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Of all the journals published by the United Nations and its specialised institutions, the UNESCO Courier has always occupied first place for the number of its readers and the range of its audience, said the American journalist Sandy Koffler, the Courier's founder and first editor-in-chief, in 1988. The magazine has changed a great deal over the years, both in content and in form. But it pursues its original mission: promote UNESCO’s ideals, maintain a platform for the dialogue between cultures and provide a forum for international debate. Available online since March 2006, the UNESCO Courier serves readers around the world in the six official languages of the Organization (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) and in Portuguese. A limited number of issues are also produced in print.

This year’s World Teachers’ Day theme, “Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its sta...
05/10/2026

This year’s World Teachers’ Day theme, “Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its status and shaping our futures,” invites us to look at the changing challenges facing educators… including the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.

In The UNESCO Courier, Wayne Holmes, Professor of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education at University College London, explores what AI means for learning and why education remains fundamentally human. A timely reflection on the role of teachers, as technology continues to reshape the classroom.

Read the article here: https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/learning-think-ai-era

Smell is an overlooked form of cultural heritage, but researchers are developing ways to document, preserve and even res...
21/09/2026

Smell is an overlooked form of cultural heritage, but researchers are developing ways to document, preserve and even resurrect the scents that connect people and places to the past.

Read more in out article “What is the scent of our past?”: https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/what-scent-our-past

21/09/2026

In contrast to sight, traditionally associated with reason, smell has long been overlooked as a form of knowledge and heritage. Today, researchers are working to document and preserve this fragile sensory dimension and, in some cases, to recover scents that have disappeared.

New methods are now helping researchers capture these elusive traces, through air sampling, chemical analysis, sensory evaluation and historical sources…

Among the projects exploring this field is Odeuropa, a European research project dedicated to Europe’s olfactory heritage. One of its examples is the recovery of the 16th-century pomander – a fragrant metal sphere worn as jewellery and carried as medicine. Today, most pomanders survive in museum cases as scentless objects. Odeuropa has rebuilt their fragrance from period recipes.

Join Cecilia Bembibre Jacobo as she explores how researchers are working to document and preserve the smells that form part of our heritage.

Can a novel make us see the world through someone else’s eyes and discover how much different cultures have in common?In...
15/09/2026

Can a novel make us see the world through someone else’s eyes and discover how much different cultures have in common?

Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan reflects on the power of literature to cross borders, connect cultures and open up new ways of seeing the world.

Read the full interview via the link in the comments.

Can science journalism compete when the loudest story is often the one that gets the most clicks? When a scroll lasts se...
10/09/2026

Can science journalism compete when the loudest story is often the one that gets the most clicks? When a scroll lasts seconds, how do you make people stop for science?

Read the full article by Subhra Priyadarshini, Editor-in-Chief of Nature India, in our latest issue. Link in the comments.

03/09/2026

Just a few years after the end of the Second World War, the very first issue of The UNESCO Courier was published in Paris, at a time when the world was trying to rebuild, reconnect and imagine what could come next.

So, what did The UNESCO Courier choose to put in its first issue? We went into the UNESCO Archives with Eng Sengsavang, Reference Archivist at UNESCO, to find out.

Together, we turn the pages of that first issue and discover the subjects that were already at the heart of UNESCO’s mission: international cooperation, education, science, culture and the urgent need to foster understanding between peoples.

01/09/2026

Back to school. Back to the big questions.

As a new academic year begins, millions of students are choosing what they want to study and what kind of future they want to build.

For 26-year-old journalist Kamiel Vermeulen, the rise of AI was not a reason to turn away from journalism. He remains convinced that the profession has a bright future and even more particularly at a time when misinformation is spreading online and reliable, verified information matters more than ever.

How are AI and other new technologies changing what you study or the work you do? Tell us in the comments!

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