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In this section you can read the latest news from UNESCO in the UK. From blog posts and case studies to press releases and newsletters, use the search functionality to find what your looking for.

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

The Fondation L’Oréal and UNESCO are proud to announce the names of the five international laureates of the 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.

11 June 2025
Dual UNESO 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.

22 April 2025
Documentary heritage relating to the life and work of Charles Darwin recognised on the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register

Documentary heritage relating to the life and work of Charles Darwin has been inscribed onto the prestigious UNESCO Memory of the World International Register…

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