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11 September 2023, Geneva, Switzerland ― We are honoured to announce a new partnership between UNITAR and two major Turkish universities, Marmara University School of Medicine and the Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University School of Medicine, for a collaborative project on value-based healthcare. To facilitate this work, UNITAR has also entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Turkish Ministry of Health.
UNITAR, in collaboration with the Global Surgery Foundation, launched the Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC) project in 2021, with the aim to boost health systems ...
UNITAR Organizes Workshop on "Behavioural Insights towards the Implementation of SDG 13"
27 of June 2017, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research organized a course titled “Behavioural Insights towards the Implementation of Sustainable Develoment Goals (SDGs) 13 (Climate Action)”. The course focused on three main points; first - raising awareness of behavioural insights and it’s applications toward the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development SDG 13. Secondly, another section of the course focused on building the…
12 April 2024, Online - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in partnership with Technological University Dublin and Çağ Üniversitesi, launches its inaugural executive course: Sustainability Programme for Global Changemakers: Navigating the UN 2030 Agenda.
This collaboration is part of our commitment within the European University of Technology ELaRA-TESST team, emphasizing proactive learning and sustainable development.
This innovative course offers an immersive learning experience, leveraging Virtual Reality to revolutionize edu...
16 October 2019, Geneva, Switzerland - The SDG Innovation Bootcamp, a Geneva Tsinghua Initiative exchange programme run in partnership with the Tsinghua X-lab innovation incubator and the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), is open for registration. Travel dates are 25 November – 1 December.
It’s a unique opportunity to see how innovation for sustainable development works in China, from both top-down policy and bottom-up entrepreneurship perspectives.
It takes place at China’s top University, and one of the world’s leading science universities, Ts...
UNITAR Concludes Leadership Seminar on Knowledge Economy
December 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR recently organized in Geneva a two-day seminar on “Redefining Leadership in the Knowledge Economy” for Central Bank Staff, Finance and Trade Officials, management professionals, policy actors, delegates and representatives of UN-member countries, Government and Ministry Officials, and information professionals in leadership roles.
Dr Linda Stoddart, a senior knowledge strategy consultant and Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University, directed the seminar with her team…
CIFAL Jeju hosted International Workshop on Sustainable Tourism and Forest Management in the Asia-Pacific Region
20 - 23 March 2018, Jeju, Republic of Korea – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Jeju (CIFAL Jeju) in collaboration with the United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC) and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province convened the workshop “Sustainable Tourism and Forest Management in the Asia-Pacific region” from the 20th to the 23rd of March. The workshop broight together 32 participants representing…
17 March 2022, Geneva, Switzerland. On 17 March 2022, UNITAR, the University of Geneva, and Open Geneva hosted the fourth edition of the Geneva Trialogue under the theme of Open Innovation for Education, launching the 2022 Open Geneva Festival.
In a novel hybrid format, 12 lead partners from academia, international organizations, and the private sector from Geneva and around the world, brought their sustainability challenges under the 2022 theme, and developed practical outcomes of new educational and learning approaches that culminate in positive social and environm...
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31 March 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark - UNITAR-UNOSAT and the University of Copenhagen co-organized and delivered a 3-week Masters level course entitled “Geo-information in disaster situations” from 8 to 26 March 2021. The beneficiaries were fourteen University of Copenhagen students registered in the Master of Disaster Management programme. Instruction during the first week focused on an introduction to remote sensing, data analysis, cartographic modelling and essential software applications and was delivered by the University of Copenhagen., The second week was helmed ...
Merlyn Hurtado, Finalist of GEAR cycle II Climate Change and Gender Equality (2021) Paris, France We know that, globally, women hold over one-third of seats in local decision-making bodies. However, there is a lack of data on the participation of indigenous women in local decision-making. Merlyn, a research and data analyst at the Learning Planet Institute (University of Paris Cité), knows this issue first-hand. In Colombia, there are around two million indigenous peoples, according to the 2018 Census (IWGIA). However, their inclusion in decision-making processes ...