Season's Greetings from the Team and the UNESCO Chair holder at the Ionian University

The Greek National Section of the International Council of Folk Festivals and Folk Arts (CIOFF®) partner of UNESCO, the Ionian University and the Educational and Cultural Association of Sinion - member of CIOFF® - organized a cultural two-day event, on November 19 and 20, at the Spiritual Center of I.M. Corfu, Paxos and Diapontia Islands. The cultural two-day event is part of the pre-festival (...)

The UNESCO Chair holder Professor Stavros Katsios made a working visit to the Cyclops Center for Natural Hazards Monitoring and Prevention of Cyprus in Larnaka on 9/11/2022.

The WG on Illicit Antiquities Trafficking of the Unesco chair on threats to cultural heritage and cultural heritage-related activities at the Ionian University in the Guardian (again)

On 14th November 2022, UNESCO celebrates the 3rd International Day against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property.

UNESCO has convenend a 30th anniversary celebration of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme. This anniversary conference celebrated the accomplishments over the last three decades and advance authentic interdisciplinary dialogues and the cross-sectoral mobilization needed to confront complex challenges on the horizon.

Does the past have a future? Corfu and the promise for sustainability of a World Cultural Heritage city

Ιn the session “Open innovation in academia-society cooperation: examples of cultural heritage preservation in a crisis situation”, Professor Alex Papadopoulos, representing the UNESCO Chair TCHER made a presentation on cultural heritage threats and your understanding of open innovation to tackle these threats. 

On September 27, 2022, the "2022 Nishan Dialogue on Chinese and Greek Classical Civilizations" was hybridly held, organized by Shandong Province and the Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies.

On 21st September 2022 the Chair's Steering Committee member Asc. Professor Dr. Elena Avramidou participated in the workshop

50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention (16 November 2022): World Heritage as a source of resilience, humanity and innovation

The UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage of the Ionian University, which operates in the Geocultural Analysis Laboratory GEOLab of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​Translation and Interpreting, participated with its director and one of the Chair's doctoral candidates at the Ionian University stand during the 86th Thessaloniki International Fair, 10-18 September 2022. As the unique (...)