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16 February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR e-Newsletter Winter 2012 edition is out today! The topic of this issue is "Achievements 2011 and New Initiative 2012". Happy reading!
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Mongolian universities join forces to prepare students for a green economy
15 June 2017, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Higher education is a competitive market. Universities find themselves in a race for staff, students, and research funds. While healthy to a certain extent, the American University Innovation Alliance warns that competition can “impede institutions' ability to achieve collective impact, diffuse innovation, and drive needed changes in higher education”. How does this play out in a country like Mongolia, where 16 public and 80 private higher…
The real-time exercise recently performed in Vietnam by UNITAR/UNOSAT and their partners during the first week of May was successful.
The purpose of the exercise was to evaluate the support of TANGO solutions for telecom equipment and services (www.teladnetgo.eu) in a typical RESPOND scenario (GMES services supporting humanitarian relief, Disaster Reduction and reconstruction - www.respond-int.org) dealing with preparedness and crisis response in the case of floods disaster event. TANGO provided support to field team activities with portable Satcom equipments…
From Theory to Action: Indonesian Students Learn to Address Climate Change
25 April 2017, Indonesia - Through the Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change 2017, 150 students between the age of 17 and 25 years old built their knowledge and capacity to take action on climate change. This initiative – promoted by UN CC:Learn and UNESCO Office, Jakarta, in collaboration with the Climate Reality Project Indonesia and Youth for Climate Change Indonesia, with support from the Office of the President of Indonesia’s Special Envoy for Climate Change – contributes to the…
Twenty-Five Young South Sudanese Professionals Complete Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Entebbe, Uganda
29 August 2017, Entebbe, Uganda - After five days of focused learning in Entebbe, Uganda, Workshop II of the United Nations Institute for Training and research (UNITAR) South Sudan Fellowship Programme came to a successful conclusion. The 20 Fellows, supported by 5 Coaches, who had first come together as a group at an Orientation Workshop in Juba earlier this month, gained practical skills on how to assess opportunities and challenges in their…
Climate Change Negotiation Skills: Training for LDC Negotiators
04 July 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Representatives from more than 40 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) from Africa, Asia and the Pacific (17 Francophone and 30 Anglophone) participated last week in a training event on climate change negotiation skills.
LDCs face severe socio-economic and environmental problems that create a substantial burden for sustainable development. Climate change and variability will continue to exacerbate these problems. UNFCCC’s parties have committed themselves to considering the…
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15 January - 7 February 2014, Chad - UNOSAT has successfully participated in a second hydrogeological mission in Northern Chad from 15 January to 7 February 2014, organized under the framework of project ResEAU. This annual scientific field mission, executed by the Ministry of Hydraulics (MHRU), has been conducted over the areas of Faya-Largeau (Borkou), Gouro, Ounianga Kébir and Ounianga Sérir (Ennedi West). The objective was to better understand groundwater occurrences, to decipher geological settings and to validate interpretations carried out…
In order to respond to training needs of law professionals from the Union of Myanmar, UNITAR, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, conducted an International Law Training for Qualified Professionals which took place in Yangon from 29 November to 10 December 2010. The training was attended by sixty participants from different ministries such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Commerce, as well as from academia.
The courses were designed to be highly interactive and participatory and included…
UNOSAT released in March 2012 the latest version of its annual thematic brief, which is dedicated to “Satellite Applications for Human Security”. Each year, UNOSAT publishes a brief focusing on one of its strategic areas of work (humanitarian relief, human security, strategic territorial planning). Last year the UNOSAT Brief concentrated on Humanitarian Rapid Mapping, the service launched in 2003 that made UNOSAT known worldwide for its rapid mapping support to the international humanitarian community.
Since 2009 UNOSAT produces satellite analysis and…
Presentation of CIFAL Malaga and its Executive Board
27 July 2018, Malaga, Spain - Mr. Alex Mejia, Director of the Division for People and Social Inclusion of UNITAR alongside Mr. Francisco de la Torre, Mayor of Malaga, oversaw the creation of the Board of CIFAL (Centro Internacional de Formación para Autoridades y Líderes) Malaga. During this public event hosted in Malaga, the City Council signed three Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) with Unicaja Bank, the University of Malaga, and the Confederation of Andalusia Businessmen, each represented by their…