The chair is part of the TISSA Unesco program for the training of teachers, particularly around issues of science and technology education and is backed by a structuring process of educational research and teacher training. Through this, ENSETP and IUFM hope to contribute to the development of North-South-South inter-relations by building research and expertise networks in the areas of teacher training and science and technology education; for these networks it is about developing mutual understanding between stakeholders and agents through the contextual dynamics in which they operate and the factors influencing them. It is about developing best practice communities which interact and share common issues in order to carry out useful, sustainable and appropriate actions. These networks will be drivers for work that will generate shared studies, leading to the pooling of skills and fields of action. Company actions will be finalised on the basis of the social needs of network members in relation to teaching, education and training. The work will encourage the sharing of testimonies, in particular through the analysis of what works and what does not work, and the pooling of resources, methods and tools for research, training and education. With this end in mind, ENSETP and ESPE will work closely with the IICBA network (International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa) and the Task Force.
The Unesco chair project is supported by a large number of partners in Nordic, European and North American countries and in Southern, North and sub-Saharan African, South America and Asia countries.