Over the last fourteen years the UNITWIN Programme has developed into a truly world-wide, inter-university co-operation scheme based on interdisciplinarity, intersectoriality and networking. It has since become one of the major intersectorial Programmes and an integral part of activities developed by UNESCO various Sectors, services and Field (Cluster) Offices.

This fifth edition of the Directory is a special edition and is composed of two parts:

Part I provides information on UNESCO Chairs and Networks by country and Part II consists of annexes and graphs.

The distinctive feature of Part I is that it contains information only on those 356 UNESCO Chairs and 28 Networks that have approved progress reports for the period 2003 to 2005 (298) and on newly established Chairs and Networks as from 2004 to 31 May 2006 (86).

It also provides summaries of Chairs and Networks to facilitate decisions for greater networking within the UNITWIN Programme.

The individual entries contain: title of the Chair and Network followed by the year of signature of the agreement (or contract), ID number of chair and network, name of the host institution, fields/disciplines of activities as well as objectives, summaries of activities during the reporting period, results and impact, name and contact details of the chairholder / project coordinator, and when possible, names of the partner institutions involved in its activities.

The Directory also includes statistical data (graphs) indicating the number and distribution of the UNESCO Chairs and Networks by region and by field as well as two indexes for the Chairs and Networks (by field and disciplines and by region) and one index by host country of Chairs and Networks.

The information provided in this Directory is valid as of 31 May 2006.