Last week, the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Flagship Hub, directed by Joni Adamson, took its place as a proud seed-funder of a performance of Anthropocene in Paris during the UNESCO MOST Social Transformations Week.
An exciting update from our UK Hub - During the recent UNESCO MOST Transformations Week in Paris, the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES UK Hub—based at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) contributed to the BRIDGES Workshops Day on 30 September, which brought together diverse participants to translate theoretical frameworks into tangible, real-world action. The workshops created vital spaces for knowledge exchange. Their core aim was to generate practical insights to directly feed into the newly approved BRIDGES Policy Toolkit, which will be stress-tested worldwide through UNESCO field schools. By creating the space for participants to learn directly from one another, the sessions generated actionable insights designed to align academic research, frontline practice, and inclusive policy development.
An exciting update from the BRIDGES Flagship Hub - Last week, Storying Just Futures (SJF) brought a youth-centered approach to policymaking to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris during MOST Social Transformations Week. During the Create the Change workshop session, SJF Fellows presented the Caring Communities/Storying Just Futures toolkit, a pre-policy approach designed to bring youth voices, lived experience, and community knowledge into the earliest stages of policymaking, and to support young people in designing the futures they want to see for themselves and future generations.
This text is the intervention of Ms Ellen Dixon for the UNESCO MOST Forum 2026 Closing Panel "Integrating the Humanities into Policy", held on 29 September 2026 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France by invitation of the UNESCO MOST-Bridges Coalition.
In this piece Gareth Thomas reflects on an extraordinary cross-continental journey that brought Welsh river fishers and Alutiiq communities together in Kodiak. Rooted in the international Coastal TALES project, this story explores how shared stories over salmon stocks, environmental regulation, and cultural survival can connect two vastly different worlds — "It is not every day that you set off from Wales in the middle of the night, bound for Kodiak Island in Alaska with two traditional Welsh coraclemen. But that was exactly what I was doing in August 2026. After four flights and around 36 hours of travelling, we landed at a small local airport to meet our American research colleagues and their Alutiiq partners. Somewhere among our luggage, carefully carried across several thousand miles, was a miniature traditional coracle made by one of the last people in Wales still making them. We unwrapped it in airport car park and breathed a sigh of relief, the fragile miniature boat had made it."
