News

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04 July 2025

Work starts on new Stonehenge education facility to cater for demand in STEM learning

English Heritage has started work on new education facilities at Stonehenge UNESCO World Heritage Site which will be launched for the 2026/2027 school year.

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

Seeds of Hope 2025: Schools helping a culture of peace to take root in the community

Schools across the UK are invited to join a ground-breaking international competition that aims to bring art, culture and peace-making into young lives.

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.

27 May 2025

UK Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO visits Gracehill in Northern Ireland to present the village with its official certificate of World Heritage inscription

Earlier this month, Anna Nsubuga, UK Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO visited Gracehill in Co.

21 May 2025

UNESCO launches new Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme Water Information Network System (IHP-WINS) Platform

IHP-WINS is UNESCO’s new open-access platform that strengthens the sharing, integration…

19 May 2025

Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere (GSAB) Partnership secures funding from South of Scotland Enterprise

The Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere (GSAB) Partnership has welcomed a new funding package from South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE).

15 May 2025

2025 Urdd Gobaith Cymru Peace and Goodwill Message released and granted Patronage by the UK National Commission for UNESCO

Seventy years after the death of one of its founders, Wales’ annual Peace and Goodwill Message, led by Wales’ largest youth organisation, Urdd Gobaith Cymru, has been released today (15 May 2025)…

08 May 2025

Manchester Festival of Libraries (4-8 June) announces its full programme for 2025 including visiting performers from other global UNESCO Cities of Literature

Returning for its fifth year, and winner of Best Event at the Manchester Culture Awards in 2024…

07 May 2025

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature appoints Harriet MacMillan as new Director

The Chair of the Board of Trustees of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature, Ruth Plowden, has announced that Dr Harriet MacMillan has been appointed as the charity’s new Director.