UNESCO CHAIR IN COMPARATIVE STUDIES
OF SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS, THEIR SPECIFIC CULTURES
AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

The Saint-Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute of Cultural Research
UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Republic of Moldova and Russian Federation

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UNESCO launched the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme in 1991 as an international action plan for academic solidarity to strengthen inter-university co-operation with particular emphasis on support to higher education in the developing countries.
The programme works towards establishing and reinforcing strong and durable linkages amongst higher education and scientific institutions worldwide and at facilitating the transfer of knowledge while combating the brain drain. Special attention is paid to providing assistance through inter-regional and (sub)regional linkages.
The UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme encompasses a broad spectrum of activities requiring very flexible modes of action. It is based on genuine, equal partnership among the higher education institutions which initiate various projects within its framework.
Two types of closely interrelated and interdependent activities have emerged as the base for the major strategies for implementing the Programme: inter-university networks and international UNESCO Chairs. While individual chairs responding to specific needs are possible, the programme endeavours to create the proper conditions to allow each chair to be a focal point of a network or to be a part of a network.


The UNITWIN network on Interreligious studies

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PARTNERS



UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)



PARTNERSHIPS

College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center



Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University
(Brussels, Belgium)



Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee
(Wisconsin, USA)


European Society for Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) - Lund university, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
(Lund, Sweden)



The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions
(Jerusalem, Izrael)