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?"

The doctoral candidates of the UNESCO Chair present their research

Interview of the Associate Professor and member of the Steering Committee of the UNESCO Chair Mrs Elena Avramidou on the occasion of the discovery of the Jixia Academy

Warm wishes from the team of the UNESCO Chair at the Ionian University

World Heritage Day is observed every year on April 18, to preserve the human heritage and recognize the efforts of the organizations working for it.

On March 28, 2022, a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation was signed between NGO CulturePolis and the UNESCO Chair "On Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage Related Activities" of the Ionian University.This newly established chair is operated by the Laboratory of Geocultural Analysis (GEOLab) of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation, headed by (...)

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hindered and in some cases reversed years of progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, universities are being encouraged to focus on forging broad partnerships as a means to effect meaningful change.