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United Nations University Announces New Interim Director for UNU-MERIT
UNU-MERIT announces Prof. Dr. Clemens Kool as interim director, succeeding Prof. Dr. Bartel Van de Walle.
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What Are Critical Minerals, and Why Are They So Important?
By Jorge Valverde, PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT and member of our UNESCO Chair team
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Latin America’s Economic Growth Potential: Carlo Pietrobelli’s Keynote Insights at ECLAC Event
Insights from the Fourth Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies.
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UNU-MERIT Careers Fair 2024: Empowering Students to Shape Their Futures
Insights from the ‘Careers Beyond Borders’ hybrid career event at UNU-MERIT.
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Celebrating Two Years of a Phd Journey: Reflections from Our Dual Career Fellows
Our two years as UNU-MERIT dual career (DC) PhD fellows.
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Ghana’s Free High School Policy Is Getting More Girls to Complete Secondary Education
Ghana's FreeSHS policy is positively impacting educational attainment, but this is not yet translating into full gender parity in completion rates.
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Research Week at UNU-MERIT: An Inside Perspective from Our Phd Office
What made this the Research Week of 2024 a unique experience.
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Ghana’s Free High School Policy Is Getting More Girls to Complete Secondary Education — Study
The impact of Free Public Senior High School (FreeSHS) policy on education outcomes in Ghana.
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What is Economic Fitness and Complexity?
The science of complex systems can play an important role in understanding social and economic dynamics.
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Networking, Exploring, Debating: The 2024 NASPAA Simulation Competition in Budapest
Seven MPP students travel to Hungary for an international student event