The UNESCO Fellowships Programme provides opportunities for innovative training and high-level studies through the granting of short-term postgraduate fellowships for the benefit of UNESCO’s Member States and Associate Members.

The Director-General Irina Bokova is encouraging Member States to recommend a preferred candidate as well as one alternate by 30 April 2010. Follow this link to read more about the criteria for applications and details on the submission process: Application form and guidlines.

Before the tsunami in 2004, there was no system in the Indian Ocean to warn its coastal populations that danger was imminent. Now, five years after and following intensive efforts by twenty-eight governments around the Indian Ocean and a huge international effort coordinated by UNESCO/IOC, a regional end-to-end tsunami and multi-hazard warning system is firmly in place.

Read about the strategy and implementation. Download Report