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Upcoming Events
Previous Events
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: The Challenges of South America’s Lithium Triangle: Industrial Policies for an Emerging Global Value Chain
Mauricio Cespedes Quironga, UNU-MERIT
Degree Defense
Seminar
Ethnic Favouritism in Environmental Disaster Payouts.
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series team is pleased to announce our upcoming research seminar featuring Sumeet Gulati, a Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of British Columbia.
Event
Science Talk: NASA Earth Data Applications
Exploring Floods, Dust, Fires, Wildlife, Heatwaves, and Health
Workshop
Digital4Culture - Understanding the Relationship between Digital Technologies and Cultural Heritage
Join Digital4Culture, a joint workshop hosted by the United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) and the Observatory on Science, Communication and Culture Policies (PolObs).
Seminar
UNU-IIGH Webinar | Gendered risks of privatised practices on the health workforce
Is the rise of privatised practices in health fertile ground for the amplification of existing gender inequalities in the healthcare workforce?
Event
Documentary Film Screening: Paper Lanterns
On 16 September 2025, UNU will host a screening of Paper Lanterns, a documentary film directed by Barry Frechette and produced by Nobuko Saito Cleary.
Workshop
Connected by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Infrastructure for Future-Ready Cities
The United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) is honoured to serve as a co-organizer of the Forum on Connected by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Infrastructure for Future-Ready Cities, convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva on 15 September 2025.
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Trapped in Poverty: Persistent Poverty in the Context of Global Crises
PhD defence Teresa Janz
BIG IDEAS Series
Building Our Immunity to Mis/Disinformation Through Journalism
ONLINE & TOKYO: On 11 September 2025, UNU will host a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Hanako Montgomery, international correspondent at CNN, based in the Tokyo bureau.