About the chair
- University of Pretoria
- UNU-CRIS
In an agreement between the United Nations University and UNESCO signed in 2010 a new UNESCO-UNU Chair (the Chair) on Regional Integration, Migration and Free Movement of People was established to be based at UNU-CRIS in Bruges but in collaboration with the University of Pretoria, Department of Political Science.
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Chairholder
- Bob Deacon
From January 1st 2011 Professor Bob Deacon, senior visiting research fellow at UNU-CRIS, who had steered the UNU-CRIS project on World Regional Social Policy and is Professor of International Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK, was appointed to the Chair initially for two years.
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UNESCO Chairs
UNESCO Chairs are established within the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme. The programme was conceived by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a way to advance research, training and programme development in higher education by building university networks and encouraging inter-university cooperation through transfer of knowledge across borders. Since it was set up in 1992 the programme has aroused great interest among Member-States.
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