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UNITWIN Network on Open Education: A Global Initiative for Openness and Collaboration
21 March, 2024
In a bid to advance Open Education (OE) and Open Educational Resources (OER) globally, UNESCO has approved the formation of the UNITWIN Network, uniting 15 academic institutions across the globe. This network, spearheaded by UNESCO Chairs involved in Open Education, aims to revolutionize educational accessibility and foster international cooperation in the field. But why […]
UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning Achievements in 2023
17 January, 2024
As part of the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning, we were active in several areas in 2023. We would like to highlight some of our achievements: The Chair successfully continued the activities related to the OER Dynamic Coalition, which was established at the 2nd International OER Congress in […]
Open Education for a Better World Mentoring Programme in the UNESCO Report On Open Educational Resources
26 November, 2023
After UNESCO unanimously adopted the Recommendation on open educational resources at the General Conference in November 2019, all member states are obliged to report on activities and progress in this area every four years. The UNESCO Executive Board prepared the first four-year period report that was presented and discussed at the 42nd UNESCO General Conference […]
UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning Achievements in 2022
10 January, 2023
As part of the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning, we were active in several areas in 2022. We would like to highlight some of our achievements: The Chair successfully continues the activities related to the OER Dynamic Coalition, which was established at the 2nd International OER Congress in […]
Success with the UNESCO Recommendation to promote access to educational resources for all
15 December, 2019
The OpeningupSlovenia think tank has after a five year long commitment succeeded in its work with UNESCO to publish this new Recommendation that will support the development and sharing of openly licensed learning and teaching materials, benefitting students, teachers and researchers worldwide. This global document comes also with the memory to our friends who started […]
Success for the UNESCO Chair working on OER Recommndation
28 May, 2019
The UNESCO Chair in OER and his team have been working ceaselessly on the new OER Recommendation which was approved by UNESCO member states on 28th May, by consensus. Its final step for approval will take place at the UNESCO General Assembly in November, 2019. The UNESCO OER Chair was able to work with UNESCO […]
OE4BW Call for Mentors
25 October, 2018
University of Nova Gorica (UNG) and UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning at the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) are announcing a new round of the Open Education for a Better World international on-line mentoring programme. The programme will take place from 7th January to […]
OE4BW Call for Candidates
25 October, 2018
University of Nova Gorica (UNG) and UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning at the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) are announcing a new round of the Open Education for a Better World international on-line mentoring programme. The program supports […]
#AI4Good @ World Summit AI
24 October, 2018
The World Summit AI agenda was packed with groundbreaking presentations from across business and science, hot-off-the-press AI announcements, heated panels , lots of lovely tech workshops, coding classes and more. Interestingly there was also space to focus on #AI4Good and their new initiative AI Commons framework to make sure that wonderfully capable technological methods like […]
UNESCO’s Partners Forum Structured Financing Dialogue
14 September, 2018
For two days, UNESCO invited us for the first time, its current and future stakeholders and partners, including Member States, development agencies, public and private actors – to strengthen links with its faithful and potential partners for the implementation of its flagship programs and the nine Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to which UNESCO is a […]
