On May 26-30, 2019, Khanty-Mansiysk welcomed the guests and participants of the 11th International Youth Environmental Forum “One Planet — One Future”, which exists in the framework of the 17th International Environmental Action “Save and Protect”. This event has been held under the auspices of UNESCO since 2008.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge to the Labor Market
The most pressing matters of intellectual development have always been at the forefront of UNESCO’s activity. Today, the organization continues to respond to modern-day challenges; moving not only in tune with the time, but one-step ahead of it.
View More Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge to the Labor MarketYakutsk is the Capital of Indigenous Languages
As a world-famous Russian author and play wright, Anton Chekhov put it: “You are as many times a human as how many languages you know.” In this respect the people of Russian Federation who speak nearly a hundred living and developing languages are among the most “human” in the world.
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On May 29–31, 2019, the 8th International Conference “Early Childhood Care and Education” (ECCE-2019) took place in Moscow.
View More New Pedagogical IdeasStudying in the UNESCO School
On June 4 and 5, 2019, the UNESCO Chair on Global Problems and Emerging Social and Ethical Challenges for Large Cities and Their Population at the Faculty of Global Processes of the Lomonosov Moscow State University hosted the 3th UNESCO School programme, titled “Management of Social Transformations”, on the issue of Global Social Transformations and Sustainable Development Goals under the auspices of the Commission for the Russian Federation for UNESCO.
View More Studying in the UNESCO SchoolThe UNESCO Clubs Movement is Experiencing a Revival in Russia
The inaugural meeting of the Interim UNESCO Clubs Accreditation Committee of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 31, 2019.
View More The UNESCO Clubs Movement is Experiencing a Revival in RussiaBioethical Initiatives
On June 6–7, 2019, the 11th session of IGBC, the Inter-Governmental Bioethics Committee, was held at UNESCO headquarters. The topical issues of artificial intelligence, personal & social responsibility for human health, and the principles of human reproductive health were actively discussed. The Russian delegation took an active part in the session.
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The 15th Forum and Competition “Current Issues of Subsoil Usage” under the auspices of UNESCO took place in St. Petersburg in May 2019. Delegates from 85 leading Universities and fuel and energy companies from 30 countries presented their research findings.
View More Young Scientists ForumA Legend of the Storm: the Discovery of Nakhodka Bay
Developing the southern shores of the Far East in the mid-nineteenth century was of seminal importance for Russia in acquiring new territories and establishing diplomatic relations with neighboring Asian countries. This was a time of great geographical accomplishments, which included the discovery of Nakhodka Bay by the Russian steam corvette America on June 18, 1859.
View More A Legend of the Storm: the Discovery of Nakhodka BayHyperboloid of Engineer Shukhov
Shukhov towers, Shukhov boilers, rooftops, bridges, aerial cableways… Contemporaries of Vladimir Shukhov called him a ‘man and a factory’, and this is no exaggeration. He designed and implemented dozens of innovative engineering solutions — each one more genial, more unconventional, and more inventive than the last. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the death of this great Russian engineer, whose ideas inspire to this day, and whose creations still live among us.
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