UNESCO
Specialised agency of the United Nations for education, sciences, and culture
Also known as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Founded
- November 16, 1945
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Sources- 1.un.org/youthenvoy/2013/08/unesco-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization/Retrieved 2024-11-27
- 2.hdl.handle.net/10796/85d8b00e-f6fa-48bd-af49-ea8775a039bcRetrieved 2024-11-28
- November 16, 1945
- Headquarters
- Paris(since 1958)
- Country
- Chair
- Khaled al-Anani(since 2025)
- , Audrey Azoulay(2017–2025)
- , Irina Bokova(2009–2017)
- +9 more
- Website
- unesco.org/en
- , fr.unesco.org
- , es.unesco.org
- +3 more
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316 statements · 34% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Awards
- Peabody Awards(1958) winner: Cumulus Media Networks
- Short name
- UNESCO
- ONUÉSC
- UNESKO
- Commons Institution page
- UNESCO
- Child organization or unit
- UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture
- Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
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- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- Iranian National Commission for UNESCO
- Hylean Amazon Institute
- International Center for Documentary Heritage
- World Heritage Committee
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Sources- 1.Stated in Library of Congress Name Authority FileRetrieved 2026-09-09
- Has works in the collection
- National Museum of World Cultures
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- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1
Sources- 1.“L'art de l'écriture”stedelijk.nl/nl/collectie/58342-willem-sandberg-l%27art-de-l%27ecritureRetrieved 2021-09-07
- Amsab - Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Gent
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Sources- 1.hdl.handle.net/10796/85d8b00e-f6fa-48bd-af49-ea8775a039bcRetrieved 2024-11-28
- Anne Frank House
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- National Museum of World Cultures
- Native label
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture
- Member count
- 195 country(2024)
- Archives at
- University of Maryland Libraries inventory number: 0094-SCPA
- Street address
- 7, place de Fontenoy 75007 Paris
- Funder
- Open Society Foundations(2023) prize money: $130,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee in organizing the annual Global Forum against Racism and Discrimination
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2023-91372Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2022) prize money: $400,000 · award rationale: to support the global educational activities of the Global Education Monitoring Report
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2022-84442Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2022) prize money: $75,000 · award rationale: to improve the effectiveness of education financing in the Arab region post-COVID by promoting better and more transparent education sector data
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2021-81912Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2022) prize money: $150,000 · award rationale: To support the development and implementation of the third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference which aims to reshape ideas and practices in higher education for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2021-82777Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2021) prize money: $300,000 · award rationale: for charitable and global educational activities of Global Education Monitoring Report, including the development and launch Regional GEM Eurasia Report on inclusive education
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2020-76507Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2021) prize money: $400,000 · award rationale: to support UNESCO in its trainings of journalists and judicial personnel regarding human rights in the international human rights frameworks, during the COVID-19 state of emergency
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2020-75955Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2021) prize money: $300,000 · award rationale: for charitable and global educational activities of Global Education Monitoring Report
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2021-82844Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2020) prize money: $85,000 · award rationale: to support regional capacity building and knowledge on educational issues under COVID-19 in the Arab region
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2020-75267Retrieved 2025-01-21
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- Open Society Foundations(2020) prize money: $50,000 · award rationale: to support UNESCO in its trainings of judicial personnel regarding human rights in the Inter-American framework, during the COVID-19 state of emergency
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2020-70067Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2020) prize money: $27,000 · award rationale: to support the development, publishing and dissemination of the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) publication focused on inclusive policies and practices
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2020-73419Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2019) prize money: $300,000 · award rationale: to boost the research capacity of the Global Education Monitoring report team to conduct thematic Sustainable Development Goals related progress assessment
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2019-60504Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2019) prize money: $100,000 · award rationale: to support the planning and facilitation of the International Forum on Inclusion and Equity in Education that will mark the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Special Needs Education. The Forum will foster international dialogue around inclusion in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and produce a new global Statement on Inclusive Education (IE)
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2018-45972Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2019) prize money: $300,000 · award rationale: for charitable and global educational activities of Global Education Monitoring Report, including the development and launch Regional GEM Eurasia Report on inclusive education
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2019-52667Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2018) prize money: $25,000 · award rationale: to support joint agenda-building among different educational stakeholders through the convening of a meeting of the SDG4 reference group in the Arab world
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2018-45955Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2018) prize money: $100,000 · award rationale: to promote freedom of expression and journalist safety globally by raising awareness and encourage policy change
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2018-43226Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2018) prize money: $450,000 · award rationale: to support charitable and educational activities of Global Education Monitoring Report - Budget Support and Fellowship Scheme
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2017-40415Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2017) prize money: $125,000 · award rationale: to support charitable and educational activities of 17-23/11 Fostering freedom of expression, access to information and safety of journalists globally w a focus in Africa
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2017-32681Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2017) prize money: $150,000 · award rationale: to support charitable and educational activities of Global Education Monitoring Report: Accountabililty in education & Migration and Education
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2017-36526Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2016) prize money: $20,000 · award rationale: World Press Freedom Day International Conference 2-4 May 2016, Helsinki (Finland)
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2016-26818Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2016) prize money: $100,000 · award rationale: Support to the Global Education Monitoring Report
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2016-29351Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2016) prize money: $75,000 · award rationale: Strengthening the training of judges and other legal professionals in the Americas on freedom of expression,
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2016-28087Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2016) prize money: $100,000 · award rationale: Mobile Learning Week
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2016-31522Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2016) prize money: $100,000 · award rationale: Support for Consultative Committee of NGOs Meeting 2017
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Sources- 1.“Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships”opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2016-31566Retrieved 2025-01-21
- Open Society Foundations(2023) prize money: $130,000 · award rationale: to support the Grantee in organizing the annual Global Forum against Racism and Discrimination
On other databases
173 identifiers linking UNESCO across the web's reference databases
- ADVN IDorg-004135
- AGORHA UUID52018c18-86e0-404e-b2a5-87698ded6835
- Alexander Turnbull Library ID87868
- ARK Name Assigning Authority Number48223
- Armeniapedia ID14127
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineunesco
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294942491
- Ávvir topic IDunesco
- BAnQ authority ID0000001628
- BBC News topic IDcljev4rk55et
- BBC Things ID4849d136-e4d6-42dc-87d9-c881920f1d8c
- BHCL UUID586f1969-5e78-4a9c-9717-df6ade6fe592
- BHL creator ID5453
- Biblioteca Nacional de México ID000093583
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11865674b
- BIBSYS ID90052506
- Bluesky handleunesco.org
- BNMM authority ID000027274
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10137144
- CANTIC ID981058515005506706
- Catalogue of the General State Archives IDunited-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco
- CiNii Research ID1140563741509879296
- CNA topic IDunesco
- Crunchbase organization IDunesco
- Cultureel Woordenboek IDinternationale-politiek/unesco
- Cyprus Bibliography ID374
- DeCS ID50011
- Der Spiegel topic IDunesco_en
- Dialnet author ID2911972
- Domain nameunesco.org
- EFIS filmfirm ID740
- EGAXA IDvtls001191327
- El Moudjahid topic IDunesco
- El Watan topic IDunesco
- ELMCIP ID5135
- ELNET IDa11522835
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/UNESCO
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDu-n-e-s-c-o
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2ynWrl
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)89458
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture IDE0006470
- Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine IDYuNESKO_Dyv
- ERR keyword ID107244
- EU Corporate body codeUNESCO
- Euronews topic IDunesco
- EuroVoc ID4595
- Facebook usernameunesco
- FactGrid item IDQ1059836
- France 24 topic ID (French)unesco
- FranceArchives agent ID357105886
- Freebase ID/m/05yg8kx
- Georgian Encyclopedia ID18173
- GitHub accountUNESCO
- GitLab.com topic IDunesco
- GND ID2023755-8
- Golden ID (archived)UNESCO-PZ5RZE
- Google+ ID112712717168396696952
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDunesco
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0068350
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDUNESCO
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDiunesko-ffb903
- GRID IDgrid.15819.34
- Gyldendals Teaterleksikon IDUNESCO
- Harper's tagunesco
- HDS ID030729
- IATI organisation IDXM-DAC-41304
- IdRef ID026402696
- ILO Thesaurus ID-1787317325
- INAPP author ID3563
- Instagram usernameunesco
- ISNI0000000404523255
- J9U entity ID987007269267205171
- Japan Search name IDUNESCO
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID2023755-8
- KBpedia IDUNESCO
- KISTI IDK000213031
- Klexikon article IDUNESCO
- Le Monde diplomatique subject IDsujet/unesco
- Lex IDUNESCO
- Liber Liber author IDu/unesco
- Libraries Australia ID35561043
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79054523
- Libris-URI31fjmpsm5bh4ns6
- LinkedIn company or organization IDunesco
- LittleSis organization ID166346
- Medvik IDkn20010711459
- MeSH descriptor IDD000076892
- MeSH tree codeN03.540.514.718.400
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)1293226324
- Museum-digital person/organization ID34576
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