In 1996, the UNESCO International Commission on Education for the 21st Century released an inspirational report Learning: The Treasure Within which presented a vision of education based on four pillars of learning: learning to live together, learning to know, learning to do and learning to be. The report emphasized that the survival of humanity is highly dependent on learning how to live together, beginning by understanding and accepting other people and their history, cultures, traditions and values. <br/>Since the Delors report, the world has changed in many ways. Much has been accomplished, but a lot more needs to be done to translate the idealistic vision of education into actions on the ground. The clamour for education to foster more humanistic and sustainable lifestyles has highlighted a need to better understand how education systems can concretely bridge theories and practices.

The Director-General of UNESCO will present the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Education to the 2011 winners.<br/>Some 400 participants are expected to attend the event (Permanent Delegations to UNESCO; high-level experts; students; UNESCO staff).<br /><br />An exhibition, set up by the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Bahrain highlighting achievements in promoting the use of ICT in education in the country, will be organized in conjunction with the ceremony.<br /><br />Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in 3 languages (English, French and Arabic).<br />

The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (CGECCD) is a global network working to facilitate a global understanding of the importance of Early Childhood for social development and poverty reduction and to advocate for improved investments, policies and actions to support the holistic development of young children. <br/>The CG serves as a common platform for key actors to exchange, reflect and synthesise current/emerging issues and coordinate advocacy efforts

In the framework of the Extrabudgetary project “Capacity building, implementation actions and increase ratification schemes for the 2001 Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean” financed by the Spanish government, the Regional Office for Culture for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO is organization a photographic exhibit of large size photographs depicting emblematic sites of the underwater cultural heritage of the world.<br/>These large-size, high resolution photographs will cover the fences of the Castillo de la Real Fuerza, located in one of the most visited plazas of the city and bordering the Avenida del Puerto, popular for strollers and tourists. The exhibit consists of 30 photos and explanatory panels on the UNESCO 2001 Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage emphasizing on the underwater cultural heritage of the Caribbean and Latin America. The museum housed in this emblematic fortified castle of the colonial period, is dedicated to the study of navigation, underwater archaeology and maritime history. The outside fences of the castle have served in the past for exhibits that have been met with great success. <br /><br />This photo exhibition on selected underwater cultural heritage sites illustrates the beauty of the traces of human existence covered by water. From ancient shipwrecks to underwater caves, the exhibition is an insight to the diversity of the underwater cultural heritage and its astonishing condition of conservation through the centuries of time, or even millennia.

The training is part of the activities foreseen in the Spanish Funded project "Capacity building, implementation actions and increase ratification schemes for the 2001 Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean".<br/>The project aims to protect the underwater cultural heritage in the Caribbean by building regional capacities to properly manage and preserve underwater archaeological sites through the establishment of a regional Training Program in Jamaica. The objective is to strengthen regional capacities in the identification, protection and management of the underwater cultural heritage and to support efforts made by Caribbean Member States to ratify and implement the 2001 UNESCO Convention.<br /><br />This first course is jointly organized by the UNESCO Havana and Kingston Offices, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and the Jamaican National Commission for UNESCO. Specialists from Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will be in Jamaica for a month training following a curriculum developed by expert trainers that include topics such as: the 2001 Convention and its Annex, introduction to underwater archaeology, underwater archaeological resource protection and management, site significance assessment, protective legislation, survey and registration techniques for inventory, in situ protection and preservation, 3D site survey, shipbuilding techniques and terminology, ceramics, conservation and finds handling, ethnographic boat recording, geographical information systems (GIS) in underwater archaeology, data management, museology, risk mitigation, amongst other. <br />

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