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Upcoming Events
Event
Exhibition for Peace: 80 Years Since the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
Side Event
Human Security and the Health Impacts of Ocean Plastic Pollution — Interlinkages between SDG 3 and SDG 14
Event
Reimagining climate governance: reforms, models and actions
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Trapped in Poverty: Persistent Poverty in the Context of Global Crises
Seminar
Executive Seminar on Successful University Leadership
Degree Defense
PhD defence: Innovative capacity in low-tech service firms: An analysis of the Brazilian boutique hotels and pest control sectors
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: The Challenges of South America’s Lithium Triangle: Industrial Policies for an Emerging Global Value Chain
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Essays on Economic Complexity, International Trade and Minerals Economics
Previous Events
Conversation Series
The Future of Education, Culture and Science in the Digital Age
On 19 June 2025, UNU will host a conversation with Ms. Gabriela Ramos, former UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social Sciences.
Workshop
YSI Workshop on Structural Change, Inequality, and Growth
Join the upcoming workshop on structural change and income inequality, organised in partnership with leading scholars and institutions
Event
SCIENCE TALK: Urban Flood Forecasting and Community-Based Risk Mitigation
Integrated Approaches from Mumbai to the Caribbean and New York City
BIG IDEAS Series
Women, Peace, and Cybersecurity: a Gendered Approach to Empowerment in a Digitally Interconnected World
ONLINE: On 17 June 2025, UNU will host a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Jaimee Stuart, a Senior Researcher and Team Lead at UNU Macau.
Event
Event
PhD Summer School on the Economics of the Green and Digital Transitions: Innovation Strategies Policies for a Global Europe
Learn about the EU’s approach to international cooperation, competition, and leadership in the green and digital transitions.
Event
SCIENCE TALK: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and Sexual Health
Case Studies From Uganda and Kenya
BIG IDEAS Series
Beyond the Age of Waste
ONLINE: On 10 June 2025, UNU will host a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Felipe Dall, programme officer at UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre.
Side Event
Insights from Landscape Approaches to Foster Sustainable Practices across Actors and Priorities to Enhance Socio-Ecological Resilience in the Ocean
ONLINE: This side event of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference will discuss how landscape approaches can achieve sustainability goals in seascapes.
Event
Economic Fitness and Complexity Summer School
A five-day Economic Fitness and Complexity Summer School, jointly organised by UNU-MERIT, UNU-CRIS and the Enrico Fermi Research Centre.