Over the past two years, the Italian UNESCO Chairs have promoted a joint project entitled "UNESCO Chairs Dialogues: a workshop of ideas for the world that will come" to introduce the contribution of Italian UNESCO Chairs to the global challenge of sustainable development to a wide audience. The project was launched on the occasion of the first public on-line event that took place on 9 October 2020 and that had the participation, among others, of Stefania Giannini (ADG Education UNESCO), Franco Bernabè (President of the Italian Commission for UNESCO) and Patrizio Bianchi (then Minister of Education). They all agreed on the importance of collaboration between UNESCO Chairs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
The Italian UNESCO Chairs recently not only decided to launch a second edition of webinars on the New Social Contract for Education, based on the latest UNESCO report on the Futures of Education, but also to give to the experience of the "UNESCO Chairs Dialogues" greater stability and institutionalisation through the creation of a formal Network of Italian UNESCO Chairs. This Network will enable the Italian UNESCO Chairs to speak with one voice and to enforce cooperation between them as a way of implementing a new social contract in the field of research and academia.