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".

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UNESCO is convening a 30th anniversary celebration of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme at its headquarters in Paris from 3-4 November 2022.

The UNESCO and European Research Area (ERA) Chairs on Digital Heritage are announcing the International EuroMed 2022 conference dedicated on Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection. The UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage related Activities at the Ionian University takes part and strongly supports the conference.

Appointment of Professor Stavros Katsios, Department of Foreign Languages Translation and Interpreting with his deputy the Professor Stephanos Vlachopoulos, Department of Translation and Interpreting as representative of the Ionian University to the Supervisory Board of Certified Translators of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, in collaboration with the Research Center of China-EU Relations, School of Social Sciences and Tsinghua University, co-organized the seminar “Classic Philosophical Thoughts and Contemporary International Relations”.

Elena Avramidou, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Peking University), and member of the Steering Committee of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage of the Ionian University attended the Workshop “Workshop—Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges" organised by the Athens Academy in which took part scholars specialising in Ancient Greek and Chinese Philosophy.

This EU-UNESCO Conference organized on June 9, 2022 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis head of the WG Illicit Antiquities' Trafficking of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage -related Activities at the Ionian University, was a invited speaker at the panel.

Panagiota KLITSA, UNESCO Chair graduate research fellow

After a remarkable presentation and debate

Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis head of the working group Illicit Antiquities Trafficking of the Unesco chair on threats to cultural heritage and cultural heritage-related activities, Ionian University, Greece calls for sale of marble head of Greek philosopher Antisthenes to be halted.

Upon an invitation of UNESCO to the Chair on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage related Activities the Ionian University is participating to the UNESCO virtual Campus conference-debate on "How to fight against illicit trafficking of Cultural Objects?"