UNESCO International Chair is a university-wide scientific and interdisciplinary educational structural unit of the North-Eastern Federal University. The Chair was established on the base of Agreement between UNESCO and North-Eastern Federal University in 2011.

Among more than 700 Chairs in about 130 countries the NEFU UNESCO Chair is currently the only Chair which activity is dedicated to global social and human adaptation to the climate change in the Arctic regions.

NEFU UNESCO Chair provides research related to the Arctic, promotes an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation in the field of, social, agricultural sciences, culture studies, climate change, social informatics, traditional knowledge, global studies, ecology, biology and demographics.