UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2025 (up to $50,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: June 27, 2025

Nominations are open for the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2025. Since 1967, UNESCO International Literacy Prizes have rewarded excellence and innovation in the sphere of literacy. 512 initiatives and programmes undertaken by governments, non-governmental organizations and people around the globe have been acknowledged. Through these prestigious Prizes, UNESCO seeks to help efficient literacy practices and encourages the promotion of dynamic literate societies.

Currently there are two UNESCO International Literacy Prizes:

• The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize (3 awards): Established in 1989, with the help of the Government of the Republic of Korea, it offers particular consideration to mom language-based mostly literacy growth.
• The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy (3 awards): Established in 2005, with the help of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, it offers particular consideration purposeful literacy, leveraging technological environments, in help of adults in rural areas and out-of-college youth.

Prizes

• UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize: Each prize winner receives a medal, a diploma and US$20,000.
• UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy: Each prize winner receives a medal, a diploma and US$30,000.

Eligibility

• Open to establishments, organizations and people selling literacy via efficient and modern programmes.
• Programmes have to be nonetheless in operation and have a confirmed file of modern work in the sphere of literacy for a minimum of 2 years.
• Programmes that haven’t been awarded the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes in the previous 5 years.

Selection Criteria

• Relevance to the themes: The programme/undertaking is pertinent to the areas centered by the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes and the precise theme of this yr.
• Relevance to people and societal wants and robustness: The programme/undertaking is related to the person and societal wants in a given context. The programme/undertaking is powerful and efficient in its design, supply, construction, administration, monitoring and analysis.
• Quality of educating and studying: The high quality of educating and studying entails interrelated dimensions such because the effectiveness, the effectivity, the equality, the relevance and the pertinence.
• Impact: The ‘impact’ relates to each optimistic and detrimental modifications made by a programme/undertaking, to beneficiaries, communities and broader societies. Changes embody each meant and unintended ones demonstrated by qualitative and/or quantitative proof.
• Innovative options: The Innovative options are involved with new/authentic concepts, options, approaches, strategies, gadgets and views or new methods of adapting conventional ones which might provides worth and make a concrete affect.
• Sustainability: Sustainability is concerning lasting advantages and impacts of a programme/undertaking past the lifecycle of the present programme/undertaking.

Nomination

The application course of consists of two levels, an application and a nomination.

For extra data, go to UNESCO International Literacy Prizes.