On the initiative of the Secretariat of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO a meeting of the Heads of UNESCO Chairs in Ukraine took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on June 15, 2016.
The heads and the representatives of UNESCO Chairs from the highest educational establishments of different cities of Ukraine in particular Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Severodonetsk took part in the meeting.
The participants discussed the current state and further perspectives of the functioning of UNESCO Chairs in Ukraine including problematic issues of their functioning and ways and means of their solving in the framework of UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme at the national level.
One of the results of the meeting was the establishment of the Coordinative Council of UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme in Ukraine headed by the member of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO, Head of UNESCO Chair on Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, Tolerance and International Understanding of National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Yuriy Svatko.