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Watch the UNESCO Chairs Seminar: Fostering Cultural Heritage
The multidimensional challenges affecting the preservation of Africa’s rich and diverse cultural and natural heritage, both tangible and intangible, call for a coordinated response and immediate actions to ensure its safeguarding.
UNESCO Chairs Seminars: Transforming Knowledge for Africa’s Future
You are warmly invited to register for two upcoming UNESCO Chairs Seminars on Harnessing new and emerging technologies for sustainable development in Africa. Simultaneous interpretation will be available in English and French.
Transforming knowledge for just and sustainable futures: International Conference Report
We are pleased to share the Report of the International Conference, Transforming knowledge for just and sustainable futures, held to mark the 30th Anniversary of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme.
International Symposium W(est) & E(ast): Ethnoculture and Ethnosophy
The 7th International Symposium W(est) & E(ast): Ethnoculture and Ethnosophy was held at the Russian Academy of Sciences in in St Petersburg in November 2023.
Call for abstract submissions
Abstract submissions for the Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for Our Futures conference are now open.
UNESCO Chairs Seminar Summary: Reinforcing Higher Education in Africa
Read a summary of the UNESCO Chairs Seminar: Reinforcing Higher Education in Africa, held on 21 September 2023.
UNESCO Chairs Seminar: Transforming Knowledge for Africa’s Future #2
You are warmly invited to join the UNESCO Chairs Seminar, Decolonizing the Teaching and Learning of Africa’s History on Wednesday 25 October 2023, 15:00-16:30 (Paris time), with simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Spanish.
International Forum on Cultural Heritage and Interethnic Understanding
The 9th International Forum, ‘Cultural Heritage of Northern Caucasus as Resource of Interethnic Understanding,’ took place in Kabardinka, a resort town at the Black Sea, Russian Federation, from September 21-24, 2023.
New UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Competences at Stellenbosch University
The UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme is delighted to welcome a new UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Competences, which has been awarded to Stellenbosch University.
International Summit: Islamic Education in Present-Day World
International Summit Recap: ‘Islamic Education in Present-Day World: Challenges, Trends, Possibilities’
UNESCO Chairs Seminars: Human Rights Economy
Seminar Recap: A solution in plain sight for a better world: a Human Rights Economy
UNESCO Chairs Seminars: Science Benefitting Society
Seminar Recap: Unleashing Science’s Potential through Human Rights