A Program of the UNESCO Chair at the Ionian University, Greece
Duration of the Program: 16 weeks, 90 hours
Deadline for applying: 12-02-2022
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Courses beginning date: 10-03-2022
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Courses completion date: 30-7-2022
Awarding Certificate of Educational Specialisation
Program Timeline
Who should take that Program
The program is addressed:
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to graduates of universities and technical colleges with an interest in the issues of cultural heritage, tourism and the threats and dangers they face. Educators, lawyers, economists and business executives of each related fields have a proven interest in attending the program.
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to everyone who, regardless of professional occupation, wish to acquire knowledge in the unlimited thematic of cultural heritage and culture through an interdisciplinary approach.
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to everyone, who wishes to enhance his/hers competitive abilities for examinations, participation in undergraduate or postgraduate programs, or for vocational retraining
A Powerful Alliance
BUCSIS, Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, UK
UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage-related Activities, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Cruise-Lab, Bremerhaven University for Applied Sciences, Germany
GeoLab, Laboratory for Geo-cultural Analyses, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Takeaways
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Introduction of the participants to the concepts, the international and national regulatory framework and
policies for the cultural heritage and its protection;
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Ιdentification, analysis of the multiple threats to tangible and intangible cultural heritage and to related
activities such as the various forms of Tourism, the museums etc.​
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Knowledge and professional expertise transfer is done through an approach based on cultural and socio- economic parameters. Specifically, the program's interdisciplinary approach to the various forms of threats, artificial or natural, highlights, inter alia, issues related to corruption, crime, governance and human rights.
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Providing knowledge and developing negotiation and diplomatic skills to the participants about the
concept of cultural heritage, the risks/threats and opportunities associated with it.
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Training human resources by providing specialized knowledge, so that it complements and / or upgrades the
knowledge the has received at other educational levels or professional experience.
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Course Outline
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work your way through the following modules:
Module 1 > International protection of human rights, cultural rights and rights of cultural heritage
Module 2 > International Organisations: Policies and Actions in the field of protection of cultural heritage
Module 3 > European Institutions, Funding Tools and Cultural Heritage
Module 4 > Intangible Cultural Heritage
Module 5 > Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Security - Dealing with modern hybrid threats.
Module 6 > Special Topics: Yellow Tourism Corruption, Transnational Organised Crime and Culture
Module 7 > Cultural Heritage and New Technologies [Digital Cultural Heritage]
Module 8 > Economic Issues of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
Module 9 > Special conditions in the form of a tourist product: the Cruise
Module 10 > Diplomacy of Cultural Heritage, Return of Cultural Property
Module 11 > Intercultural Communication
Meet The Team
Program Director
Professor of International Economic Relations and International economic Crime, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Ionian University. Greece. He is coordinator of the Yellow Tourism Project, Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage-related Activities and Director of the Laboratory for Geo-cultural Analyses (GeoLab) at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
Stavros Katsios
Alexis Papadopoulos
Professor of Geography, DePaul University, Chicago, USA - Geography, Sustainable Urban Development, Grace School of Applied Diplomacy
Kalliopi Chainoglou
Ass. Professor of International Law and International Institutions, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Vassilis Kappis
Lecturer in Security Studies, Deputy Director of BUCSIS, University of Buckingham, UK
Elena Avramidou
Associate Professor, Peking University, Department of History and Center for Hellenic Studies, Research Associate, Center for Latin American Studies on China, Andrés Bello University
Ioannis Karras
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Ionian University. Greece
Georgios Papaioannou
Associate Professor in Museology, Director of the Museology Lab at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
Sotiris Livas
Associate Professor of Int. Law-Int. Relations and Turkish – Middle Eastern Relations, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Ioannis Blatsos
PhD, Financial Crime Investigator, Postdoc Researcher at GeoLab, Corfu, Greece
Nikolaos D. Mamalos
PhD cand., Culture, Anthropology Researcher GeoLab, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Nikolaos Smirnakis
PhD, Postdoc researcher in Social Philosophy and new technologies, GeoLab Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
Konstantinos Doukakis
PhD., project manager-senior researcher GeoLab, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece; teaching Fellow at the Hellenic Open University and at the Open University of Cyprus (Coordinator of a thematic Unit).
How you 'll learn
The program is broken down into manageable, weekly modules, designed to accelerate your learning process through diverse learning activities:
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Downloadable and online instructional material
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Interacting with your peers and learning facilitators, small group discussions and live sessions
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A wide range of interactive content, including video lectures, infographics, live polls and more
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Real-world case studies
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Apply what you learn each week to quizzes and ongoing project submissions
Course Price
740 €, payable in three instalments
30/11/21, Îως 15/1/22, Îως 31/3/22)
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Students 670 €
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Special rates apply (pls inquire)
