United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Scholarships

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  • • UNESCO Internship Programme 2025

    • An internship with UNESCO will give you experience of the daily working environment of the United Nations specialized agency. You will be working in a team from one of the Programme Sectors or Central Services (the support services) of the Organization, at Headquarters, in one of the Field Offices,
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  • • UNESCO SDG4 Youth & Student Network 2025 for Education Leaders

    •  The SDG4 Youth & Student Network, managed by UNESCO, is looking for the next cohort of young education leaders for 2026-2027.  The SDG4 Youth & Student Network is a global community of young leaders and experts dedicated to advancing Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SD
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  • • UNESCO/Poland Co-Sponsored Engineering Fellowship Programme 2025

    • With a view to promoting human resource capacities in the developing countries and to enhancing international understanding and friendship among nations and peoples , the Polish National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair for Science, Technology, and Engineering at the AGH Universi
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  • • UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Young Scientists Awards 2025

    • UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme is now accepting applications for the 2025 MAB Young Scientists Awards. These awards, established in 1989, aim to support young researchers, especially those from developing countries, conducting interdisciplinary projects that align with UNESCO&r
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  • • UNESCO 2025 Senior IT Operations and Service Manager

    • The position is located in the Bureau of Digital Business Solutions in the Sector for Administration and Management. Digital technologies play a key role in the fulfilment of UNESCO’s mandate and the delivery of its programme. To support and enable the strategic transformation agenda, new
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  • • UNESCO 2025 Associate Research Officer

    • Founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam and located in Trieste (Italy), the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) seeks to accomplish its mandate by providing scientists from developing countries with the continuing education and skills that they need to enjo
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  • • UNESCO 2025 Head of Investigation Office (Re-advertisement)

    • The Division of Internal Oversight Services (IOS) provides an independent consolidated oversight mechanism that covers internal audit, evaluation, investigation and other management support. The Investigation Office examines and determines the veracity of allegations about misconduct or other irregu
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  • • UNESCO World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2025

    • As an integral part of the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, in the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, and with the support of the Republic of Bulgaria, the World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2025 will take place from 1 to 8 July 2025 at UNESCO Headquarters
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  • • UNESCO-Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in STEM 2025

    • The UNESCO-Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in STEM aims to boost research, education, and global cooperation to tackle challenges aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It recognises young innovators whose work drives global socio-economic
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  • • UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development 2025

    • The UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for sustainable development, funded by the Government of Japan, consists of three annual awards of USD 50,000 for each recipient. It was awarded for the first time by the Director-General of UNESCO in November 2015. The Prize and award winners recognize th
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  • • UNESCO 2025 International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD)

    • Its purpose is to foster the emergence of dynamic cultural sectors in developing countries that are Parties to the 2005 Convention, through strengthening the means to create, produce, distribute and have access to diverse cultural goods and services. As a multi-donor fund, the IFCD promotes South-So
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  • • Call for applications: UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences 2025

    • The UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences aims to reward the projects and activities of individuals, group of individuals, institutions, and non-governmental organizations for their outstanding contribution to the improvement of human life. The Prize, esta
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  • • Call for applications: UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Fellowship Programme for Young Women Scientists in Africa 2025

    • The call for nominations for the first edition of the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Fellowship Programme for Young Women Scientists in Africa is now open. Globally, women make up only 33% of researchers (UNESCO Science Report 2021). The latest figures from the Institute for Statistics show that only 3
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  • • UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in Education 2025

    • To mark the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in education, UNESCO calls for nominations for the special 2025 edition on the theme “Preparing learners and teachers for the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence”. 
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  • • UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes 2025

    • The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes was created in 1995 to reward outstanding examples of action to safeguard and enhance the world’s cultural landscapes. The Prize, generously supported by the Government of Gree
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  • • Travel Grants for African ECOPs to Attend the UN Ocean Conference and the One Ocean Science Congress 2025

    • The Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) will take place from June 9 to June 13, 2025, in Nice, France, co-hosted by the Governments of France and Costa Rica. This significant event is aimed at accelerating global initiatives towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14), which focuse
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  • • UNESCO 2025 Internship Programme for International Students

    • The UNESCO Internship Programme is a learning opportunity for students and recent graduates to learn about UNESCO’s mandate, programmes and processes as well as enhance their academic and technical knowledge through practical assignments.
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  • • UNESCO/The People's Republic of China 2025 The Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme

    • UNESCO/The People's Republic of China 2025 The Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme applications are now open. With a view to promoting the human resource development and capacity building of developing countries and to enhancing international exchanges in the field of education, cultur
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  • • UNESCO/APCEIU 11th Youth Leadership Workshop - Empowering Hearts, Building Peace 2025

    • The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) and the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), in partnership with the GCED Youth Network, invite passionate youth leaders to apply for the 11th Youth Leader
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  • • UNESCO/The People's Republic of China-The Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2025

    • With a view to promoting the human resource development and capacity building of developing countries and to enhancing international exchanges in the field of education, culture, communication, science and technology and the friendship among peoples of the world, UNESCO the Gover
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  • • UNESCO World Heritage Residence Scholarship Program 2025

    • The scholarship is aimed for people who have a cultural idea, such as art, music, research etc, related to the UNESCO World Heritage list and are interested to connect the World Heritage site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland with one or more sites around the World in a cultural or artistic w
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  • • UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2025

    • Created in 1997, the annual UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and, or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of dange
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  • • UNESCO 2024 Future Designer International Innovation Design Awards (IIDA) and Science for SDGs Innovation Contest (Funded)

    • Are you ready to dive into an adventure where art meets science? Are you curious about how art can illuminate the principles of science and sustainability? Do you wonder how your creativity could contribute to a deeper understanding and appreciation of scientific phenomena? Could your artistic talen
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  • • UNESCO AfriMAB GRÓ LRT Land Restoration Fellowships 2025

    • Applications for fellowships to the GRÓ Land Restoration Training Programme (GRÓ LRT) are open for 2 (two) fellows from African biosphere reserves engaged in restoration activities. The programme offers annual six-month training in Iceland focused on land restoration and
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  • • UNESCO Internship: Priority Africa and External Relations 2025

    • The overall mission of the sector for Priority Africa and External Relations is to coordinate, ensure liaison and provide strategic policy advice to the Director General, as regards cooperation with Member States, the Global Priority Africa, UN system; Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), Nationa
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  • • UNESCO Internship Programme for International Students 2025

    • The UNESCO Internship Programme offers you practical work in one of UNESCO’s priority areas. Aside from helping you understand the Organization’s mandate, programmes, and main thrusts, it also enhances your academic knowledge with relevant work assignments that can help you prepare for y
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  • • UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week Youth Hackathon 2024

    • The Youth Hackathon, an integral component of the Global MIL Week, offers a global stage for youth participation and engagement, aiming to harness innovation and youth-led initiatives to respond to the Week’s theme, in particular the growing role of digital content creators and influencers in
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  • • UNESCO/IEEE Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Early Career Engineers in Africa 2024

    • UNESCO and IEEE Entrepreneurship are launching a new entrepreneurship bootcamp in engineering for sustainable development. It is a 5-day intensive bootcamp for early-career engineers in Luanda, Angola from 9 to 13 September 2024. Prospective applicants from Africa who are interested in learning 
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  • • UNESCO OWSD Women In Science Displacement Outreach Master’s Program (OWSD WISDOM) 2024

    • For the past 30 years OWSD has been supporting women in science across countries such as Sudan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Afghanistan with programmes such as PhD Fellowships, to name one example. OWSD knows well that many women who are refugees or displaced have fallen through the cracks. Because of
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  • • UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest 2024

    • The annual Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads International Photo Contest offers an exciting opportunity for young people from all over the world to capture their understanding of the shared heritage of the Silk Roads through the lens of their camera. As the visual arts, and in particular photog