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14 October 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR scientist in cooperation with the WEEE Forum expect roughly 5.3 billion mobile / smartphones will drop out of use this year. Stacked flat atop one another at an average depth of 9 mm that many disused phones would rise roughly 50,000 km – 120 times higher than the International Space Station: one-eighth of the way to the moon.
And, despite their valuable gold, copper, silver, palladium and other recyclable components, experts expect a majority will disappear into drawers, closets, cupboards or garages, or be to...
On 17 July 2009, the First Spanish-speaking Capacity Development Programme for the Promotion of International Law: “Trends in International Law” was successfully completed. This training activity took place at the Peruvian Diplomatic Academy’s headquarters in Lima from 6 to 17 July 2009. It comprised two weeks of intensive and interactive course training aimed at participants from 19 Ibero-American countries. They were selected on the basis of a rigorous procedure. As a result thereof, 29 high level candidates were chosen from a total of 220 applicants.
In order to…
UNITAR’s Affiliated Training Center in Shanghai Organized the 10th Global City Informatization Forum
UNITAR’s Affiliated Training Center in Shanghai Organized the 10th Global City Informatization Forum
4 - 6 November 2014, Shanghai, China – UNITAR’s affiliated training centre CIFAL Shanghai, in partnership with the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences organized the 10th Global City Informatization Forum (GCIF) that took place at the Kerry Hotel Pudong in Shanghai. An initiative created in 2000, the GCIF is a platform to exchange visions, policies and strategies on information and communications…
30 March 2023, Dakar, Senegal – UNITAR, the Centre International de Formation des Autorités et Leaders (CIFAL) Dakar, and the Municipality of Dakar hosted forty-two nurses and midwives from Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon, and Mali for a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop titled “Improving Breastfeeding Education in Sub-Saharan Africa” on 15 and 16 March 2023 in Dakar, Senegal. The workshop contributed to the goal of promoting breastfeeding education and optimal breastfeeding practices. Primarily aligned with Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 3, promoting breastfee...
New training opportunities in the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Caucasus Region
12 March 2018, Baku, Azerbaijan – A delegation from UNITAR traveled to Baku to meet with representatives of the Baku Higher Oil School, the Azerbaijani Diplomatic Academy, and the Ministries of Economy, Education and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan to discuss future collaboration in the fields of training and sustainable development. The Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan in Geneva organized the meetings, which were chaired by H. E. Mr. Vaqif Sadiqov, Ambassador Extraordinary and…
22 March 2017, Hiroshima, Japan – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office has successfully completed the second workshop of the UNITAR Iraq Fellowship Programme: Entrepreneurship and Leadership Youth Training, held in Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan, from 5 – 11 March 2017. The Fellowship is a six-month specialized capacity-building programme examining entrepreneurship and youth leadership in the context of Iraq and incorporating two face-to-face international workshops, blending online and asynchronous learning, and participant-led real-...
18 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland. The world is facing radical economic transformations driven, on the one hand, by opportunities offered by green and digital technologies and, on the other, by significant demographic changes, decreasing natural resource availabilities, increasing pressures from societies turning towards more responsible consumption patterns, and regulations to promote ESG compliance or encourage SDG reporting, and to pro-actively manage digital transformations. As such, one of the key needs becomes the upskilling and reskilling of government agencies, a...
24 March 2023, New York, USA – In the framework of the UN 2023 Water Conference UNITAR hosted the side event “Promoting Water Culture through Learning & Action”. The overall objective of the side event is to mobilize support and expertise to deliver innovative training and build human capacities on pressing water-related issues at a large scale.
The Stakeholder Consultation Roundtable on Capacity Development held on October 2022 as part of the preparatory meeting of the UN 2023 Water Conference highlighted the need for a “Global network of educ...
Discover the Brand New UN CC:e-Learn Platform!
24 February 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - The UN CC:e-Learn platform has just undergone a complete makeover. The platform, which was launched in 2014, still boasts its state of the art e-learning courses in six different languages. However, we bring a few new features to our 75 000+ registered users:
1. Easier Access and Navigation
New Landing Page: Once logged in, you can now access a page filled with useful information and news, and can easily access the courses you are following by going to “My Courses”.
An…
UNITAR Hosts Scale of Assessment Course for Diplomats of the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar
2 October 2018, New York, NY, USA – The United Nations for Training and Research (UNITAR) hosted a training for Diplomats of the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar on Scale of Assessment, held in the United Nations at the United Nations Building. This was the final part in the Induction Course for the Qatari diplomats in “Strengthening Knowledge and Skills in Multilateral Diplomacy”.
UNITAR New York Head of Office Mr. Marco Suazo opened the session by welcoming…