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.
The UNESCO Chair ‘Education for Human Development and Solidarity among Peoples’ pays tribute to the memory of Jacques Delors (20 July 1925 - 27 December 2023), President of the International Commission on Education for the 21st Century, whose report ‘Learning: The treasure within’ published by UNESCO in 1996 changed the way we see education and learning. While Delors will be remembered as one of the crucial builders of a united Europe, his contribution to the development of a humanistic and modern vision of education, which still inspires education policies around the world today, was fundamental.
