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UNESCO has published (29 September 2025) practical guidelines to help integrate culture and the arts into formal, non-formal and informal education throughout life.

This new Implementation Guidance translates the Framework for Culture and Arts Education — adopted at the UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education in Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 2024 — into concrete, actionable policy and practice. This new resource is designed to help Member States, Associate Members, and educational and cultural stakeholders integrating culture and the arts across formal, non-formal, and informal learning settings, with an emphasis on inclusion, cultural diversity, co-creation, and lifelong learning.

Who is this guidance for?
The Implementation Guidance for the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education aims to provide practical recommendations for a broad range of stakeholders:

What’s in the Guidance?
The Implementation Guidance for the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education joins high-level vision to tangible action. Each of its sections outlines concrete expected outcomes, depicting the envisioned reality resulting from the implementation of the recommendations, as well as guiding questions to help stakeholders assess the progress achieved.

The Guidance provides recommendations for policymakers on developing long-term strategies, strengthening coordination, and embedding culture and the arts into education systems. It also features practical tips for practitioners, for integrating culture and the arts into classrooms, technical training, higher education, and community learning.

Perhaps most remarkably, the Guidance highlights illustrative examples from 52 countries across all regions of the world, showcasing a diversity of innovative initiatives in culture and arts education. These range from institutional approaches, such as Chile’s Artistic Education Policy or Türkiye’s specialised teacher training programmes, to digital learning innovations like Lithuania’s online Competence Library developing cultural knowledge and skills. Examples also include practices reaching communities through art and music festivals in Azerbaijan, Iran and Morocco, using tangible heritage such as the Apartheid Museum in South Africa, or a Pakistani Radio Programme providing cultural learning to marginalised groups.

Read more about Implementation Guidance for UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education.

This education strategy is specifically developed to meet the needs of the children, young people and adults from the Traveller and Roma communities with the aim of enhancing their education experience and success. It is intended to provide direction for the whole education system, including early learning and childcare, primary and post­primary school, further, higher and lifelong education through cross­departmental collaboration between the Department of Education, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

A five-year strategy for the Arts in Education Portal, Ireland’s national resource for arts and creativity in education.

The Portal has grown and developed incrementally over the last 7 years. A tremendous amount of work has been achieved under the auspices of the Arts in Education Charter and Creative Youth 2017-2022. This Strategy is a live document – and it will be the Portal Committee’s guiding star over the coming five 5 years. The Arts in Education Portal site “evolution” will be going live over the coming months. We welcome your engagement, advice and feedback as this evolution takes place.

Enormous milestones have been achieved and collectively we now have a strategic roadmap to guide us to achieve more and ensure the Portal remains and achieves the title of key national digital resource for arts, creativity and education practice in Ireland.

Building on the success of the first Creative Youth Plan 2017-2022, this new Plan aims to provide everyone from birth to 24 years with more opportunities for creative engagement in every aspect of their lives. Across seven strategic objectives, the Creative Youth Plan will ensure children and young people retain a key voice in decision-making on its implementation and will prioritise those that are seldom heard and most at risk of disadvantage. Parents & caregivers, educators, artists, and creative practitioners will be supported to recognise the centrality and value of creativity to their lives.

Creative Ireland’s updated plan to support young people’s creativity between 2018 – 2022

This Policy document sets out the Government’s approach to supporting and promoting creativity and culture in Ireland.

From Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media

Published on 15 April 2019

Last updated on 31 May 2021

The Framework Policy sets out values and high-level principles to inform public policy and planning. It recognises that everyone has the right to enjoy, create and participate in the culture of their country

The Charter sets out the vision and policies for putting the arts at the core of the education system in Ireland.


!!!! Implementation Guidance for UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education

UNESCO has published (29 September 2025) practical guidelines to help integrate culture and the arts into formal, non-formal and informal education throughout life.

This new Implementation Guidance translates the Framework for Culture and Arts Education — adopted at the UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education in Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 2024 — into concrete, actionable policy and practice. This new resource is designed to help Member States, Associate Members, and educational and cultural stakeholders integrating culture and the arts across formal, non-formal, and informal learning settings, with an emphasis on inclusion, cultural diversity, co-creation, and lifelong learning.

Who is this guidance for?
The Implementation Guidance for the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education aims to provide practical recommendations for a broad range of stakeholders:

What’s in the Guidance?
The Implementation Guidance for the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education joins high-level vision to tangible action. Each of its sections outlines concrete expected outcomes, depicting the envisioned reality resulting from the implementation of the recommendations, as well as guiding questions to help stakeholders assess the progress achieved.

The Guidance provides recommendations for policymakers on developing long-term strategies, strengthening coordination, and embedding culture and the arts into education systems. It also features practical tips for practitioners, for integrating culture and the arts into classrooms, technical training, higher education, and community learning.

Perhaps most remarkably, the Guidance highlights illustrative examples from 52 countries across all regions of the world, showcasing a diversity of innovative initiatives in culture and arts education. These range from institutional approaches, such as Chile’s Artistic Education Policy or Türkiye’s specialised teacher training programmes, to digital learning innovations like Lithuania’s online Competence Library developing cultural knowledge and skills. Examples also include practices reaching communities through art and music festivals in Azerbaijan, Iran and Morocco, using tangible heritage such as the Apartheid Museum in South Africa, or a Pakistani Radio Programme providing cultural learning to marginalised groups.

Read more about Implementation Guidance for UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education.

!!!! Traveller and Roma Education Strategy 2024 – 2030

This education strategy is specifically developed to meet the needs of the children, young people and adults from the Traveller and Roma communities with the aim of enhancing their education experience and success. It is intended to provide direction for the whole education system, including early learning and childcare, primary and post­primary school, further, higher and lifelong education through cross­departmental collaboration between the Department of Education, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

!!!! A Community of Practice – The Arts in Education Portal Strategy 2023–2027

A five-year strategy for the Arts in Education Portal, Ireland’s national resource for arts and creativity in education.

The Portal has grown and developed incrementally over the last 7 years. A tremendous amount of work has been achieved under the auspices of the Arts in Education Charter and Creative Youth 2017-2022. This Strategy is a live document – and it will be the Portal Committee’s guiding star over the coming five 5 years. The Arts in Education Portal site “evolution” will be going live over the coming months. We welcome your engagement, advice and feedback as this evolution takes place.

Enormous milestones have been achieved and collectively we now have a strategic roadmap to guide us to achieve more and ensure the Portal remains and achieves the title of key national digital resource for arts, creativity and education practice in Ireland.

!!!! Creative Youth Plan 2023 – 2027

Building on the success of the first Creative Youth Plan 2017-2022, this new Plan aims to provide everyone from birth to 24 years with more opportunities for creative engagement in every aspect of their lives. Across seven strategic objectives, the Creative Youth Plan will ensure children and young people retain a key voice in decision-making on its implementation and will prioritise those that are seldom heard and most at risk of disadvantage. Parents & caregivers, educators, artists, and creative practitioners will be supported to recognise the centrality and value of creativity to their lives.

!!!! 2018 Update – Creative Youth – A plan to enable the creative potential of every child and young person

Creative Ireland’s updated plan to support young people’s creativity between 2018 – 2022

!!!! Culture 2025 – A National Cultural Policy Framework – Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

This Policy document sets out the Government’s approach to supporting and promoting creativity and culture in Ireland.

From Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media

Published on 15 April 2019

Last updated on 31 May 2021

The Framework Policy sets out values and high-level principles to inform public policy and planning. It recognises that everyone has the right to enjoy, create and participate in the culture of their country

!!!! The Arts in Education Charter – Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht and Department of Education and Skills

The Charter sets out the vision and policies for putting the arts at the core of the education system in Ireland.