New UNESCO Chair appointed
Professor Pat Dolan has been appointed as the State’s first UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement. Through a partnership between Foroige and NUI Galway the Chair will promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation in the field of children, youth and civic engagement.
The specific objectives of this Chair are to conduct research in children, youth and civic engagement; deliver teaching programmes along with disseminating and sharing teaching materials and promoting tools that promote civic engagement among children and youth; provide, to partner organisations, consultation on child and youth mentoring; as well as civic engagement through informal education programmes; facilitate international debate on civic engagement as an international policy issue; formalise a sustainable international consortium on civic engagement as a method of education for young people, youth, work professionals, NGOs and academics.
For further information visit Child & Family Research