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 (...)

The UNESCO Chair for Threats to Cultural Heritage of the Ionian University participates in the 86th Thessaloniki International Fair - Akademia (pavilion 14, stand 18) September 10-18, 2022.

UNESCO Chair Steering Group Member Dr. Vassilios Kappis (BUCSIS) joined the University of Southern California Center for Public Diplomacy (CPD) as an Eastern Mediterranean Research Fellow for the academic year 2022-23!

Dr. Elena Avramidou, philosopher who served as Cultural and Educational Attaché at the Greek embassy in China and current member of the steering committee and the advisory committee of international cultural societies and foundations, took part at the event organized by the FEN together with the Directorate of Relations Internationals of the U. Andrés Bello.

On August 11, 2022, the inaugural workshop took place in the framework of the collaboration between the UNESCO Chair of the Ionian University with the Institute of Studies on the Mediterranean Rim of China's Zhejiang University of International Studies.

The UNESCO Chair TCHER is proud to be part of the Corfu Literary Festival 2022 Programme

Professor Stavros Katsios Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair TCHER is participating in the round table on "Best Practices for the Promotion of Intercultural Dialogue in local Communities".