UNESCO CHAIRS in Futures Studies and Anticipation March 2025

Abstract

This is a list of the current - March 2025 - list of UNESCO Chairs that are expressions of the efforts over the last decade to advance the field of Futures Studies and the 'discipline of anticipation'. It is background material, collected in one place, for interested researchers and students.

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Country,
City
Chair Title
University /
Instuon
First
year
Chairholder(s)
Website
1
Italy,
Trento
UNESCO Chair on
Ancipatory
Systems
Università Degli
Studi di Trento
2013
Roberto Poli
2
Finland,
Turku
Learning for
transformaon
and Planetary
futures – Building
Global Capacity
for Futures
Literacy
University of
Turku
2016
Markku Wilenius;
Katriina Siivonen,
Leena Jokinen,
Nicolas Balcom
Raleigh
Web site
(English)
3
Sweden
UNESCO Chair on
Heritage Futures
Linnaeus
University
2017
Cornelius Holtorf
Web site
(English)
4
Uruguay
UNESCO Chair on
Socio-cultural
Ancipaon and
Resilience
The South
American
Instute for
Resilience and
Sustainability
Studies (SARAS)
2019
Lydia Garrido
Luzardo
Web site
(English)
5
Netherlna
dsGroning
en
UNESCO Chair in
Futures Literacy
Hanze University
of Applied
Sciences
2019
Loes Damhof,
Ramila Khafaji
Zadeh, Jitske
Gulmans
Web site
(English)
6
Tunisia,
Carthage
Chaire UNESCO
de Prospecve,
Ancipaon et
Décision
Stratégique
Université de
Carthage
2019
7
United
Kingdom,
Lincoln
UNESCO Chair on
Responsible
Foresight for
Sustainable
Development
University of
Lincoln
2019
Ted Fuller, Email:
Web site
(English)
8
Greece
UNESCO Chair on
Futures Research
Foundaon for
Research and
Technology Hellas
(FORTH)
2019
Epaminondas
Christolopoulos
Web site
(English)
9
Belgium,
Brussels
UNESCO Chair on
Images of the
Futures and
Cocreaon
Erasmus Brussels
University of
Applied Sciences
and Arts
2020
Maya Van
Leemput
Web site
(Flemish)
(English)
10
France,
Poiers
Chaire UNESCO
en prospecve et
intelligence
stratégique
internaonale
Université de
Poiers
2020
Fabrice Roubelat
Web site
(French)

11
France,
Paris
UNESCO Chair for
the Future of
Finance
École des Ponts
Business School
2021
Marn Calnan
Web site
(English)
12
Canada,
Fredericto
n
UNESCO Chair on
Ancipatory
Systems for
Innovaon and
Venture Creaon
University of New
Brunswick
2021
Jonathan Calof,
Dominic Blakely
Web site
(English)
13
Kenya
UNESCO Chair in
Ancipatory
Socio- Technical
Systems
Dedan Kimathi
University of
Technology
2021
Julius Gatune
14
Norway,
Stavanger
UNESCO Chair on
Leadership,
Innovaon and
Ancipaon
University of
Stavanger
2021
Rune Todnem By,
Per Koch
Web site
(English)
15
Austria,
Linz
UNESCO Chair on
Ancipatory
Techniques and
Future Design
University of Art
and Design Linz
2021
Michael
Shamiyeh
Web site
(English)
16
Malaysia
UNESCO Chair on
Futures Studies :
Ancipaon for
Sustainability and
Well Being
The Internaonal
Islamic University
Malaysia
2021
Sohail Inayatullah
Web site
(English)
17
Russian
Federaon
,
Moscow
UNESCO Chair on
Future Studies
The Naonal
Research
University Higher
School of
Economics
2021
Alexander
Sokolov
Web site
(English)
18
Italy,
Bolzano
UNESCO Chair on
Interdisciplinary
Ancipaon and
Global-Local
Transformaon
EURAC Research
2022
Roland
Benedikter,
Harald Pechlaner
Web site
(English)
19
France,
Lille
Chaire UNESCO
pour
l’Ancipaon
Organisaonnelle
, le Leadership
Résilient et
l’Innovaon en
Éducaon
EDHEC Business
School
2022
Rene ROHRBECK
English
web site.
French
web site.

20
Denmark
UNESCO Chair on
Ancipatory
Leadership and
Futures
Capabilies
Copenhagen
Instute for
Futures Studies
and Aarhus
University
2022
Nicklas Larsen,
Adam Gordon,
Jonas Gissel
Mikkelsen
Web site
(English)
21
France,
Corsica,
Corte
Chaire UNESCO «
Devenirs en
Méditerranée »
Université de
Corse Pasquale
Paoli
2022
Sébasen
Quenot; Caroline
Tafani; Philippe
Clerc
Web site
(French)
Alterna
ve web
site
(French)
22
Colombia
Chaire UNESCO
en Études de
Futur pour le
Développement
et la
Compévité
Universidad
Externado de
Colombia
2022
Francisco José
Mojica
23
South
Africa,
Cape
Town
UNESCO Chair on
Complex Systems
and
Transformave
African Futures
Stellenbosch
University
2022
Rika Preiser; Tanja
Hichert
Web site
(English)
24
Austria,
Innsbruck
UNESCO Chair in
Futures Capability
for Innovaon
and
Entrepreneurship
MCI Innsbruck
2022
Antje Bierwisch
Web site
(English)
25
Cyprus
UNESCO Chair in
Visual
Ancipaon and
Futures Literacy
towards Visual
Literacy
Open University
of Cyprus
2022
Vayia Karaiskou
Web site
(English)
26
Türkiye
UNESCO Chair on
Ancipaon
Studies, Futures
Literacy and
Strategic
Foresight
Karabük
University
2022
Elif Cepni
Web site
(English)
27
Uzbekista
n
UNESCO Chair on
Futures Studies
for Ancipatory
Governance and
Sustainable
Policymaking
Westminster
Internaonal
University in
Tashkent (WIUT)
2022
John A. Sweeney;
Peter Malvicini.
Bakhrom
Mirkasimov
Web site
(English)

28
Saudi
Arabia
UNESCO Chair on
Transional and
Intergeneraonal
Ancipaon
Prince
Mohammad Bin
Fahd University
2022
Issa Al Ansari
Web site
(English)
29
Thailand,
Bangkok
UNESCO Chair in
Resource
Governance and
Futures Literacy
Chulalongkorn
University
2022
Carl Middleton
Web site
(English)
30
Côte
d’Ivoire
Chaire UNESCO
en Ancipaon,
Prospecve, et
Territoires
Durables
Université
Alassane Ouaara
de Bouaké
2022
Kouamé Sylvestre
KOUASSI
Web site
(French)
31
Mexico,
Monterrey
UNESCO Chair in
Ancipatory
Leadership for
Innovave and
Beer Futures
Tecnológico de
Monterrey
2023
Tamara Carleton;
Alfonso Avila
Robinson;
Guillermina
Benavides Rincón
Web site
(English)
32
Mexico,
Mexico
City
UNESCO Chair in
Ancipang the
Futures of Urban
Life in Global
South
Universidad
Autónoma
Metropolitana –
Unidad
Cuajimalpa
2023
Bruno
Gandlgruber
PDF
(Spanish)
33
Sierra
Leone,
Makeni
UNESCO Chair in
Futures Studies,
Story-telling and
Ancipaon:
Living Tradions,
Transions, and
Resilience
University of
Makeni
2023
Kewulay Kamara
Web
page
(English)
34
Brazil, Rio
de Janeiro
UNESCO Chair in
Planetary
Wellbeing and
Regenerave
Ancipaon
The Federal
University of Rio
de Janeiro (UFRJ);
Museum of
Tomorrow
2023
Fabio Rubio
Scarano
35
United
Arab
Emirates,
Dubai
UNESCO Chair in
Futures Studies:
Ancipatory
Systems for
Prosperous
Futures
Dubai Business
School, Center for
Futures Studies,
University of
Dubai
2023
Fawaz Hazza Abu
Sia; Saeed
Aldhaheri
36
United
Arab
Emirates,
Dubai
UNESCO Chair on
Strategic
Foresight and
Higher Educaon
Higher Colleges of
Technology (HCT)
2023
Ahmed Samy;
Ahmed Said
Ghonim
Web site
(English)

37
Philippine
s
UNESCO Chair in
Ancipatory
Governance and
Regenerave
Cies
Northwestern
University
2023
Shermon Cruz;
Maria Liza S.
Nicolas
Web site
(English)
38
The
Republic
of North
Macedoni
a
UNESCO Chair
Futures, Media,
and Informaon
Literacy
The Instute of
Communicaon
Studies
2023
Aleksandra
Temenugova
Web site
(English)
39
Mexico
City,
Mexico
Design Methods
for Democrac
Access to the
Imaginaon of
the Future
Centro University
of Design, Cinema
and Television
2024
Karla Paniagua,
Jorge Camacho
Web site
(English)
40
Austria,
Vienna
UNESCO Chair in
Learning and
Teaching Futures
Literacy in the
Anthropocene
University College
of Teacher
Educaon
2024
Carmen Sippl;
Karin Tengler
Web Site
(English)