UNITWIN Network on Pedagogical Education: the Multicultural Dialogue Cooperation Programme (720), established in 2006 at Herzen Pedagogical State University of Russia, St Petersburg (Russian Federation).

Fields/Disciplines

Post-graduate teaching, training, research; pedagogical and education sciences, social and human sciences.

Objectives

The principal objectives of the Cooperation Programme are to:

• promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation activities in the fields of pedagogical education;
• provide advice and expertise to assist all countries, particularly the least developed, in:
• establishing long-term cooperation among partner universities in capacity building and institutional strengthening in pedagogical education;
• facilitating links between the member institutions through development of interaction and collaboration among partner universities as well as among related UNITWIN Networks through joint programmes, visiting professorships and student mobility;
• helping members of the Cooperation Programme to establish an international cooperative research programme in pedagogical education through centers of excellence for specialized pedagogical studies and advanced research;
• developing methods of interdisciplinary research and development activities through knowledge sharing and mutual assistance in upgrading and further development of the existing academic and professional qualifications;
• enhancing public awareness of multicultural dialogue issues in specific situations trough education;
• permitting better-informed international recognition of qualifications;
• ensuring academic mobility of faculty and students with the aim of experiencing exchange and establishing multicultural dialogue between the participating higher education institutions;
• facilitating the development and use of information and communication technologies;
• enabling Cooperation Programme members to update and upgrade their capacities through linkages with other universities in the world.

Partnership

Russian Federation

• Murmansk State Pedagogical University;
• Vologda State Pedagogical University;
• Karelia State Pedagogical University;
• Komi State Pedagogical University;
• Pskov State Pedagogical University;
• Pomorsk State University;
• Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University;
• North-West Brach of the Russian Academy of Education;
• UNESCO Chair on Training and Retraining of Specialists under Market Economy Conditions (Academy of Management "TISBI", Tatarstan Institute for the Promotion of Business);
• Nizhnekamensk Municipal Institute, Tatarstan.

Belarus

• UNESCO Chair for Human Rights and Democracy (Belarussian State University)

Georgia

• UNESCO Chair on Culture of Peace and Democracy (Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Tbilisi State Pedagogical University).

Kazakstan

• UNESCO Chair on Educational Science and Teacher training (Abai State University)

Kyrgyzstan

• Kyrgyz State National University

Uzbekistan

• UNESCO Chair in civic and values education (Tashkent State Pedagogical University)

Ukraine

• UNESCO Chair in preventive education and social policy (Academy of Pedagogical Education, Kiev).

UNESCO Sector/Office responsible for the Chair/Network

Education, UNESCO Moscow Office.

Documents

Progress  report 2008 (short version)

Progress Report 2006 (short version)

Contact

Rosa Maria Guerreiro - UNESCO
r.guerreiro(at)unesco.org
1, rue Miollis 75732 Paris Cedex 15
France

Prof. Valery Solomin, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Rector
E-Mail address - vps(at)herzen.spb.ru

Work Phone - +7 812 571-60-88

Fax - + 7 812 5700428
Street - Nab.Reki Moiki 48
City - Saint-Petersburg
Postal Code - 191186
Country - Russian Federation
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