The future belongs to those who can combine forms of knowledge and different skills.

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One of UNESCO's main mandates is to promote the free flow of all forms of knowledge in education, science, culture and communication.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus (the Syrian Arab Republic) and the Nubian Museum in Aswan (Egypt) are selected to highlight this intercultural exchange of scientific, religious and artistic forms of knowledge.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Made from an offshoot of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden, the wood takes various forms across the millennia, becoming an object of reverence, desire and fear for various crowned heads until the early seventh century, when a Christian emperor humbly carries it to its sanctuary in Jerusalem.

WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca

The results point out to a complexity of challenges, but indicate new perspectives for action showing a multi-formed scenario with diverse trends that are sometimes divergent and contradictory on the debate for raising possibilities to promote transformations in Higher Education and Research systems in order to stimulate and develop new forms of learning and producing, as well as managing and broadening knowledge.

UNESCO: Desafios e perspectivas da educa??o superior brasileira para a pr��xima d��cada (PDF only) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization