The Declaration, adopted by the Members of the executive Board of WFUCA at the end of the 23rd Session of the Board, must be read in conjunction with the List of Projects adopted in Vinci, Italy, where that important session was held, from the 28th of February to the 3rd of March 2004.

That is why you will find in this issue of "Confluences" both those documents, as well as the decisions adopted by the Board and other information concerning the life of WFUCA. They attest our fidelity to UNESCO.

More than ever, as you will see, the projects adopted by the Board are directly linked with the programs of UNESCO and affirm our unqualified commitment to the Organization. Whether it be the project "Prevention of conflicts" or "Hanoi, 1000 years of a culture of peace" or those projects concerning the "Educational Centres in Africa" and "A society of information", all those activities are messengers of hope for the concerned communities and, finally, for the prospect of peace. Let us notice that the list published in that issue is not an exhaustive one and that each Federation is invited to complete it by sending its own projects to the Secretariat of WFUCA.

These local, national, regional or international actions cannot be fully realized without taking inspiration from the current issues of UNESCO. That is why we present in the same issue the main magazines and newsletters published by the Organisation. It is an invitation to everyone of us to have them in order to complete our projects successfully.
This informative policy, followed by WFUCA for more than 20 years, is more necessary than ever: that is why the next issue of "Confluences" will be completely dedicated to a collection of pedagogical documents, informative kits and booklets, carefully selected in relation according to their utility for our world network. It will comprise a "Guidebook of pedagogic resources" unlike any other ever assembled.

The participants in the Executive Board of Vinci strongly reiterated the need for WFUCA to establish contact among UNESCO Clubs from different Regions in order to facilitate the exchange of experiences and, in effect, to unite the "local" and "international" levels in order to bring to life the motto "Acting locally, thinking globally". Assuring that every member of a UNESCO Club become conscious of the universal impact of her or his own action has always been one of the "raisons d'être" of WFUCA. It is in that way that we hope to be able to announce, in a few weeks, the preparation of a World Meeting, next September, the main theme of which will be "From a society of information to a society of knowledge". The meeting will also consider some other items concerning WFUCA, such as the reform of our Constitution, for which every Active Member has received a questionnaire.

Finally, that new issue of "Confluences" is also an account of the necessary link existing between local Clubs, National Federations, Regional Federations and WFUCA. Between the carriers of projects, at every level, and WFUCA there is a kind of cooperation, complementarity and mutual bringing-in of ideas.

And it is that interaction which succeeds so nicely in making UNESCO's ideals alive on the field, day after day