Brazil

UNESCO Chair in Youth, Education and Society (812), established in 2008 at the Universidade Católica de Brasília (Brazil)

 

Fields / Disciplines Youth, education and society. Objectives To promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation in the field of youth, education and society. It will serve as a means of facilitating collaboration between high-level, internationally recognized researchers and teaching staff of the University and other institutions in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in other regions of the world. The specific objectives of the Chair are to: offer courses and insert content with an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary character in existing undergraduate and graduate levels courses on this subject; develop a research programme, including the production of papers that involve researchers and decision-makers, including visiting professors, conferences and seminars, for the dissemination of knowledge Host Institution Universidade Católica de Brasília (Brazil)Website UNESCO Chair webpage UNESCO Sector / Office responsible for the Chair/Network Education, UNESCO Office in Brasilia