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July Edition: 27 – 31 July 2020
August Edition: 17 – 21 August 2020
Online Edition: 17 – 28 August 2020 , This summer, UNITAR is delighted to deliver two 5-day field visits to Geneva, Switzerland. These will offer participants the chance to fully immerse themselves into International Geneva and thereby gain first-hand experience of the United Nations.
UNITAR will host most of the programme in the headquarters of the Wor...
UN CC:Learn Commits to 30 Youth Climate Dialogues by 2020
4 December 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - Every year, on 20 November, we celebrate the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted in 1989. This year, UNICEF focused on children’s right to participate by encouraging “Kids Take Over” worldwide, a call to action “for children, by children.”
In celebration of the Universal Children’s Day, we organized a special youth dialogue between students from the Bwaila Secondary School in Lilongwe in Malawi…
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Massive Open Online Course
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....
07 March, 2019, Curitiba, Brazil – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) started the “Women in Science” Lecture Series to highlight the role of women in development. The Lectures started on 28 February and will be conducted throughout the month on March across SESI Schools in the State of Paraná, Brazil.
Technology and innovation are gaining an important space worldwide not only in the economic development of a country, but also in the advancement of science and education. In that sense, the Lecture Series aim to give vi...
31 July 2024, New York, New York - 0n July 8 - 17, 2024 The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched the 2024 iteration of the two organization’s long-term partnership programme, the SDGs Learning, Training and Practice (SDGs In Practice). SDGs in Practice is a series of substantive capacity-building trainings and knowledge-sharing sessions, held as a special event during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), with a theme around the five Sustainabl...
UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific 2023 is now accepting applications from interested Asia-Pacific high school students.
Youth Ambassadors will develop and practice skills in critical thinking, innovation, entrepreneurship, communication and leadership.
UNITAR Division for Prosperity launched the programme in 2021 to educate and empower the youth about the most pressing issues affecting global recovery and the relevance of the SDGs.
The 10-week online programme will run from 23 September 2023. The deadline for applications is extended until 8 September 2023...
3 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - The year-long global fight to contain and eliminate the threat of SARS-CoV-2 overshadowed international efforts to achieve the SDGs of Agenda2030. The world needs the brightest minds to step into leadership roles at the forefront of the transformational change required to realize the ambitious goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the field of science, technology and innovation, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Targets 17.6 and 17.8 respectively, aim to “enhance North-South, South-South and trian...
17 November 2016, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research, in partnership with Columbia Law School and sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, continued the series of courses entitled “Conflict Resolution, Mediation and Negotiation”. The second course in the series, taking place on 17 November, 2016, was entitled, “Processes for Sustainable Peace”. The course was attended by 25 diplomats, predominantly from member states of the Forum of Small States (FOSS) who enjoyed the sponsorship of the Permanent Mission of…
Government of Switzerland Supports INDC Development Process in Tajikistan
17-18 June 2015, Dushanbe, Tajikistan – UNITAR, ZOI Environment Network and the Government of Tajikistan, with support from the Government of Switzerland, organized a two day Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) Kick-off Meeting on 17-18 June 2015, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. INDCs are contributions that countries make towards the stabilization of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration in the atmosphere as part of the preparation for COP21 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (…