The UNESCO Cousteau Ecotechnie Programme is an international initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote interdisciplinary education, research and policy-making in the field of sustainable ecological development and ecotechnology.
UCEP's mission is to reduce barriers to change through new incentives and by providing future decision- and policy-makers with integrated, multidisciplinary education, training and research. It is a joint effort of the Man and the Biosphere Programme and the Cousteau Society.
Among its main activities is the designation of UNESCO-Cousteau Ecotechnie Chairs at universities and research institutions around the world.
Famous quotes containing the word chair:
“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)