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Research and academic activities aligned with every Sustainable Development Goal

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News 18 Oct 2024

UNU-MERIT Researchers Contribute to Eurostat’s First Manual on Business Innovation Statistics

The manual is a vital resource for statistical offices across the EU, offering detailed guidelines on collecting comparable business innovation data.

Blog Post 17 Oct 2024

Bridging Sound Art and Science: A Conversation with Julie Semoroz

Conversation between Julie and UNU Macau, on the relation of art and digital technologies, sustainability and wellbeing.

News 17 Oct 2024

Corporate accountability in global health governance? A case study of the Access to Medicine Index

A new briefing paper critically analyses the AtMI to evaluate voluntary corporate performance indexes as an accountability mechanism in health.

Blog Post 17 Oct 2024

What could the Pact for the Future mean for Geneva?

The ambitious Pact should be met with two new entities in Geneva to address the future of peacebuilding and multilateralism.

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Nexus Seminar N.78 : Co-Creating Transformative Innovation Policy for Disruptive Sustainability: Navigating Its Discontents

UNU-FLORES and TU Dresden host monthly online Nexus Seminar Series with scholars and practitioners discussing diverse Nexus Resource topics

News 17 Oct 2024

Biocontrolling Post-Harvest Food Loss

Reducing food loss from harvest to market can help secure the right to food and leave no one behind and Latin America bets on biodiversity for it

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Explainable identification of predictive factors for successful inter-agency partnerships

The seminar showcases an AI engine for ranking partnership success factors and improving decision-making in multilateral development organizations.

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Digital transformation in the public sector and the bureaucratic model: A (quasi) systematic literature review

This paper reviews digital transformation in governance, identifying key themes on its effects, implementation, and street-level bureaucracy.

Expert Doctoral Researcher

Claudelle Anna Serano

Claudelle is part of the Joint PhD Programme of UNU-FLORES and TU Dresden. 

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The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in a Multipolarizing World

TOKYO: On 25 October 2024, UNU will host a conversation with Derrick Swartz, the Science, Technology and Innovation advisor to Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.