The UNU System
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
The University comprises UNU Centre in Tokyo and a worldwide network of Research and Training Centres and Programmes assisted by numerous associated and cooperating institutions.
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.
- Federal University of Mato Grosso
Pantanal Regional Environmental Programme
Mato Grosso, Brazil - Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
International Environmental Research Center
Gwangju, Republic of Korea - Griffith University
Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law
Queensland, Australia - Central Food Technological Research Institute
Mysore, India - GRID-Arendal
Global Virtual University
Arendal, Norway - University of Bonn
Center for Development Research
Bonn, Germany - Tufts University
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Boston, USA - Asian Institute of Technology
Bangkok, Thailand - Global Fire Monitoring Center
Freiburg, Germany - International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Enschede, the Netherlands - University of Madras
Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Chennai, India - National Food Research Institute
Ibaraki, Japan - University of Ulster
INCORE (International Conflict Research)
Northern Ireland - Cornell University
UNU Food and Nutrition Programme for Human and Social DevelopmentIthaca, NY, USA - University of Chile
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology
Santiago, Chile - Mahidol University
Institute of Nutrition
Nakhon Pathom, Thailand - National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Nutrition and Health Research Center
Cuervavaca, Mexico - Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population
National Nutrition Institute
Cairo, Egypt - Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institution for Nutritional Sciences
Shanghai, PRC - University of Nairobi
Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Technology
Nairobi, Kenya - Gansu Natural Energy Research Institute
Gansu Natural Energy Research Institute / UNIDO International Solar Energy Center for Technology Promotion and Transfer (ISEC-GNERI)
Gansu, PRC
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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