As a first step, the Study Group recommends that ICSU actively promote cooperation between traditional knowledge and science at the United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (South Africa) in August 2002.

UNESCO: Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Separately, they agreed on a Hanoi Action Plan that will study the possibility of an ASEAN currency, press cooperation on infrastructure and promote bond markets.

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The National Center for Education Statistics constructed a "world average" of 18 countries that are members of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and that participated in the IEA reading study.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

Commissioned as part of the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All and carried out in cooperation with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Lucerne, Switzerland, the study also makes recommendations in terms of content, methodology, usability and process for the future development of education materials against racism, discrimination and intolerance.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

During the seminar there were some issues discussed of further development and international cooperation focusing on strengthening of scientific-research hydrology potential with application of up-to-date methods of study.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN TASHKENT

With the new pope being himself a trained scientist -- Francis graduated as a chemical technician before moving on to study philosophy, psychology and theology -- the timing could be right for a new era of cooperation between the Vatican and science, building on the work of the STOQ Project -- Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest -- which was created by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

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