Uses of Funding

UNESCO's projects encompass a broad range of expertise in the fields of Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information. Biennial expenditures are planned in each of these Major Programmes and for Corporate Services.

    Objectives
    Results
    Geographical Scope

    Overall Plan

    Planned Expenditure (USD thousands)

    Overall Plan

    Details by Programme

    Sector Planned Expenditure (USD thousands)
    Education
    Culture
    Natural sciences
    Communication and information
    Social and human sciences
    Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
    Priority Africa and External Relations Sector
    Bureau for Digital Business Solutions
    Communication and Public Engagement
    Participation Programme

    Projects

    Projects are a sequence of budgeted activities, regardless of the source of funding, that contribute to the Organization's Outputs and must be completed within an agreed timeframe. Projects can include sub-activities and can be linked to a wider Programme.
    Note: For projects with multiple beneficiaries, the distribution of budget and expenditure figures at the beneficiary level is based on indicative percentages.
    Beneficiary Country / Region
    549RER1001 Addressing antisemitism through education in Europe Europe and North America 1,076,426 30,936 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
    549RER2008 Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe (InsSciDE) Europe and North America 277,867 270,165 2017-12-01 2022-06-30
    549RER2009 Most Easy, Efficient and Low Cost Geothermal Systems for Retrofitting Civil and Historical Europe and North America 399,054 375,629 2018-04-01 2023-11-30
    549RER2011 Sustainable Historic Environments hoListic reconstruction through Technological Enhancement Europe and North America 425,583 424,439 2019-06-01 2023-05-31
    549RER2012 EuroSea 554,760 322,500 2019-10-31 2023-12-29
    Global 166,428 96,750
    Europe and North America 388,332 225,750
    549RER2013 JERICO-S3 Europe and North America 118,191 81,250 2020-02-01 2024-01-31
    549RER2014 MARCO-BOLO: MARine COastal BiOdiversity Long-term Observations Europe and North America 733,735 111,279 2022-12-01 2026-11-30
    549RER2015 MPA Europe Europe and North America 612,909 104,318 2023-01-01 2026-04-30
    549RER2016 eDNAqua-Plan: A plan for a European eDNA digital ecosystem for the next generation of aquatic biodiversity monitoring Europe and North America 191,163 - 2023-09-01 2026-08-31
    549RER2017 DTO-BioFlow: Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean Europe and North America 421,819 - 2023-09-01 2027-02-28
    549RER2018 RESILIAGE Europe and North America 547,045 - 2023-09-01 2026-08-31
    549RER2019 NBSINFRA Europe and North America 303,746 - 2023-09-01 2026-08-31
    549RER3001 GRRIP Europe and North America 137,293 126,883 2019-01-01 2022-12-31
    549RER3002 Open Universal Science ( OPUS) Europe and North America 174,496 45,864 2022-09-01 2025-08-31
    549RER4006 Inter-regional and cross-cutting action aiming to strengthen the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property: an EU-UNESCO joint initiative Europe and North America 854,146 673,913 2019-01-01 2022-12-31