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UNESCO?s impact on the ground

The photo serves as an example of a concrete impact of UNESCO on the ground and is taken at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Sea Project at the shore of the Baltic Sea, in Roosta, West Estonia in 2019. In the picture, the students and teachers are forming a shape of a sea wave to symbolize the importance and power of cooperation to achieve the common goals.

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The Baltic Sea Project (BSP) was the first sustained sub-regional UNESCO ASPnet endeavour to promote the protection of a major body of water and its resources, as well as inter-cultural learning and international understanding. BSP was initiated by the Finnish National Commission for UNESCO in 1989 and Estonia officially joined the project in 1992. Today, BSP is an international network of schools, engaging all the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea. BSP raises awareness on the environmental problems of the Baltic Sea and the links between man and nature, helps the teachers and students to notice the surrounding changes and the role of people in these changes, and leads young people to act responsibly. BSP contributes to the sustainable development goals and is a fine example of education for sustainable development in practice. Today, around 200 schools are active in the BSP.

Les jeux de la paix de l¡¯UNESCO - Course relais ¨¤ la phase nationale

Macedonia

The First Regional Summit of Heads of States in SEE for Dialogue among the Civilizations was held on August 29-30, 2003 in the ancient city of Ohrid, in accordance with the promoted initiative by the former President of the Republic of North Macedonia, H.E. Boris Trajkovski, on the 56th session of the OUN and under the patronage of UNESCO. The main objective of the Summit was to establish the first dialogue among the heads of states of South-Eastern European Region after the crash of Former Yugoslav State. The organization of such first significant event in SEE region was a form of continuation of the humane vision of the UN and UNESCO Global Action Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations. The adopted Ohrid Peace Message made it possible such summits of heads of states in the region to take place every year until 2012, under the auspices of UNESCO. The Director-General Mr. Matsuura attended the Summit as a co-president. That occasion was used as a possibility Mr. Matsuura to open the "Struga Poetry Evenings" International Festival and, together with the Minister of Culture, to sign the Communiqu¨¦ for institutional connection of the festival and UNESCO.

Macedonia

The First Regional Summit of Heads of States in SEE for Dialogue among the Civilizations was held on August 29-30, 2003 in the ancient city of Ohrid, in accordance with the promoted initiative by the former President of the Republic of North Macedonia, H.E. Boris Trajkovski, on the 56th session of the OUN and under the patronage of UNESCO. The main objective of the Summit was to establish the first dialogue among the heads of states of South-Eastern European Region after the crash of Former Yugoslav State. The organization of such first significant event in SEE region was a form of continuation of the humane vision of the UN and UNESCO Global Action Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations. The adopted Ohrid Peace Message made it possible such summits of heads of states in the region to take place every year until 2012, under the auspices of UNESCO. The Director-General Mr. Matsuura attended the Summit as a co-president. That occasion was used as a possibility Mr. Matsuura to open the "Struga Poetry Evenings" International Festival and, together with the Minister of Culture, to sign the Communiqu¨¦ for institutional connection of the festival and UNESCO.

Fa_64_0120: Polish Excavations at Faras. 15 November, 1963. Official visit of Mr. Ali Vrioni ¨CDirector of the UNESCO Service for the Monuments of Nubia (first from the left). Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski is showing him around the Faras Cathedral. Mr. Thabit Hassan Thabit, Commissioner for Archaeology of the Sudan, Dr Nigm ed-Din Mohammed Sheriff, Senior Inspector of Antiquities then Director of Nubian Office in Wadi Halfa, and Professor William Y. Adams, archaeologist, UNESCO expert in the Sudan are also present.


Co-operation of Poland with UNESCO seen by an archaeologist

It is a rare event in the 75-year history of UNESCO that a new discipline of scientific research has been created as a result of the activities of the organisation itself. But this is what has happened in Poland in the field of Mediterranean archaeology, thanks to UNESCO¡¯s International Campaign for the Safeguarding of the Nubian Monuments in the 1960s. Its purpose was to save the monuments of Nubia from flooding by the waters of an artificial lake created as a result of the construction of the High Dam on the Nile near Aswan. As part of this international endeavour, UNESCO supervised the process of safeguarding pharaonic temples and coordinated the programme of excavation works. Poles were among the first to join this work. Our architects documented and prepared for re-location a number of temples in Egypt as early as 1960, and archaeologists, under the guidance of Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski, who enjoyed international scientific authority, began excavations in Egypt (Dabod) and the Sudan (Faras). The latter, especially, brought a real revelation in the discovery of over 150 mural paintings in the Faras Cathedral. Their rescue and conservation, a pioneering endeavour in which UNESCO also contributed, led to the creation of two Nubian art galleries in the National Museums in Warsaw and Khartoum. As a consequence of the work at Faras, the foundations for further knowledge on the Christian period in Nubia (6th-14th centuries) were created, which resulted in the establishment of the International Society of Nubian Studies (ISNS) in Warsaw in 1972. The continuation of research conducted by Polish scientists in the Sudan led to the extraordinary development of a new field of study in Poland, namely, Nubiology. Since then, Poland has been recognised as one of the leading centres in this field. In summing up UNESCO¡¯s activities in the International Campaign for the Safeguarding of the Nubian Monuments, it is impossible not to mention the relocation of the ¡°flagship¡± site of the rescue operation, the rock temples of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel. On many issues in this most difficult technical task undertaken at that time advised Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski ¨C the chairman of the UNESCO Team of Experts in Archaeology and Landscape Architecture.

Text by Professor Stefan JAKOBIELSKI, historian and archaeologist, member of the team working in the Sudan under the guidance of Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski in the 1960s

Fa_64_0873: Polish Excavations at Faras. January, 1964. The restoration team at work. Mr. J¨®zef Gazy and Mrs. Marta Kubiak preparing a mural for removal from the wall. They strengthen the surface of the painting with a layer of gauze, covering it with beeswax pressed in through with hot custom-made copper irons on long handles.


Co-operation of Poland with UNESCO seen by an archaeologist

It is a rare event in the 75-year history of UNESCO that a new discipline of scientific research has been created as a result of the activities of the organisation itself. But this is what has happened in Poland in the field of Mediterranean archaeology, thanks to UNESCO¡¯s International Campaign for the Safeguarding of the Nubian Monuments in the 1960s. Its purpose was to save the monuments of Nubia from flooding by the waters of an artificial lake created as a result of the construction of the High Dam on the Nile near Aswan. As part of this international endeavour, UNESCO supervised the process of safeguarding pharaonic temples and coordinated the programme of excavation works. Poles were among the first to join this work. Our architects documented and prepared for re-location a number of temples in Egypt as early as 1960, and archaeologists, under the guidance of Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski, who enjoyed international scientific authority, began excavations in Egypt (Dabod) and the Sudan (Faras). The latter, especially, brought a real revelation in the discovery of over 150 mural paintings in the Faras Cathedral. Their rescue and conservation, a pioneering endeavour in which UNESCO also contributed, led to the creation of two Nubian art galleries in the National Museums in Warsaw and Khartoum. As a consequence of the work at Faras, the foundations for further knowledge on the Christian period in Nubia (6th-14th centuries) were created, which resulted in the establishment of the International Society of Nubian Studies (ISNS) in Warsaw in 1972. The continuation of research conducted by Polish scientists in the Sudan led to the extraordinary development of a new field of study in Poland, namely, Nubiology. Since then, Poland has been recognised as one of the leading centres in this field. In summing up UNESCO¡¯s activities in the International Campaign for the Safeguarding of the Nubian Monuments, it is impossible not to mention the relocation of the ¡°flagship¡± site of the rescue operation, the rock temples of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel. On many issues in this most difficult technical task undertaken at that time advised Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski ¨C the chairman of the UNESCO Team of Experts in Archaeology and Landscape Architecture.

Text by Professor Stefan JAKOBIELSKI, historian and archaeologist, member of the team working in the Sudan under the guidance of Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski in the 1960s

Fig: Abu Simbel. Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski (in the centre), accompanied by Professor Jaroslav ?ern? with his wife from Oxford and Professor Sergio Donadoni from Rome (on the right) in front of the temple of Ramesses II, during one of the meetings in 1963.


Co-operation of Poland with UNESCO seen by an archaeologist

It is a rare event in the 75-year history of UNESCO that a new discipline of scientific research has been created as a result of the activities of the organisation itself. But this is what has happened in Poland in the field of Mediterranean archaeology, thanks to UNESCO¡¯s International Campaign for the Safeguarding of the Nubian Monuments in the 1960s. Its purpose was to save the monuments of Nubia from flooding by the waters of an artificial lake created as a result of the construction of the High Dam on the Nile near Aswan. As part of this international endeavour, UNESCO supervised the process of safeguarding pharaonic temples and coordinated the programme of excavation works. Poles were among the first to join this work. Our architects documented and prepared for re-location a number of temples in Egypt as early as 1960, and archaeologists, under the guidance of Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski, who enjoyed international scientific authority, began excavations in Egypt (Dabod) and the Sudan (Faras). The latter, especially, brought a real revelation in the discovery of over 150 mural paintings in the Faras Cathedral. Their rescue and conservation, a pioneering endeavour in which UNESCO also contributed, led to the creation of two Nubian art galleries in the National Museums in Warsaw and Khartoum. As a consequence of the work at Faras, the foundations for further knowledge on the Christian period in Nubia (6th-14th centuries) were created, which resulted in the establishment of the International Society of Nubian Studies (ISNS) in Warsaw in 1972. The continuation of research conducted by Polish scientists in the Sudan led to the extraordinary development of a new field of study in Poland, namely, Nubiology. Since then, Poland has been recognised as one of the leading centres in this field. In summing up UNESCO¡¯s activities in the International Campaign for the Safeguarding of the Nubian Monuments, it is impossible not to mention the relocation of the ¡°flagship¡± site of the rescue operation, the rock temples of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel. On many issues in this most difficult technical task undertaken at that time advised Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski ¨C the chairman of the UNESCO Team of Experts in Archaeology and Landscape Architecture.

Text by Professor Stefan JAKOBIELSKI, historian and archaeologist, member of the team working in the Sudan under the guidance of Professor Kazimierz Micha?owski in the 1960s

Russia over the years

The USSR Delegation in the Meeting Room of the UNESCO General Conference.
Paris, France November 1960

Russia over the years

Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrey Gromyko (right) talking to the UNESCO Director General Ren¨¦ Maheu. On the left the Permanent Representative of the USSR to UNESCO Alexey Pavlov
Moscow, USSR, 2 August 1963

Russia over they years

The Minister of Culture of the USSR Ekaterina Furtseva during the Meeting of the UNESCO Executive Council.
On the photo: UNESCO Director General Ren¨¦ Maheu, UNESCO Executive Council Chair Atilio Dell¡¯Oro Maini, UNESCO Executive Council Secretary Pierre Coeytaux, Ekaterina Furtseva and the Soviet Ambassador to France Valerian Zorin, 20 October 1967

Russia over the years

UNESCO Director General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow and the Chair of the Organizing Committee ¡°Olympiada-80¡± during the Opening of the XXII Olympic Games.
Moscow, USSR, July 1980

Russia over the years

The Days of the Soviet Union in France. Visitors of the Exhibition ¡°Education, Science and Culture in the USSR¡± in the UNESCO Headquarters.
Paris, France, December 1982

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