim Dunphy,
Manager, of the Cultural Development Network, an independent organisation
advocating a stronger role for participatory arts and cultural expression
to build a healthier, more engaged and sustainable society. The
context of this issue is predicated on the declaration of the 2007
World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments in Jeju, Korea.
Culture was placed as a priority for cities, councils, local government
associations and communities.
University of Melbourne. E-journal. Volumen
1 Issue 2. Australia. Publicated: 11-2-2008
Diploma
"Heritage Management" - ESTHUA - Pôle Universitaire
du Saumurois
If you enjoy history, history of art, architecture, human and social
sciences, aware of the challenges of the valuation of the tangible
and intangible heritages and open to the different national and
international public from the sectors of culture, tourism and leisure.
If you wish to develop cross-sectional competences that will turn
you into a manager and an entertainer of cultural or natural site,
in charge of mission in a group or a consulting office in cultural
engineering… If you wish, you can follow the training in masters
of Heritage at the University of Angers…
University of Angers. Formation. Publicated:
18-2-2008
International
Year of Languages launched at UNESCO
International Mother Language Day, celebrated on 21 February every
year since 2000, also marks this year the start of the International
Year of Languages proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly,
which has entrusted its coordination to UNESCO.
UNESCO. Culture. News. Publicated: 13-2-2008
UNESCO
supporting and participating in first World Conference on Development
of Cities
What kind of cities do we want to live in? We will have a better
idea at the close of the Conference to be held in Porto Alegre (Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil) from 13 to 16 February, which will bring
together specialists from all over the world to reflect on the evolution
of democratic process and social transformations in cities. Representatives
from some 30 countries and 63 large cities are expected to attend,
as well as a UNESCO delegation led by Pierre Sané, Assistant
Director-General for Social and Human Sciences.
UNESCO. Media Advisory N°2008-09. UNESCOPRESS.
Publicated: 04-02-2008 |
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The
Intercultural City. Planning for Diversity Advantage
Authors:
Phil Wood and Charles Landry
Year: 2007
EARTHSCAN and COMEDIA announce the publication of The Intercultural
City: Planning For Diversity Advantage by Phil Wood and Charles Landry.
In this new book, Phil Wood and Charles Landry ask ‘when will
cities stop complaining about cultural diversity and start seeing
it as one of their greatest assets and sources of advantage?’
Published to coincide with the 2008 European Year of Intercultural
Dialogue, the book offers new techniques such as the intercultural
lens aimed at helping professionals make the most of cross-cultural
interaction and diversity advantage. Policymakers looking to drive
forward such new priorities are offered indicators of openness and
interculturalism to gauge how far they have come and what lies ahead... |
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River
Niger project inaugural seminar (Water Facility)
The seminar, held on 31 January and 1 February 2008 in Bamako (Mali),
brought together all of the project's partners. The plenary session
provided an opportunity to take stock of the current situation and
review the challenges of the River Niger project. This was followed
by three workshops detailing the project's various activities: Workshop
1: Understanding the river, awareness raising and dissemination of
information (components 1 and 5 of the project); Workshop 2: Training
and strengthening of the network of local authorities (components
2 and 3) and Workshop 3: Pilot projects and decentralised cooperation
(component 4). The delegation from the Loire was made up of:
- Mr Bernard Valette, Vice-President of the Centre Region
- Ms Dominique de Ferrières, Deputy Mayor of Angers
- Mr Vincent Rotgé, Director of the International Rivers and
Heritage Institute, Val de Loire Mission
- Mr Daniel Roussel, Loire-Niger project manager, Val de Loire Mission
- Ms Claire Giraud-Labalte, Professor, Catholic University of the
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Le tourisme autrement » “Another type of tourism”
Author: Marie-Paule Eskénazi
Year : 2008
ISBN 978-2-87003-471-2
The traditional Holidays trade show will open soon in Brussels:
hundreds of destinations, businesses statistics, advantageous low
cost businesess, new destinations in series, hundreds of thousands
of brochures in color, no critical reflection, no question on the
sense of tourism, its consequences, good practices, innovations
in another type of tourism. Reflections, questions, proposals that
are the nucleus of the work "Another type of tourism, meeting
again the pleasure to travel" by our director, Marie-Paule
Eskénazi, which will be published at the beginning of February
in Couleur livres. |
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UNESCO's
technical assistance for Science Parks Development in Egypt
A workshop on the development of a science and technology park (technopolis)
in Egypt is being organized in Alexandria on 23-24 January. The
workshop follows up the UNESCO mission to Egypt in July 2007 to
assist the Egyptian government in formulating a National strategy
for the Development of Science Parks and in establishing a Business
Plan for the future Mubarak Science Park in Alexandria.
UNESCO. Natural Sciences. News. Publicated:
28-1-2008
UNESCO
designated lead agency for the International Year of Astronomy 2009
Four hundred years ago, Galileo gazed at the stars for the very
first time through a telescope. In celebration of the first use
of this ground-breaking invention, the United Nations proclaimed
2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009) and designated
UNESCO as its lead agency. The International Astronomical Union
(IAU) will act as implementing body.
UNESCO. UNESCOPRESS. Press Release No.
2008-1. Publicated: 03-01-2008 |
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