Following the success of VideoLectures.NET, recognized by the UN and UNESCO as one of the most outstanding examples of creative and innovative e-Content in the world in the last decade, the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia has successfully established a UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Learning.

The Chair is serving to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation on online and open learning. It is facilitating collaboration between high-level, internationally recognized researchers and teaching staff of the Institute and other institutions around the world.