Among the milestones of UNESCO’s activities are the World Campaign against Illiteracy (1960) and the inscription of 1,199 World Heritage sites. Today, its priorities include:

– Protection of 748 biosphere reserves

– Implementation of quality education (SDG 4)

– Safeguarding of intangible heritage

– Ethical development of new technologies such as quantum sciences (Priority 2025), which is being carried out in collaboration with 12,000 educational institutions in the Associated Schools Network (ASPnet).

UNESCO’s operational mechanisms and vision, based on 41 international conventions and field programmes in 54 regional offices, address challenges such as climate change, protecting the oceans and ensuring access to information. Its current approach is based on:

1. Strengthening scientific collaboration in crises such as water scarcity
2. Promoting cultural diversity in the digital space
3. Developing learning cities with a focus on educational equity. The organization emphasizes that “no war begins in the minds of men unless peace is first built there.”

UNESCO’s mission is to help strengthen peace and security by promoting cooperation among nations in the fields of education, science and culture in order to develop universal respect for justice, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms recognized in the Charter of the United Nations for all peoples of the world without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.

The means of achieving this mission include:

• Cooperation in promoting mutual knowledge and understanding among nations through all means of mass communication and the recommendation of necessary international agreements to facilitate the free flow of ideas in word and image.
• To strengthen universal education and the spread of culture by:

Cooperating with Member States (at their request) in the development of educational activities; – Establishing cooperation among nations to promote equal educational opportunities without racial, sex, economic or social discrimination; – Suggesting appropriate educational methods to prepare the children of the world to assume the responsibilities of freedom.

• Preservation, enhancement and dissemination of knowledge through:

To protect the heritage of books, works of art, and historical and scientific monuments of the world and to recommend the necessary international conventions to the countries concerned; – To encourage cooperation among nations in all intellectual fields, including the international exchange of professors, researchers, and the exchange of publications, works of art and science, and other information materials; – To devise methods of international cooperation to provide access for the people of all countries to printed and published materials in other countries.