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UNESCO-EU Transcultura programme wins UN SIDS Partnerships Awards 2024
The UNESCO programme Transcultura Integrating Cuba the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity has been laureated with the prestigious United Nations Small Island Developing States SIDS Partnerships Awards 2024 in the Social category This announcement was made public today in the framework of the 4th International Conference on Small Island Development States in Antigua and Barbuda
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Call for Culture Programme Assistant
To support the visibility of the UNESCO Havana activities at the Office website the Portal of Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean and the social networks
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UNESCO - EU Transcultura Programme extends until February 28 its Second Call for Applications for young Caribbean creative professionals
The Transcultura Programme Integrating Cuba the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity launched?the Second Call for Applications to the Transcultura Scholarship Scheme in partnership with the University of West Indies Open Campus UWIOC It is a fully funded scheme supporting young artists and cultural professionals developing a career related to culture and creativity Candidates will have the opportunity to enroll in short capacitybuilding online and blended courses on Cultural and Creative Industries CCI offered by the Transcultura Regional Cultural Training Hub? The Call has been extended to February 28 2022 This Call for Applications round 2 offers free access to blended courses conducted by the UWIOC for young Caribbeans within the cultural and creative sector enabling them to manage and develop their business ideas and projects The blended courses are part of the Transcultura Course Catalogue ?? ?Small Business Management ?? ?Effective management and Leadership? ?? ?Effective Business Communication? ?? ?Grant Proposal Writing? ?? ?Financial Monitoring and Evaluation ?? ?Project Management ?? ?Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation? ?? ?Finance for NonFinance Manager ?? ?Sales and Marketing Management ?? ?Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management ?? ?Brand Management? The Transcultura training opportunities are designed in both facetoface and online formats primarily in physical centres in Havana but also through partner institutions like the University of the West Indies and its Open Campus However given the need to address and adapt the capacitybuilding component of the Programme there are currently implemented exclusively in an online and blended format With this initiative Transcultura aims to deepen cultural cooperation in the Caribbean and strengthen peopletopeople cooperation by empowering young women and men as agents for sustainable development through capacity building in the cultural and creative industries seeking to boost entrepreneurship and innovation foster cooperation in the arts and culture sector and create exchanges and networks to enhance complementarity and knowledge sharing Transcultura is a fouryear Programme funded by the European Union and implemented by the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean? Do not miss this outstanding opportunity to become a Transcultura Fellow? Learn more and apply here httpswwwopenuwiedutransculturascholarships
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UNESCO and Cuban institutions forge synergies to develop the Transcultura Programme Regional Cultural Training Hub
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Transcultura Programme promotes knowledge of Digital Educommunication in Cuban institutions of the Regional Cultural Training Hub
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UNESCO Transcultura programme supports Caribbean musicians at World Music Exhibition (WOMEX) 2021
The UNESCO Transcultura Programme Integrating Cuba the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity an initiative funded by the European Union and jointly implemented by UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean and several institutions in Cuba and the Caribbean sponsored four groups of talented young musicians from the Caribbean to participate in the World Music Exhibition WOMEX whose 21st edition took place in Porto Portugal from 27 to 31 October 2021 Azue? Blvk H3ro Reggae Soul Band Yarima Blanco y Son Latino and Cimafunk were the four groups selected by the WOMEX jury to participate in the event and perform following a Call for sponsorship of WOMEX application fees for Caribbean musicians and music professionals launched by UNESCO in March 2021 ?
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National Network of Biosphere Reserves is strengthened in Cuba
On November 17 2021 an important meeting that had been postponed by the COVID19 pandemic became a reality the National Workshop on Cubas Biosphere Reserves which brought together in Havana in person and virtually the managers of the six biosphere reserves in the country? Since the official visit to Cuba of the Director General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in December 2019 it had been agreed to hold this event under the auspices of this organization Thanks to the joint efforts of the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment CITMA its Environment Agency AMA together with the Cuban National Commission for UNESCO CNCU and UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in America Latin America and the Caribbean it was possible to materialize this important meeting in a very special context the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of Man and the Biosphere MaB Programme as Tatiana Villegas Officer in Charge of UNESCO Office recalled in her opening remarks also highlighting that ? ?
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UNESCO joins Cuba in its purpose of promoting science and technology parks
The Training Workshop on innovation policies and science and technology parks organized by UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean the Cuban National Commission for UNESCO CNCU and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment CITMA concluded successfully in Havana on November 30 2021 with the express purpose of the Cuban authorities to promote the creation of science and technology parks in the country
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Jazz at the heart of Caribbean Dialogue and Cultural Integration
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Teachers from the Transcultura Regional Cultural Training Hub take part in Online Education Workshop
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UNESCO Transcultura Programme trains Caribbean facilitators for blended teaching
? UNESCOThe UWI Open Campus The University of the West Indies has vast experience and expertise in conducting capacitybuilding courses across the Caribbean region Photo UWIOC? The UNESCO Transcultura Programme Integrating Cuba the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity in collaboration with The University of the West Indies The UWI Open Campus has benefitted 150 cultural facilitators from training institutions in Cuba and the Dominican Republic who received the Blended Teaching Training Course?
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A Cuban woman who promotes gender equality to the rhythm of the Son wins the UNESCO Transcultura Programme call
Yarima Blanco has the vital energy of a person born in eastern Cuba In 2006 she became the first woman to graduate from the University of the Arts ISA majoring in the tres a fact that has marked her life on a journey with an instrument that until then had been the exclusive domain of men in higher education Today Yarima directs and heads the septet Yarima Blanco y Son Latino where she defies no few myths every day One of those challenges is her performance with the tres a stringed instrument born in rural areas that plays a leading role in the soundtrack of peasant festivals in Cuba?
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UNESCO's Transcultura programme and WOMEX lift Caribbean musicians to the global stage
For Jamaican musician Blvk H3ro winning the UNESCO Transcultura Programme Call to perform at the Worldwide Music Expo WOMEX is a unique opportunity ?