An initiative that brings together policy makers, young people and civil society to strengthen sexuality education and reproductive and sexual health services in eastern and southern Africa. By having adequate access to these services, young people are empowered to make their own decisions about their health, preventing HIV/AIDS and unexpected pregnancies.

SMILE is a mobile learning platform designed to cause a paradigm shift within education by enabling students to be active agents in their own learning. By utilizing both mobile and micro cloud-based technology, students create, solve, evaluate, and present questions based on their individual research and interest. In SMILE, the quality of the student-generated question is the evidence of learning outcomes, not test scores. This presentation shares lessons learned from implementing SMILE in unique education settings in Asia: a rural village education center in South India, a rural village mixed-grade Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, a South Korean medical university with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) iPads, and a rural village elementary school for first graders using government-issued OTPC (One Tablet Per Child) tablets

Somalia is at a critical juncture: decades of violent conflict, economic recession, and a growing demographic "youth bulge" have spurred the need for significant youth empowerment initiatives--and for bottom-up education strategies that reach the bulk of youth who are illiterate and outside the formal school system. This webinar makes the case for basic mobile audio instruction as a strategy for reaching out-of-school youth across Somalia --particularly young Somali women -- and equipping them with core skills and knowledge that will help them succeed in the workplace. The webinar focuses on the successes of one such initiative, the Dab iyo Dahab mobile financial literacy program, which Souktel and the Education Development Center implemented from 2008-2011 through funding from USAID. This interactive seminar will provide an overview of the technology and curriculum components, share results from a post-project impact evaluation, and give participants a clear understanding of the steps they can take to implement similar interventions as part of their own work.

This report is part of the UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning. The Series seeks to better understand how mobile technologies can be used to improve educational access, equity and quality around the world. This webinar will present an overview of the Future of Mobile Learning Report. Four Grand Challenges, all anchored in UNESCO's Education for All agenda, are presented as a frame for evaluating and supporting the future development of mobile learning. The underpinning rationale is to enable mobile learning for all through the equity of provision and opportunity. To address this, a two-pronged approach is presented which focuses on (i) mobile learning as a diverse ecosystem that relies on the cooperation of various entities both public and private, and (ii) significantly increasing practitioner training on the design of mobile learning interventions.

Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2013. Address by Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research

Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2013. Intervention of Edward Kissi, professor of genocide and Holocaust studies at the Department of Africana Studies of the University of South Florida

Presentation of UNESCO's initiative related to the education of girls and women, by Maki Hayashikawa, Education sector, during the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill ambassadors at UNESCO headquarters, 26 -27 June 2013.

The presentation will describe UNESCO's broad portfolio of work in mobile learning. The rationale behind various programs will be addressed as will anticipated areas of future work. Specifically, the presentation will introduce UNESCO's numerous mobile learning publications; provide an overview of current research; and profile the Organization's mobile learning projects underway in Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Senegal.

This webinar will present Sesame Workshop's research and key findings related to mobile learning as well as show how we are applying what we have learned through a range of educational mobile initiatives that harness the power of Muppets and mobile platforms, both in the United States and internationally.

How should effective mobile learning initiatives for women and girls be designed? How can they be created in gender-sensitive and sustainable ways? What barriers need to be addressed and what preconditions need to be in place for successful implementation? This presentation will address these important questions as well as initial lessons learned as part of a UNESCO Education Sector's project on "Developing Literacy through Mobile Phones - Empowering Women and Girls". The project's purpose is to study initiatives from around the world aimed at empowering women and girls through education via innovative mobile technology-based learning and information programmes. It is also exploring what makes existing initiatives effective models of using mobile technologies to support literacy development and improve learning outcomes of women and girls, with the aim of providing a foundation for the future planning and implementation of scaling-up activities in this domain. In this context, UNESCO is producing a global report comprised of regional reviews and in-depth case-studies, and has organized three expert workshops focused on Africa, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean. Following the presentation of lessons learned based on these inputs, participants will be invited to join in a deeper discussion of the issues.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 - UNESCO in partnership with the Shoah Memorial organized a symposium entitled "International Dimensions of Holocaust Education" held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Samuel Pisar, UNESCO Special Envoy for Holocaust Education and Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism for the US Department of State were among the participants.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 - UNESCO in partnership with the Shoah Memorial organized a symposium entitled "International Dimensions of Holocaust Education" held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Samuel Pisar, UNESCO Special Envoy for Holocaust Education and Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism for the US Department of State were among the participants. This is Mr Yehuda Bauer's address during the symposium.

Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2012. Historian Yehuda Bauer addresses the audience during the ceremony, which theme was «Children in the Holocaust»

Asked about pedagogical methodology in Holocaust Education, Paul Salmons --Centre of Holocaust Education, University of London-- explains how educators can grasp this vast and complex subject and engage with young people to deal with the unsettling questions it raises about human behaviour and help them confront traumatic events of the past.

Asked about the state of Holocaust Education in China, Professor Xu Xin --The Institute of Jewish Studies, Nanjing University-- explains why the Holocaust becomes a historical reference for the Chinese public. He describes the relation between the history of the Jewish people and China and explains how Jewish studies led to the inclusion of the holocaust in university programmes, in China, in the early 90's.

Today, HIV and AIDS still affect young people severely. Without the existence of vaccine, prevention remains a priority to reverse the spread of the virus. School is an essential structure to inform a large part of the youth. This DVD, produced by the International Bureau of Education (IBE) is composed of documentaries gathering examples on how to speak about HIV & AIDS and relates themes to support teachers in acquiring the skills and confidence to address these sensitive issues.

Paul Kim, from Stanford University, imagines the kind of tools people will be using on their mobiles by 2020. This interview conducted during the UNESCO Symposium on Mobile Learning (UNESCO headquarters, 15-16 December 2011) The symposium was one of two main events taking place in the framework of the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week (MLW); the other event being an International Experts' Meeting to produce mobile learning policy guidelines and a strategy for teacher development based on mobile phones

John Taxler, from the University of Wolverhampton, on the necessity for any Mobile Learning project to adapt to a particular culture in order to be sucessful. An interview conducted during the UNESCO Symposium on Mobile Learning (UNESCO headquarters, 15-16 December 2011) The symposium was one of two main events taking place in the framework of the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week (MLW); the other event being an International Experts' Meeting to produce mobile learning policy guidelines and a strategy for teacher development based on mobile phones

Jill Attewell, from GSM Association, on how to address market barriers and accelerate the adoption of Mobile Education solutions around the world. An interview conducted during the UNESCO Symposium on Mobile Learning (UNESCO headquarters, 15-16 December 2011) The symposium was one of two main events taking place in the framework of the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week (MLW); the other event being an International Experts' Meeting to produce mobile learning policy guidelines and a strategy for teacher development based on mobile phones

Sylvia Ortega, from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico, on how mobile technology can be a significant contributor to quality in education. This interview was conducted during the UNESCO Symposium on Mobile Learning (UNESCO headquarters, 15-16 December 2011) The symposium was one of two main events taking place in the framework of the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week (MLW); the other event being an International Experts' Meeting to produce mobile learning policy guidelines and a strategy for teacher development based on mobile phones