ERI/RPO/PPF/10.10.jcm External Relations and Public Information Division of Relations with Organizations and Partnerships Participation Programme and Fellowships Section

UNESCO Experience in Fellowships Trends in UNESCO Fellowships Programmes

Decrease in Regular Budget Funding Activities and Staff: (From Division to Section to a Unit in a Section) Reduction in fellowships through UNESCO (WB, UNDP)

Increase of extrabudgetary funding through cost-sharing Arrangements with interested donors (Res. Of G.C.) Governments, Academic/Research Institutions, Foundations Private Sector Risk of disappearance of long-duration studies

Contribution of the emerging economies in Asia (China, Republic of Korea, India). South-South Cooperation

Immense needs to: update knowledge and skills in all UNESCO fields of competence Education, Science, Culture, Information and Communication necessitate continuous training and retraining and intellectual solidarity with developing countries through fellowships for priority groups LDCs Africa Women (gender equality) and Youth

In particular: immense needs to: Retrain teachers, educators and trainers (for the first time in history, students may be more informed than Teachers due to: Recent tremendous changes in knowledge transmission; The role of teachers had drastically changed (ICTs) From source of knowledge to orientation and guiding

Increase in the demand of impact evaluation and visibility (Efficiency with risk of publicity ) For this ethical reason, some Member States have objections to cooperation with the private sector

Contribution of Western Europe and North America is limited to receiving fellows in host academic institutions; Some of them proposed (DR) deleting Fellowships from Programme and Budget Most of the budget allocated to fellowships is spent in these countries (Tuition fees, international travel, accommodation). The need to persuade Member States to include fellowships in their priorities

Finally Four Positive Trends: Cost-Shring Arrangements South-South Cooperation Contribution of the Private Sector Impact evaluation

ERI/RPO/PPF Fellowship Implementations ProgrammeRP & Co-Sponsored No. of beneficiaries RP Funds FIT/Extra Budgetary Funds Value of Contributions- in-kind Total $ Value (RP) Individual Request- UNESCO Fellowships Programme in support of Programme Priorities ( ) CL/ Co-Sponsored Fellowships (Travel Grants - Financed under RP): REP. OF KOREA Total no. of awards = 187 ISRAEL-MASHAV Total value (RP fund) = US $ ISRAEL - Post Doc. Studies in Science & Technology POLAND Total value of Contributions-in-kind = US $ CZECH REPUBLIC PEOPLE'S REP. OF CHINA RUSSIAN FEDERATION Sub Total Co-Sponsored Fellowships Co-Sponsored Fellowships (Funds-in-trust-FIT) UNESCO/SAUDI ARABIA - Enhancing Palestinian Human Capital UNESCO/KEIZO OBUCHI (FIT) UNESCO/L'OREAL Co-Sponsored Fellowships (FIT) 2007 (Phase II) → Award Ceremony → (Phase I) → (Phase II) → Award Ceremony → (Phase I) → Sub Total Funds -in-Trust (FIT) Grand Total

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