03/04/2025 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“I wish to express my strong support for the ClearingSport initiative by Play the Game and its crucial role in addressing corruption, financial misconduct and other threats to integrity in sport,” said PACE’s General Rapporteur on governance and ethics in sport Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“History education should be a key part of human rights education and a foundation for young people to develop democratic citizenship,” the PACE Committee on Culture said today. However, “delivering quality history education in schools can be very challenging due to overloaded curricula...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE's Committee on Culture today called on Council of Europe member states to review their legislation to better safeguard the right to freedom of expression on social media. They should in particular, it said, “require that social media uphold users’ fundamental rights, including freedom of...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on Governance and Ethics in Sport, today made the following statement: “On 11 December FIFA is set to decide on the host country for the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Saudi Arabia is the only candidate, following a rather opaque process. Unfortunately...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
In a letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the Chair of the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media Linda Hofstad Helleland (Norway, EPP/CD) has underlined the importance of ensuring the highest standards in the protection of human rights at the 2034 World Cup. "As one of the...
19/11/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Linda Hofstad Helleland (Norway, EPP/CD), Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, today regretted the decision taken by the Moscow authorities to close, as from 14 November 2024, the Gulag History Museum, winner of the 2021 Council of Europe Museum Prize...
12/07/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
According to the Committee on Culture, the metaverse – a network of interconnected virtual worlds characterised by presence, persistence, immersion and interoperability – represents a new frontier for the digital age, with immersive technologies already being used successfully in multiple sectors...
31/05/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE's Culture Committee has condemned the systematic erasure of Ukrainian cultural identity by the Russian Federation following the 2014 occupation of Crimea and parts of Donbas and the 2022 full-scale invasion. The parliamentarians highlighted extensive policies of "Russification", historical...
24/05/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Vilnius today, considers that the crises Europe has experienced – such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine – have highlighted the weakness of a narrow understanding of inclusive education, pointing out that children with complex needs have been...
24/05/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Vilnius today, called on member states to include cultural heritage preservation in their strategies designed to address climate change and its impact. The parliamentarians expressed their concern at the fact that “all forms of cultural heritage – tangible...
05/12/2023 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The 2024 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to Sybir Memorial Museum (Bialystok, Poland). The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting today. Sybir Memorial Museum tells the story of successive deportations of...
04/12/2023 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Since the Council of Europe Platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists was established in 2015, the number of alerts posted therein per year has risen constantly, and it has more than doubled from 108 in 2015 to 289 in 2022, the PACE Culture Committee underlined...