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UNESCO Chair of Human Rigths and Democracy

 The mission of the UNESCO Chair, inside the parameters of the UNESCO´s framework of the needs of human security and social diversity and social and ethnic groups and peoples peculiarities, aims to deepen the theoretical debate on Human Rights, good governance and democracy; encourage the study of human rights from a comparative perspective as a point of reflection, encounter and intercultural dialogue in the academic and social environment, and promote the exchange of professors, researchers and voluntary workers; training researcher and teacher staff in the field of human rights, creating credits and diplomas recognized and valid on Human Rights; and establish a suitable channel at higher institutions and civil society of the results achieved. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Pedro Carballo Armas
pcarballo@ddp.ulpgc.es
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UNESCO Chair Management Environmental and Marine Resources in Coastal Areas

 This Chair has developed research, technical and outreach works about the nearshore environment in countries around Canary environment and with Latin America in the area of Coastal Marine Resource Management and Natural Areas. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Ángel Luque Escalona
angel.luques@ulpgc.es
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UNITWIN-UNESCO Chair in Computer Science and Information Technologies to develop in Africa´s Northwestern

 This Chair´s main objective is to lay the cultural and technological basis to facilitate and encourage a rapid expansion and development of new technologies of computing and communications (Information Technologies), as well as access to information resources of the Internet, North West African region. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Enrique Rubio Royo
enrique.rubio@ulpgc.es
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UNESCO Chair of Local Health and Food Systems´ Research, Planning and Development

 It´s an integrated system of development cooperation activities for training, documentation and research in health-related areas. It is an instrument that facilitates the incorporation of researchers and professionals from different teams´ research, teaching, planning and management in universities and institutions connected to the network. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Carmelo León González
cleon@daea.ulpgc.es
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UNESCO Chair of Tourist Planning and Sustainable Development

 This Chair focuses in Tourism and Sustainable Development. The cross-cutting themes are tourism analysis and interactions between the economy and the environment, with the formulation of action plans and policy measures. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Lluís Serra Majem
lluis.serra@ulpgc.es
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UNESCO Chair in Telemedicine

 This Chair purpose is to promote, disseminate and maintain quality distance medicine in places where it is most needed, such as the developing world, geographically isolated areas and other locations lacking general healthcare. With this goal in mind, the ULL offers training via elective courses in the Medicine, Computer Science and Seamanship degrees, as well as doctoral courses. The ULL also runs a distance learning Master in Telemedicine and Bioengineering applied to telemedicine. Universidad de La Laguna
Olga Ferrer-Roca
catai@teide.net
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