The UNESCO Chair on Public and Global Processes of Intangible Cultural Heritage Management began its operations in 2024 within the Department of Political Science and International Studies.

The department’s interdisciplinary team is seeking answers to questions about how a given community—including the international community — should manage heritage resources, when intangible heritage resources are considered a public good and when they are considered a common good, and what the criteria are for effective and ethical heritage management.

The challenges of public and global governance of intangible cultural heritage are examined in the context of the MONDIACULT 2022 Declaration, the 2030 Agenda, UNESCO’s Medium-Term Strategy for 2022–2029, and UNESCO’s Recommendation on Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.