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The Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec (MRIF) recently published a report entitled “Le Québec et l’UNESCO — Une vision, une communauté, des priorités pour 2020-2021.“ The report highlights the contribution of the Quebec-UNESCO community.

As part of the Canadian federal government’s Anti-Racism Action Program, Canadian Heritage has awarded funding to Concordia University and it’s Landscape of Hope unique evidence-based intervention. The project is also a youth-led art initiative.

Ghayda Hassan and David Morin, co-holders of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, wrote an open letter in the newspaper La Presse in response to a text by Gérard Bouchard published on September 26, 2020.

Ghayda Hassan and David Morin, co-holders of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, participated in the remarkable Quebec documentary Les poussières de Daech, which aired on Télé-Québec on September 2 and broadcast again on September 9, 2020.

During the summer of 2020, the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) launched a series entitled Focus on Research and Creation. In the area of prevention and evaluation, a portrait of the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism (UNESCO-PREV Chair) was presented.

Concordia University’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) has received a prestigious grant of $1.8 million spread over the next seven (7) years from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC), one of the province’s most renowned research funding institutions.