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Connecting Perspectives: Highlights from the 2025 UNU Migration Network Research Symposium
Climate change, mental health, and gender inequality were key themes at the UNU Migration Network Symposium on 29 Sept 2025 at UNU-MERIT.
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From an AI Revolution to Resolution: Four Gaps and Four Promises of Capacity Development in AI Governance
One year after the Global Digital Compact, Praachi Kumar examines how closing AI capacity gaps can foster fair and inclusive global governance.
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Reflecting on the UNU-MERIT Internal Conference 2025: Our Annual PhD Event
UNU-MERIT’s 2025 Internal Conference gathered staff and PhD fellows to present research and strengthen academic collaboration.
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Shaping Tomorrow: Apply Now for UNU’s Digital Technology and Sustainable Development Program
Applications are open for UNU-DTSD 2026, where young scholars learn how digital tech supports fair and sustainable development.
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Welcoming the 2025-2026 MPP Cohort: A New Beginning at UNU-MERIT
Introducing the 2025/26 cohort of our MSc in Public Policy and Human Development programme (offered in partnership with Maastricht University).
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Fighting Corruption from Home: How Multinational Firms Learn to Navigate Corrupt Markets
What happens when companies experience corruption abroad? Do they learn to resist it—or to hide it better?
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How the PhD Summer School on the Economics of the Twin Transitions is Shaping the Future of Innovation Policy
PhD Summer School trains young researchers with theory and tools to design innovation policies for Europe’s green and digital transitions.
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The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the UN: What you need to know
The Netherlands plays a key role at the UN, hosting major courts in The Hague and supporting peace, justice, and human rights worldwide.
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A Year in the MPP: Growth, Connection and Everything in Between
MPP student ambassador Margarida Leite Magalhães reflects on a year of growth, rigour, and community at UNU-MERIT.
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Share The Invisibility of Hidden Poverty: Reflections from a Social Protection Perspective
PhD fellow Nathalia Ramírez writes for socialprotection.org about hidden poverty and the need for more inclusive social protection systems.