UNESCO provides a special platform for NGOs, individuals, and the media to share their concerns about global heritage emergencies. It helps them protect cultural sites, tackle challenges, and bring together and strengthen local communities.
“Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads” Photo Contest 2024
Deadline: 14 July 2024
The annual Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads International Photo Contest offers an exciting opportunity for young people from all over the world to capture their understanding of the shared heritage of the Silk Roads through the lens of their camera. The UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads photo contest, part of the Organization’s Silk Roads Programme of the Social and Human Sciences Sector, promotes photography as a tool for encouraging cultural interaction, fostering mutual understanding, and promoting peace among the people living in the regions connected by the Silk Roads…[more]
2024 International Essay Contest for Young People
Deadline: 15 June 2024
Submissions are now open for the 2024 International Essay Contest for Young People organized in an effort to harness the energy, creativity and initiative of the world’s youth in promoting a culture of peace and sustainable development. This program is an activity within the framework of UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs…[more]
“Overpower, Overtake, Overcome”: A Visual Tribute to Women & Sport Photography Contest
Deadline: 6 June 2024
The Global Observatory for Gender Equality and Sport has launched a photo competition and exhibition, which puts a spotlight on empowering women and girls in all their diversity in and through physical activity, physical education and sport, from all walks of life.
To mark the Paris 2024 Olympic and beyond, the Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport, UNESCO, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN Women, UNAIDS, MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Sport for Social Change Network Africa and Bobbi Brown are teaming up to organize a powerful globally travelling photo exhibition: “Overpower. Overtake. Overcome: A Visual Tribute to Women & Sport.”…[more]
Open call for Media Arts Project Funding
Deadline: 20 September 2024
The UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe is pleased to announce an open call for Media Arts Project Funding to supports the production and presentation of media art projects in the public space…[more]
Call for Nominations: International Awards in Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science – 2025
Deadline: 1 July 2024
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced 2025 International Awards for women in science for their contributions to the advancement of science, in Life Sciences or Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science in alternating years…[more]
Call for Applications: Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024
Deadline: 31 August 2024
The Regional Committee of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (MoWLAC) invites institutions, communities and individuals who manage and safeguard documentary heritage to incorporate their documents and documentary sets into the Regional Memory of the World Register…[more]
TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme (sub-Saharan Africa)
Deadline: 5 June 2024
The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme provides postdoctoral researchers from sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, with the opportunity to make a three-month ‘Cooperation Visit’ to a research institute in Germany. The administration and financial operation of TWAS is undertaken by UNESCO in accordance with an agreement signed by the two organizations…[more]
TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme – MENA
Deadline: 5 June 2024
The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme provides postdoctoral researchers from the MENA region with the opportunity to make a three-month ‘Cooperation Visit’ to a research institute in Germany. The administration and financial operation of TWAS is undertaken by UNESCO in accordance with an agreement signed by the two organizations…[more]
Call for Entries: UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation 2024
Deadline: 30 June 2024
Entries are now open for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.
The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation (‘Awards’) recognizes exemplary efforts by individuals and organizations in the region to restore or conserve structures, places or properties of heritage value. By bringing to public attention such distinguished achievements, the Awards programme seeks to foster best practices and inspire others to undertake similar projects within the region’s diverse communities, whether property owners choose to pursue conservation projects independently or through public-private partnerships…[more]
Call for Applications 2024: UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity
Deadline: 14-Jun-24
UNESCO has launched the call for applications to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) to generate concrete and lasting results towards the development of the creative sectors in developing countries that are Parties to the 2005 Convention…[more]
UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man Awards 2024
Deadline: 16-Aug-2024
Nominations are now open for the UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man Awards 2024…[more]
Call for Proposals: Systemizing Data on Looted, Stolen & Illegally Exported Cultural Property of Yemen
Deadline: 10-Jun-2024
UNESCO Regional Office for the Gulf States and Yemen has launched a call for proposals to develop a methodology for systemizing available information on the looted Yemeni cultural property…[more]
L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Hungarian Scholarship for Women and Science 2024
Deadline: 3 June 2024
L’ORÉAL Hungary and the Hungarian National Committee of UNESCO is announcing its scholarship application for the twenty-second time this year in the spirit of the international L’ORÉAL-UNESCO for women in science program, for the year 2024…[more]
Call for Applications: For Women in Science National Program (Indonesia)
Deadline: 1 September 2024
L’Oréal Indonesia together with the Indonesian National Commission for UNESCO (KNIU), the Ministry of Education and Culture has launched the L’Oréal – UNESCO For Women In Science program in the form of National Fellowships or research scholarships for four young women researchers who have a doctoral/PhD education or are currently pursuing doctoral/PhD studies in the fields of Life Science and Non-Life Science (Physical Sciences, Material Science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, etc.)…[more]
L’Oréal–UNESCO “For Women in Science” Egypt Young Talents National Fellowships 2024
Deadline: 30 July 2024
L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Egypt Young talents program aims to promote the participation of young women in science coming from Egypt…[more]
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