In particular, the participants set out to identify researchers and other qualified personnel from different Andean countries, who could form the nucleus of a Working Group on Snow and Ice within the framework of an Andean-FRIEND (Andean - Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data).

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003

The 1990s saw a step in this direction, with the development of a new form of testing that assesses the extent to which young people and adults in different countries acquired certain key competencies required for work and everyday life.

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