RED/TUPAZ is established as a knowledge bridge that **connects universities and UNESCO Chairs from Latin America and Europe**, with the goal of **creating a positive impact on local and global communities**. Its creation responds to the need to promote mutual understanding, peace, and sustainability in a world where the boundaries between local and global challenges are increasingly blurred. With a strong focus on Latin America, **the Network acknowledges the region’s cultural richness and diversity**, as well as the specific challenges it faces, from inequality to climate change.
In a world marked by complex global challenges, collaboration among universities emerges as an **essential tool to generate integrated and sustainable solutions**. In this context, the UNESCO Chairs and Universities Network for Latin America on Tourism and Peace (RED/TUPAZ) was created—an academic, multidisciplinary, and transnational space aimed at **promoting knowledge, dialogue, training, and action around key issues such as tourism, peace, climate action, social conflicts, the environment, Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities, intercultural dialogue, gender, digitalization, and society**.
The Network is made up of 26 partners: 7 UNESCO Chairs, 14 universities from Latin America, and 5 universities from Europe.
The coordinators of this Network are the **UNESCO Chair on Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), and the University of Cartagena (Colombia).**
