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How the UN is connecting the world’s classrooms

Noonkopir Primary School in Kajiado District, Kenya, on 24 February 2023. Kenya is one of the countries partnering with Giga. (Courtesy of Giga)

GENEVA SOLUTIONS · 5 min read

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Education·6 July 2026

Global push for AI governance amid warnings of ‘catastrophic harm’

Can artificial intelligence benefit all of humanity – safely, fairly and without causing “catastrophic harm”? That is the question at the heart of a major UN summit opening in Geneva on Monday.

UN News - Global perspective Human stories · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·12 June 2026

The Other Tree of Guernica - e-flux Education

The Other Tree of Guernica (edited still), 1969. Dir. Pedro Lazaga Sabater.

e-flux Education · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·17 February 2026

Educating for the Future We Want

ON Ed - while this essay is from 2021, it still feels relevant in 2026

THE GREAT TRANSITION INITIATIVE · 15 min read

United Nations·24 January 2026

International Day of Education

Today, 250 million children and adolescents are out of school and 763 million adults are illiterate, according to UNESCO.

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EDUCATION · 3 min read

United Nations·5 November 2025

Doha Social Summit: Path to fairer societies begins in the classroom

The vast Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) – filled with delegations, students, civil society groups and policymakers from around the world – reflected the scale of the moment.

UN News Global perspective Human stories · 3 min read

Climate·9 September 2025

What if nature could save us?

Exhibition Dates: 08 – 28 September 2025: Featured across JCDecaux-owned bus shelters throughout all five boroughs of New York City. See locations here 14 – 28 September 2025: On view at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City

ART 2030 · 2 min read

United Nations·19 August 2025

International Youth Day

The theme of International Youth Day (IYD) 2025, Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond, highlights the unique role of youth in translating global ambitions into community-driven realities. As development partners work to translate…

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·17 July 2025

Museion Academy – International Symposium: Culture as a Commons

These urgent questions lie at the heart of Culture as a Commons, a three-day international forum that brings together 12 selected cultural initiatives from the Netherlands and Italy. In the framework of this gathering at Museion, they will…

MUSEION ACADEMY · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·11 June 2025

Arundhati Roy on Writing in the Information Age

If i had any advice to give to people who want to write…please try and switch off…you don’t need all this information….you don’t need to know everything about everything, it’s unnatural…you need to know the earth, your neighbours, the…

SLU LIBRARIES YOUTUBE · 1 min read

Climate·23 January 2025

In a Message of Hope, UN Secretary-General Outlines Priorities for 2025

Addressing the UN General Assembly (UNGA), UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefed Member States on his priorities for 2025. He highlighted conflicts, inequalities, the climate crisis, and technology among the “ills” spreading from…

SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·18 January 2025

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, which sold at a New York auction last year for $6.2 million, was chosen for inclusion by Damien Hirst. Photograph: Rhona Wise/EPA

THE OBSERVER · 5 min read

Climate·18 January 2025

SDG Knowledge Hub’s Most Read Stories of 2024 Reveal Hunger for Solutions

The most read story of 2024 is about the findings of the World Happiness Report.

SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 6 min read

Arts & Culture·6 January 2025

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

ON Ed: saw this wonderful film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom recently. Here is a sweet little quote from the film “because teachers touch the future.”

BFI SIGHT AND SOUND · 2 min read

United Nations·9 June 2025

Featured Story: UNICEF Global Learning Innovation Hub

The global learning crisis has deeply intensified, with 70 per cent of 10-year-olds in low and middle-income countries unable to read a simple statement. At the same time, the world is undergoing a digital transformation marked by an…

UNICEF GLOBAL LEARNING INNOVATION HUB · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·5 January 2024

Water Bear - A Wild Education

This film is about the extraordinary journey of a family living deep in the wild of the Carpathian Mountains. Christoph and Barbara met in Romania, over a love of wolves, and continue breaking through local opposition with their passion…

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·24 June 2025

Success in Finland - Education

Helinä Piik is sharing her experiences with an outstanding educational system

ON Network · 4 min read

Economics·27 September 2023

UNDP launches innovative e-Learning Programme on sustainable finance

In response to the increasing global need to support and enhance sustainable finance, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched a revolutionary e-Learning Programme. This initiative of the Sustainable Finance Hub’s SDG…

ON Network · 2 min read

Climate·15 May 2023

We are faced with a climate emergency. Can art help?

We have a climate emergency. Regardless of where one stands on this issue – this is our ‘inconvenient truth’ . Yet the power to reach people has never been greater. Close to 3.2 billion people today are online, about 2 billion are from…

ON Network · 11 min read

Dwelling·13 December 2022

Top-5 world’s most peaceful countries in 2022

There is no doubt that any sane person would like to live in a harmonious society and in a world where peace is everyone’s goal. A peaceful society is one with functional justice and minimal violence. Nations that manage to successfully…

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·23 November 2023

First online university for refugees - Kiron Open Higher Education

Five years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education , the first online university exclusively for refugees, boosted by a handful of volunteers and a crowdfunding campaign.

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·30 October 2020

Universities enrich communities, as well as educating students – new research

Education helps us share knowledge, develop understanding, and supports our connection with each other. As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued, governments have been preoccupied with how to re-open schools.

ON Network · 4 min read

Peace·15 October 2020

Atlas of the Future: School's out! This learning community is in

LEARNLIFE Catalonia (Barcelona) Maths. History. Science. Exams. Tests. Most schools focus on the acquisition of knowledge, facts and traditional disciplines. But, united by optimism, one adventurous group of innovators has recognised that a new way of learning is needed in today’s increasingly unpre

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New Museum·10 January 2024

Featured Story: Why we need museums now more than ever

To those who aren’t as passionate about the power of museums as readers of this blog, it can often seem that such institutions are merely places where forgotten objects go to enjoy their final years.

7 min read

New Museum·28 October 2023

THE TIME IS NOW / Museums as agents of change hosted by the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live

This UN75 Webinar features pioneering museum leaders from around the world in dialogue about how the cultural sector can confront the most pressing social and environmental issues facing humanity. As bearers of history and physical places…

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Charities·11 October 2020

UNESCO: International Day of the Girl Child

On December 19, 2011, United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 (link is external) declaring October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the…

ON Network · 1 min read

Education·23 November 2023

Education Cannot Wait

17 September 2020, New York – World leaders today committed to expand education in emergency aid for children and youth impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic – girls and boys already suffering the brunt of armed conflict, forced displacement,…

ON Network · 6 min read

Charities·6 September 2020

Save Our Education: Protect every child’s right to learn in the COVID-19 response and recovery

We are facing an education emergency. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 1.6 billion learners were out of school. For the first time in human history, an entire global generation has had their education disrupted. And we know…

ON Network · 1 min read

Climate·31 August 2020

Geneva Solutions: Why enabling all children to flourish helps tackle the climate crisis

Published on 31 August 2020, 05:41. Updated on 31 August 2020, 09:59.

ON Network · 4 min read

New Museum·6 October 2025

Museums Are Experts at Thinking Long-Term. That’s Why They Must Lead the Fight for a Greener Future—Before It’s Too Late

Nick Merriman, chief executive of the Horniman Museum & Gardens. Photo by Tania Dolvers

4 min read

Dwelling·31 July 2020

Atlas of the Future: Educate to regenerate - Regeneration Academy

Imagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look up and are greeted by an arid environment, rocky soil, sparse vegetation and the very slight movement of…

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·26 July 2020

Art 2030: Quality and Equality in Education

Drawings, writings, and doodles on a desk: the imprints of school life. Since 2013, the artist Oscar Murillo - in collaboration with the political scientist Clara Dublanc - has collected the canvases they sent to schools around the world,…

ON Network · 2 min read

Climate·22 July 2020

Reimagining the future of skills: what do young people think?

Digital connectivity and online learning can expand opportunities for young people around the world. Image: REUTERS/Jorge Silva

ON Network · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·11 October 2023

Nations Skate Youth

Nations Youth Society was founded in early 2020, we’re are in the process of taking over the respected, “CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR KIDS ACHIEVING THROUGH EDUCATION AND CULTURE (CSKATEC)” they are incorporated as a non-profit organization under…

ON Network · 1 min read

Education·8 June 2020

Now is the time for a 'great reset'

To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must partic

World Economic Forum · 3 min read

Education·13 March 2020

‘No school, no skating’: the Indian skate park bringing children together

Children at Janwaar Castle in Madhya Pradesh have embraced skateboarding with relish, demonstrating the sport’s potential as a learning tool. Photograph: Matjaz Tancic

ON Network · 5 min read

New Museum·1 February 2020

Steve McQueen hopes Year 3 work will inspire art's next generation

McQueen with one of the school classes featured in the project. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

3 min read

Arts & Culture·18 September 2019

ART 2030 - Breathe With Me

Image: Visualization of Breathe with Me in Central Park, New York City. Visualization by Studio Jeppe Hein. Courtesy: Jeppe Hein and ART 2030

ON Network · 2 min read

Education·14 September 2019

Winners Announced for a School Made from Recycled Plastic in Mexico

Archstorming , an architectural platform that organizes international competitions, has released the results for the Tulum Plastic School contest. In fact, participants were challenged to design a school made of recycled plastic, tackling…

ON Network · 1 min read

Education·1 September 2019

Term is starting – and English schools must tackle their arts emergency

‘There should be a place for the arts in all schools.’ Students at the In Harmony school in West Everton, Liverpool. Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos/Antonio Olmos

ON Network · 5 min read

Education·1 September 2019

Partnerships with civil society and youth ‘essential’ for a future that leaves no one behind

Partnerships with civil society and youth are essential to achieving the goals of key UN-backed international agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Paris Agreement on climate change, María Fernanda Espinos

UN News · 2 min read

New Museum·21 October 2019

World's Largest Lesson - Project Everyone

World’s Largest Lesson is an on-going initiative from Project Everyone delivered in partnership with UNICEF and many other organisations to bring the Global Goals to children across the world.

2 min read

Education·25 June 2019

The Global Partnership for Education

GPE is a multi-stakeholder partnership and funding platform that aims to strengthen education systems in developing countries in order to dramatically increase the number of children who are in school and learning.

ON Network · 2 min read

Humanitarian·13 June 2019

Fuelling the futures of hundreds of Jordanian and refugee children

Hiba, an eight-year old Syrian refugee, is the road to school success thanks to an Islamic Relief mobile education unit in Jordan.

ON Network · 3 min read

New Museum·17 September 2019

ART-2030 CONNECTING ART AND THE UN GLOBAL GOALS

ART 2030 works with art as the key to achieve the UN Global Goals by opening people's hearts, minds and imagination - to inspire action for a healthy and sustainable future.

1 min read

Humanitarian·5 April 2019

From child refugee to MSF medic: My remarkable story

After his family were forced to flee violence in South Sudan , Thok Johnson spent his childhood surviving in the harsh conditions of a refugee camp – an experience that would inspire him to one day become an MSF nurse . Now a medical…

ON Network · 4 min read

Education·24 March 2019

United Nations: Education critical to ensure future of forests, and reverse their destruction

The UN drew attention to the vital role that forests play in addressing some of the world’s greatest environmental challenges on Thursday, and the importance of tackling the issues that threaten them, such as deforestation, and land…

ON Network · 2 min read

New Museum·10 March 2019

'Geek philanthropy': the gamers raising millions through marathon live streams

Gamers play the endurance driving game Desert Bus as part of Desert Bus for Hope, which launched in 2007 and has raised over $5m for the children’s hospital charity Child’s Play. Photograph: Kolin Toney/Desert Bus for Hope

6 min read

New Museum·15 February 2019

A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’

At 11 o’clock this morning thousands of school students in the UK walked out of their lessons to demand increased action on climate change.

5 min read

Dwelling·12 September 2025

The Gardeners' House

The Morrab Botanical Gardens are a sub tropical garden in the heart of Penzance and home to the rare and remarkable Morrab Library. Nestled in the grounds sits a partially-derelict, former stables building...

ON Network · 2 min read

New Museum·24 January 2019

Could this local experiment be the start of a national transformation?

‘Over the past year, Barking and Dagenham has started to become known as a global leader in taking back control.’ Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

5 min read

New Museum·22 January 2019

Can Art Relax You?

Can art relax you? Sressed Millennials use galleries to unwind, research shows.

2 min read

New Museum·9 January 2019

Choose Love: The world's first store that sells real products for refugees

Every single purchase you make goes towards a similar item for a refugee, delivered via one of the 80+ projects Help Refugees support across the world.

1 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Beauty That Unites: Travels in the Marvelous Harmony of the Chinese people and Vatican Museums

Soft diplomacy between the two countries starts off with an exchange of art.

1 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia

People living with dementia discuss art at a Royal Academy InMind session. Photograph: Roy Matthews

7 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Forest Bathing Is the New Global Phenomenon in Nature Therapy

Shinrin Yoku means “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” In 1982, the Forest Agency proposed Shrinrin Yoku as a different type of therapy which quickly took as picnicking under the cherry blossoms in April and March is a…

3 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city

Kristina Bjureke, the chief botanist at the natural history museum in Oslo, examines a flowering plant with horticulturalist Tor Mjaaland. Bjureke wrote the plant management plan for city’s hay meadow campaign. Photograph: Jonathan Watts…

5 min read

United Nations·8 January 2019

United Nations: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is…

ON Network · 2 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

15,000 at Glastonbury set record for biggest human peace sign

People form a giant peace sign at Glastonbury. Photograph: Andy Eliot/PA

5 min read

New Museum·18 September 2019

Emergency Architects & Human Rights

The building is 25 sqm classroom in a dome shape built to host Syrian and Jordanian children in Za’atari village, located just outside of the Za’atari refugee camp, 10 km from the Syrian border.

2 min read

Arts & Culture·7 January 2019

Serota sets up commission to explore benefit of arts for children

Arts council chairman Sir Nicholas Serota, the outgoing director of the Tate, wants to look at widening access to the arts

ON Network · 3 min read

New Museum·7 January 2019

COOL EARTH

Half the world's rainforest has been lost over the past forty years.

1 min read

New Museum·3 January 2019

Artist John Akomfrah Wins Artes Mundi Prize - his work feels particularly urgent.

His work, tackling migration, racism, and religious persecution, feels particularly urgent.

2 min read

New Museum·17 August 2019

Franciscans International - A Voice At The United Nations

We are a Franciscan voice at the United Nations protecting the vulnerable, the forgotten, and our wounded earth through advocacy.

1 min read

New Museum·23 August 2024

Claudia Sings Sunshine On A Rainy Day | WaterAid

Claudia's village, Lubunda , is in a disadvantaged part of northern Zambia, where people once relied on dirty, distant and dangerous water sources.

1 min read

Education·23 September 2025

This Remote Pakistani Village Is Nothing Like You’d Expect

Above the village of Passu, a teenager checks his Facebook. Many residents here are Ismaili, followers of a moderate branch of Islam. A sign on the mountain slope commemorates the time in 1987, when the Ismaili imam, the Aga Khan, visited…

ON Network · 2 min read

New Museum·1 January 2019

EducAid - learning for life in Sierra Leone

What are the important skills, behaviours, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens?

3 min read

New Museum·1 January 2019

A Sweet Gig: Danish Beekeeping Program Employs Refugees

By operating urban beehives year-round, Bybi helps the environment, gives training, and creates opportunity.

4 min read

New Museum·30 December 2018

Cahier Africain

In the beginning there was a notebook. A notebook about hundreds of broken lives and tragic fates. Director Heidi Specogna wastes no time and shows it to us in the very beginning. She uses the photos of men, children and teenagers, as well…

2 min read

New Museum·30 December 2018

A World Not Ours

The Schwarz Foundation has recently opened A World Not Ours , its exhibition for the summer, curated by Katerina Gregos. The exhibition takes place at the Foundation’s venue in Greece, Art Space Pythagorion , on the island of Samos, one of…

15 min read

New Museum·14 April 2026

Featured Story: A knowledge transporter in Afghanistan

School teacher Saber Hosseini from Bamyan, Afghanistan, cycles more than an hour to deliver books to children in remote villages in the province.

2 min read

New Museum·24 September 2019

Dancing out of poverty in South Africa

Taking the floor: Dane Hurst and the Rambert dance floor he moved to South Africa. Photograph: Karl Schoemaker for the Observer

8 min read

Education·18 December 2025

Muslim Aid - Education

Having an education is vital for an individual’s personal development. Education opens up job prospects and can help those in poverty to earn a living wage and help develop their community. For this reason, Muslim Aid has created numerous…

ON Network · 1 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world

11 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

Diverse candidates make history in US midterm elections

Some of the winners in Tuesday’s US midterm elections will make history when they take office. Here’s a round-up of some of those breaking barriers Stateside, from people of colour to LGBT candidates

2 min read

Charities·9 January 2019

Skateistan - Skate to Liberate

On a personal journey to Afghanistan, passionate skateboarder Oliver Percovich found himself ‘rolling’ the rugged streets of Kabul. Captivated by how children gravitated towards his board when they tried it out, the Australian saw a…

ON Network · 1 min read

Uncategorized·24 May 2018

Little Sun - Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesen

'Art helps us identify with one another and expands the notion of 'we' from the local to the global.'

ON Network · 2 min read

New Museum·16 October 2025

Featured Archive Story: Ubuntu - I am because we are

An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the children whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran…

2 min read

New Museum·27 November 2025

Featured: Utopia For Realists - and how we can get there.

Visited the Wellcome Collection yesterday and came away with Utopia For Realists (ON Ed) Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think you know. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey…

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How the UN is connecting the world’s classrooms

Stories in this directory

Global push for AI governance amid warnings of ‘catastrophic harm’

The Other Tree of Guernica - e-flux Education

Educating for the Future We Want

International Day of Education

Doha Social Summit: Path to fairer societies begins in the classroom

What if nature could save us?

International Youth Day

Museion Academy – International Symposium: Culture as a Commons

Arundhati Roy on Writing in the Information Age

In a Message of Hope, UN Secretary-General Outlines Priorities for 2025

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

SDG Knowledge Hub’s Most Read Stories of 2024 Reveal Hunger for Solutions

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Featured Story: UNICEF Global Learning Innovation Hub

Water Bear - A Wild Education

Success in Finland - Education

UNDP launches innovative e-Learning Programme on sustainable finance

We are faced with a climate emergency. Can art help?

Top-5 world’s most peaceful countries in 2022

First online university for refugees - Kiron Open Higher Education

Universities enrich communities, as well as educating students – new research

Atlas of the Future: School's out! This learning community is in

Featured Story: Why we need museums now more than ever

THE TIME IS NOW / Museums as agents of change hosted by the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live

UNESCO: International Day of the Girl Child

Education Cannot Wait

Save Our Education: Protect every child’s right to learn in the COVID-19 response and recovery

Geneva Solutions: Why enabling all children to flourish helps tackle the climate crisis

Museums Are Experts at Thinking Long-Term. That’s Why They Must Lead the Fight for a Greener Future—Before It’s Too Late

Atlas of the Future: Educate to regenerate - Regeneration Academy

Art 2030: Quality and Equality in Education

Reimagining the future of skills: what do young people think?

Nations Skate Youth

Now is the time for a 'great reset'

‘No school, no skating’: the Indian skate park bringing children together

Steve McQueen hopes Year 3 work will inspire art's next generation

ART 2030 - Breathe With Me

Winners Announced for a School Made from Recycled Plastic in Mexico

Term is starting – and English schools must tackle their arts emergency

Partnerships with civil society and youth ‘essential’ for a future that leaves no one behind

World's Largest Lesson - Project Everyone

The Global Partnership for Education

Fuelling the futures of hundreds of Jordanian and refugee children

ART-2030 CONNECTING ART AND THE UN GLOBAL GOALS

From child refugee to MSF medic: My remarkable story

United Nations: Education critical to ensure future of forests, and reverse their destruction

'Geek philanthropy': the gamers raising millions through marathon live streams

A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’

The Gardeners&#x27; House

Could this local experiment be the start of a national transformation?

Can Art Relax You?

Choose Love: The world's first store that sells real products for refugees

Beauty That Unites: Travels in the Marvelous Harmony of the Chinese people and Vatican Museums

Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia

Forest Bathing Is the New Global Phenomenon in Nature Therapy

Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city

United Nations: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

15,000 at Glastonbury set record for biggest human peace sign

Emergency Architects & Human Rights

Serota sets up commission to explore benefit of arts for children

COOL EARTH

Artist John Akomfrah Wins Artes Mundi Prize - his work feels particularly urgent.

Franciscans International - A Voice At The United Nations

Claudia Sings Sunshine On A Rainy Day | WaterAid

This Remote Pakistani Village Is Nothing Like You’d Expect

EducAid - learning for life in Sierra Leone

A Sweet Gig: Danish Beekeeping Program Employs Refugees

Cahier Africain

A World Not Ours

Featured Story: A knowledge transporter in Afghanistan

Dancing out of poverty in South Africa

Muslim Aid - Education

From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world

Diverse candidates make history in US midterm elections

Skateistan - Skate to Liberate

Little Sun - Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesen

Featured Archive Story: Ubuntu - I am because we are

Featured: Utopia For Realists - and how we can get there.

The Gardeners' House