UNESCO Chair

Welcome!

The UNESCO Chair in “Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development” is located at the Department of Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim.

After a successful start in 2012, the UNESCO Chair was re-accredited by UNESCO and the follow-up concept for the third phase from 2020 to 2024 was determined.

The current teaching and research activities focus on five topic clusters:

• Artistic interventions and processes of transformation
• Creative capabilities of civil society for enlarging local engagement and global diplomacy
• Protection and promotion of artistic freedom and persecuted artists
• Art, culture and sustainable development
• Encouraging cultural diversity and solidarity

Insights into the "life" of the UNESCO Chair:

• Online debate ResiliArts of the German UNESCO Commission
• "Hear the good voices too", Interview with Julius Heinicke on Deutschlandfunk
• ARTS RIGHTS JUSTICE LIBRARY: an online library on the freedom of art
• "Donko ni Maaya - crisis prevention and strengthening social cohesion by promoting the Malian cultural sector" in Bamako (Mali) with the German Society for International Cooperation
• SDG Graduate School "Performing Sustainability. Cultures and Development in West-Africa" ​​together with the Center for World Music at the University of Hildesheim
• jetztinzukunft.de, research on sustainability culture
• UNESCO Chairs in Germany, Part 2: Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim, audio feature on Deutschlandfunk
• Free art! For and by people and robots, audio feature on Cologne campus
• Further information: on projects and our degree programs

Team

• Prof. Dr. Julius Heinicke (Chairholder)
• Dr. Daniel Gad (Managing Director)
   
• Michele Brand (Research Associate)
• Davide Brocchi (Research Associate)
• Kristina Gruber (Research Associate)
• Dr. Meike Lettau (Research Associate)
• Pia Wagner (Research Associate)
   
• Larissa Gehrke (Assistant)
• Hagen Gersie (Assistant)
   
• Prof. Dr. Wolgang Schneider (founding director, retired professor)