UNESCO-Chair in Arts and Culture in Education

at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

The UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education is located in Nürnberg, Germany and hosted by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Together with the Canadian UNESCO Chair in Arts & Learning, we are proud to serve as a dedicated chair to fostering UNESCO-related issues and perspectives on aesthetic, arts, and cultural education in a global view.

The Erlangen UNESCO-Chair was established in 2010 and has ever since been particularly involved in national and international research in the field of cultural education. In 2019, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen succeeded Prof. Dr. Eckart Liebau as chair holder, who had held the chair since its inception.

As a Chair we aim to achieve and work towards two main strategic goals:

1. Deepen the research approach on the issue of “aesthetic education” within the scope of the broader field of arts education (respectively cultural education) oriented towards the Sustainable Development Goals, while at the same time
2. fostering global research dialogues and collaborations to contribute to the enhancement of quality arts education research worldwide.

The basis for achieving these goals is an intensive collaboration with other scientists in international networks, like the UNESCO UNITWIN „Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development“ and the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO), who offer an open and quality-oriented global research context.

Find more information: https://www.ucace.fau.de

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen UNESCO-Chair in Arts and Culture in Education FAU – Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Bismarckstr. 1a, 91054 Erlangen Germany email: ucace@fau.de	Dr. Tanja Klepacki Senior Researcher FAU – Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Bismarckstr. 1a 91054 Erlangen ucace@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen is Full Professor of Education with a focus on Culture and Aesthetics and Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). The Chair’s research aims to contribute to an understanding of the role of aesthetic, arts, and cultural education in a transforming and diverse world. Fields of work include the development of an educational aesthetic and media theory, empirical research in postdigital culture including several research projects on digitalization in arts education, as well as UNESCO-related and postcolonial perspectives. Jörissen, amongst others, is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, as well as a member of the German Council for Arts and Cultural Education (Rat für Kulturelle Bildung).	Dr. Tanja Klepacki is the senior researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). Amongst others, she serves as executive manager of the Chair’s Academy of School Theatre and Performative Education in Nuremberg. Her fields of work include theoretical and empirical studies in the fields aesthetic and cultural education.