Press Releases

A new brochure explains the recently adopted UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology - the first global agreement to ensure that emerging neurotechnologies are developed and used with…

Daisy Fancourt, Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology and Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at UCL, has been announced as the new UNESCO … Chair in Arts and Global Health.

Durham has joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, continuing its long history as a significant site of scholarship and learning for over a thousand years.

Communities invited to submit beloved traditions - from Highland dancing to Pancake Day - for recognition as UK living heritage.

At Vindolanda Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall, a new pilot by the Vindolanda Trust, Kassandra and the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC)…

UNESCO UK has launched a new Framework and Research Agenda, positioning UNESCO sites as living laboratories for climate resilience.

A new mural celebrating the value of music has been unveiled at the Telegraph Building in Donegall Street…

As UNESCO marks its 80th anniversary, new analysis reveals that since 1994…

16 November 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in London.

The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) has launched a landmark scientific report, Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World:

The first Director of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Ali Bowden was presented with the Edinburgh Award by the Lord Provost Robert Aldridge yesterday evening (Tuesday 4 November).

Last month, representatives from The Great Spa Towns of Europe gathered in the German spa town of Bad Ems for their General Assembly.