Date: Oct. 9, 2022

Source: Academy of Cultural Heritage and Creativity

Translator: LI Fenfen

Jinan University won a UNESCO Chair on World Traditional Handicrafts: Inheritance and Innovation on Oct. 8, demonstrating that JNU has taken a key step in the field of inheritance and innovation of world traditional handicrafts. Winning the Chair promotes international interuniversity cooperation and the exchanges between China and the world. 

UNESCO established the Chairs in 1992, and over 100 member states have established 908 chair projects. Countries with major Chair programs include Spain (67), Russia (64), France (40) and Italy (31). As of September, over 20 higher education and research institutions in China, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Sun Yat-sen University and Wuhan University, have won Chairs.

As a vital platform for information-sharing in all areas within UNESCO's mandate, the Chair endeavors to enhance the capacity of higher education and research institutions through knowledge exchange. Covering training, research and exchanges in the international academic community, the Chair opens broad channels of cooperation with UNESCO.

Over the last five years, JNU's Academy of Cultural Heritage and Creativity has conducted interdisciplinary research on cultural heritage, especially traditional handicrafts, through education and training. UNESCO reported that this is the only Chair program in the world focusing on the inheritance and innovation of traditional handicrafts.

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