UNESCO's mission is to promote a new humanism in the defense of peace. It seeks to promote international understanding. Its tools are directed towards education, the promotion of science, culture and communications.
UNESCO has created a new site to accept public donations in this…
Our oceans are dying, our air changing, and our forests and grasslands turning to deserts. From fish and plants to wildlife to human beings, we are killing the planet that sustains us, and fast. There is one single greatest cause of this destruction of the natural world -- climate change, and in…
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Inside the Parliament
Parliament II.
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
HAS - Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest (with music video)
Budapest, the queen of the Danube (with video)
Budapest -…
Schiller: Ode to Joy
Translation: John Glenn Paton
Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,
daughter from Elysium,
we, drunk with fire, step into
your holy shrine, Heavenly One.
Your magic binds together again
that which custom has rigidly divided:
all human beings become brothers
wherever your…
A WSF előzménye a Budapesten 1999-ben tartott Tudomány Világkonferencia rendezvény volt, melynek szervezői új típusú szerződés kialakítását tűzték ki célul a 21. század tudás alapú társadalma számára. Abban, hogy ez az UNESCO által kezdeményezett konferencia…
Jakabffy Éva, Origo / tudomány
A World Wide Fund for Nature / Természetvédelmi Világalap (WWF) által készített 2006-os Élő Bolygó Jelentés az emberiség történetében példátlan természetpusztításról ad számot. A túlfogyasztás következtében a gerinces fajok mintegy…
The sudden blow to UNESCO’s budget - following the US freeze on its funding for the organisation after it voted to admit Palestine at its general assembly last month (31 October) - cast a shadow over the World Science Forum, which is co-organised by UNESCO. Aloizio Mercadante (the…
A COSTIS-organised meeting on South-South cooperation in science and technology for development was one of a few side events at the World Science Forum, held in Budapest, Hungary. More than a decade after it was initiated, and 6 years since its launch in 2006, the G77 (Group of 77…
One of the key recommendations coming out of the World Science Forum is the need for more and better international collaboration in science. So the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology launched a Passports for progress initiative at the forum.With a passport, science students are a…
