UNESCO Jakarta

27/08/2026

📣 Calling all Grade 7–12 teachers in the Philippines! 🇵🇭

Bring living heritage into your classroom and turn it into a creative lesson plan. 📚✨

Submit your entry by 31 August 2026. See the post below for details! 👇

12/08/2026

🚨 OPEN REGISTRATION - TSUNAMI UNITED 2026 🚨
🌊 Be Tsunami Ready: Resilience Starts with You!

Calling students in Grades 10–12 and teachers from schools across the Indian Ocean to join Tsunami United 2026!

Through interactive online sessions, participants will learn about tsunami risks, personal and family preparedness, community awareness, and storytelling for disaster preparedness. 🌊🏠📣

🎨 Students can also get creative and share their messages for coastal resilience through poems and songs as part of the global campaign!

Interested in joining? Ask your teacher or headteacher to register your school 😊

📅 Registration deadline: 27 August 2026
🔗 Register your school: https://unes.co/tsunamiunited2026

07/08/2026

Ready to turn AI ethics into practice? 🤖🌍

UNESCO’s free Global MOOC on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence is now open for enrolment on Coursera.

Across 10 modules, explore practical approaches to fairness, privacy, transparency, accountability, sustainability, human rights and responsible AI governance.
✅ Free to enrol
⏱️ Around 10 hours to complete
🎓 Certificate upon completion
🌐 Translation available in 11 languages, including Bahasa Indonesia

Scan the QR code to enrol now.

03/08/2026

Join the 9th session of UNESCO’s monthly webinar series: “Open Science: From the UNESCO Recommendation to Reality in Asia and the Pacific”

🗓 6 August | 12:00–13:30 PM (GMT+7)

Discover how open-source software and open hardware can expand access to science and technology and create new opportunities to accelerate research, innovation and collaboration.

🔗 Register via: https://unes.co/c9qsqm

or scan the QR code

▶️ Watch previous sessions: https://bit.ly/OSWebinars2026recordings

31/07/2026

How can Timor-Leste strengthen the quality of its technical and vocational education and training system? 🇹🇱

UNESCO and INDMO Timor Leste brought together government institutions, TVET providers, development partners and other key stakeholders to discuss the findings of a new report on strengthening TVET quality in Timor-Leste.

The discussion explored the country’s current TVET system, including its policies, regulations and qualifications, as well as key opportunities for further improvement.

💬 Through presentations and open discussion, participants identified priority issues affecting TVET quality and considered practical actions and longer-term steps to strengthen the national system.

🤝 The workshop reaffirmed the shared commitment of UNESCO, INDMO and national stakeholders to building a more coordinated, quality-assured and responsive TVET system that supports skills development and Timor-Leste’s workforce needs.

28/07/2026

How can students and graduates have their qualifications recognised across borders?

🇹🇱 UNESCO, in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Culture (MESCC), convened a national consultation to support Timor-Leste’s readiness to join the UNESCO Tokyo and Global Conventions on the Recognition of higher education qualifications.

Bringing together government institutions, higher education providers, quality assurance bodies, development partners, and international experts from the Republic of Korea and Greece, the workshop provided a platform to assess Timor-Leste’s readiness, learn from international experiences, and identify priorities for improving its qualifications recognition system. 🎓

🌏 Supported by the government of the Republic of Korea, this initiative aims to expand student mobility, deepen academic cooperation, and contribute to workforce development across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

24/07/2026

🇯🇵🤝🌏 75 years of partnership. Decades of impact.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the UNESCO–Japan partnership, celebrating a long-standing commitment to advancing education, sciences, culture, communication, and sustainable development around the world.

Across Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific, UNESCO and Japan continue to invest in people, science, and nature through initiatives that empower young leaders, advance Open Science, and strengthen regional collaboration among biosphere reserves.

Here's a look at what we've achieved together in 2025–2026.

🔗 Learn more:
UNESCO Water Resilience Challenge: https://unes.co/2qgo71 & Open Science in Asia-Pacific: https://unes.co/lga28v

21/07/2026

🚀 Request for Proposal (RFP) Now Open!

UNESCO is inviting proposals for a social media campaign on Strengthening Peace through Arts, Culture and Sports (SPACES) initiative 📱✨

Open for qualified professional entities in Malaysia.

the selected entity will design and implement a social media campaign that showcases how arts, culture, and sports can strengthen youth resilience, foster peacebuilding, and amplify positive stories from communities.

📅 Deadline: 03 August 2026, 11:59 PM (GMT+8)
🔗 More info: https://unes.co/7e71bf

Submit your proposal and help inspire young people to become agents of peace through the power of arts, culture, and sports.

16/07/2026

How can societies move forward while remembering the past?

On day 2 of the International Conference on Truth, Memory and Justice for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation, discussions focused on justice, accountability, reparations, and survivor-centred approaches to building lasting peace.

Bringing together experts, policymakers, survivors, and practitioners in Dili, Timor-Leste, participants also examined how archives, education, and the transmission of historical memory to younger generations can help prevent future atrocities and strengthen more resilient societies.

🔗 Take a sneak peek at what the conference is all about: https://unes.co/m7v1nu

15/07/2026