The Policy Roundtable on Nature-Based Solutions for hydro-meteorological hazards will take place online on 17 January 2022 from 10:30 to 16:30 (GTM +1).

The “Roppongi Dialogues” is a panel discussion on philosophy to be held each 3rd Thursday of the month in Tokyo, launched by The Dhillon Marty Foundation and in parnership with UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme and CISH-UNESCO Byblos - International Center for Human Sciences. The aim is to raise awareness on the need to revive the definition of family among youth and future generations, empower the family members and educate them on their rights and their duties and create advocacy tools for women with the help of philosophical thinking. JOIN THE WEBINAR

The fourth roundtable on Ethics of Ethics of Genome Editing, on the theme "Equal Access and Governance", will be held virtually on 20 January 2022 from 12:00 to 13:30 (GMT+1). This is the final part of a series of events organized by UNESCO since 2018, with financial support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. Building on previous roundtables, this concluding event will focus on the future of humanity and how people will or should live with new technologies. The roundtable will be held in the form of a panel discussion gathering eminent experts from different continents.

In the lead up to International Day of Education (24 January 2022), Equal Measures 2030 is organizing a vritual launch event for its Global report on Leveraging data & partnerships with women’s rights organizations (WROs) to strengthen girls’ education in emergencies This event is co-hosted by UNESCO, Geneva Global Hub for EiE, GAC, FAWE RS & KE, IPBF, PLAN INTERNATIONAL-CANADA,  This virtual panel discussion will be held in English, French.

Join us  to learn about the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had on learning outcomes and the innovative methodology that allowed to capture them. The results for selected countries in Africa will be highlighted, and the pilot studies implemented there in 2021 will be presented.

The International UNESCO Chairs Forum on the Futures of Higher Education is being organized jointly by Italy and UNESCO at Expo 2020 Dubai to mark the International Day of Education 2022. The Forum fits within the overall framework of UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative which seeks to generate an agenda for global debate, research and action on the futures of education, learning and knowledge in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty and precarity.