ReCUI

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.

Initiatives 
 

23 January 2025

Presentation of the ReCUI volume ‘Empowering Higher Education in Africa: Italy and the UNESCO Chair Network’.

the programme

24 January 2025

ReCUI 2025 Conference ‘Learning for Sustainable Peace’, on the occasion of the International Education Day

the programme

The Ministry of Universities and Research conferred the Seal of Merit on all the UNESCO Chairs established at Italian universities and members of the Network of Italian UNESCO Chairs (RECUI), including the UNESCO Chair ‘Education for Human Development and Solidarity Among Peoples’ at the Università Cattolica, as a distinctive sign of their commitment to setting up programmes aimed at responding promptly and with greater autonomy to the renewed demands for new learning and research in a world undergoing rapid economic, social and technological change.

By awarding the Seal of Merit, the Ministry recognised the role played by UNESCO Chairs in achieving the 2030 Agenda Goals and promoting intercultural dialogue and social inclusion within the national and international higher education system. 

On the occasion of the awarding of the Seal of Merit, the two UNESCO Chairs active in the Brescia area - the UNESCO Chair at the Università Cattolica and the UNESCO Chair ‘Training and empowering human resources for health development in resource-limited Countries’ at the Università Statale di Brescia - issued a joint press release.

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