UNESCO Institutes and Centres

The institutes are specialized departments of the Organization that nonetheless support UNESCO’s programme, providing, in the same way as the regional bureaux, specialized support for cluster and national offices.

UNESCO education institutes and centres

• UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
  IIEP, Paris (France) and Buenos Aires (Argentina)

• UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  IBE, Geneva, (Switzerland)

• UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning
  UIL, Hamburg (Germany)

• UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
  IITE, Moscow (Russian Federation)

• UNESCO International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa
  IICBA, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

• UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
  IESALC, Caracas (Venezuela)

• UNESCO International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
  UNEVOC, Bonn (Germany)

UNESCO science institutes and centres

• UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
  Delft (Netherlands)

• International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  ICTP, Trieste (Italy)

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  UIS, Montreal (Canada)

UNESCO Category 2 institutes and centres

• UNESCO has also designated 81 International and Regional Institutes and Centres under its auspices