UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe

QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER • http://www.unesco.org/venice APRIL - JUNE 2013 Bridges UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe

Issue 2 • 2013

Calendar of Events & Editorial page 2

Venice Art Biennale 2013 pages 3-4

News & Highlights pages 5-10 Venice Office Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe Post-2015 Development Agenda page 11 United Nations Educational, Scientiﬁc and Cultural Organization Programme retreat & Outreach page 12

Multimedia & Interview pages 13-14 Calendar of events

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Inauguration regional travelling exhibit Cultural Diversity, Civil Society and International D ear reader, “Imagining the Balkans”, followed by annual Cultural Cooperation Zagreb, Croatia. 3-4 June meeting of the Council of Ministers of Culture 2013 I am pleased to invite you to discover this of South East Europe (CoMoCoSEE) Ljubljana latest issue of our quarterly electronic and Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia. 8 April 2013 and Basic training course on underwater newsletter, “Bridges”. 9 April 2013 archaeology Zadar, Croatia. 3-15 June 2013 These past months UNESCO has had the VISUALIZING VENICE new technologies for Regional Forum of UNESCO Chairs and pleasure of hosting or supporting a number urban history Venice, Italy. 8-26 April 2013 UNITWIN Networks in South East Europe ©WDCD2013 of events organized under the auspices of Istanbul, Turkey. 12-13 June 2013 the Venice Art Biennale, whose theme this Holocaust education and intercultural year, “The Encyclopedic Mind”, naturally understanding in South-East Europe Skopje, 2nd transnational workshop of the SEE River brings together the dual elements of The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. project Pecs and Budapest, Hungary. 18-20 Science and Culture, the two sectors this 18-19 April 2013 June 2013 Office has a mandate to operate in. We were particularly pleased to have hosted Balkan Workshop BW2013 – Beyond the 2013 ArtNight Venezia: Women in the Arts some of our Member States in our Palazzo, Standard Models Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia. 25-29 Venice, Italy. 22 June 2013 notably Bosnia and Herzegovina (p.3) April 2013 and Andorra (p.4), as well as supported Colors for the Planet, Art Camp 2012 Venice, 17 June 2013 independent collateral events, such as Italy. 24 June-26 July 2013 “Garbage Patch” (p.7), located at Ca’ Foscari MAY The theme of this year’s University. JULY World Day to Combat The Lovech Bridge Speaks Lovech, Bulgaria. 10- Desertification is UNESCO’s participation in these and other 11 May 2013 IncREO progress meeting Toulouse, France. 3-4 drought and water scarcity. events and activities as featured within this July, 2013 newsletter represents our contribution to Technical Workshop “Increasing Resilience Freshwater is valuable. Of all the water creating “bridges” for scientific and cultural through Earth Observation for the Shkodra Holocaust education and intercultural on Earth, only 2.5 per cent is freshwater. cooperation, dialogue and exchange within And of all this freshwater, the total the South East European region. area” Tirana, Albania. 14 May 2013 understanding in South-East Europe Auschwitz, usable supply for ecosystems and Poland. 3-4 July 2013 humans is less than 1 per cent. When Annual meeting of SEE experts on intangible demand for water exceeds available cultural heritage Sofia, Bulgaria. 27-28 May Inauguration of the UN House Sarajevo, Bosnia supply, it results in water scarcity. Yolanda Valle-Neff 2013 and Herzegovina. 5 July 2013 Director, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe The Garbage Patch State Venice Inauguration First annual meeting of category 2 centres Venice, Italy. 29 May 2013 active in the field of intangible cultural heritage Sozopol, Bulgaria. 24-26 July 2013 Workshop SEE-PhytoChemNet Workshop on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in South East Europe Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 29 May – 1 June 2013 SEE PT MBER

Sixth CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Advanced underwater archaeology course Pula, Curators Continental Breakfast 2013 Venice, Croatia. 16-28 September 2013 Italy. 30 May 2013 The Best in Heritage Dubrovnik, Croatia. 19-21 Workshop on Gender-Sensitive Indicators for September 2013 Media Venice, Italy. 30-31 May 2013 UNESCO School on Sustainable Energy Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia Governance in World Heritage Sites Dubrovnik, and Herzegovina Venice, Italy. 31 May-4 June Croatia. 30 September - 5 October 2013 2013 ©WDCD2013 - map of water scarsity >> all events Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 2 Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The book of the Project was presented on 31 May 2013 in the presence of Yolanda Valle-Neff, Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), Ambassador Nekerz Arifhodžić, Minister Sredoje Nović, Minister Salmir Kaplan, Minister Goran Mutabdžija, the Project

Director Edo Hozić, and the curators, Basak Senova ©UNESCO/Kruna Krstic - Project Biennial (Turkey) and Branko Franceschi (Croatia). D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and

The book of the Project intends that took place in Sarajevo as Croatia and Turkey are partner to provide an overall picture of an accompanying event of the countries of the 2013 edition the project on display in Konjic. biennial opening. of the Biennial D-0 ARK It unfolds chronologically the Chapter 5 depicts the chronology Underground curated by Basak curatorial and artistic content of the project by providing Senova and Branko Franceschi accumulated in the course of the brief information on talks, on display in Konjic until 26 Project Biennial D-0 ARK two biennial editions, in 2011 and presentations, workshops and September 2013. >>full story Underground, Bosnia 2013. seminars that took place within and Herzegovina the project. The director of the project, Edo Tito’s Nuclear Bunker, Konjic Hozić, explains in a comprehensive manner his understanding and Opening engagement towards the cultural and political substance of the 26 April - 26 September 2013 bunker in the frame of the larger Monday, Wednesday and Friday at cultural discourse on the Balkan 10.00 and 12.00 region and beyond. ©UNESCO/Kruna Krstic - from left to right: Branko Project Biennal Director ©UNESCO/Kruna Krstic Franceschi and Basak The book, edited by Basak Senova Senova © Project Biennial of from left to right: H.E. Nerkez Arifhodžić, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina and published by the Association Edo Hozić Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK to Italy; Goran Mutabdžija, Minister of Education and Culture of Republic of Underground Srpska; Yolanda Valle-Neff, Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science Biennial of Contemporary Art, and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy); Sredoje Nović, Minister of Civil Affairs of Curators Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Edo Hozić, Project Director is organized in five chapters. Chapter 1 presents the curatorial Basak Senova (Turkey) statements on the issues and Branko Franceschi (Croatia) conditions that have formed the infrastructure of the project. Curators’ assistant Chapter 2 is dedicated to the works that are exhibited in the Irfan Hošić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) bunker accompanied by brief ©UNESCO/Kruna descriptions and images. Krstic - Alfredo Pirri, Chapter 3 further discusses the an Italian artist Contact who exhibits at the existence and the significance of Project Biennial Biennal of Contemporary Art ©UNESCO/Kruna Krstic - the project through the concept of Contemporary from left to right: Branko of ‘vintage’ by taking ‘the cold war Art, D-0 ARK Ferhadija 13 - 71009 Sarajevo Franceschi and Basak Underground Bosnia and Herzegovina Senova era’ as the point of its departure. Chapter 4 recapitulates +387 62 390 237 the outcome of the public [email protected] programme during the second edition by focusing on the public programming and discussions Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 3 Watch the video on Youtube: ART CAMP 2012 RESUM [4:23]

for artists from around the world understanding the world and view Andorra, Argentina, Australia, to meet and create in a common it anew – this is why we seek to Bahamas, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cape manner. The festival promotes not place creativity at the heart of Verde, Cyprus, Eritrea, Estonia, only peace but also sustainable more sustainable approaches to France, Guatemala, Germany, development, a value at the heart development.”, wrote Irina Bokova, Israel, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Lesotho, of the Organization. Director-General of UNESCO, in her Lithuania, Morocco, Montenegro, message on the occasion of the Mexico, Pakistan, Palestine, “Creativity like this is important, launch of the Art Camp Exhibition Philippines, Portugal, Romania, because it helps us think in Paris on 3 June 2013. Republic of Moldova, Spain, Turkey, differently; it helps us step Art Camp 2012 brought together Uruguay and United States of >>full story ©Art Camp 2012 - aside from accepted ways of 37 artists from five continents: America. Colors for the Planet. Art Camp Colors for the planet UNESCO participates in the 2013 edition of artnight Venezia Art Camp is a project launched in Elisenda Vives, President of the Art Camp and H. E. Maria Ubach 2008 by Jean-Michel Armengol, Andorran National Commission for Font, Ambassador Extraordinary with ‘Women in the Arts’ Secretary-General of the UNESCO, and Yolanda Valle-Neff, and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Director of the UNESCO Regional Delegate of Andorra to UNESCO. Andorran National Commission Women in the Arts is the cultural for UNESCO, and Faust Campama Bureau for Science and Culture, Venice (Italy), inaugurated the Art Art Camp contributes to a better event that the UNESCO Regional Peleja, with the purpose of Bureau for Science and Culture bringing artists from different Camp 2012 exhibition on 24 June understanding between states that art l’arte at Palazzo Zorzi. At the opening have experienced violence, war in Europe, Venice (Italy), offered night libera cultures together and promoting venezia la notte ceremony were present Hedva and conflicts and to the sharing of sabato through Artnight Venezia 2013, 23 giugno 2012 cultural and artistic collaboration Ser, UNESCO Artist for Peace and culture and art in an atmosphere of venezia organized by the University Ca’ www.unive.it/artnightvenezia among them. patron of this third edition of the mutual respect. It is an opportunity Foscari of Venice in collaboration with Venetian cultural institutions. The file rouge of this ©Archivio V enue of exhibit: year’s edition was “the value of Cameraphoto Epoche ©Jean-Michel Armengol - Palazzo Zorzi - Castello 4930 Hedva Ser, UNESCO Artist for women.” 30122 Venice Peace and patron of Art Camp 2012 and Yolanda Valle-Neff, tel: +39 041 2601511 Director of the UNESCO The UNESCO Venice Office developed Regional Bureau for Science and Culture, Venice (Italy) for this year’s theme an ideal public awareness on such important and female faces of the bygone 24 June until 26 July 2013 narrative that depicted the value of topics as this continent of garbage Venice, edited by Cameraphoto women in various forms of art (visual adrift in the oceans, as represented Archive - one of the most important art - cinematography – comics and in her work. Italian photo archives with tens of cartoons - photography - theatre - - a discussion with Luca Raffaelli, thousands of shots from 1947 to the music). journalist, essayist, screenwriter present day. and an expert in comics and - a meeting with Italian actress The event took place on 22 June, cartoons, who introduced the female Ottavia Piccolo who gave voice to from 17.30 to 24.00, at Palazzo Zorzi. characters in that world. some female figures chosen from - a meeting with Matilde Tortora, the works of writers or playwrights. The programme included: critic, writer and essayist, followed - a meeting with the artist Maria by the screening of her latest short The programme closed with a ©UNESCO/C. Vincenzi Cristina Finucci who engaged in a film, “In Search of the Lost Shoe” concert of the Ensemble Vocal - H. E. Maria Ubach Font, Ambassador conversation with the audience on describing the role of women in Gaspard Edesse, founded and Extraordinary and the meaning of her installation at the animation movies. directed by Justine Rapaccioli: Plenipotentiary, ©Jean-Michel Armengol - Permanent Delegate of Biennale 2013, “The Garbage Patch - a presentation of a selection of Renaissance music, Armenian folk Public at the Art Camp 2012 Andorra to UNESCO and State Venice”, and how art can raise historical images of arts and crafts songs and more. >>full story inauguration in Venice Elisenda Vives, President of the Andorran National Commission for UNESCO Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 4 natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication Medicinal and and information, with the active cooperation of UNESCO Field Offices, Aromatic Plants Rg e ional forum of UNESCO Chairs and Institutes and Centres. in South East UNITWIN Networks in South East Europe A number of UNESCO Chairs and Europe UNITWIN Networks are established in the SEE region. The SEEPhytoChemNet Workshop on “Medicinal and With reference to the ongoing overall Aromatic Plants in South East review of UNESCO Chairs conducted Europe: Environmental and by Headquarters, the UNESCO Venice Office would like to enhance Socio-Economic challenges” cooperation amongst active SEE was held in Plodliv, Bulgaria, Regional UNESCO Chairs/UNITWIN from 29 May to 1 June 2013, Networks within the fields of science and supported by the UNESCO and culture. Regional Bureau for Science ©Koehler’s Medicinal-Plants Camellia and Culture in Europe, Venice sinensis The audience targeted comprises: (Italy), the Bulgarian Academy UNESCO Chair-holders in the field of Sciences and the Bulgarian of Culture and Natural Sciences Ministry of Education, Youth and (MAPs) for economic growth /Coordinators of SEE area ; Science. and jobs creation. The role of representatives of universities and Biosphere Reserves in the South higher education institutions; and, The members of the SEE- East European region was evaluated representatives of relevant ministries PhytoChemNet discussed about with local stakeholders and experts. and National Commissions for the high potential existing in SEE NGOs, agencies and international UNESCO. >>full story for better sustainable usage of institutions active in the region the medicinal and aromatic plants participated. >>full story Increasing Resilience through Earth Observation for the Shkodra area

The technical workshop © Selda Yildiz Erol Gülsen - took place on 14 May 2013 Aerial view of Istanbul at the Ministry of Interior – IncREO website at: Department of Civil Protection in http://www.increo-fp7.eu/ T he UNesCO Regional Bureau the academic world, civil society, local General Conference taken at its Tirana and was jointly organized went live on 27 May. communities, research and policy- 26th session, the UNITWIN/UNESCO The work leading to the for Science and Culture in by the UNESCO Venice Office, production and management Europe, Venice (Italy), and the making. Chairs Programme was conceived as the General Directorate for Civil of the website - including a way to advance research, training the project’s Research and Turkish National Commission Emergencies of Albania, the Development (R&D) activities for UNESCO collaborated to As “brain drain” is affecting the social and programme development Albanian National Commission on risk and vulnerability and economic development of the through the recognition of excellence mapping - receive funds from convene a regional forum of the for UNESCO, in partnership with the European Community’s region, it was also an opportunity to and university networking. Seventh Framework South East European UNESCO promote regional and/or sub-regional the Geoville Group (Austria) Programme. Chairs / University Twinning poles of innovation and excellence. As So far UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN and the support of CIMA and Networking (UNITWIN) well, the Forum served to share best Networks have proven useful Foundation in Albania. It was Programme which took place practices and exchange knowledge. in establishing new teaching part of the planned activities from 12 to 13 June 2013 in The final objective of the Forum was programmes, generating new ideas of the EU-funded project Istanbul, Turkey. to encourage a common strategy and through research and reflection, IncREO-Increasing Resilience vision for the role of UNESCO Chairs and facilitating the enrichment of through Earth Observation (FP7- to an improved preparedness and be technically specified and made in the SEE region. existing university programmes while SPACE-2012-1). mitigation planning for areas highly available to the government of The objective of the forum was to respecting cultural diversity. vulnerable to natural disasters. Albania, whose departments and identify and outline a shared regional The thematic sessions over one and The workshop involved project ministries are asked to share their roadmap and common vision of the a half days provided participants Today about 766 UNESCO Chairs IncREO has been devised in support partners and end-users in order requirements and data with UNESCO role of UNESCO Chairs in the South with an opportunity to discuss and 69 UNITWIN networks have of emergency response management to assess and jointly develop an and with the product developers East European (SEE) area. the operational framework of the been established, involving over 850 and risk-preparedness. It aims EO geo-information product for partners, to test the developed Chairs Network and elaborate or institutions in 134 countries. to provide actors responsible risk prevention and preparedness products and to employ them in Discussions were encouraged to propose regional projects for joint for disaster management, risk through EO imagery elaboration order to achieve higher societal reflect upon and enhance the collaboration. A majority of the projects are prevention, civil protection and in the region of Shkodra. The benefits in the flood disaster risk dual function of these UNESCO interdisciplinary and intersectoral also spatial planning with EO-based workshop was an important step prevention and reduction area. >>full instruments and networks as “think Established in 1992 following the and involve all of UNESCO’s solutions, contributing particularly to the development of maps to story tanks” and “bridgebuilders” between relevant decision of UNESCO’s programme areas: education, Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 5 Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media S ustainable Integrated Management of InternationalR iver Corridors in SEE countries The activities of the UNESCO Venice Office are oriented The second transnational towards boosting science workshop of the EU co-funded and culture in the South East project ‘Sustainable Integrated European region. Since gender Management of International equality is a transversal and River Corridors in South East overarching global priority of Europe’ (SEE River project) was UNESCO, it is also mainstreamed held in Pecs and Budapest, Hungary from 18-20 June 2013. into all of its regional initiatives. The UNESCO Venice Office This ensures that UNESCO’s is affiliated to the project as programmes and activities observer partner. contribute fully and actively to the pursuit of women’s The main objective of the SEE empowerment within society. River project is to reach a common ©UK. Smith - UNESCO agreement on river corridor released Gender-Sensitive management for harmonisation of Indicators for Media both development and conservation ©Decius - Vjosa river interests. This will be achieved thanks On 7-8 December 2012, in Tirana, Albanian media and a two-day workshop on Gender-Sensitive Indicators for to a close cooperation of experts local river area where most pressures harmonizing different stakeholder university students of journalism were introduced to the Media was organized and conducted from 30 to 31 May from a wide range of fields and from occur. interests. To develop and implement Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media (GSIM). 2013 at Palazzo Zorzi, premises of the UNESCO Venice different countries and to the active the toolkit, project research, field Office. involvement of stakeholders from Project activities and findings will work and active involvement of These indicators, elaborated by UNESCO’s Communication local river areas and national or result in the SEE River Toolkit, a stakeholders will be performed and Information Sector and published in 2012, are The participants were professional journalists holding regional authorities. The project is generally applicable and innovative in corridors of 6 SEE rivers: Drava, designed to assess gender equality and women’s leading positions or representing governance bodies of introducing a new approach to river model and guidance on how to Bodrog, Neretva, Prut, Soča and empowerment in the media. Within the framework national television networks in Albania. The workshop and land management by focusing reach future sustainable use of river Vjosa. The project will last until agreement between the Union of Albanian Journalists was led by Alton Grizzle, Programme Specialist, UNESCO on the river corridor as the selected, corridors by taking into account and September 2014. >>full story (UAJ) and the Albanian Civil Society Organizations Communication and Information Sector (CI), and (CSOs) on gender equality, and with particular attention editor of the publication, “Gender-Sensitive indicators focused on womens’ political participation, economic for media: framework of indicators to gauge gender empowerment and the elimination of all forms of violence, sensitivity in media operations and content”. >>full story

Media as a partner to establish and reach gender equality

An interview with Fiorela Shalsi, National Programme Coordinator, Women & Elections at UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the © BW2013 /Family photo Empowerment of Women, in its Albania Country Office. Balkan Workshop: The Southeastern European This year’s edition of the Balkan © UN Women Beyond the Network in Mathematical and Workshop (BW2013) was organized “The UN has considered media home Standard Models Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP) from 25-29 April in Vrnjačka Banja, as a main partner to facilitate a was established ten years ago and Serbia, by the Faculty of Science public demand for gender equality, The meeting of the Southeastern the UNESCO Venice Office is one of and Mathematics, University of human rights and access to justice European Network in its main partners. The programme Niš, in cooperation with the CERN including the compliance with in-depth understanding of gender the role that media can play in equality, fair, factual and balanced supporting progress towards Mathematical and Theoretical was implemented in the framework Theory Division and the Ludwig- international legal instruments and of the Office’s strategy aimed at Maximilians University of Munich, the Convention on the Elimination reporting and a set of indicators to equality, UN Women and UNESCO Physics brought together about of All Forms of Discrimination measure progress towards this goal supported the preliminary training 40 leading researchers in the strengthening scientific capacity and the UNESCO Regional Bureau against Women. as per international standards.” of a group of 7 Albanian journalists fields of High Energy Physics and and promoting dialogue in the post- for Science and Culture in Europe, from different media outlets on Cosmology of South East Europe war Balkan countries. Venice (Italy). >>full story Before being able to facilitate In order to increase media Gender-Sensitive Indicators for (SEE), Europe and the USA. the public demand, media professionals’ knowledge on gender Media (GSIM) in Venice in May. professionals need to have an equality and better understand >>full story Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 6 T he garbage patch territory turns into a new state T uvalu Pavilion raises awareness on the global at the UNESCO house in Paris climate change issues faced by small islands

The Garbage Patch State® - a This project has been put in place Animal Victims’ and an Oil Pump The time is quickly approaching performance installation by thanks to the collaboration of the ‘Slaughter’ Machine-Taiwanese where the island will be unable Italian artist Maria Cristina University Ca’ Foscari of Venice Artist Huang uses dark humour to sustain life in any form. Facing Finucci - was on show on 11 April and the sponsorship of the Italian to raise awareness on the climate a future whose only certainty is 2013 in Paris at the Maison de Ministry of the Environment, with crisis engulfing the small paradise change, small island developing l’UNESCO, salle des pas perdus. the support of the University states are confronted with many of Rome. The Garbage Patch, island of Tuvalu. On 30 May, a problems and difficulties – some Following an invitation by Irina symbolically recognized as a representative of the UNESCO intrinsic and timeless, others Bokova, Director-General of federal state, rises in the middle Venice Office participated in the extrinsic and new – in making UNESCO, and Maurizio Serra, of the oceans. It is a territory that inauguration of the Pavilion of progress towards survival, Ambassador, Permanent comprises five areas of man-made the island of Tuvalu on display sustainable living and sustainable Delegate of Italy to UNESCO, the rubbish scattered in the North for the first time at the 55th development. UNESCO is very ©Tuvalu Pavilion - 2013 Venice ©M. C. Finucci - Greetings Biennale: 55th International event was open to the public. Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, from the Garbage State International Art Exhibition from much aware of this and active in its South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. 1 June until 24 November. fields of competence, among which >>full story Natural Sciences. >>full story

24th edition of theC IAK Junior International Film Meet the winners of Odysseus, the Pan-European Festival for youth Contest on Space CIAK Junior calls upon youth A representative of the UNESCO Odysseus Contest winners have Odysseus is co-funded by the from Europe and around the Venice Office joined the members European Commission under the world to create an audio- of the International Jury to been announced. Entries were review the films competing in judged in the final round of the 7th Framework Programme, in the visual product from start to Space area for “Studies and events finish. Every year, the young the Festival. UNESCO recognizes contest by an international panel that youth have a fundamental of high-level experts on space. in support of European Space participants present films which Policy”. The participants’ voting role in the implementation of the The first-place team in each clearly expresses their concerns, Organization’s mission, particularly winner was ORION IMS team from the daily challenges they face, theme category travelled to the Romania, which was also awarded in promoting sustainable European Astronaut Centre in their hopes and their willingness development. In a rapidly changing a trip to the European Astronaut to propose changes which they Germany and to Space Expo in Centre and to Space Expo. world, this implies the need to learn the Netherlands, where they think need to be addressed so to and to carefully evaluate the state ©mio-ecsde.org - ESD Training Congratulations to all the winners Material presented their projects in an The UNESCO Venice Office is have a more equitable, peaceful, of the planet and, most importantly, ©Odysseus Contest- Project stable world - in other words, a to accept and modify behaviours award ceremony held on 18 April associated with the Open Discovery competition poster and lifestyles. With their energy, 2013. Space (ODS) project, funded by the more livable world. European Commission under the CIP sensibility and creativity, youth demonstrate that they are willing to ICT-PSP call. >>full story accept these challenges. >>full story

O nline MSc Sustainable Mountain Development T he Garbage Patch State Venice UNESCO Chair The Garbage Patch State has its The Garbage Patch State is one of A scholarship towards the costs Mountains cover 24% of the Earth’s own Constitution, as well as a the many other states represented of participating in the part-time land surface; 26% of the global national flag: a background as at the Venice Art Biennale from online MSc Sustainable Mountain population lives in and around blue and transparent as the sea, June to November 2013. It is hosted Development offered by the mountains, which provide vital by the Ca’ Foscari University of goods and services to more than filled with red swirls – like the University of the Highlands and gyres in the Pacific Ocean (but Venice, in its historical building on Islands, Scotland, was available half of humankind. The UNESCO the Grand Canal. To represent the Chair contributes to sustainable also in the Sargasso Sea of the for one student starting in new State in Venice, the artist Maria mountain development, which Atlantic), carrying and gathering Cristina Finucci has specifically September 2013. The course concerns both mountain regions the debris from the rivers and is an activity of the UNESCO designed an installation: a pavilion and populations living downstream ships. The UNESCO Venice Office composed of two cubes and a flood Chair in Sustainable Mountain or otherwise dependent on these supports the initiative through of colored plastic caps harnessed by Development established in 2009 ©UNESCO/Kruna Krstic regions in various ways. A particular © Catalina Munteanu- Maramures promotion via its communication red nets, pouring out of the pavilion at the University of the Highlands focus is on mountain biosphere mountains, Romania channels. in the direction of the Grand Canal; and Islands. reserves and their sustainable a metaphor and image of the development in the context of overflow of plastic and debris in global change. >>full story every sea and ocean of the planet. >>full story Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 7 © UNESCO/Matthieu Guevel © National Museum of Slovenia – Inauguration of the travelling exhibit: Imagining the Balkans. Identities and Memory in the long 19th century U aNesCO l unches travelling exhibit at the National Museum of Slovenia

to put in perspective and compare professor at the University of Illinois, and raise public awareness as the their collections and their national Urbana-Champaign, United States of basis for deepening dialogue”, wrote histories. America. Irina Bokova in the foreword to the “This exhibition traces the history of exhibit’s catalogue. © Travelling exhibit: Imagining The exhibit is produced with a vibrant cultural mosaic, revealing the Balkans - Catalogue cover the belief that Nations and their the diversity of this region’s cultural The exhibit “Imagining the Balkans. History need not be just a matter heritage and the energy arising Identities and Memory in the long T he exhibit, a flagship The travelling exhibit was Bureau for Science and Culture in of division, and developed as a from the interweaving of influences 19th century” is on display until initiative coordinated by inaugurated in the presence of the Europe, Venice (Italy). historic opportunity to place national between and within countries. 25 August 2013 and will travel to Director-General of UNESCO, Irina histories in a global context, compare Travelling from one museum to Serbia and Romania in September/ UNESCO with the cooperation Bokova; the Minister of Culture The opening ceremony, organized disputed narratives, revive shared another, Imagining the Balkans will December 2013, and to other of the International Council of Slovenia, Uroš Grilc; European on the occasion of the meeting memories. The historical advisor help strengthen cooperation among countries from South East Europe in of Museums (ICOM) and the Commissioner for Education, of the Council of Ministers of of the exhibit is Maria Todorova, cultural institutions and professionals 2014-2015. >>full story International Committee for Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Culture of South East Europe was Exhibitions andE xchange Androulla Vassiliou; the President attended by Ministers of Culture (ICOM/ICEE), opened at the of the International Council of from South East Europe. This is T he travelling exhibit stimulates dialogue and exchange Museums (ICOM), Hans-Martin the very first time that national National Museum of Slovenia Hinz; and Yolanda Valle-Neff, history museums from South East through cultural and educational events in Ljubljana, on 8 April 2013. Director of the UNESCO Regional Europe and beyond come together

© National Museum of Slovenia - world The exhibit “Imagining the Balkans. workshops, lectures, discussions, cafés and discussions Identities and Memory in the long world cafés, etc. around the various 19th century”, part of UNESCO’s themes and issues addressed in global initiative “Culture: a Bridge the exhibit, thereby confirming the to Development”, seeks to enhance role of museums as educational V enue of exhibit: cooperation and dialogue among institutions and platforms for youth national history museums. It focuses civic engagement that stimulate on the constitution and evolution of dialogue and cultural exchange and National Museum of Slovenia © National Museum of Narodni muzej Slovenije Slovenia - Inauguration modern nations in South East Europe help reconcile history and memory. Prešernova 20, 1000 Ljubljana of the travelling exhibit during the “long 19th century”, and is >>full story Tel.: +386 1 241 44 00 structured around 8 thematic paths. Fax: +386 1 241 44 22 Each venue commits to organize Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 8 Slovenia hosts annual meeting of theC ouncil of Ministers of Culture of South East Europe

T he Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, opened, on the occasion of her official bilateral visit to Slovenia, the annual meeting of theC ouncil of Ministers of Culture of South Eastern Europe (CoMoCoSEE).

Ministers of Culture from South East Europe discussed policies and guidelines for the enhancement of “cultural and arts education”, the thematic focus retained by the Slovenian presidency. Ministers also discussed the establishment of a new unified ministerial platform April at the National Museum of Slovenia, the travelling exhibit of © 2013 Council of Ministers on culture and development in the of Culture of South East Nestinarstvo, messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and national history museums from Europe Helena in the village of Bulgari © 2004 Regional Museum Burgas region. Besides her bilateral meetings with Slovenian authorities, the SouthEast Europe, “Imagining the Director-General inaugurated on 8 Balkans”. >>full story Intangible cultural heritage. New strategies for sustainable development, tourism and partnerships H olocaust education and intercultural The seventh annual regional meeting of experts on Intangible Cultural Heritage in South East Europe held understanding in South East Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 27-28 May 2013, was organized by the Sofia Regional Center on Intangible cultural heritage in South-East Europe, with the support of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Culture and Science engaging in a dialogue on national narratives. This new initiative in Europe (Venice, Italy). by the successor States of the former Yugoslavia to create a joint The regional encounter is a follow-up to the specifically, the various ways of integrating intangible exhibit space, under the auspices previous meetings organized to enhance a common heritage in tourism and development policies, while of UNESCO, at the State Museum understanding of opportunities and challenges linked fostering the responsible and ethical use of these living Auschwitz-Birkenau, is extremely to the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage assets and forms of expressions. It comprised experts important, and a powerful symbol in the region, such as: national inventory policies, the from: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria, © 2013 Yad Vashem - Skopje, Jews rounded of the willingness in the region to process of revitalization, the management of sustainable Croatia; Cyprus; Greece; Italy; Montenegro; Republic up prior to their promote dialogue through history cultural tourism, the role and involvement of the local of Moldova; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; The former deportation in the Monopol tobacco and build shared memories”, communities, the transnational dimension of intangible Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; and, Turkey. depot, March 1943, emphasizes Anthony Krause. cultural heritage, as well as training and capacity- Archival Number 213/67 building. The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible The meeting will allow experts to Cultural Heritage came into force on 20 June 2006. present selected items and discuss The annual meetings serve as a regional platform for It has been ratified at an unprecedented pace, the common approaches for the contents sharing knowledge and good practices, and stimulating number of State Parties now amounting at 152. The The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial The meeting will be opened by of the joint exhibit. a collective reflection on the safeguarding of intangible promotion of intangible cultural heritage stands and State Museum will host on Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Director of cultural heritage as a key asset of South East European high among the political priorities in the South East 3-4 July 2013, with the support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial The international steering cultural diversity. European region: all countries from the region have and State Museum, and by Anthony committee comprises relevant ratified the 2003 Convention. >>full story of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Krause, Head of the Culture Unit of Ministry representatives and The meeting in Sofia focused its debates on 3 topics: the UNESCO Venice Office. Holocaust experts from each of the the status of implementation of the 2003 Convention Venice (Italy), a meeting of the international steering committee six successor states (Bosnia and for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in “This April, in Ljubljana, was Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, the respective countries of the region; cases and best in charge of coordinating, under inaugurated the travelling exhibit Serbia, Slovenia, and The former practices in promoting intangible cultural heritage as the auspice of UNESCO, the “Imagining the Balkans. Identities Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), a driver for local sustainable development (tourism, establishment of a renovated and Memory in the long 19th UNESCO, as well as representatives private/public partnerships); and proposals for common ©Directorate for the joint exhibit space within the ex- century” where, for the first time, of the following internationally action in the areas of training and capacity-building. Protection of Cultural Yugoslav pavilion (Block 17). with the support of UNESCO, national recognized institutions. >>full story Heritage, Croatian Ministry of Culture museums across the region are The meeting allowed experts to discuss, more - Intangible Cultural Heritage Policy in Croatia Presentation Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 9 Visualizing Venice, Dialogues with Central Eastern Europe. UNESCO exploring the city’s past is 2013 place of encounter for contemporary art The exhibition on show It reconstructed the last 3 years curators at Palazzo Zorzi, UNESCO of Visualizing Venice’s research The sixth CEI Venice Forum for The CEI Venice Forum for Venice Office’s premises through a series of construction Contemporary Art Curators. Contemporary Art Curators is a from 8-26 April 2013 sites (“cantieri”). Moving through Continental Breakfast 2013 biennial event that deals with the presented a cross-section these case studies, visitors can entitled “RUNNING TIME” was topics of cultural promotion and the of the studies by Visualizing trace the history of the islands hosted by UNESCO Venice exchange of curatorial experiences. Venice, an international, of San Giovanni e Paolo and the The initiative is opened to Central multidisciplinary research Accademia or the areas of the Office at its premises Palazzo Zorzi on 30 May. It was a CEI Eastern European experts and team focused on exploring Giardini della Biennale and the Ar curators and to the commissioners new ways of “making” senale. The changes in these parts Feature Event and a Continental of the Venice Biennale responsible history using Information and of Venice’s historical building fabric Breakfast project to discuss the for the national pavilions of the Communication Technologies were staged at an urban and a collection of curatorial data from CEE countries. The aim was to (ICT) and on testing the building scale, making it possible to ©visualizingvenice.org the beginning of the millennium. stimulate a reflection on the wealth effectiveness of highly experience urban transformation in of observational working tools by innovative communication both space and time. The exhibition discussing and comparing examples/ © Continental Breakfast systems in narrating urban was curated by Alessandra Ferrighi, main criteria of subjective decisions change over time. an adjunct professor of Urban taken by curators with regards to Conservation at the University Iuav the greater or lesser importance of Venice. >>full story of a contemporary work/artistic action. >>full story Second South East Europe World Heritage Youth Forum Balkan Bridges Speak. Second edition inL ovech

Serbia hosted from 6-11 The Forum serves to develop Within the framework of its This regional encounter is the April 2013 the second SEE World Heritage educational and global initiative “Culture: a Bridge second of several events within the participatory activities and helps World Heritage Youth Forum to Development”, UNESCO “Balkan Bridges Speak” project, for peace and sustainable to establish a network for further supported, in co-operation to be hosted in 2013 across South development at Gamzigrad- co-operation at the regional and East Europe to highlight bridges Romuliana, Palace of Galerius, international level. For the students, with the Balkanika Foundation, a regional encounter on 10-11 as powerful symbols of unity and in Zajecar, a site in Eastern it is a chance to meet people mutual understanding. The initiative Serbia inscribed on the from other countries, learn about May 2013 on the iconic bridge of was conceived to provide spaces UNESCO World Heritage list in their heritage, to discuss common Lovech, Bulgaria. for sub-regional and regional 2007. The forum was organised concerns and to discover new cultural cooperation, and sought by the United Nations roles for themselves in heritage to promote exchanges amongst Association of Serbia and the conservation. For the teachers, culture professionals, city planners, © Pavle Marjanovic - Felix Commission of the Republic it is an opportunity to debate Romuliana municipalities, artists, civil society ©Pokrit most (Covered Bridge), Lovech, Bulgaria/ of Serbia for UNESCO with new educational approaches, to on cultural policies, strategies and Klearchos Kapoutsis the support of the UNESCO contribute to the World Heritage practices that foster intercultural World Heritage Center and the educational resource kit “World dialogue and stimulate the cultural UNESCO Venice Office. Heritage in Young Hands”. >>full story sector as a viable economic and social sector. >>full story Basic Underwater Archaeology Course 2013 UNO ESC Artist for Peace in Venice to enhance The International Centre for The course consisted of theoretical Mediterranean dialogue of cultures Underwater Archaeology Zadar and practical (hands on) (ICUA) held a 2-week basic instruction in the basic techniques training course on underwater of underwater archaeological Jordi Savall, UNESCO Artist for The concert, organized by the archaeology, in Zadar, Croatia, excavation. Archaeologists from Peace, opened on 1 June 2013 Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, on 3–15 June 2013. The course ICUA, Han-Vrana and the University the third Festival Monteverdi celebrated the dialogue of cultures, was organized with the support of Zadar conducted theoretical Vivaldi at the Scuola Grande through music and art, in the lessons, complemented by courses di San Giovanni Evangelista, in Mediterranean basin and the central of the UNESCO Venice Office. role played by Venice throughout in diving and specialty diving Venice, together with musicians according to the requirements of the centuries in such cultural from Turkey, Israel, Armenia, exchanges. Savall, together with the SSI or PADI system. Practical Greece, Morocco and Catalonia. instruction took place in the frame the soprano Montserrat Figueras, was named UNESCO Artist for of archaeological researches in the ©International Centre for Pakoštane, Zadar environs, in order Underwater Archaeology in Peace in 2009 for his outstanding Zadar musical commitment to intercultural to allow the participants to acquire ©2013 Art Fest/Sofia - Jordi Savall the best possible knowledge of basic dialogue. >>full story research techniques. >>full story Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 10 T he Post-2015 Development Agenda: High-level Panel website: http://www.un.org.al/ A lbania delivers report to the UN Secretary-General twitter: UN_Albania • The Future Albanians Want facebook: UnitedNationsAlbania • Report on Post-2015 National Consultations in Albania

website: http://www. Montenegro

© post2015hlp. odrzivabuducnost.me • Report on Post-2015 National Consultations in org / High-Level twitter: postme2015 Montenegro Panel of eminent persons on • Second round of Montenegrin Post-2015 the Post-2015 Development National consultations spin-up Agenda

website: http://Moldova2015 R epublic of Moldova twitter: @Moldova2015 • Post-2015 in the Republic of Moldova: facebook: Moldova2015 outreach far and wide • National consultations on Post-2015 Agenda: “The Future Moldova wants”

website: http://www. S erbia T he independent High-Level Panel of 27 eminent persons appointed by Secretary-General Ban Ki- srbijakakvuzelim.rs/ • Report on Post-2015 National Consultations in moon released a report containing new and far-reaching proposals for completely ending extreme twitter: @UNCT_Serbia Serbia poverty by 2030. Entitled A“ New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies facebook: UNCTSerbia • Serbia We Want. Preliminary Results of the through Sustainable Development”, the report calls for an ambitious and universal agenda that National Consultation builds on the successes of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and promotes sustainable development, good governance, human rights and building institutions. Post-2015 development agenda an ‘historic’ opportunity to eradicate poverty – UN chief . The Panel has held Turkey consultations with more than 5,000 civil society groups from 121 countries across every region of the world to website: post2015turkey.org/tr produce the report. Panel members also spoke to experts from multilateral organizations, national governments, • Development Agenda of Turkey for Post-2015 the private sector and the academic and scientific communities. The Secretary-General will draw on the report’s National Consultations Report recommendations for his own report to the UN General Assembly in September. >>full story • Put young children at the centre of global development efforts, say experts 1,000 days and counting: UN calls for accelerated action on the Millennium website: http:// Ukraine Development Goals en.post2015ukraine.org/ facebook: / • Ukraine After 2015: The Future We Want The United Nations today called for accelerated action • Post-2015 Development Agenda National in the next 1,000 days from governments, international UnitedNationsUkraine Consultations in Ukraine organizations and civil society groups to reach the eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their deadline at the end of 2015. website: http:// Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/1999) “The MDGs are the most successful global anti-poverty kosovoinnovations.org push in history,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said twitter KosInnovations • Post-2015 UN Development Agenda in Kosovo from Madrid, where later today he will formally kick off - Report released the campaign tagged “MDG Momentum – 1,000 Days of facebook KosovoInnovations • What kind of world do young Kosovars want Action.” “The Goals have helped set global and national #post2015 ? priorities, mobilize action, and achieve remarkable results,” he added. >>full story Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 11 UNESCO Venice Office and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice sign an agreement for mutual cooperation

On March 2013, the framework agreement to promote mutual cooperation and joint activities in the fields of research, science and culture was signed by Yolanda Valle-Neff, Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), and Carlo Carraro, President of the Ca’ Foscari University.

The agreement is intended to sharing of knowledge and research All the collaborative activities reinforce cooperation between activities; and, c) the organization stipulated by the Agreement the signatory parts with regards of joint educational, training, and will be implemented by the to: a) the promotion of research capacity-building initiatives, with parties by drawing up specific projects and the organization of a special focus on international implementation agreements, Program m e Retreat with the Scientific Council events on cultural or scientific cooperation within the geographic which will regulate the individual T he UNesCO Regional Bureau for Office’s Scientific Council members The proposed programme of issues of common interest; b) areas covered by the mandate of initiatives, the methods of their the exchange of researchers and the UNESCO Venice Office (with implementation and the resources Science and Culture in Europe for the formulation of the Office’s work and budget is designed to scholars, aiming to support the special focus on South East Europe). dedicated to them. >>full story successfully held its first-ever strategy for the years to come. contribute to the sustainable Programme Retreat with its development of the region and is ScientificC ouncil members and the The programme of work and drafted within the framework of Office team on 16-17 May 2013 at budget for 2014-2015 will be the Organization’s forthcoming new based upon the strategy resulting Medium-term Strategy for 2014- E astern Partnership Initiative: culture ministers met in Georgia the Office premises in Venice, Italy. from this encounter and will be 2021, to be approved at the next The purpose of this retreat was to presented at the next Ordinary General Conference of UNESCO. The first Eastern Partnership have a strategic thinking on the Session of the Scientific Council, Ministerial Conference on Culture future programme of work in the scheduled for 12-13 September was held on 27-28 June 2013 in region, utilizing the expertise of the 2013. Tbilisi, Georgia. This high-level event of the Eastern Partnership Initiative was organized by the ©Ilan Molcho The Scientific Council, the European Commission – Directorate – Old Tbilisi advisory body which helps General for Education, Culture, is known for identify fields and projects to its distinctive which the Office may contribute Multilingualism, Youth & Sport balconies of - is currently composed of the and the Ministry of Culture and various colors following 9 members: Biserka Monument Protection of Georgia. Cvjeticani (Croatia), Dragan Domazet (Serbia), Ahmet Eyüce (Turkey), Valeria Fol (Bulgaria), Gianni Francesco Mattioli (Italy), Danielle Mazzonis (Italy), The conference represented a Likewise participated in the event: European countries with a view to Federica Olivares (Italy), Huub Rijnaarts (Netherlands), and milestone in the cultural dimension Androulla Vassiliou, European accelerating their political association Semir Zeki (United Kingdom of of the Eastern Partnership, aiming Commissioner for Education, and economic integration with Great Britain). to give guidance for future work Culture, Multilingualism and Youth; the European Union (EU) and to and providing an occasion for a Bidzina Ivanishvili, Prime Minister of facilitating the mobility of citizens. Also participated from UNESCO HQs in the Programme retreat: mid-term assessment of the Eastern Georgia; and the ministers of culture Qunli Han, Director, Executive Partnership Culture Programme. of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, At the heart of this joint endeavour Office, Natural Sciences Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Republic lies a shared commitment to Sector, and François Langlois, Yolanda Valle-Neff, Director of of Moldova, and Ukraine. fundamental values, such as Programme Coordination, the UNESCO Regional Bureau for democracy, the rule of law, respect Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Culture Sector. Science and Culture in Europe, The Eastern Partnership Initiative for human rights and fundamental Venice (Italy), represented UNESCO (EaP) is created to support freedoms. >>full story ©UNESCO/C. VIncenzi - at the ministerial conference. sustainable reforms in Eastern Programme retreat Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 12 L ook at Me H2Ooooh! Initiative reaches short film the UNESCO region: Arab States winner of the In addition to its support of CIAK UNESCO special Junior International Film Festival recognition over the years, the UNESCO Venice Office continues to successful collaborate with Gruppo at CIAK Junior Alcuni and, within the second cartoon series of the International H2Ooooh! Initiative, it encourages youth around the Film Festival world to create and share their own stories on how to better safeguard and protect the precious natural resource of water. ©Lahav NPO-Children’s channel - Neta, the protagonist of “Look at Me” During this year’s festival, the cartoon produced in collaboration with the UNESCO Amman Office in the framework of the initiative was screened for the first time, together with the 4 cartoons produced by the participants Children make movies. Four out of “Tistaklu Alaay”) directed by Gily it. When Neta has regrets and during the Festival. Two of them are related to water issues the seven short films in competition Boraks, produced by Lahav NPO - tries to fix things, her classmates and the other two to the Garbage Patch State. at the 24th Edition of the CIAK Junior Children’s channel, and presented ostracize her and insult her on her International Film Festival held in by Israel. Facebook page. Surprisingly, at that Gr a bage Patch State 1 [1:27] Italy focused on the issue of bullying juncture, Neta finds a way to solve Garbage Patch State 2 [1:53] ©Gruppo Alcuni DON’T WASTE WATER [1:45] in all its forms, in particular over the The short film tackles the subject the problem and to convey an of cyber-bullying. As the Internet important lesson to her friends. . Garbage Patch WATER BELONGS TO US ALL [0:57] internet. In all the stories, diversity increasingly becomes a central part acceptance turned out to be the of our lives, there are inevitable “Look at Me”, unlike the other toughest challenge to face. UNESCO negative aspects, one of which is films in competition at the CIAK UNO ESC launches the H2ooh cartoon on water saving in Jordan awarded a special recognition to the “cyber-bullying”. Junior International Film Festival, short film “Look at Me” presented not only denounces the problem On the occasion of the World Water by teens from Israel. Neta, the protagonist joins a group but also provides a solution in its Day, the UNESCO Office in Amman of mediators which aims at solving happy ending. launched the H2ooh cartoon on During this year’s edition of the disputes between the pupils at water conservation and saving. CIAK Junior Festival, a UNESCO school. During an encounter with Courage, resourcefulness and The production of the cartoon special recognition was assigned her classmates, Neta is drawn creativity are conveyed by Neta, came as a part of an innovative to the short film which best to playing a prank on Facebook the protagonist, through the water awareness campaign expressed the mission and against Liron, an unpopular girl messages she posts, inviting us to which introduced to Jordan by mandate of the Organization: from her class, and does nothing to take a look at ourselves and inside the UNESCO Amman Office. The “Look at Me” (original title stop her friends from going about ourselves. >>full story campaign took the shape of a cartoon drawing competition for students on water issues in Follow us on our YouTube channel: partnership with the successful http://www.youtube.com/user/ H2Ooooh! Initiative of the UNESCO UNESCOVeniceOffice Venice Office together with Alcuni Group (Italy).

Watch the video: ©UNESCO Amman - h2OOH CARTOON Launch of the H2Oooh [2:26] cartoon Watch the video: LOOK AT ME A total of 5,600 students (grades the best 3 stories were submitted to adolescents and youth through (ORIGINAL TITLE 8 and 9) from 28 schools of the the UNESCO Amman Office which the participatory development “TISKALU ALAAY”) 14 participating directorates from together with the Jordan Ministry of of awareness-raising cartoons on [14:41] Amman, Irbid, Zarqa, Ramtha, Water and Irrigation and the National water-related themes, the limited Rusayfeh, Ajloun, Salt and Madaba Commission for UNESCO chose the availability, sustainable use and participated in the competition in winning story for submission to conservation of water. Jordan and submitted storyboards Alcuni Group for production. in July 2012. The winner story was UNESCO is convinced that the only Amera Salem from Princess Taghrid Jordan is the world’s fourth most practicable way so that information High School. The selection of the water-scarce country in terms of can reach youngsters is that of winner followed the screening and availability of water resources per involving them directly into the ©Lahav NPO-Children’s the evaluation of the storyboards capita. The aim of the initiative activity of education. >>full story channel - “Look at Me” by a committee at each school and was to raise awareness among Bridges Issue 2 • 2013 • page 13 Who’s that girl? bridges QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER • http://www.unesco.org/venice issue 2 2013 april-june Ketevan Shengeliya, a former intern in our Executive andC oordination Office

Introducing Kety Shengeliya, a dual citizen of both Georgia and the Russian Federation who recently completed a 6-month internship with the Un t ited Na ions Bridges Executive and Coordination Office in the UNESCO Joint Programming Regional Bureau for Science UNESCO Regional Bureau and Culture in Europe, Venice MDG-F ALBANIA : Culture & (Italy). Back home, Ketevan Heritage for Social and Economic for Science and Culture in Europe has taken some time to let us Development know what she thought about MDG-F BOSNIA AND her internship with us. HERZEGOVINA : Improving Cultural Understanding in Bosnia and Herzegovina C ontact Us : © Kety Shengeliya MDG-F BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA : Securing Access to Water through Institutional Palazzo Zorzi, Castello 4930 - 30122 Venice - Italy Prior to joining UNESCO as an intern, Ketevan completed her studies for Development and Infrastructure Tel: +39 041 260.15.11 Fax: +39 041 528.99.95 a Master’s degree of European and International Relations and Crisis Management from Eurosapienza, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). MDG-F BOSNIA AND During her internship she created a promotional video on the Organization’s HERZEGOVINA : Mainstreaming [email protected] achievements under Joint Programmes financed by the Spanish Millennium environmental governance: Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F). linking local and national action in Bosnia and Herzegovina What made you interested in interning at UNESCO in the first place? UNHSTF BOSNIA AND I learned about UNESCO during my course on International Organizations, HERZEGOVINA: Community when I was studying for my Specialist degree in World Economy at the Reconciliation through Poverty National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow (Russia). Reduction I have been keen in UNESCO’s activities ever since, as this organization touches on the issues in which I am most interested. As an internship was MDG-F The former required to obtain my Master’s Degree at Sapienza University in Rome, I Yugoslav Republic of decided to try my luck and apply. Macedonia: Enhancing Inter- Ethnic Community Dialogue and How has your background (educational, work experience, etc.) prepared you Collaboration for your internship? MDG-F SERBIA : Sustainable I was very fortunate to receive an opportunity to intern for UNESCO Venice Tourism for Rural Development Office. I chose this specific office because it concentrates most of its work on South East Europe, which is a very interesting region for me. I wrote my MDG-F TURKEY : Alliances for Master’s Thesis on Cultural Understanding in the European Union, and I Cultural Tourism (ACT) in Eastern am planning to continue researching in this field, analyzing how South East Anatolia European countries contribute to the cultural landscape of Europe.

What did you like best about your internship? Venice Office My internship gave me a wonderful experience and I am very grateful For more information, please visit our website: Regional Bureau for Science because I learned a lot about UNESCO and the UN system in general. and Culture in Europe United Nations For me the best thing was to be given an opportunity to learn more and www.unesco.org/venice Educational, Scientiﬁc and contribute to the work of the Office. I could always receive feedback Cultural Organization from my supervisors and this gave me a reason to work harder, because I could see that all the work I did was appreciated and had a purpose. A big accomplishment for me was a short animated video that I created during the internship. Watch the video: REACHING THE MDGS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE Articles and photos credited UNESCO may be reproduced and/or translated for non-commercial purposes providing the credit line reads, “Reproduced from the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe’s newsletter: Bridges” and includes issue number, year, quarterly period and hyperlink. >>full story [7:27]