Learning and educational opportunities

“Education is a powerful tool to transform the world and drive long-long-term climate change action. This Guidance responds to the calls from young people for a holistic approach to climate change and sustainability in the curriculum. It outlines a common language on how quality climate change and...

“The report aims to highlight examples of best practice and inform the creation of a toolkit for libraries to help them support environmental action, further the greening libraries movement as well as exemplify sustainability practices that are consistent with United Nations Sustainable Development...

“For museum managers a day to day health and safety concern is the assessment and management of risks relating to visitors and their interaction with the museum’s building, events and activities. The prevalence of dealing with related matters means that they become part of the management routine...

“These Guidelines are both a policy framework and a practical tool to help countries at all levels of development manage the transition to low-carbon economies and can also help them achieve their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) [for climate action] and the 2030 Sustainable...

“The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform decision makers, to give guidance to the international library community about children's needs and rights on information, literacy and reading and to help public libraries implement high quality children's services.”

“Post-disaster recovery processes are often centrally planned and implemented, and they sometimes follow a top-down approach that does not engage affected communities in their own recovery process. Given that post-disaster contexts are particularly difficult environments that can cause large-scale...

“These Guidelines are a practical aid for all German museums on the care of collections from colonial contexts. They additionally provide an information base for international professional colleagues, political decision makers, as well as representatives of post-colonial initiatives and diaspora...

“The Guidelines on the effective implementation on the right to participate in public affairs provide directions for States on how to ensure participation. The Guidelines include recommendations on different dimensions of the right to participate, for example on participation in electoral processes...

“A key aspect of a culture of meaningful participation is bridging the gap between children who are taking actions and decision makers, by facilitating access to information that can be used by children to input their own actions and initiatives, and that has been adapted to fit children's needs. 

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This open access, easy-to-use online platform allows users explore thematically, chronologically, and geographically art history worldwide using MET collections.

“Children have a right to seek and receive information, including about their human rights. If this right is to be implemented in practice, the information that they receive needs to be available in ways that they can understand. One approach is to produce what are sometimes referred to as ‘child...

“Most European Union (EU) Member States have institutions whose task is to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and its victims. Many of these institutions offer educational programmes that extend beyond the Holocaust itself and allow visiting groups, particularly young people, to reflect on...