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Gábor Soós, Secretary-General of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO, Visits ICCSD
2025-12-09 ICCSD

On October 21, Mr. Gábor Soós, Secretary-General of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO, visited the International Centre for Creativity and Sustainable Development under the auspices of UNESCO (ICCSD), accompanied by his wife. The two parties engaged in an in-depth exchange on the integration of culture and technology for sustainable development.

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Meeting in progress

Executive Director of ICCSD Xiao Lan introduced their work and achievements in areas such as research, dissemination, capacity building, and international cooperation. Secretary-General Soós highly commended these efforts and emphasized that China and Hungary share similar philosophies in cultural heritage preservation and innovative development, indicating broad prospects for cooperation.

During the talks, Secretary-General Soós shared Hungary's practices in creative city development, particularly highlighting the "SOPHIA—Cradle Cities for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network" initiative, which he leads. The mission of SOPHIA is to guide the development of AI-enhanced Digital Twins that are not merely technical models but also function as "living knowledge fields"—participatory and symbolic ecosystems that integrate cultural meanings, historical depth, ecological rhythms, and social memory. He stressed that this approach transforms community-based traditional knowledge into key digital assets for sustainable development, ensuring that technological innovation is rooted in cultural identity and promotes deep integration across education, culture, and science. Additionally, he introduced innovative ideas on integrating water governance with artificial intelligence, demonstrating how a cultural perspective can offer new solutions to sustainable development challenges. Based on the consensus reached, both parties will pursue further collaboration in their future work to jointly advance innovative culture-technology integration practices.

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A group photo of the participants

In the morning, staff from the ICCSD accompanied Secretary-General Soós on a visit to the BOE Yiyun Digital Art Center, located in the Wangfujing Department Store, where he experienced an engaging blend of traditional culture and modern technology.

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Secretary-General Soós experiencing an interactive digital art installation at the BOE Yiyun Digital Art Center

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The International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development under the Auspices of UNESCO (Category 2) was approved at the 38th session of UNESCO General Assembly in November 2015. In 2017, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality signed the agreement with UNESCO. ICCSD becomes the world's first UNESCO Category 2 center with the theme of "creativity and sustainable development". With the support and guidance of UNESCO, the Center intends to build the world's high-level international platform that aims at creativity and sustainable development, and includes the functions of research, training, cooperation, communication, demonstration etc. The Center shall become a first-class think-tank gathering talents throughout the world, building a global renowned "laboratory of thoughts" with a focus on creativity and innovation. It shall promote cultural exchanges and cooperation, disseminate and support Chinese enterprises, technology and culture.
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