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Motivated by concerns about Chinese influence, the US on Monday said it would rejoin UNESCO. That move probably comes with a bill: $600 million in back payments. The US left UNESCO — the UN cultural, educational and scientific body — in 2017 on the instruction of President Donald Trump, But since then, officials have expressed concern that the US vacating its spot leaves a power vacuum that is being filled by China. In March, discussing plans to return during a State Department press briefing, senior official John Bass described "a key opportunity cost that our absence is creating in our global competition with China." "So if we're really serious about the digital-age competition with China ... we can't afford to be absent any longer." UNESCO's Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, Before Azoulay took up her role, Xi was keenly interested in a Chinese person filling the position, amid a wider push towards a strong presence at multiple international organizations, The move reflects President Joe Biden's characteristic willingness to re-join international pacts vacated by Trump, such as

UNESCO is a non-profit organization formed by several countries. It carries out the mission of maintaining peace, comprehensive assistance, protection of human heritage on earth, and valuable objects and cultures of different states. It was founded in the fall of 1945 in London (UK). Now its headquarters are located in Paris (France). It has branches and representative offices on all five continents through which it operates. Meaning and History The UNESCO emblem is a stylized name made up of the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization letters. The abbreviation and full name are used in the structure of the most recognizable logo. It symbolizes that the organization is the bulwark of the world and is ready to support all good endeavors and the disappearing heritage of humankind. The distinctive symbolism of the international non-profit structure appeared immediately after its foundation. It represents a schematic construction of an ancient Greek temple, where instead of supporting columns, there are letters from the name, located from left to right, in the order of reading the word –“U,”“N,”“E,”“S,”“C,”“O.” Because they are stylized as architectural elements, their shape is narrower and more elongated. All letters are compressed horizontally and closely resemble the Empire font. What is UNESCO? It is a specialized office of the United Nations international organization. It was founded in 1945 to address issues of culture, science, and education. Its ...

Discover UNESCO Headquarters, a treasure of modern architecture and the fruit of collaboration between several iconic architects of the twentieth century such as Bernard Zehrfuss, Marcel Breuer and Pier Luigi Nervi. The mission and actions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will be the basis of your visit. It will allow you to discover how the organization works, the values it conveys and how it affects people's daily lives. The Place de Fontenoy in Paris is home to UNESCO's Headquarters. Inaugurated on November 3, 1958, it is today the Organisation's main building. Prior to its inauguration, the Hotel Majestic on Avenue Kléber, in Paris, was UNESCO's temporary home until it moved to its current headquarters on the Place de Fontenoy. Discover UNESCO’s Headquarters, a treasure of modern architecture and the fruit of collaboration between several iconic architects of the twentieth century such as Bernard Zehrfuss, Marcel Breuer and Pier Luigi Nervi. The mission and actions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will be the base of your visit. It will allow you to discover how the organization works, the values it carries and how it affects the daily lives of people. You will cross the emblematic rooms and halls of this "house of peace" made of glass and concrete like the Japanese garden of Isamu Noguchi or the meditation space of Tadao Ando. This will be the occasion to discover major pieces from Miró, Pic...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others. Open license refers to a license that respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and provides permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute educational materials. The To support Member States implementation of the 2019 Recommendation on OER, UNESCO established the OER Dynamic Coalition. The OER Dynamic Coalition aims to support networking and sharing of information to create synergies around the 5 areas of action of the recommendation: (i) building capacity of stakeholders to create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute OER; (ii) developing supportive policy; (iii) encouraging inclusive and equitable quality OER; (iv) nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER, and (v) facilitating international cooperation. •