Press Releases

August 30, 2022

Angela Merkel is awarded the Félix Houphouët-Boigny-UNESCO Peace Prize

The Jury of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny-UNESCO Peace Prize has awarded the 2022 Prize to Ms Angela Merkel, former Federal Chancellor of Germany, in recognition of her […]
August 29, 2022

LEGO Training for UNESCO Club Coordinators in Kumasi, Koforidua, and Accra

On Thursday, August 25, 2022, the Associations and Clubs for UNESCO coordinators in Kumasi, Koforidua, and Accra participated in a 180-minute training on Introduction to Learning […]
July 1, 2022

Transforming Education Pre-Summit Closing Press Release

More than 150 ministers of education discuss key elements for transforming education ahead of September Summit Governments and key stakeholders lay out national pathways to address […]
June 30, 2022

Africans in Ukraine – a Call for Poems, Short Stories and Creative Nonfiction

CivicLeicester and the Africans in Ukraine Education Fund are inviting and accepting poems, short stories and creative nonfiction (including memoir, diary entries, chronicles, biographical and autobiographical […]
June 24, 2022

Transforming Education: Over 140 Ministers of Education at UNESCO HQ to draw roadmap

Paris, 24 June – UNESCO is to host the Transforming Education Pre-Summit, a meeting of Ministers of Education, policy and business leaders and youth activists, who come […]
June 24, 2022

70 percent of 10-year-olds now unable to understand a simple written text, due to prolonged school closures

New data show COVID-19’s worsening of the global learning crisis, risking $21 trillion in lifetime earnings Paris, June 24, 2022 — As a result of the […]
June 17, 2022

CLUBS AND ASPnet SCHOOLS FOR UNESCO PLANTS TREES.

UNESCO’s objective is to use education, science, culture, communication, and information to contribute to the creation of a culture of peace, poverty eradication, sustainable development, and […]
June 6, 2022

ASPnet & UNESCO CLUBS WORKSHOP FOR SCHOOL COORDINATORS

            Congratulations to the 54 Association and Club Coordinators who attended a two-day training on May 30-31, 2022 at St Louis […]
June 3, 2022

UNESCO calls upon stakeholders to expand programme developing roadmaps to harness science to the Sustainable Development Goals

From May 5 to 6, Ghana attended the Seventh Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) for the Sustainable Development Goals (2022 STI Forum). […]