A Network of Networks
In 2005, UNU…
- launched 43 new projects,
- hosted or co-hosted 451 public events,
- worked with 1,401 network associates,
- published 164 discussion and working papers,
- published 162 articles in peer-reviewed journals
UNU can be characterized as a "network of networks" with UNU Centre in Tokyo and 14 UNU Research and Training Centres/Programmes (RTC/Ps) located around the world.
These core units work in collaboration with each other as well as with a broader network of several designated UNU Assocaited Institutions and hundreds of cooperating insitutions and individual scholars and researchers worldwide.
RTC/Ps
UNU Research and Training Centres/Programmes span an entire world of critical issues facing humanity today.
The 'programme space' within which UNU operates is defined by three variables:
- the major processes that are profoundly changing our world
- the actors that are effecting these changes
- and the topics and themes most relevant to UNU's mission
Within this programme space, our activities are clustered into two broad programme areas — Peace and Governance, and Environment and Development — and further focused within five thematic areas: Peace and Security; Good Governance; Development and Poverty Reduction; Environment and Sustainability; and Science, Technology and Society.
Associated Institutions
Supplementing the work of UNU are institutions of academic excellence that have been designated by the University Council as UNU Associated Institutions. Currently there are nine:
- Central Food Technological Research Institute
Mysore, India - Federal University of Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso, Brazil - Global Fire Monitoring Centre, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences
Freiburg, Germany - GRID-Arendal
Arendal, Norway - Griffith University, Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law
Brisbane, Australia - Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology
Gwangju, Korea - International Institute for Geo-Information Science & Earth Observation
Enschede, Netherlands - National Food Research Institute
Tsukuba, Japan - University of Madras
Chennai, India - University of Ulster, International Conflict Research
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Liaison Offices
UNU Office in New York
As part of its mandate to serve the United Nations University, UNU-ONY has a multifaceted mandate with an overarching mission to showcase and make UNU’s Research and Programmes (RTCP) available to the UN Secretariat, UN Permanent Missions, NGOs, academics and civil society.
Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud
2 United Nations Plaza, Room DC2-2060, New York, N.Y. 10017 U.S.A.
Tel: (1-212) 963-6387; Fax: (1-212) 371-9454
E-mail: unuona@ony.unu.edu
UNU Liaison Office at UNESCO, Paris
Marco Antonio R. Dias
Representative, United Nations University Office at UNESCO
c/o UNESCO Bureau 7B 4.06, 1, rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France.
Tel: (33-1) 45.68.46.42 Fax: (33-1) 40.65.91.86
E-mail: unuoe@unesco.org
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