Calendar of events

Mark your calendar: Weekly highlights

• 223rd session of the Executive Board
  20 November 2025 (UNESCO HQ - Paris, France)
• World Philosophy Day 2025
  20 November 2025 (UNESCO HQ - Paris, France)
  UNESCO celebrates World Philosophy Day on 20 November in Paris with a keynote by Prof. Ingrid Robeyns on the ethics of inequality and values shaping future societies.
• 25th session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
  24-25 November 2025 (UNESCO HQ - Paris, France)
• Grand Egyptian Museum
  24 November 2025 (UNESCO HQ - Paris, France) This cultural event marks the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on the 1st of November 2025. The GEM is spanning over 500,000 square metres, and packed with some 100,000 artefacts of the ancient Egyptian civilization, covering some seven millennia of the country's history from pre-dynastic times to the Greek and Roman eras, on the top of them the entire fabulous collection of King Tutankhamun which is displayed together for the first time since its discovery
• Screening of the film "Je n'avais que le néant" (All I Had Was Nothingness) by Guillaume Ribot
  25 November 2025 (UNESCO HQ - Paris, France)
  To mark the centenary of Claude Lanzmann’s birth, a special screening of All I Had Was Nothingness, directed by Guillaume Ribot, will be held at UNESCO HQ. Drawing on 220 hours of previously unseen footage and Lanzmann’s own writings, the film retraces the extraordinary creative journey behind Shoah: twelve years of work, thousands of hours of preparation, travels around the world, doubts, false starts, and moments of painful grace where truth emerges from nothingness.
• "Future in Play" International Forum on Inclusive Sport and Physical Education
  27-28 November 2025 (Santiago, Chile)
  The 2025 International Forum on Inclusive Sport and Physical Education will bring together Sport Ministers, Education Ministers, public and private investors, sport organizations, and civil society to foster a shared understanding of intersectional approaches to inclusion, highlight the transformative role of inclusive sport and physical education for persons with disabilities, and showcase Latin America’s growing leadership in this area.

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