Development

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Event

Higher Education Sustainability Initiative Special Event at HLPF 2021

An online session exploring the role of higher education in achieving Sustainable Development Goals and promoting resilient recovery.

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Event

Synergising ESD for 2030 Stakeholders Dialogue — Learn for our Planet, Act for Sustainability

This event co-organised by UNU-IAS will discuss how to accelerate multi-stakeholder action on Education for Sustainable Development.

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Project

Beyond Opportunism: The UN Development System's Response to the Triple Planetary Crisis

Capturing best practices and the constraints experienced by Resident Coordinators in relation to the Triple Planetary Crisis.

07 Jun 2021

News

UNU Macau Calls for Multistakeholder Partnerships to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals in Macao and the Greater Bay Area

This summit brought together government, academia, private sector, and NGOs to explore collaborative opportunities for advancing the SDGs.

17 May 2021

Event

Towards a Nexus Knowledge Agenda

A focus on key building blocks of the nexus approach from biophysical, socioeconomic, and policy perspectives.

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Announcement

Applications Open: Online PhD Fellowship

The 2021 Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme at UNU-WIDER will take place online from September – November 2021.

06 Apr 2021

Media Coverage

SDGs–Universities Platform Featured in Chunichi Shimbun Newspaper

The article highlighted SDG–UP activities to promote and integrate the SDGs into all aspects of higher education in Japan.

31 Mar 2021

News

Call for Papers: COVID-19 and Development – Effects and New Realities for the Global South

UNU-WIDER is accepting papers until 15 April 2021 for its annual WIDER Development Conference.

23 Mar 2021

Seminar

Value of Water in the Era of the SDGs

Analysing different roles and values of water, and how these values can be synthesized to achieve SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation).

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News

In Memoriam: Prof. Benno Ndulu, UNU-WIDER Advisory Board Chair

Professor Benno Ndulu ot Tanzania, a long-time collaborator and friend of the institute, has passed away on 22 February 2021.

02 Mar 2021

News

Senior Vice-Rector Taikan Oki Offers SDG Perspectives from Japan

Prof. Taikan Oki speaks with Springer Nature about his work on the SDGs and the importance of transdisciplinary research collaboration.

26 Feb 2021

Conversation Series

"What Future for Myanmar?", a Conversation with Prof. Marie Lall

Prof. Marie Lall will join UNU Executive Officer Dr Sabine Becker-Thierry to discuss developments in the context of Myanmar’s reform process.

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