Regular workshops and training courses are also held as part of the research and policy analysis programme. Regular events include:
- Short-term training programme on Policy Design and Evaluation (DEIP, DEPP, IATT or Tailored): Mindel van de Laar
- UNU-MERIT Seminar Series
Coordinators: Karthika Baby Sujatha, Lizeth Molina & Raghav Chakravarthy - Migration Seminar series
Coordinator: Soha Youssef - PhD Defences, UNU-MERIT PhD programme
Contact: Julia Walczyk
Upcoming Events
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Seminar
War, Trauma, and Survival: A Child Survivor’s Journey Through Genocide and Displacement
Senija shares her journey from war and displacement to resilience, exploring trauma, identity, and the power of healing through storytelling.
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Resilience of Public Organizations: The Case of the Education Sector in Egypt
Amira Gamal El-Din
Seminar
Beyond Springboarding: How Chinese Companies Leapfrogged to Become Global Leaders in the Automotive Industry
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series team is pleased to announce our upcoming research seminar featuring Gabriel R.G. Benito, Research Professor in the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the BI Norwegian Business School.
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Host Country Corruption, Multinational Firms’ Foreign Direct Investment, and Innovation
Negash Haile Dedho
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Essays on the creation and diffusion of novel technologies
Davide Bonaglia
Conference
Call for papers: 13th Conference on Micro Evidence on Innovation and Development (MEIDE)
December 10-12, 2025- Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Event
The Michael Cichon Graduate Award for Theses in Social Protection and Public Policy - 2025
Honouring excellence in social protection research at the 2025 Michael Cichon Graduate Award.
Seminar
Online Q&A Session on UNU-MERIT's MSc Programme
ONLINE: On 11 December, UNU-MERIT will host a Q&A session for prospective students interested in their MSc in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP).
Previous Events
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Event
Public Values in AI Research Webinar Series
Tommaso Ciarli chairs a webinar on public values in AI research, part of a series exploring methods to align AI with societal priorities.
Side Event
Co-Designing Infrastructure with Nature and Communities
BELÉM, BRAZIL: This session at the COP30 Resilience Hub will discuss how nature-positive infrastructure can align climate, biodiversity and equity goals.
Event
Master Open Day
Learn about the MSc in Public Policy and Human Development at UNU-MERIT during the UM Master’s Open Day on Saturday, 15 November 2025
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Technological Change and Production Specialisation in the Green and Digital Transition
María de las Mercedes Menéndez de Medina
Seminar
“Let’s bury the term ‘Rust Belt’ and call it the ‘Silicon Heartland’”: how innovation ‘others’ by (re)imagining presents, constructing futures, and disregarding pasts of postindustrial places
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series team is pleased to announce our upcoming research seminar featuring Marlise Schneider, PhD Candidate at Technical University of Munich.
Event
MPP Experience Day
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: On Wednesday 12 November 2025, UNU-MERIT will host the MPP Experience Day, an event designed especially for prospective students of our MSc in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP).
Training
Online Training for Latin America on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy and Policy Instruments for the SDGs
Online training on STI policy and instruments for SDGs in Latin America, hosted by IATT and UNU-MERIT.
Seminar
The Unpromised Land: Elites and Human Capital Development in 20th-Century Peru
MAASTRICHT & ONLINE: Our UNU-MERIT Seminar Series team is pleased to announce our upcoming research seminar featuring Hector Paredes, a PhD Student at the Paris School of Economics working on Development, Globalisation, Political Economy and Trade.