Topic :
”Is pandemic leading to educational catastrophe and end of civilizational dialogue?”
Prof. Varis has been Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica; Chair of Media Studies and Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute,Chair of Professional Education at University of Tampere, Finland, and the UNESCO Chair in Global E-Learning. He was also a member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education along with European Commission Media Literacy Expert Group. Prof. Varis has authored approximately 200 articles.