The Jean Monnet Chair on European Union’s Education, Training, Research and Innovation Policies (EduTRIP) participated at the annual meeting of the National Committees of Unesco European Network that was held in Rotonda Thessaloniki, on 2-5 April 2017.

The opening of the meeting was proclaimed by the chair of the Greek Committee on UNESCO, Aikaterini Tzitzikosta and UNESCO Deputy Director General for External Relations, Eric Falt.

This was the third meeting of the European Network of UNESCO National Committees, attended by 70 senior officials from the UNESCO National Commissions of 40 European countries. Among UNESCO's priorities are World Heritage, Agenda 2030 for Education, the World Heritage Education Programme, the role of UNESCO Networks, the design of actions to achieve the goals of UNESCO as well as the Sustainable Development Objectives.