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UNITAR e-Newsletter

3rd edition 2017

Climate classroom

Innovation in Learning: virtual reality and other innovative approach to learning

 
One of UNITAR’s core functions is to design and deliver innovative training to address the needs of individuals, organizations, and institutions. We strive to provide the highest quality of training with modern tools.

In this edition, we are highlighting various programmes’ innovative approaches to learning in 2017. UNOSAT is developing content for virtual reality space for training and visualization purposes for the humanitarian community, while Peacekeeping Training Programme is collaborating with various partners and developed a peacebuilding game “Mission Zhobia”, and UN CC:Learn is delivering the Climate Classroom to the busy delegates to major Climate Change Conferences.

We are very pleased to announce our partnerships with The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and a continuous partnership with CERN. With all of them, we are striving to achieve our common goals together.
Innovative Applications for the Humanitarian Community

Innovative Applications for the Humanitarian Community

UNOSAT has developed beta-solutions to convert GIS and drone data into a virtual reality space. They featured a complete 3D model of Al-Zaatari refugee camp navigated by using a virtual reality (VR) headset. The primary objective is to develop content for training and visualization purposes for the humanitarian community.

Learn more about how virtual reality could help field workers! >>

Games used for Peacebuilding

From Playing to Practicing: Games used for Peacebuilding

Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) gamified approach to learning and teaching allows people to play a game and retain important knowledge and skills at the same time. This method increases rate of engagement of participants, expressing individual’s creativity and building confidence in working independently.

Learn more about how Mission Zhobia has prepared peacebuilders! >>

Climate Classroom

Climate Classroom @ Geneva Global Goals Innovation Day

CC:Learn developed the Climate Classroom, a mobile learning space that ‘pops up’ at the center of a major climate change conference and other related events. The Climate Classroom offers a chance for the community in Geneva to collaborate about solutions to the SDG13, take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Find out what the Classroom’s topic was! >>

Announcements

National Adaptation Plans: Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture

UNITAR, UNDP and FAO launch a new online course on climate change and agriculture


The course is timed to launch in parallel with the upcoming climate talks in Bonn, Germany, more formally a as the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23). The registration for this six-week MOOC is open.

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New Online Platform for Diplomatic Training Alumni

UNITAR Launches a New Online Platform for Diplomatic Training Alumni

Diplomacy is a multidisciplinary and ever-evolving field, where it is sometimes hard to keep track of new developments and might be instead easy to lose important contacts and opportunities. Keeping in touch with former classmates and trainers, discovering opportunities for self-improvement and being part of a network of talented professional is thus the key to a successful career in this domain.

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Learngreeneconomy mailing list

Stay updated with the Learngreeneconomy mailing list!

The list is a free network announcement and coordination tool for practitioners active in learning for an inclusive green economy (IGE). It serves as a knowledge-sharing platform to promote IGE learning-related activities and events. Sign up today!

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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment

Introduction to Human Rights & the Environment- Free online course.

All stakeholders interested to learn about the main aspects of the relationship between Human Rights and the Environment can benefit from the knowledge gained through the course. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a joint certificate UNITAR – UN Environment.

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Learning to Live with Climate Change

UN CC:Learn - Learning to Live with Climate Change (Video)

UN CC:Learn is a partnership of more than 30 multilateral organizations supporting countries to design and implement systematic, recurrent and results-oriented climate change learning. Through its engagement, UN CC:Learn contributes to the implementation of Article 6 of the UNFCCC on training, education and public awareness-raising, and the 2012-2020 Doha Work Programme.

Watch the video >>

Minamata Convention

The First Conference of Parties (COP) to the Minamata Convention

With over 1,000 participants from around the world. Named after the case of industrial pollution in Minamata, Japan, where the continued release of mercury in industrial wastewater caused over 2000 deaths, the Minamata Convention is a global treaty established to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury. Its has entered into force on 16.08.17

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Workshop on Public Speaking Skills

Workshop on Public Speaking Skills

(12 Oct - 13 Oct 2017)

This training will focus on public speaking techniques including the essential elements of preparation, structure and delivery through a mixture of trainer input and practical activities. Participants will have to deal with simulated situations of public speaking and receive feedback from the group and the trainer.

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Workshop on Climate Change Diplomacy and Climate Negotiations

Workshop on Climate Change Diplomacy and Climate Negotiations

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of 21st century diplomacy and international governance. Given the many different stakeholders and communities who have roles to play, it is a contemporary challenge with regard to its demand on interdisciplinary knowledge, skills and languages, and the personal capacities needed to combine these so as to make diplomatic sense and success.

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Introductory e-Course on Climate Change Portuguese

The UN CC:Learn Introductory e-Course on Climate Change is now available in portuguese

The UN CC:Learn Introductory e-Course on Climate Change, which has gathered participants from all around the world, is now available in Portuguese! This version of the course was developed in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Office in Brazil.

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Partnerships

UNOOSA and UNITAR  collaboration

One UN Collaboration on Access to and Awareness-Raising of Earth Observation for Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have agreed to collaborate to further their common goals, particularly the use of space-based technology for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Collaboration with the Red Crescent and Red Cross Movement

Collaboration with the Red Crescent and Red Cross Movement

After several years working together to mainstream the use of geospatial analysis in the humanitarian sector and supporting each other´s respective mapping services, UNITAR-UNOSAT and the International Red Crescent and Red Cross Movement are taking a leap forward by further strengthening their cooperation.

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Public Lecture on `Science as Enabler for Peace and Development

UNITAR & CERN organised a joint Public Lecture on "Science as Enabler for Peace and Development"

The public lecture, held on 27 July 2017 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, is part of a UNITAR-CERN joint initiative addressed to the actors of multilateral diplomacy. The joint initiative aims at raising the awareness on the importance of science, technology, innovation and STEM education for the sustainable development of the society, the intercultural dialogue, and peace.

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