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The UNESCO Science Report is a global monitoring report published regularly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.Every five years, this report maps the latest trends and developments in national and regional policy landscapes, against the backdrop of shifting socio-economic, geopolitical and environmental realities.
Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015) In 2010, Tanzania devoted 1.7% of GDP to higher education and 6.2% of GDP to education as a whole, one of the highest rates in Africa. Even though Tanzania had eight public institutions of higher education and a plethora of private institutions in 2015, fewer than half of secondary school ...
Promising results of health and medical research are reported: a mRNA vaccine-like immunotherapy against brain cancer tested in a preliminary small trial (1 May), [314] ferrets-tested mRNA vaccine against the clade 2.3.4.4b H5 bird flu amid concerning developments of the 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak (23 May), [315] [316] mice-tested antibiotic ...
In 2020 UNESCO stated that the size of the illicit trade in cultural property amounted to 10 billion dollars a year. A report that same year by the Rand Organization suggested the actual market is "not likely to be larger than a few hundred million dollars each year". An expert cited by UNESCO as attributing the 10 billion figure denied it ...
The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development was proclaimed by the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly 2 December 2021 for 2022, [1] [2] [3] stressing that the applications of basic sciences are vital for advances in medicine, industry, agriculture, water resources, energy planning, environment, communications and culture, and that basic sciences rupture ...
The European Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that 2024 was the world's hottest year on record, and the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold of 1.5°C of global warming. [ 9 ] The first fully 3D printed microscope is revealed by the University of Strathclyde , made in just a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of ...
2016 UN World Water Development Report, Water and Jobs. UNESDOC license page; Monthly page views of articles using text from this publication; P. 78 Chapter on Water in Africa Water in Africa: Almost exact copy of the chapter UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030. UNESDOC license page; Monthly page views of articles using text from this publication
Trends in Iranian scientific publications, 2005–2014. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015) Vision 2025 foresaw an investment of US$3.7 trillion by 2025 to finance the transition to a knowledge economy. It was intended for one-third of this amount to come from abroad but, so far, FDI has remained elusive.