News: IITE and partners in action

The inter-regional conference “Educational space of Arctic: development through dialog and cooperation” will be held in Yakutsk city (the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation) from 3 to 6 August 2010. Within the framework of the conference, the joint project “Teachers of the Arctic”, carried out by UNESCO and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), will be launched. The project is aimed at improving access to quality education in the Arctic region. Read more Launch of the "Teachers of the Arctic" flagship project

On 25 May 2010 in IFESCCO Headquarters in Moscow Mr Dendev Badarch, Acting Director of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), and Mr Armen Smbatyan, Executive Director of the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO), signed the agreement on joint implementation of the project aimed at promoting the use of ICTs in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Read more IITE-IFESCCO agreement on promotion of ICTs in TVET in CIS

IITE contributed to the seminar "Internet and teaching of foregn languages", held in Astrakhan (Russian Federation) from 25 to 28 of May by  the Embassy of France in Moscow and Astrakhan State University. Read more ICTs in teaching of foreign languages

In 2010 IITE started a new project devoted to ICT application in preschool education. Within the project IITE is planning to develop and publish a survey “ICTs in preschool education: best practices and policy recommendations”. Read more Technology from early childhood

PARIS, May 10 (Xinhua) — The Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) jointly announced that a high-level commission has been established to promote worldwide digital development. Read more UNESCO and ITU establish special commission to promote digital development

The UNESCO Brasilia Office, the UNESCO Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean, OREALC/UNESCO Santiago, and the Department of Distance Education of the Ministry of Education Brazil have convened the International Conference "The Impact of ICT in Education” to build knowledge and advance in the definition of agendas and policies. Read more International Conference "The Impact of ICT in Education" in Brazil

On 12-13 April 2010, a two-day workshop dedicated to the establishment of new partnership between the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and UNESCO IITE was held at the premises of IITE in Moscow. Read more Partnership between the Ministry of Education of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and UNESCO IITE

International Conference "Informatization of Education 2010" will be organized on 27-30 October 2010 by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, Belarusian State University, and Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank. Read more International Conference "Informatization of Education 2010"

On March 17th UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon arrived in Moscow for a three-day visit. Read more UN Secretary-General to visit Moscow

The Tenth Session of the newly appointed IITE Governing Board was held at the premises of IITE in Moscow from 3 to 5 of December 2009. Read more The Tenth Session of the IITE Governing Board