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Tapio Varis

Principal Research Associate

Tapio Varis is professor of vocational education, with particular reference to global learning environments at the University of Tampere, Finland, Research Centre for Vocational Education, and UNESCO Chair in global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains. He is

  • principal research associate of UNESCO-UNEVOC,
  • Acting President of Global University System (GUS),
  • former Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica,
  • Expert on Media and Digital Literacy to the European Communication and
  • Media Scholar at the universities of Helsinki and Lapland well as the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.
Tapio Varis has published approximately 200 scientific contributions.

He contributed to the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Conference on “Vocational Content in Mass Higher Education”, which took place in September 2005 in Bonn. He also organized a UNESCO-UNEVOC workshop on ICT and sustainable development in vocational education in the Baltic region in January 2006, as well as a seminar on multicultural communication in May 2006.

Tapio is the coordinator of a UNESCO-UNEVOC supported application for the INTERREG programme on ICT and sustainable development and author of related documents. He will support a UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Summit at the forthcoming eLearning Africa conference in May 2007.

http://www.uta.fi/~titava/

Documents

UNESCO Chair Annual Report (PDF, 57KB)

Contact

tapio.varis(at)uta.fi



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