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11 October 2023, Dublin, Ireland - Delegates from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and TU Dublin met in Dublin this week to establish a strategic partnership that will undertake a varied programme of activity in learning, teaching, and research related to Sustainable Development, making TU Dublin the Irish University to partner with the UN Institute for Training and Research on a Sustainability Education programme. The programme, Global Sustainability Leadership, harnesses Ireland’s leadership in peacebuilding and entrepreneurial thinking...
UNITAR, HYPREP and RSSDA/Songhai Held Stakeholders Workshop and Presentation of Certificates to Women Cooperative Farmers
It was an event of epoch making significance on 16th of December 2020 when the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Programme (HYPREP) and the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA)/Songhai jointly organised a 1-day stakeholder workshop and presentation of certificates to 20 Cooperative Associations formed by women from Ogoni land, Rivers State, Nigeria who recently benef...
UNITAR, the Institute for Industrial Policy Studies (IPS), and the Taylor Institute at Franklin University Switzerland (FUS), collaborate on National Competitiveness Report: Two rankings for each nation with low-cost strategy and differentiation strategy. The results of the IPS National Competitiveness Report were released on October 28, 2021, in a public conference of National Competitiveness organised by IPS and FUS, and co-hosted by UNITAR. UNITAR will be involved in fully contributing to the 2022 Report., Currently, there are three institutions that announce&n...
UNITAR Introduces Tools to Promote Diplomacy
January 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the introduction of two new tools for diplomacy. The Rules of Procedure Repository Platform and Alan Hunt’s book ‘Public diplomacy. What it is and how to do it’ will help diplomats improve their mastery in and around UN topics to better meet global challenges in the 21st century.
United Nations Rules of Procedure Repository Platform
The United Nations, through its principal organs and more than 50…
11 July 2018 - The 2018 High-Level Political Forum has provided space for representatives of the Higher Education Institutes to share best practices, innovative approaches and discuss challenges as Universities embrace the 2030 Agenda and start mainstreaming the SDGs in their curricular, research activities and programmes. The last panel of the HESI Global Day was chaired by UNITAR Executive Director Nikhil Seth and included Secretary-General of the Association of the Commonwealth Universities, and representatives of the University of Geneva, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Unive...
17 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. Recently MDP trained eleven Geneva based diplomats on Conference Diplomacy. The two day workshop “Introduction on Conference Diplomacy” is intended to familiarize junior diplomats with the world of conference diplomacy and help them overcome obstacles. And according to the participants that’s what it did: “I found all the answers I was looking for” one of the junior diplomats said after the training.
How to achieve a delegations objective
On the first day of their training the diplomats were introduced to the purpose and structure of…
2025年9月10日、国連ユニタールは、アジア太平洋地域をはじめとする世界83か国からの参加者1,100名以上を迎え、「津波防災に関する女性のリーダーシップ研修」を開講しました。本研修は、参加者に災害リスク軽減に関するスキルの習得に加え、女性のリーダーシップの育成を目的としています。第1フェーズは2025年9月から11月までオンラインで実施され、参加者は自らの地域や国に即した包摂的な災害リスク軽減計画を策定します。2026年3月には、第1フェーズで優秀な成果を収めた参加者が専門家との集中研修に招待されます。, 2025年9月22日、日本・広島 ― 2025年9月10日、国連研修調査研究所（ユニタール）は、日本政府の支援を受けて実施する「津波防災に関する女性のリーダーシップ研修」を開講しました。本研修にはアジア太平洋地域をはじめ、世界83か国から1,100名以上の参加者を迎えました。同研修は、2025年9月から2026年3月にかけて2段階の研修フェーズで実施され、地域に根ざした早期警報システムや災害対応における女性のリーダーシップの育成を目指します。特に、女性が災害の影響を受けやすい現実を踏まえ、女性・平和・安全保障（WPS）の原則を取り入れ、太平洋地域の気候変動や災害リスク軽減において女性を中心的な担い手として位置づけています。研修...
A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010;
On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030;
Billions of dollars worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped;
Just 1% of rare earth element demand is met by e-waste recycling.
Contacts:
Ruediger Kuehr, SCYCLE, UNITAR, +49 228 815 0213/4, ruediger.kuehr@unitar.org
David Hirsch, ITU, +41 22 730 5092; pressinfo@itu.int
Terry Collins, +1 416 878 8712; tc@tca.tc
The full Global E-waste Monitor report is available at: www.globalewaste.org, 20 March 2024,...
From July 6-26, CIFAL Shanghai, in partnership with the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the P.R. of China, hosted its third training programme of 2011, with a focus on information and communications technology (ICT) services to build Smart Cities.
The 20-day training brought 38 participants from 24 countries, covering Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean regions to explore not only Chinese development of integrated ICT services in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Beijing, but also to…
New Climate Change Learning Modules on Health and Cities Now Available Online!
The UN CC:Learn introductory e-course on climate change now includes 2 new specialized modules on cities and health!
11 December 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - UN CC:Learn is pleased to announce the launch of two new specialized introductory learning modules on 1) Climate Change and Cities and 2 ) Climate Change and Human Health. These modules were developed with support from UN-Habitat and WHO respectively. They extend the UN CC:Learn Introductory Course on Climate Change,…