UNESCO ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS NETWORK ASPnet

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UNESCO ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS NETWORK(ASPnet)
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UNESCO ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS (ASPnet)
Secretaries-General of UNESCO National
Commissions UNESCO Paris 28 February 2007 Sigrid
Niedermayer ASPnet International Coordinator
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What are the UNESCO Associated
Schools(ASPnet)?

• a truly international network of schools
• carrying out innovative activities and projects
• pilot testing of new pedagogical resource
  material, approaches and methods
• in support of
• Quality Education for All

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ASPnet Over 50 Years old
1953 33 schools in 15 Member
States 2007 8000 schools in   177 Member
States
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ASPnet Objectives
Europe
North America
Arab States
Asia the Pacific
Caribbean
Africa
Latin America

• Improve the quality of education
• Develop a multiplier effect and ensure
• the international sharing of good
• practices
• Promote intercultural learning and
• contacts between schools worldwide

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ASPnet Themes

• World Concerns and the
  
  role of the UN System
• Sustainable Development
• Human Rights, Peace, Democracy
• Intercultural Learning and Intercultural Dialogue

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ASPnet Framework

• UN Millennium Development Goals
• Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2 Education for all (EFA)
• Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower
  women
• Goal 4 Reduce child mortality (among the
  under-fives)
• Goal 5 Improve maternal health
• Goal 6 combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other
  diseases
• Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for
  development

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ASPnet Framework

• Dakar Framework for Action
• Goal 1 Expanding and improving comprehensive
  early childhood care and education
• Goal 2 Ensuring that by 2015 all children have
  access to free and compulsory primary education
  of good quality
• Goal 3 Expand knowledge and acquire life skills
• Goal 4 Achieving a 50 improvement in levels of
  adult literacy by 2015
• Goal 5 Eliminating gender disparities by 2005
  and achieving gender equality in education by
  2015
• Goal 6 Ensure quality education

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• A Quality Network for Quality Education
• ASPnet schools
• serve as laboratories to improve the
  learning processby
• Conducting pilot projects

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• Developing participatory methods of learning

• Enhancing the climate of the classroom and
  the school

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• Supporting the professional
  development of teachers as agents of change

• Producing innovative educational resource
  material

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ASPnet a research population for pilot testing
educational resources on

• HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Feeding minds, Fighting 
• hunger (in cooperation with FAO)
• Desertification
• Sustainable consumption
• youthXchange
• (in cooperation with UNEP)

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Major ASP Flagship Projects
in support of Education for Sustainable
Development and Intercultural Learning

• Baltic Sea Project
• Blue Danube River Project
• Caribbean Sea Project
• Sandwatch Project
• Western Mediterranean Sea Project

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Other ASPnet Flagship Projects  Learning to
live together 
Great Volga River Route
World Heritage
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mondialogo
VEOLIA
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World Heritage on our Doorstep
Beer Primary School spent a week learning about
St. Lucia and the Jurassic Coast
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Patrimonito
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World Heritage in Young Hands

• Arabic
• Chinese
• English
• Finnish
• French
• Indonesian
• Japanese
• Laotian
• Russian

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WorldHeritage
Multimedia pedagogical material
Skills development
ACTIVITIES
Teacher Training
Kit
Youth Fora
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WorldHeritage
World Heritage Kit on the Internet
http//whc.unesco.org/education
Cartoon series  Patrimonito  adventures

• in Cuba
• in Ethiopia
• in Norway
• in New Zealand
• in Russia

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ASPnet schools participate in International
Decades and Campaigns

• International Decade for a Culture of Peace and
  Non-violence for the Children of the World
  (2001-2010)
•  All Equal in Diversity Mobilizing schools
  Against Racism, Discrimination and Exclusion 
  (2005-2007)
• EDUCAIDS

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World Programme for Human Rights Education

• Plan of Action
• First phase
• 2005-2007
• for primary
• and secondary
• schools

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• Whats New?
• A New Logo

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A Simplified Name

• Official name
• UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network
• Shortened version
• UNESCO Associated Schools
• Abbreviation (unchanged)
• ASPnet

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New Publications

• A simple trilingual flier (English, French and
  Spanish) with basic information on ASPnet
• The ASPnet National Co-ordinators Kit
• Both documents present the new orientations of
  ASPnet

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ASPnet key actors

• ASPnet National
• Coordinators
• UNESCO National
• Commissions
• in 177 countries
• ASPnet International Coordination, UNESCO
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• Email aspnet_at_unesco.org
• Website www.unesco.org/education/asp