International Cooperation for International Cooperation for Higher Education (ICE)Higher Education (ICE)

Higher Education DivisionHigher Education Division

Education SectorEducation Sector

Mission statement

ICE has at its core the realization of UNESCO function, in all its domains, as a laboratory of ideas and as a catalyst for international cooperation – complementing and giving leadership to know-how for social and economic development that underpins peace, human rights and democracy, equity and livelihoods. Thus ICE endeavours to meet emerging challenges in an era of globalization by promoting the use of new information technologies to build capacity and increase knowledge to advance the cause of sustainable development.

Rooted in its function is to bridge the knowledge gap and substantially increase the brain gain by assisting the establishment of centres of excellence in Member States. In so doing ICE promotes intellectual cooperation through twining and other linking arrangements among institutions of higher learning and academics throughout the world to permit access, transfer and adaptation of knowledge within and across borders.

Goals and objectivesTo: promote UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs as a strategy to implement

UNESCO Medium Term Plan as it concerns transfer and sharing of knowledge and the promotion of equitable societies

ensure that approved Chairs and Networks are in the framework of the global agenda, particularly the achievement of EFA goals and MDGs, while responding to national needs

strengthen higher education institutions in developing and transition countries through the establishment of Chairs and Networks as dynamic centres for sustainable development with links to academic groups and policy and decisions-makers among countries

ensure that UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs serve as a global knowledge broker and assume a catalytic role for development in UNESCO fields of competence, thus maintaining the inter-disciplinary nature of its mandate

advance UNESCO Academics Across Borders as an international initiative based on the principles of solidarity, sharing of knowledge and volunteerism

strengthen capacity in developing countries through exchange of knowledge, experiences, practices and technologies between developed and developing countries particularly – south-south and north-south cooperation

release sources of quality in countries for enhancing priority areas in all the domains of UNESCO

Global Coverage Towards Sustainable Development – an inter-sectoral programme

Defining ParametersWorld Conference on Higher Education

Education for AllMillennium Development Goals

HIV/AIDS preventionSustainable Development (Social, economic,

technological and cultural development)Human Rights and Democracy

International Cooperation for Higher(ICE)

UNITWIN Networks

UNESCOChairs

Resource mobilization

AAB

UniversityVolunteers

Open Educational Resources

IESALC focal point

UNITWIN Portal

ReportsNewsletters

Academics Across Academics Across Borders InitiativeBorders Initiative

• AAB proposes to harness and channel intellectual resources to reduce the gap between industrial and developing countries in the area of high level training and research through volunteerism and the reinforcement of academic solidarity

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Immigrant Population - a Immigrant Population - a Potential for AABPotential for AAB

Number of Tertiary Level Educated Immigrants, (Age 25 and older), in Number of Tertiary Level Educated Immigrants, (Age 25 and older), in the United States,2000the United States,2000**::

RegionRegion CountryCountry No. of immigrantsNo. of immigrants

East AsiaEast Asia PhilippinesPhilippines 844,400844,400

Central AsiaCentral Asia TurkeyTurkey 37,78537,785

Latin AmericaLatin America ColombiaColombia 186,035186,035

PeruPeru 116,765116,765

North AfricaNorth Africa EgyptEgypt 75,170 75,170

South AsiaSouth Asia BangladeshBangladesh 43,08543,085

AfricaAfrica NigeriaNigeria 90,62090,620

**Source fromSource from US Census Bureau, 2000, page 26. US Census Bureau, 2000, page 26.

Benefiting global, regional and national development Creating capacity for the sustainable

achievement of the development goals through a balanced exchange of knowledge and experiences

Opening access to educational resources across borders

Improving research capacity for scientific and technological research that will advance development and create new opportunities for employment

Optimizing services of highly skilled professionals, thus adding to the “brain gain”

Pillars of Academics Across BordersPillars of Academics Across Borders

For successful achievement of Academics Across Borders

OpenEducationalResources

Partnershipswith

IndustriesNGOs

Foundations

High Profile

Volunteersfor

Universities

Implementation Strategy

Establish partnerships with on-going programmes and activities

Staying abreast of developments leading to the achievements of the global agenda

Strengthen partnerships with industries and the private sector at large

Create an early response team for reconstruction of higher education in countries emerging from crisis and those in transition

Create and effect an evaluation mechanism – including indicators and feedback channels

Operational mechanismsand procedures Establishment of a data bank and portal for

participating universities and high profile volunteers

Facilitation of cross border activities through linkages with universities, national commissions for UNESCO, permanent delegations to UNESCO and private sector organizations, foundations and NGOs

Within UNESCO - strengthening of the UNITWIN inter-sectoral and inter-institutional working group to include AAB in its work

Expected outputs and resultsContribution of AAB initiative to theadvancement of higher education in

developing countries Improved intellectual and research capacity

of UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs programme Improved performance of universities in the

areas of research and programme development leading to the establishment of centres of excellence

Open access to university courses across borders with possibilities for adaptation to local use

No. of high profile academics and participating universities