Aswan Awarded UNESCO Learning City Prize

Aswan  has been named one of the ten cities that showed exemplary progress and commitment to promote education and lifelong learning at the local level by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

Major General Ahmed Ibrahim the Aswan governor, congratulated the people of the province and the organizers of the participation in the contest; this reflects the international status of the African youth capital, which has tourism, economic, scientific and cultural wealth, as well as an unlimited and varied cultural stock as a center for the convergence of cultures and arts.

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According to Mervat al-Samman, a coordinator for Aswan in the UIL, Aswan has managed to win this award thanks to their strategies which aim to bring people together, as well as their perse projects. These projects included gardening and water conservation projects in schools, as well as an availability of perse training opportunities for residents of Aswan.

Meanwhile, the cities along side Aswan were Chengdu, China, Heraklion, Greece, Ibadan, Nigeria, Medellín, Colombia, Melitopol, Ukraine, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Santiago, Mexico, Seodaemun-gu, Republic of Korea, and Sønderborg, Denmark.

Although these cities have their inpidual social, political, economic and environmental conditions contributing to their varying starting points, UNESCO Learning City Award emphasized that the 2019 winners have initiated innovative and target-specific policies and programs that provide fruitful opportunities for their communities to benefit  from lifelong learning.

Noteworthy, this award is a biennial celebration granted to cities in each of the five UNESCO regions that significantly enhanced its learning experience guided by the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities guiding documents.