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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.

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.

After a remarkable presentation and debate

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?"

 We are forwarding an invitation of UNESCO to the university professors worldwide Are you a university professor? If so, this survey is for you. Life for university professors can be tough, especially during the COVID-19 crisis. Engagement and burnout levels in work teams relate to their effectiveness and performance, as they impact the amount of effort that people put (...)

Neapolis University Pafos in Cyprus, the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham in the UK (BUCSIS) and UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage -related Activities, will be co-organising an intensive workshop in Security and Intelligence studies from April 15 to April 17, 2022.

The Chair participates with Assistant Professor Kalliopi Chainoglou, Professor Stavros Katsios and Dr. Ioannis Blatsos in the International symposium on Heritage due to be held on 13 May 2022 in Opole University, Poland.

The Chair participates with three speakers Professor Stavros Katsios, Associate Professor Dionisis Demetis and Dr Ioannis Blatsos at the THIRTY-NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ECONOMIC CRIME SUNDAY 4th SEPTEMBER - SUNDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 2022 JESUS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Title: "Selling Status – insider crime and abuse of trust"

The conference will feature academic papers as well as a series of selected panel discussions, PhD workshops and online satellite events on topical issues related to the 3 main themes: World Heritage Sites in a Changing World, Innovation in Tourism, Sustainable Development Goals

The Chair TCHER participated on 22nd January 2022 at the first UNESCO/EU Workshop on the Role of the Financial Sector in fighting illicit trafficking in cultural property.  

cand. Dr. Christina Keramida Papadatou talking to ERT3 national tv channel had the opportunity to tlk about GeoLab and the newly established UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage.

UNESCO Chair TCHER took part at Corfu Literary Festival on 16th September 2021

The 25-member UNESCO Group of the 1st Lyceum of Corfu, accompanied by the responsible cand. Dr. Christina Keramida Papadatou is on a four days trip visiting characteristic monuments and museums of Athens in the framework of the Research Program for the protection of the Tangible Cultural Heritage in Secondary Education (UNESCool).

The UNESCO Chair on "Threats to Cultural Heritage and to Cultural Heritage Related Activities" of the Ionian University and the Laboratory of Cultural and Historical Heritage Documentation of the Department of Archives, Librarianship and Museology of the Ionian University are organising at 18:00 in Amphitheater II, of the Ionian University, a one day conference on "Cultural heritage, refugees (...)

A programme for those who wish to acquire knowledge in the unlimited thematic of cultural heritage and culture through an interdisciplinary approach, to enhance their competitive abilities for examinations, participation in undergraduate or postgraduate programs, or for vocational retraining, and for those interested in the issues of cultural heritage, tourism and the threats and dangers they face.