08/04/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE President and the Turkish Minister of European Union Affairs and Chief Negotiator, former PACE President took part in the ceremony award of the 2014 Museum Prize to the Baksi Museum (Turkey).
11/03/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The committee today called for higher quality teaching, provided without discrimination, promoting gender equality in and through education and countering homophobia.
11/03/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Online surveillance, profiling or storage of user data must be carried out in line with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights, PACE’s Culture, Science, Education and Media Committee has said.
03/03/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Citing Ukraine's crisis, the Chairperson of PACE's Culture Committee has decided to cancel a forthcoming meeting in Moscow. In a separate decision, the Committee on Legal Affairs has called for a PACE fact-finding mission to Crimea.
04/12/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Internet must not be allowed to become a gigantic prying mechanism, operating beyond democratic control, a no-go area dominated by hidden powers, in which no responsibility can be assigned to anyone, Anne Brasseur said.
04/12/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The endangered heritage and the lack of safeguards for it are of concern for many member states, particularly in central and eastern Europe, south east Europe and the Caucasus, says the Culture Committee.
03/12/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2014 has been awarded to the Baksi Museum in Bayburt (Turkey). This museum aspires to bring a high standard of art and design to an under-developed rural area of Northern Anatolia.
28/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“Crowdsourcing and semantic polling are tools that help policy-makers, but it will always be up to policy-makers to assume full responsibility and not water it down”, said Anne Brasseur.
21/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The jury of the European Museum Forum (EMF) has selected a short list of three candidates for the 2014 Council of Europe Museum Prize, in the presence of Vesna Marjanovic PACE rapporteur on the prize.
07/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Parliamentarians from Serbia and from PACE have jointly called on Council of Europe ministers to reinforce their action to improve media freedom throughout Europe and keep journalists safe.
01/10/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Following the revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, when and on what terms states should have the right to interfere with an individual's internet data was the focus of a hearing in PACE's Culture Committee today.
25/09/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Organised in co-operation with the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society, the conference will focus in particular on good practices and the role of parliaments in the context of transparency of media ownership.