Explore initiatives & stories from UNESCO networks.

Tales and Legends of Honduras narrated by the announcer, journalist and writer Jorge Montenegro and illustrated by the artist María José Martínez.

#IVSwork is a social media campaign by CCIVS that promotes and raises awareness of the projects ran by International Voluntary Service organisations. 2020 is the 100 years anniversary since the first IVS workcamp which took place in 1920 in Esne, near Verdun. IVS promotes social and climate justice, human rights, sustainability, critical thinking, active participation, democracy, global citizenship, shared and intercultural learning and helps to break down prejudice and stereotypes. It contributes to the Implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout this photo series, we share more about our values, our history and our work. It is our values and work that link people. History connects our past, our present and our future.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we have seen so many community members sharing their creativity, time, and resources to help their neighbours during these difficult times. We launched a new "COVID-19 Responsive" version of an existing program called Neighbourhood Small Grants to make it easier for our communities to keep supporting each other! Any individual community member (i.e. not a non-profit or registered charity) can apply for a grant of up to $500 support projects that build resilience, foster creativity and wellbeing, and tackle social isolation while adhering to physical distancing guidelines. There is no deadline, and grants will be reviewed every two weeks.

Le ministère de la culture de Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgique) en collaboration avec le secteur culturel belge francophone vous présente les initiatives permettant d'accéder à la culture chez soi. "Culture à la maison" donne un tour d’horizon de la riche offre culturelle accessible dans ces moments où la maison est le lieu principal de nos activités et ce en attendant de pouvoir revivre tout cela dans les lieux culturels de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ! #LaCultureàlaMaison

It is one of the programs of the Saudi Digital Academy that aims to qualify and train recent graduates and job seekers through multiple, intensive, qualitative and specialized training camps. These camps are designed according to modern and innovative ways of education and training in the fields of emerging, modern and advanced technologies. The program also aims to link future occupations to the necessary skills to prepare the next generation of leaders.

Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the Future Skills Initiative. The objective is to achieve the desired transformation in the telecommunications and information technology sector, and because the human element is the main pillar of this transformation, the Ministry supports, in partnership with the private sector, to recruit and guide the national cadres in the telecommunications and information technology professions.

To empower the local and global talents amid the unexpected Corona pandemic, the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology decided to launch an online hackathon to come up with innovative ideas and solutions in three different tracks: Digital Health, Home Entertainment and E-Games.

The Cultural Heritage Browser has been initiated by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia with the strategic support of Microsoft Office in Serbia. Through a comprehensive search, visitors of the Portal can obtain essential information about the digitized cultural heritage and have access to the interactive map of the cultural institutions on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. It provides information about the cultural heritage preserved in libraries, archives, museums, galleries, institutes for the protection of monuments and other entities in the field of culture.

Information and documentary resources about doctors, nurses, and other sanitary personnel along the history as tribute to their work during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Five messages in the form of images to fight rumors regarding Covid-19 essentially 1. We should be fighting misinformation. 2. Don't spread fear in the society by sharing false information. 3. Rumors represent danger and load on our capacity in managing the pandemic. 4. Stop discrimination as the virus doesn't discriminate, it hits every one. 5. Covid-19 is not airborne.

An open platform for citizens to report their status and actions considering the Covid-19 pandemic. Allows the citizen to self-report on their status and actions as well as define their recent whereabout by location or GoogleTimeline import. The Employee reporting solution let the company send out an invitation or share a link for employees to report their status to the company. The company receives an overview of the employee situation and may take action upon it.

The Slovenian Government has recently established the first International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO (IRCAI). The Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO is a strong and active partner in the work of IRCAI. IRCAI almost overnight launched the Corona Virus Media Watch that uses global and national news updates to create powerful narratives and visualizations that ultimately can take us further into future predictions of how the pandemic is evolving across the world. IRCAI will contribute with the following, but not limited ideas/solutions/technologies: • “Digital Twin” proposal for global / country level for any global crisis • Public facing portal with analytical visualizations on Coronavirus involving various data sources • Comprehensive AI software library and services to tackle other specific problems related to Coronavirus and similar potential future threats

An online platform promoting Arab art on Instagram. It currently covers a cultural initiative related to COVID-19 including #ArtisticQuarntine #artmejo

The first Jordanian cultural magazine since 1966, which deals with literature, criticism and publishing creative works in poetry story, theater, multiple creative texts, thought and knowledge. For the first time, the Ministry of Culture will make available all issues of Afkar Magazines on the new website.

To help parents and their children during the quarantine, Radio Kyrgyzstan daily broadcasts fairy tales of the peoples of the world, this can also introduce children with the culture of different people.

Association of Community Media of the Kyrgyz Republic prepared radio clips against disinformation about COVID-19. Due to the fact that the Internet is full of news and information about the rapidly spreading virus, it is more difficult for users of social networks and other platforms to process information and verify their truth. To cope with disinformation, Suusamyr-fm radio talks about how to read the news, how to teach children about information literacy and media, how to beware of false experts, etc.

Poet's House - the U.S.'s premier independent poetry library and national literary centre - is streaming online programs to keep their community thriving. The programs are composed of poetry readings, documentary showings, free workshops and writers talks.

The UNESCO Almaty Office will support a global storytelling initiative/campaign that will engage with young people around the world, and particularly young women and young scientists, to share their stories of courage, solidarity and resilience, as well as their perspectives on how the COVID-19 crisis is and will be affecting their lives and their communities. It is planned to mobilize Central Asian young scientists for #CoronaStories campaign, in which they will translate scientific information into simple and understandable language, dispel the myths and fake information about COVID-19, and ensure science-based information on COVID-19 and precaution methods.

Audiovisual magazine “Entre Nos” and a series of “cultural capsules” to promote initiatives on the Panamanian cultural scene, through the International Cultural Center (CCI) accounts on social networks.

Learn about Centro Historico in the Mexico City. more than 300 interest points. You can see also points in other regions from Mexico.

UNESCO produced a video highlighting the youth-led efforts in Yemen to combat the spread of the virus through online and offline awareness-raising activities. The video has been produced in partnership with RNW Media and shared throughout the national youth online platform Manasti30.com. A mapping of youth and cultural associations investing in awareness-raising in Yemen has also been produced to identify future pilot projects.

In partnership with RNW Media, UNESCO produced a series of videos called “Turathna” (My heritage). The video series is disseminated by the popular youth platform manasti30.com and is being broadcasted by local TV channels such as Hadhramout governmental channel.