News

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13 June 2025

UK Committee for UNESCO Global Geoparks holds annual meeting in Arran Geopark

In early June, the UK Committee for UNESCO Global Geoparks (UKUGG) held its annual meeting in the recently designated Arran Geopark.

13 June 2025

UNSECO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) turns 50

Dr Ben Howard is an early career representative on the UK National Committee for the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme.

12 June 2025

Five exceptional researchers win the 2025 L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards

The Fondation L’Oréal and UNESCO have announced the names of the five international laureates of the 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.

11 June 2025

Dual UNESCO Designation for Manchester and Nanjing celebrated at award-winning Manchester Festival of Libraries

Manchester is celebrating a momentous occasion as the city receives international acclaim with not one, but two prestigious UNESCO designations.

10 June 2025

UKNC Non-Executive Director (Culture) Dr Charlotte Joy joins high-level panel at Second Edition of the Naples Conference on Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century

UKNC Non-Executive Director (Culture) Dr Charlotte Joy recently represented the UK and Northern Ireland at Second Edition of the Naples Conference on Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century.

06 June 2025

UNESCO Designations celebrate success at the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2025

UNESCO sites in England showed that they are the 'best of the best' places to visit…

06 June 2025

New Royal Mail stamps celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory, part of the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site

On 22 June 1675, King Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

05 June 2025

Forth Bridge UNESCO World Heritage Site management plan update consultation open

The Forth Bridge was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015. Now that the initial management plan for the site has reached the end of the first decade of inscription…

03 June 2025

Loughborough Professor becomes the first-ever UNESCO Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability

Loughborough University’s Professor Mike Wilson has been appointed as UNESCO’s first ever Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability.

30 May 2025

Network Link - May 2025

Monthly newsletter from the UK National Commission for UNESCO.

30 May 2025

UKNC Chief Executive and Secretary-General speaks, and joins expert panel, at Culture in Crisis event at St Margaret's Church, Westminster UNESCO World Heritage Site

James Bridge, UKNC Chief Executive and Secretary-General…

28 May 2025

UK Participation in UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) - Meeting of the IHP Bureau and upcoming Anniversary Events

Last month, Professor Harry Dixon, Jo Savage, and Max Polya-Vitry were at UNESCO HQ representing the UK at the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme’s (IHP’s) 64th Bureau meeting.