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UNU@50

Generating knowledge to transform the world since 1975

Date Published
1 Jan 2025

For 50 years, UNU has drawn from its depth and breadth of expertise to contribute to the efforts of the UN system, its member states and the broader global community. Today, UNU continues its commitment to generating evidence-based solutions for the world's most pressing problems. Join us throughout 2025 as we celebrate 50 years of UNU impact and chart a future built on sustainable development.

UNU@50 Impact

Evidence-based Solutions for a Sustainable Future

UNU@50
Explore UNU's history, impact and future

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Side Event

Insights from Landscape Approaches to Foster Sustainable Practices across Actors and Priorities to Enhance Socio-Ecological Resilience in the Ocean

ONLINE: This side event of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference will discuss how landscape approaches can achieve sustainability goals in seascapes.

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Photo of earth from space

Symposium

New Frontiers in Global Security: Emerging Technologies and Outer Space

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Susan Brown UNDP

BIG IDEAS Series

Pandemics and Human Security Threats: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health

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ITTO Executive Director Ms. Sheam Satkuru (L) and UNU Rector Tshilidzi Marwala (R) at the UNU-ITTO memorandum of understanding signing.

News

UNU and ITTO Sign Memorandum of Understanding

18 Apr 2025

Elizabeth Mynatt

Conversation Series

Bridging Care Across Cultures: Designing Sociotechnical Systems for Ageing in a Global Society

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Fumio Kishida

Symposium

80th Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — The Imperative of Global Unity: How to Renew Multilateralism in a Fragmented World

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MOU Signing at UNU-FLORES

News

UNU and TUD Launch CREST Hub on Climate and Sustainability at the Dresden Nexus Conference

10 Apr 2025

MoU signing

News

Building the institutions of the future

01 Apr 2025

Meri Joyce

BIG IDEAS Series

Sailing for Change: Civil Society Action to Build Peaceful and Inclusive Societies in the Asia-Pacific

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Ambassador Frederick Barton

Conversation Series

Change(s) in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities

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UNU and LPI launch UNU Hub in Paris

Press Release

The Learning Planet Institute and UNU Establish a United Nations University Hub — the First in France — Dedicated to the Future of Learning with Youth

25 Mar 2025

H.E. Mr. Paul Mashatile, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa speaks at the United Nations University

News

UNU Hosts High-level Symposium Exploring South Africa's G20 Presidency

19 Mar 2025

Theme
SDG partnerships
Keyword
Development
Institute
UNU Centre
Copyright
United Nations University, Creative commons, 2025

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