We are pleased to announce that the UNESCO Chair will be participating in the SHELTER Final Conference on 27 and 28 April 2023. The conference will be held at the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe in Venice. The “Sustainable Historic Environments hoListic reconstruction through Technological Enhancement

The UNESCO Chair participated as a panelist at the "Information Session for Member States on Disaster Risk Reduction" event organized by the UNESCO Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, and held at the Paris Headquarters. The event, finalized for ambassadors and delegations from various Member States, was opened by speeches

In the context of the Implementing Measures for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Mitigation of School Facilities in Haiti project, funded by the Adaptation Fund, the UNESCO Chair researchers are applying the VISUS methodology for the safety assessment of up to 700 schools in four departments in Haiti.

In the context of the project “Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Built Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean” (BERLAC5 project) in Dominican Republic, the UNESCO Chair researchers are applying the VISUS methodology for the safety assessment of up to 100 schools in Dominican Republic. VISUS will

RESILIENHANCE program Enhancing the Resilience to Disasters for Sustainable Development Project Co-financed under Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional funds (L.R18/2011) - CEI-FVG operative programme 756/2021 Natural hazards and manmade accidents call for enhancing resilience to disasters as a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development. In a complex and interconnected

Click on photos to read the short CV Lucille Anglès Coordinator for the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector, Paris, France Ingrid Belčáková Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Development and Ecological Awareness, Technical University of Zvolen, Slovakia Maria De America Bendito Torija