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Collegium Civitas has become the first Polish university to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Division for Peace. The MoU outlines the scope of prospective collaboration that includes: training and degree programmes in various thematic fields such as sustainable development, international security and the rule of law.
Collegium Civitas is a modern non-state University founded in 1997 by a joint initiative of professors from the Polish Academy of Sciences. The quality of education in all fields of study...
3 May 2023 - Bonn, Germany - UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023. Since 2020, UNITAR has also had an office on the UN Campus in Bonn. The Bonn office marked the anniversary on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, with a high-level panel discussion on the past and future of education and research in response to current global challenges. Afterwards, the city and UNITAR hosted a reception on the UN Campus.
Mayor Katja Dörner said, "I congratulate UNITAR on its 60th anniversary and wish the Bonn office every success in it...
Established in 2004, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in China (CIFAL Shanghai) delivers international and domestic training programmes in cooperation with various Ministries and local governments in China, aiming to promote international cooperation, learning, best practice exchange and investment in ICT-led projects. CIFAL Shanghai was created under the auspices of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization with an emphasis on building local government capacities for Smart City development, e-Governance, information...
2 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The largest ever opinion survey on climate change was carried out by UN CC:Learn partner UNDP in 2020 and showed that 64% of 1.2 million respondents think that climate change is a global emergency. The survey entitled "People's Climate Vote" covered 50 countries, reflecting a bit more than half of the world's population, and its results were analyzed by the University of Oxford. Over 500,000 respondents of the survey were under the age of 18 at the time of the poll, which made youth the biggest age group surveyed.
One of the survey'...
Guiane Paul Penaさんは、フィリピン・サンボアンガ市の理系の学校に通う17歳の高校生です。学長、スポーツ、そして音楽が得意です。Penaさんは、サンボアンガ市の青年市議員として活躍しています。若者の代表として、コミュニティが直面している問題への解決策を提案しています。Penaさんは、高校生のエンパワーメントを目的に開催された2023国連ユニタール青少年大使・アジア太平洋プログラムに参加しました。本プログラムでは、若者の積極的な参加を取り入れたGuiane Paul Penaさんの災害対応への提案が優秀賞を獲得しました。, 2024年5月22日、広島－地元サンボアンガ市が災害によって破壊された様子を目にしたGuiane Paul Penaさんは、二度と同じ惨状が繰り返されぬよう、若者の参加を通したより効果的な災害対策を提案し、地域社会に貢献することを決意しました。近年の気候変動により、フィリピンは洪水、台風、干ばつ、地震、津波、土砂災害などの様々な災害に直面しています。こうした状況の中で、Penaさんが提案するような緊急対応や備えは今まさに必要とされています。Penaさんは、フィリピン・サンボアンガ市の若者の声を代表する青年市議員として活躍しています。彼は2023年に国連ユニタール青少年大使・アジア太平洋プログラムに参加しました。...
31 March 2023, Merida, Mexico - The Executive Director of CIFAL Merida in Mexico, Héctor Navarrete Muñoz, and the Director of the ITAérea Business School, Mr José Ignacio Escudero, sealed the extension for another 4 years of the partnership that has united these institutions since 2017.
In November 2017, the ITAérea Aeronautical Business School, CIFAL Merida (International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders) and UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) met for the first time at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, for the signing of the trilateral ...
Karyna Rosetti, Professor at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso Mato Grosso, Brazil. The agriculture powerhouse state of Mato Grosso in Brazil is not instantly linked to a green economy. But there are people there who want to change this, notably Karyna Rosetti. Karyna is a professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), who has been working to deliver green economy education to graduate and postgraduate students in the state. In 2022, Karyna spearheaded the development of the Inclusive Green Economy: Preparing Tomorrow’s Innovators programme. Sup...
5 April 2023, Siem Reap, Cambodia - On March 30 and 31 a successful Training of Trainers (ToT) on the Autosobriety Training Programme to Prevent Drink-Driving was conducted in the Siem Ream province of Cambodia.
This third ToT, taking place at 10 Makara High School brought together 22 core trainers from law enforcement officials, university professors, teachers, youth advisors, and Cambodian Red Cross leaders of youth clubs in the Siem Reap province. The two-day event was hosted by CAMSAFE and UNITAR with the support of Pernod Ricard Cambodge and the participation of...
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This self-paced course has been developed by UNITAR and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A number of countries have attempted to better link their budgeting with the SDGs and national planning overall, however, the progress is uneven. As underscored in the recent UNDP guidance, any country regardless of its budgeting system can take a number of steps that can help align the allocation of public resources with the national SDG priorities. This set of measures has however to be adapted to the specific situation of the country....