The Ethics Teachers’ Training Course delivered jointly by UNESCO and the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 4-8 November, to advance quality ethics education by building professional capacities of ethics teachers in the county and in the wider Central Asian region.

On 3rd December young researchers and youth from four Central Asian countries, who are the members of the Disaster and Climate Resilience Youth Network (DACRYN), met for a regional coordination meeting in Almaty.

UNESCO Almaty again supported the Regional School “Multilingual education based on the mother tongue: conditions for ensuring quality and sustainability”, organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) in Osh, Kyrgyz Republic, on November 18-22.

On 26-28 September 2019 an exhibition and a series of workshops on the production of traditional Kyrgyz felt carpets (shyrdak and ala-kiyiz) took place at the Frunze Museum in Bishkek.

Ak-kalpak craftsmanship, traditional knowledge and skills in making and wearing Kyrgyz men’s headwear (Kyrgyzstan) and Khorazm dance, Lazgi (Uzbekistan) were inscribed in the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during the 14th session of the Committee in Bogota, Colombia, 12 December 2019.