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UNITAR and Princeton in Asia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and embarked on a new partnership.
A Princeton in Asia intern will work at the UNITAR Hiroshima Office as a Leadership and Inclusion Intern over the US summer.
, 5 July 2023, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR is pleased to announce a new partnership with Princeton in Asia through which a Princeton in Asia intern will work at the UNITAR Hiroshima Office as a Leadership and Inclusion Trainee over the US summer. Princeton in Asia interns are generally undergraduate students. The pa...
14 April 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR has concluded a four-day training on key leadership skills for Geneva's diplomatic community at the Palais des Nations, bringing together 31 participants from over 25 member states. This Collaborative Leadership Workshop consisted of 7 sessions, led by world-class experts, including Ambassadors, all working to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead engagingly and collaboratively.
The workshop began with opening remarks by Mr Nikhil Seth, UN ASG and UNITAR Executive Director, who stated, “We need each o...
28 July 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) Division for People and Awareness Ties have recently signed a non-financial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The two partners will work together in the framework of UNITAR’s 1M2030 Initiative (One Million Youth Leaders Beyond 2030).
Awareness Ties is a social impact platform that raises awareness for causes, while providing resources for the general public and funding for non-profits.
Initial activities under the MoU will be the development and l...
26 January 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - On 18 March, UNITAR and the University of Geneva, host the third Geneva Trialogue edition, under the theme of ”Scaling Open Innovation for the SDGs“. The Geneva Trialogue fosters communication and collaboration between academia, international organizations and the private sector, to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Open innovation can become a concrete way of advancing and accelerating progress on the Global Goals, since it is a practice of people working together in tackling problems and finding concrete resolut...
11 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - On Friday 18th September 2020, UN CC:Learn will celebrate the issuance of its 100,000th certificate of course completion–a remarkable milestone in its mission to improve climate literacy around the world.
Climate change education is a key multiplier for climate action. It provides the base of a pyramid through which knowledge and understanding is converted into the changes in attitudes, behaviours, policies, and finally the vital investments needed to bring the climate threat under control.
The 100,000th certificate is a particular...
20 January 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the official launch of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) at the upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos, Switzerland. The launch will take place at a special lunch-event, hosted by Brand South Africa on Wednesday, 22 January 2020 at the Brand SA Pavilion.
Globally, over 5 billion people and 90% of the world’s poor lack access to basic surgical care. An estimated 17 million people die each year from surgically preventable c...
12 March 2019, New York, United States - United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York office recently partnered and signed an agreement with University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business to develop a new three-part e-learning learning certificate programme on “Leading with Ethics in Achieving the SDGs” for the summer and fall semester.
“Leading with Ethics in Achieving the SDGs” is an online course that will assist decision-makers in fostering the character traits and developing the durable skills necessary for SDG Leadership. Usin...
June 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - What are the most effective tools in preventing and countering corruption? What connects anti-corruption to diplomacy and international relations? And which role do education and training play in this regard? Those are the main points and questions that UNITAR’s Executive Director and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Nikhil Seth and the Dean of the International Anti-Corruption Academy Dr. Thomas Stelzer discussed in the June edition of UN Today. The interview underlines the crucial role and immense im...
Considering the importance of the global automotive market and that a key component of the Safe Systems Approach is Safe Vehicles, legislation, policies, and strategies related to promoting safer vehicles are essential for improving road safety globally. The global motor vehicle fleet (including passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles) currently exceeds 2 billion vehicles and is likely to reach 3.5 billion by 2031. Small to mid-size fleets account for roughly 88% of all commercial fleets on the road.Companies, organizations, and governments own and manage ...
The Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons is a programme of the United Nations Office for Disarmament that seeks to empower young leaders to advocate for a nuclear-weapon-free world. The programme Youth Peace advocates the unique opportunity to learn about nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control principles via online courses and a fully funded in-person study tour to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. UNITAR supports the Youth Leader Fund as an implementing partner and organized the study tour to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We must prioritize dia...