{"id":25473,"date":"2024-07-30T11:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T06:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25473"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:43:29","slug":"istic-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/istic-unesco\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ISTIC-UNESCO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About ISTIC-UNESCO:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation under the Auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC) which is <strong>a UNESCO Category 2 Centre.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Malaysian <\/strong>Government has hosted this since 2008.<\/li>\n<li>The Centre acts as an international platform offering <strong>sustainable programmes and services<\/strong> and augmenting <strong>sustainable development<\/strong> for South-South Cooperation.<\/li>\n<li>The Centre\u2019s hosting is based on a six-year Agreement between the Malaysian Government represented by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) and UNESCO.<\/li>\n<li>Its current Agreement is from February 2022 until January 2028.<\/li>\n<li>The Mission of the organization is to be \u201cA leading international platform offering sustainable programmes and services in producing holistic talents towards institutional excellence and\u202faugmenting <strong>sustainable development for South-South Cooperation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It aimed to support the <strong>exchange of students<\/strong>, researchers, scientists, and technologists among developing countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is UNESCO Category 2 Centre?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These institutes and centres under the auspices of UNESCO are a global network of institutions of <strong>excellence in the Organization\u2019s domains of competence<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These centres are a privileged partner of the Organization with <strong>access to UNESCO\u2019s logo<\/strong> and international and intergovernmental bodies and networks and may leverage on UNESCO\u2019s international reach and convening powers.<\/li>\n<li>Category 2 institutes and centres under the auspices of UNESCO are an integral part of the Organization\u2019s <strong>Comprehensive Partnership Strategy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is sustainable development?<\/h3>\n<p>It is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2038392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First STI Conclave on \u201cTraditional Knowledge for Sustainable Livelihoods\u201d organised jointly by ISTIC-UNESCO and CSIR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTIC-UNESCO acts as an international platform offering sustainable programmes and services and augmenting sustainable development for South-South Cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}