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15 – 16 May 2019, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) teamed up and co-organized the Learning Conference Implementing the 2030 Agenda in the Caribbean Region. The conference was attended by more than 70 participants including government officials from 21 Caribbean nations leading the SDGs process in their countries, international civil servant...
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17 July 2019, Curitiba, Brazil- The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) jointly with the Federation of Industries of the State of Parana (FIEP) System and Faculties of Industry held a workshop on “Innovating 2030: Thinking about the SDGs” on 29 June 2019. This event provided a venue for dialogue amongst industrial automation and mechanical manufacturing students to think and discuss innovative solutions to social, environmental and economic problems. Students as future leaders are pivotal in order to tackle urgent global ch...
6-12 May 2019, Madrid, Spain - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Madrid (CIFAL Madrid) has joined the international road safety campaign “Save Lives #SpeakUp” in the framework of the 5th UN Global Road Safety Week, taking place 6 to 12 May 2019.
This year, the 5th UN Global Road Safety Week highlights the need for strong leadership to advance road safety related global targets. Thousands of advocates globally, including CIFAL Madrid, are taking the opportunity of the Week to #SpeakUp for road safety, including calling for urgent action on the...
October 2022, Hiroshima, Japan – Multilingualism is especially relevant for the United Nations and our partners as we work to bring course content to communities across the globe. The languages used determines which communities have access to knowledge. With that in mind, efforts to expand the languages available for online course content are under way, with the help of multilingual youth.
UNITAR and UNESCO together created the free online course “Defending Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” available through the mobile-first app EdApp. The course ex...
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...
21 October 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - During the 2021 World Data Forum (WDF), on the 6th of October 2021 in Bern, Switzerland, UNITAR, UN Statistics Division (UNSD) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with the Global Network of Institutions for Statistical Training (GIST), organized a hybrid session “Statistics and Data Smart: Innovative solutions for increasing statistical literacy of the general public”. Conversations focused on strategies and initiatives to improve statistical literacy of different stakeholders from childr...
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This year, UNITAR has the pleasure to present its Executive Swiss Alps Retreat on Leadership and Excellence. This retreat is part of a series and will aim to bring together participants from both the public and private sectors, to generate synergies and opportunities for learning and mutual engagement. Leadership skills are essential to building new and strategic, personal and professional development trajectories, and in times of change must be prioritized.
Taking place in the beautiful Swiss Alps, the retreat will offer you the chance ...
8 December 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - To celebrate a milestone of the partnership and to strategize the way forward, UN SDG:Learn partners gathered for a Retreat “Transforming Sustainable Development Learning on the way to the Summit of the Future”. The Retreat was hosted by UNITAR and organized in a hybrid format.
In preparation for the Summit of the Future, partners conducted a comprehensive review of the accomplishments from 2019-2023 and discussed the strategic pathways for the parternship. The focus was on identifying areas where collective efforts could address emer...
27-28 June 2024, San Salvador, El Salvador – UNITAR New York Office successfully holds the Regional Workshop on Treaty Law and Practice for members of El Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA), or the Central American Integration System. The workshop was conducted in partnership with the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations and the Foreign Ministry of El Salvador, with the assistance of Dr. Jose Gustavo Guerrero's Diplomatic Institute. The workshop was facilitated by Mr. David Nanopoulos, Chief of the Treaty Section of the United Nations Office o...