UNESCO and the International Police Association IAC will be starting a global Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for police officials and members of law enforcement agencies on freedom of expression and the safety of journalists. This free, five-week online course will run from the weeks of 11 July until 18 August 2022. A summarized version of the online course will be available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. This course builds on UNESCO’s capacity-building initiatives for law enforcement officials, which have since 2017, trained over 8,600 security forces from 20 countries on freedom of expression and safety of journalists, based on the Training Manual on “Freedom of Expression and Public Order”. The project aims to enable security forces to be more cognizant of their legal obligations to protect media professionals and enhance professional working relationships between these two groups. Registration portal here: https://www.unesco-ipa-mooc.com

The XIV Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) will be held in Santos, Brazil, from 18 to 22 July 2022. The Conference will bring together representatives of the cultural and creative sectors and mayors of UCCN member cities, in order to promote sustainable development through culture and creativity. Organized by UNESCO in collaboration with the city of Santos, a UNESCO Creative City of Film since 2015, the 2022 UCCN Annual Conference will be an opportunity to share innovative ideas and projects and to create new synergies around the theme "Creativity, path to equality". 

The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Montevideo, together with Universidad de los Andes, will offer three virtual trainings in the form of webinars about the jurisprudence on access to information for guarantor bodies and justice operators.

On 21 July, the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova, in cooperation with Artcor, will hold a kick-off meeting for the official launch of the “Digital Transformation of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Republic of Moldova” project. 

UNESCO will launch Arab Latinos! to promote intercultural dialogue for social inclusion and build on the Arabic cultural imprint in Latin America from 10 to 12 May 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education (GHE) will co-host this webinar as part of a series aimed at developing a roadmap for the enactment of the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities, adopted at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC 5) in October 2021. The second in a three-part webinar series entitled ‘Lifelong learning for health: Enacting the Yeonsu Declaration for Learning Cities’, it will look at ways of conducting a lifelong learning for health (LLLH) inventory of resources before developing a city-based action plan that integrates formal, non-formal and informal learning spaces – including institutions – to actualize a multisectoral approach to LLLH.  

Since 1967, UNESCO has awarded International Literacy Prizes to outstanding and innovative programmes that promote literacy. Throughout the years, the prestigious Prizes have rewarded over 506 initiatives undertaken by governments and NGOs across the world. The Prizes will be awarded at an official ceremony on International Literacy Day.

On September 20th, UNESCO will launch the UNESCO Framework for Enabling Intercultural Dialogue and accompanying global report, We Need to Talk: Measuring Intercultural Dialogue for Peace and Inclusion. Featuring a ministerial roundtable and expert panel, this global launch will highlight the initial findings of the new Framework, which tell an important story of the connection of Intercultural Dialogue has to peace building, development, and security. The event will feature real world applications and success stories of Intercultural Dialogue from the viewpoints of a variety of stakeholders.

The workshop will focus on the UNESCO’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommendation, which was adopted by UNESCO’s Member States in 2019. This Recommendation is the only global normative instrument in the field of technology in education. The workshop will engage key stakeholders in a dialogue on the OER Recommendation to provide information and guidance on the implementation and monitoring of this standard setting instrument.