Category I Institutes and Centres

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Category I Institutes and Centres

• UNESCOs Worldwide Network of Expertise and
  Know-How

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Nature of Cat. I Institutes and Centres

• These Institutes and Centres are
• institutionally part of UNESCO
• their overall programmes and priorities form an
  integral part of the Organizations Programme and
  Budget (C/5)
• serve a specific purpose within the fields of
  competence of UNESCO
• respond to both global and field-based needs
• have a degree of functional autonomy

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Purpose and functions

• Category I Institutes and Centres
• serve as centres of excellence and providers of
  technical support and expertise in their area of
  specialization to Member States and other
  Secretariat units, including field offices.
• are devoted to capacity-building in their
  respective fields of competence

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A worldwide network
IITE
UIL
UNEVOC
UIS
IHE
IIEP
IBE
ICTP
CEPES
IICBA
IESALC
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For more Information

• European Centre for Higher Education, Bucharest,
  Romania.www.cepes.ro
• International Centre for Technical and Vocational
  Education and Training, Bonn, Germany.www.unevoc.
  unesco.org
• UNESCO Institute of Statistics Montréal, Canada.
• www.uis.unesco.org
• International Centre for theoretical Physics
  Trieste, Italy.
• www.ictp.it
• Institute for Water Education Delft, The
  Netherlands.
• www.unesco-ihe.org/

• International Bureau of Education Geneva,
  Switzerland.
• www.ibe.unesco.org
• International Institute for Educational Planning,
  Paris, France Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• www.unesco.org/iiep
• UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Hamburg,
  Germany.
• www.unesco.org/education/uie
• Institute for Information Technologies in
  Education Moscow, Russia.
• www.iite.ru
• International Institute for Higher Education in
  Latin America the Caribbean Caracas,
  Venezuela.
• www.iesalc.unesco.org.ve
• International Institute for Capacity-Building in
  Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• www.unesco-iicba.org