UNITAR
3 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The year-long global fight to contain and eliminate the threat of SARS-CoV-2 overshadowed international efforts to achieve the SDGs of Agenda2030. The world needs the brightest minds to step into leadership roles at the forefront of the transformational change required to realize the ambitious goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the field of science, technology and innovation, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Targets 17.6 and 17.8 respectively, aim to “enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism” and to “fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for LDC by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology”.
To that end, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is proud to present the Executive Summer Programme on Innovations in Science Diplomacy. Launched at the initiative of the Science Diplomacy Center, it will be delivered in partnership with the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston), Boston University (BU), the Science Diplomacy Center and swissnex Boston.
The programme will be delivered online from 21 June – 2 July 2021, and will triangulate education, research and leadership. The objective of this Programme is to prepare the next generation of world leaders in the field of science diplomacy, technology and innovations, contribute to informed decision-making, and provide leadership with science-diplomacy networks that build common interests across our globally-interconnected civilization.
At the end of the Executive Summer Programme on Innovations in Science Diplomacy, successful participants will receive a certificate of participation. Certificates will be awarded and signed by UNITAR, and faculty from the Program on Negotiation (PON) at the Harvard Law School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston), Boston University (BU), the Science Diplomacy Center and swissnex Boston.
Free Open Webinar on Innovations in Science Diplomacy
Interested participants, professionals involved in the field of Science Diplomacy and Technology, or anyone engaged in the topics at hand have the option to immerse themselves in exclusive contents of the Executive Summer Programme by joining the Open Webinar on Innovations in Science Diplomacy free-of-charge!
During this webinar, participants will have the unique opportunity to directly exchange with leading academics of the field, and professors teaching in the programme, to discuss the future and challenges to Science Diplomacy, as well as the contents of the Executive Summer Programme on Innovations in Science Diplomacy.
This Open Webinar will be moderated by UNITAR’s Division for Multilateral Diplomacy and will feature the following speakers:
- Professor Paul Berkman, Associated Fellow, UNITAR; Faculty Associate, Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School (PON); Associate Director of Science Diplomacy, Harvard-MIT Public Disputes Program
- Professor Maria Ivanova, Associate Professor, Director of the Global Governance and Human Security PhD Program, Director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Professor Larry Susskind, Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Science Impact Collaborative; Co-Director, MIT Cybersecurity Clinic.
More information
For any additional information, kindly contact mdp-elearning@unitar.org.
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