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UNESCO Learning City Award

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How can a learning city apply for the award?
To apply for the award, cities must:
- complete the award application form and provide any additional materials (articles, videos, etc.) in support of their application;
- ensure the award application form is signed by the city’s mayor;
- sign the consent form;
- send the application to their country’s National Commission for UNESCO.
Each National Commission for UNESCO can nominate up to two cities for the award. An international jury comprising members of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Governing Board will then select the cities per region to receive the UNESCO Learning City Award.

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The UNESCO Learning City Award is open to all UNESCO GNLC member cities in UNESCO Member States across the five UNESCO regions. Only members of the UNESCO GNLC are eligible to apply for the UNESCO Learning City Award. Past awardees will not be eligible for the award for a period of six years following the receipt of a UNESCO Learning City Award.

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2021 Awardees
Publications
Snapshots of learning cities’ responses to COVID-19
2021
UNESCO

How cities are utilizing the power of non-formal and informal learning to respond to the COVID-19 crisis
August 2020
UNESCO

Conference report: Inclusion, a principle for lifelong learning and sustainable cities
2019
UNESCO
