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Upcoming Events
Seminar
Detecting Technological Trajectories: Emergence, Convergence, Divergence, and Dormancy in Innovation Dynamics
Event
Sixth SDGs National Children’s Poster Contest Exhibition
Event
Exhibition: House of No Waste (HØW)
Event
Science Talk: Water Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance
Seminar
Webinar #7 | From Downtime Reads to Brave Leaps: Public Policy and Quantum Computing
Event
2026 Higher Education Sustainability Initiative Global Forum
Event
Launch of the 2026 Environmental Performance Index
Side Event
Implementing Nature Positive through Landscape Approaches
Previous Events
Conversation Series
International Order Under Challenge
On 29 June 2026, UNU will host a conversation with Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament of India, and Prof. C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice-Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University.
Training
How Science, Technology, and Industrial Policy Will Shape Europe’s Future
UNU MERIT co-organises PhD Summer School 2026 in Strasbourg on Europe’s innovation, science and industrial policy.
Seminar
Migration Seminar Series: The politics of selective visibility: Narratives, knowledge production, and entrenched biases of migration stories
Dr. Lorenzo Piccoli on how migration narratives shape public understanding, policy priorities, and the visibility of migration issues.
Event
Science Talk: From Space to Planetary Health
How Satellites and AI Reveal Earth’s Energy and Ecosystem Services
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Essays on Automation, Trade, and Industrial Policy
Thao Trang Nguyen
Event
From Hype to Evidence: A Process Tokenisation Framework for the Public-Sector
The session will address how public-sector organizations can assess the applicability and feasibility of tokenisation within their processes.
Workshop
2026 ACUNS Annual Workshop on International Organisation Studies
We are pleased to co-organise the 2026 ACUNS Annual Workshop on International Organisation Studies in partnership with ACUNS and Narxoz University.
Degree Defense
Public PhD Defense of Justine Miller, UNU-CRIS PhD Fellow
The PhD defense by Justine Miller on "Disentangling the Spaghetti Bowl of Regional Integration" takes place in Ghent on Tuesday, 18 June 2026.
Event
Science Talk: Environmental Controls on the Conversion of Nutrients to Chlorophyll in Global Lakes
Global patterns of lake productivity
Workshop
Governação e Proteção de Dados no Contexto da Transformação Digital
O Workshop "Governação e Proteção de Dados no contexto da transformação digital: desafios, oportunidades e perspectivas" terá lugar em Moçambique.