Education :: SDNP

As a stimulus for the Ecuadorian society to not lose faith in the search for a better cultural educational level and within the recognized framework of national strategies to fulfill the Eight Millennium Goals of the United Nations, UNESCO is making a special tribute to the Ecuadorian people and government by giving the President of the Republic, Lucio Guitierrez, the “Albert Einstein” Gold Medal for the International Year of Physics.

UNESCO highlights the accurate results from the Third National Advising for Education in the 21st Century, which presented a national conciliation with all educational actors and the Ecuadorian society for greater vision and goals in the educational field to coincide with the expectations of the international community towards 2015.

This recognition is in the context that it is necessary for nations to be prepared for the current globalization process and competitivity without precedents, on a path towards what is called the Information and Knowledge Society.

The “Albert Einstein” Gold Medal was created to promote education and recognize technological and scientific achievements that the society achieves day to day in their search for better welfare and greater development of their communities. In 2004, Professor Herwig Schopper, a well-known scientific figure, was decorated with this medal for his unrelenting work and collaboration with the international community for scientific development and development of programmes with UNESCO.