UNESCO School Media Clubs in School Media Sri Lanka

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UNESCO highlights African cinema at the 75th Cannes Film Festival
UNESCO will organize a major round-table to promote the African film industry on 24 May in Cannes, on the occasion of the 75th edition of the International Film Festival. The event will highlight the great development potential of the African cinema industry and UNESCO’s initiatives to support it.

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The UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) links educational institutions across the world around a common goal: to build the defences of peace in the minds of children and young people. The over 11,500 ASPnet member schools in 182 countries work in support of international understanding, peace, intercultural dialogue, sustainable development and quality education in practice.

ASPnet - a driver for innovation and quality in education - is recognized as an effective tool for reaching target 4.7 on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) of Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Education 2030.


ASPnet uses three complementary approaches:

1. Creating: As a laboratory of ideas, ASPnet develops, tests and disseminates innovative educational materials and promotes new teaching and learning approaches based on UNESCO's core values and priorities.

2. Teaching & Learning: Capacity-building, innovative teaching and participative learning in specific ASPnet thematic areas allow school principals, teachers, students and the wider school community to integrate UNESCO's values and become role models in their community and beyond.

3. Interacting: ASPnet gives its stakeholders opportunities to connect and exchange experiences, knowledge and good practices with schools, individuals, communities, policy-makers and society as a whole.

ASPnet operates at both international and national levels. A team at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris oversees the network's international coordination. At the country level, ASPnet National Coordinators are designated by UNESCO's National Commissions. Principals, teachers and students lead activities in member schools.

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UNESCO Associated Schools promote the ideals and values of UNESCO by reinforcing the humanistic, ethical, cultural and international dimensions of education.

The specificity of ASPnet projects is their focus on values and rights, their desire to develop and use innovative approaches, their international perspective and their collaboration with like-minded schools at the national, regional or international level.

Each of the 10,000 member schools defines and implements annual projects based on the main ASPnet study themes, which in turn relate to UNESCO's mandate and to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. For example, students can: research, learn about and share their findings on climate change by producing radio podcasts or school newspapers; interview their elders about old and new challenges affecting their community; learn how to protect World Heritage sites or biosphere reserves close to their school; exchange ideas with young people from other countries about the impact and effects of HIV and AIDS; participate in art competitions to raise awareness of disability; organize public campaigns on International Human Rights Day; visit gardens and farms to learn about biodiversity. Equally, vocational schools may develop advertising campaigns on energy consumption in the school or collaborate with local authorities to design public information materials, while teacher training institutions may reorient or expand their programmes to include values education, sustainable development, inclusive or participatory pedagogy or prospective studies on global challenges.

In addition to the local school projects, national, regional or international flagship projects, conferences and contests are coordinated and supported by UNESCO and the ASPnet National Coordinators, with a view to fostering collaboration, mutual learning and the exchange of good practices among the participating schools.