教科文组织国际教育局

Education and Diversity: learning how to live together (August 14, 15, and 16, 2002)

In the context of follow-up to the forty-sixth session of the International Conference on Education (ICE, Geneva, September 2001), the IBE participated in a major event in Brazil. This event was the II Telecongresso de Educação de Jovens y Adultos (the second Telecongress for the Education of Young People and Adults).

This activity was organized by the Brazilian Serviço Social de Indústria (SESI), the University of Brasilia and UNESCO's Brasilia Office.

The Congress was held simultaneously in more than 200 focal points in Brazil and one focal point in Geneva using new information technologies.

The 'II Telecongresso' counted more than 15,000 participants and can be considered as an example of wide-scale promotion of educational innovations, best practices and policy dialogue that should be analysed for transfer to other countries, especially E-9 countries.

The link to the focal point in Geneva took the form of a video-conference with Brasilia. This was arranged in collaboration with the Summer University for Human Rights and the Right to Education organized by the International Organization for the Development of the Freedom of Education (OIDEL), and took place on 16 August 2002.

The IBE organized this event at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, as a round-table on the theme: 'Learning to Live Together: Creating Respect for Pluralism, Mutual Understanding and Peace', which also falls within the context of follow-up to the forty-sixth session of the ICE.