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UNESCO Youth Leader Charlotte Steel reports back on the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, which she and Māia Tapsell participated in. The National Commission sponsored a panel discussion called ‘Te Reo Boom’
Poetrys
A new and improved version of Youthtown’s Design Change programme, run through Tauhara College in Taupo, has seen young people designing projects that reflect the values of global citizenship.
Design change group 2018
The National Commission supported Nola Smart to participate in UN Youth’s Aotearoa Youth Declaration conference. She reports back.
In 2018, we allocated a major grant to the New Zealand Council for Educational Research in collaboration with Gamefroot, for their project Games for Tuia. The project supports youth to develop digital games to commemorate Encounters 250, which acknowledges the exceptional feats of Pacific voyagers who reached and settled in Aotearoa.
Games for Tuia
The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO is currently seeking nominations for the prestigious UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science.
Kalinga Prize medal
Whanganui is hosting a celebration of jazz on International Jazz Day (30 April), with the help of a minor grant from the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO.
Jazz
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