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Objectives of UNESCO Chair HEWACC

Thematic Framework of H3PA Working Themes

About UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks

UNITWIN is the abbreviation for the University Twinning and Networking Programme. Established in 1992, this UNESCO programme was conceived as a way to advance research, training and programme development in higher education by building university networks and encouraging inter-university cooperation through the transfer of knowledge across borders.

The primary objective of the Programme is to advance research and training by establishing UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks in institutions of higher education.

The UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme provides the academic community with the opportunity to become affiliated with UNESCO, and to contribute directly to the implementation of UNESCO’s strategic objectives, as well as to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Objectives of UNESCO Chair HEWACC

Its main objectives are:

  • Establish a comprehensive higher level transdisciplinary “H3PA-HESD” programme to develop national and international education, training and awareness-raising programmes (short-term)
  • To facilitate and coordinate education collaboration between Universities and research institutions, and activities pertinent to its objectives (short-term)
  • To promote international and regional collaborative research projects, capacity building, knowledge transfer, consultancy, and documentation that contribute the North-South-South cooperation, using water- related Cultural/Natural Heritages, facing the impacts of CC; as field-based research activities (long-term).

To achieve this aim and meeting its goals HEWACC will:

  • Focus on the intersection areas of the H3PA in three working themes; Water as Heritage, Heritage in Danger, Water Cycle Variability and foster the integrated management of water and cultural/natural heritage under the threat of CC with a cross-cutting theme DRR&R.
  • Foster collaborative researches with established researchers and experts from the UN, UNESCO Chairs, Centres, governmental organisations, universities, research institutions, NGOs and private enterprises.
  • Promote national/international collaborative research projects.

To achieve this aim and meeting its goals HEWACC will:

  • Focus on the intersection areas of the H3PA in three working themes; Water as Heritage, Heritage in Danger, Water Cycle Variability and foster the integrated management of water and cultural/natural heritage under the threat of CC with a cross-cutting theme DRR&R.
  • Foster collaborative researches with established researchers and experts from the UN, UNESCO Chairs, Centres, governmental organisations, universities, research institutions, NGOs and private enterprises.
  • Promote national/international collaborative research projects

Thematic Framework of H3PA Working Themes

Its main objectives are:

  • Establish a comprehensive higher level transdisciplinary “H3PA-HESD” programme to develop national and international education, training and awareness-raising programmes (short-term)
  • To facilitate and coordinate education collaboration between Universities and research institutions, and activities pertinent to its objectives (short-term)
  • To promote international and regional collaborative research projects, capacity building, knowledge transfer, consultancy, and documentation that contribute the North-South-South cooperation, using water- related Cultural/Natural Heritages, facing the impacts of CC; as field-based research activities (long-term).

To achieve this aim and meeting its goals HEWACC will:

  • Focus on the intersection areas of the H3PA in three working themes; Water as Heritage, Heritage in Danger, Water Cycle Variability and foster the integrated management of water and cultural/natural heritage under the threat of CC with a cross-cutting theme DRR&R.
  • Foster collaborative researches with established researchers and experts from the UN, UNESCO Chairs, Centres, governmental organisations, universities, research institutions, NGOs and private enterprises.
  • Promote national/international collaborative research projects.

To achieve this aim and meeting its goals HEWACC will:

  • Focus on the intersection areas of the H3PA in three working themes; Water as Heritage, Heritage in Danger, Water Cycle Variability and foster the integrated management of water and cultural/natural heritage under the threat of CC with a cross-cutting theme DRR&R.
  • Foster collaborative researches with established researchers and experts from the UN, UNESCO Chairs, Centres, governmental organisations, universities, research institutions, NGOs and private enterprises.
  • Promote national/international collaborative research projects

Haliç University aims to draw attention to global problems with its academic studies and research and to produce solutions through international agreements. The university’s studies focusing on heritage, water and climate change in this context have gained a global dimension with the cooperation with UNESCO.

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