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It is essential to include Basic Science Education from the beginning of the educational process, making the investment in Science Education a priority. This approach decisively encourages young people to pursue careers in science and technology. Nevertheless, the most important consequence is the contribution it makes to improving education, which is a subject that has mobilized several segments of society because of its importance.

Science education and the development of sustainable practices are themes of great interest to UNESCO in Brazil. The major challenge posed in the country is to have Science Teaching disseminated to the population in an increasingly homogeneous way capable of effectively improving people’s quality of life.

Brazil faces challenges in science education and cannot address them separately because of the cause-and-effect relations existing among them like:

• Increment and encouragement of scientific education vs a shortage of teachers in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
• Improvement of science education quality vs poor school infrastructure

91Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·×ÔÅÄ provided expertise in enhancing science education and implementing innovative and pilot actions to strengthen primary and secondary education science teaching. UNESCO particularly supports initiatives in developing technical cooperation efforts aimed at:

• generating new technical-scientific knowledge
• disseminating scientific knowledge
• capacity building and training of human resources