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Protecting cultural heritage during conflicts and ensuring its reconstruction

09/12/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

The committee recommended developing international guidelines for protection and reconstruction of damaged or destroyed cultural heritage in order to preserve cultural identity and diversity in crisis and post-crisis situations.

The MUCEM wins the 2015 Council of Europe Museum Prize

08/12/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

The Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2015 has been awarded to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM) in Marseille. The museum was selected from a shortlist of three candidates by the committee.

PACE committee calls for increased student mobility

05/12/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Council of Europe member States should increase the availability of student funding with a view to increasing student mobility, the committee concluded, adopting a report by Christian Barilaro.

Media freedom: some Member States do not respect their obligations

04/12/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Opening a Conference on media freedom and the security of journalists in Paris today, Anne Brasseur has called for the end to crimes against journalists who pay with their lives their safety to guarantee us access to information.

New online ‘rapid reaction’ platform for journalists facing threats

26/11/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Diplomats could come to the aid of journalists facing intimidation or violence under plans for an online “rapid reaction” alert system to be unveiled at a parliamentary conference on media freedom.

PACE rapporteur: 'FIFA Ethics Committee’s conclusions are an attempted whitewash'

14/11/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

"The FIFA conclusions, as presented in Mr Eckert’s statement, are clearly an attempted whitewash aimed at putting an end to the embarrassing debate about the need to rerun the World Cup bid process", Michael Connarty said.

PACE aims to raise the status of vocational education and training

24/06/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

A PACE committee has called for urgent measures to improve the quality of vocational training, boost its attractiveness and bring it into line with the needs of the labour market.

The Baksi Museum (Turkey), honoured in Strasbourg ceremony

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).

Schools should be the place where young people learn to live in harmony

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.

New standards to protect privacy and data online

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.

Culture Committee cancels Moscow meeting, citing Ukraine crisis

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.

A call for a White Paper on ‘Democracy, politics and the Internet’

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.