UNESCO Chairs & UNITWIN Networks

Launched in 1992, the UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks programme seeks to foster international cooperation and knowledge sharing between higher education institutions.

A UNESCO Chair is a team within a higher education or research institution that partners with UNESCO on a project to advance knowledge and practice in an area of common priority.

A UNITWIN Network is a partnership between UNESCO and a network of higher education or research institutions (at least three institutions in different countries, at least two of which must be located in the Global South) which pool their competencies and resources around particular theme(s).

Each UNESCO Chair or UNITWIN Network in the UK has a formal ‘Lead’ academic who must be a Professor within the higher education establishment.

Chair in Sport, Physical Activity and Education for Development

Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation

Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage

Chair in Education for Peacebuilding and Human Rights

Chair in Global Health and Education and UNITWIN Network in Health and Education: Innovating for Sustainable Development

Chair in Higher Education Management

Chair in International Education and Development

Chair in Masculinities and Gender Equality

Chair in Ocean Governance

Chair in Shared Education for Peacebuilding and Social Justice

Chair in Silk Roads Studies

Chair in Sustainable Energy Technologies

Chair in the Development of a Sustainable Geoenvironment

Chair in Transforming Knowledge and Research for Just and Sustainable Futures

Chair in Water Science

Chair on Analytics and Data Science

Chair in Artificial Intelligence

Chair on Building Peaceful Societies through Research on Gender Equality

Chair on Cultural Property Protection and Peace

Chair on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering (DRR&RE)

Chair on Global Creative Economy

Chair on Informatics and Multi-hazard Risk Reduction

Chair on Innovative Informal Digital Learning in Disadvantaged and Development Contexts

Chair on Geoscience and Society

Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity

Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Language, and Arts

Chair on Responsible Foresight for Sustainable Development

Chair on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and Expansion of Political Space

UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology

UNITWIN Network in Culture, Tourism and Development

UNITWIN Network in Global Pharmacy Education Development

UNITWIN Network on Ecohydrological Interfaces Under Change

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