More companies are also turning to business schools to help develop managers who can lead teams in a global business environment, and consider programs such as OneMBA, a partnership of five leading schools on four continents, as part of their institutional training platform.

FORBES: Going global: A New Breed of Executive MBA

IPBES-1 also requested UNESCO, UNEP, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to establish an institutional link with the Platform through a collaborative partnership arrangement for the work of IPBES and its Secretariat.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

During the first session of the IPBES plenary meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on 3-7 October 2011, delegates made considerable progress in determining the platform's modalities and institutional arrangements.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples

The two day consultation featured discussion on journalism curricula, teaching resources, assessment systems, external links and recognition and coherent institutional development plans, providing stakeholders with an informed platform on which to initiate partnerships, best practice and knowledge exchange initiatives.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Rather than simply remaining a place for reactive problem-solving, the platform has become a place where talented programmers find each other across geographic and institutional boundaries and join together to launch major new application development initiatives.

FORBES

The second UNESCO workshop, on Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform, will take place on 18 September to focus specifically on the criteria of journalism curriculum and institutional capacity to use OER in journalism training institutions.

UNESCO: Communication and Information