Middle East: UNESCO Deploys First Emergency Measures Amid Escalating Violence
In the face of escalating violence across the Middle East, @UNESCO is providing emergency support to protect education personnel and institutions, safeguard culture professionals and at-risk heritage,
From climate action to quantum science, UNESCO's International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development is connecting knowledge to action across borders, disciplines, and generations.
Two years in. 200+ initiatives endorsed. Now scientists, policymakers, youth, and
In 113 countries, governments spend more on debt servicing than on #Education.
On the occasion of the #TransformingEducation Summit +4, @UNESCO launches a new series exploring how debt solutions — including debt-for-education swaps — can help protect investment in learning.
📣 The future of education starts with YOUR voice.
@audreynuna has a message: young voices have the power to define what learning looks like next.
If you are aged 11–30, this is your chance to speak up and shape #Education.
Take the Global Youth Survey, and help determine the
It is an honour to welcome the President of South Africa, @CyrilRamaphosa, to UNESCO today for the #TransformingEducation Summit +4, as he assumes the co-chairmanship of the SDG 4 High-Level Steering Committee.
Together, we advocate for education as a key foundation for
At the opening of the Transforming #EducationSummit +4 at @UNESCO, I reaffirmed our conviction: education is the most powerful investment we can make in peace, dignity and the future.
As South Africa assumes the co-chairmanship of the SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee, TES+4
The question is not whether the world can afford to invest in education. It is whether it chooses to.
In 2024, total aid to education was equivalent to just 1.5 days of global military spending in 2025.
As financial pressures grow, protecting investment in education is
A debt-for-education swap enables a government to convert part of its external debt into targeted investment in #Education.
To support countries in implementing this mechanism and advancing sustainable financing for education, UNESCO launches a new “Debt and Education” package.
🔴 LIVE NOW: Transforming Education Summit +4 (TES+4)
Progress towards #SDG4 is off track—273 million children and youth remain out of school.
Today at UNESCO HQ, global leaders, ministers, youth and changemakers convene to accelerate action.
Join the conversation:
Four years after the landmark #TransformingEducation Summit convened by the @UN Secretary-General, #UNESCO is bringing together education leaders from around the world to identify solutions to the global education financing crisis.
As new figures show that international aid to
Indigenous knowledge, told by those who live it.
Ingi A’indekhw, a documentary led by the Cofán people of Colombia, will premiere this July at @UNESCO's Global Conference on the International Decade of Sciences.
🗓 15-17 July 2026
👉 Register now: bit.ly/48uXMBK
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273 million children worldwide remain out of school.
With just four years left to achieve #SDG4, education systems are under increasing pressure from conflict, climate change, economic constraints and rapid technological transformation.
At #TransformingEducation Summit + 4
#AI can be smarter, more energy-efficient and more accessible.
Today, at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, @UNESCO and its partners announced the winners of the Resilient AI Challenge, recognising innovative teams that demonstrated how AI models can be made significantly more
