The CIPSH Chairs programme was created by the
International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences
The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (French: ''Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines''; ICPHS/CIPSH) is a non-governmental organization within UNESCO. It embraces hundreds of learned societie ...
(, CIPSH) in 2018 and is modelled after the programme of
UNESCO Chairs
The UNESCO Chairs program 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 transfer of knowledge across borders.
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. The programme is designed to highlight and encourage existing research networks of centres of research in the humanities and to attract greater attention to the humanities worldwide and enhanced recognition of their importance in contemporary society. CIPSH Chairs are established for a renewable period of five years.
History
The programme was proposed and discussed by the 33rd General Assembly of
CIPSH in
Liège
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, Belgium on 6 August 2017
and created by the CIPSH Executive Committee on 16 April 2018 during its meeting in
Xiamen
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, China.
[ ] The first CIPSH Chairs were established in 2019.
List of CIPSH chairs
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