UNESCO Chair Advocacy & Policy

The Advocacy & Policy component aims to promote civic engagement in the context of national and international strategies and public policies focusing on children and youth.

Working closely with UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Youth Sector, the UNESCO Chair will highlight the importance of civic engagement as a policy issue for education within Ireland, among partner organisations and the wider international community. The outputs from this component of the programme will have relevance for national decision-makers in formulating civic engagement policy. 

Mindful of the potential role of evidence in influencing policy and the challenges associated with bridging research, policy and practice, the research, teaching and programmatic development components of the programme will actively inform this aspect of the Chair’s work.  In this regard, and cognisant of the role of Chairs as “think tanks” and “bridge-builders” between research and civil society and between research and policy making, the project will work closely with UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) programme.