Spain
UNESCO Chair in Public Freedoms and Civic Values (1002), established in 2012 at the University Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Fields/Disciplines
Public freedoms and civic values.
Objectives
The specific objectives of this Chair are to:
- become a pole of research and teaching, discussion forum and way of transmitting knowledge and ideas, based on public freedoms and civic values;
- foster the training of graduate and postgraduate students, of teachers from primary to higher education and researchers on secularity, public freedoms and civic values;
- develop research from the perspective of civic values, in order to contribute to a Culture of Peace, and provide support and recommendations to the public and private sectors as well as to national and international institutions;
- establish a global network of higher education institutions in the field of public freedoms and civic values.
Host Institution
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
UNESCO Sector/Office responsible for the Chair/Network
Social and Human Sciences
Contact: Prof. Alicia Cebada Romero, UNESCO Chairholder
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Calle Madrid 126
28903 Getafe, Madrid
Spain
E-mail: alicia.cebada(at)uc3m.es
Phone: + 34 660851850