HESI Global Forum 2024: The Future of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
Each year, the organizes a global forum as a special event to the 鈥 the UN鈥檚 main platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The forum highlights the critical role of higher education in achieving sustainable development. on 15 July 2024.
Launch of SET4HEI: Sustainability Evaluation Tool for Higher Education Institutions
'Measuring higher education鈥檚 contribution to the SDGs', on 15 July 2024, is set to launch the . The hybrid event will include a panel discussion and the presentation of the final SET4HEI self-evaluation indicators and certification. Follow it online on the (no registration required).
Panel discussion on "Strengthening Gender Equality in Generative AI"
This event aimed to facilitate a discourse on academic research related to generative AI with a specific focus on advancing, promoting, and safeguarding gender equality. It will delve into the incorporation of human flaws, such as gender bias, into generative AI systems and emphasize the responsibility of academia and users in ensuring gender equality within these applications.
Making the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a Reality: The Role of Higher Education
The United Nations was born in the aftermath of World War II in 1945. An essential component of the Organization鈥檚 work from the start was the promotion and protection of human rights, as enshrined in its Charter. Three years later, in 1948 this element was further strengthened with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Now, as we mark the , this groundbreaking Declaration is not only a set of rights, but also a guiding instrument that serves as the basis of International Human Rights Law and of all the mechanisms at the global, regional, national, and local levels created to protect those rights.
Higher Education and Multilateralism: Teaching and Researching about the United Nations
Seventy-eight听years after the foundation of the United Nations as the cornerstone of multilateralism, its principles and values remain valid. In the current global context, with the emergence of crises and conflicts and several global challenges, the United Nations is a center to harmonize actions and a beacon of hope for billions. For decades, institutions of higher education, particularly its faculty, have been studying this Organization extensively while teaching, researching, and writing about it. Lecturers, professors, and scientists have made significant contributions to the work of the United Nations. Moreover, the interest in the United Nations, and the expectations about the Organization, have grown significantly. And in parallel to it, youth, particularly university students, have been increasingly seen as more actively advocating for the different campaigns, causes, and initiatives the United Nations carries out.
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Engaging Youth and Academia with the Global Sustainable Development Report 2023
In the听Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),听the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is building on its interdisciplinary strength to help, through its Policy Dialogues, all stakeholder groups respond to multi-dimensional and systemic risks in today鈥檚 interconnected world while showcasing the thought leadership of the Department on such critical issues as economic and financial instabilities, rising inequalities, population, and implementation of the SDGs. A set of live virtual dialogues explicitly held for college and university audiences has been developed within this framework. These 鈥淕lobal Policy Dialogues for the Classroom鈥 will feature an expert presenting in-depth the major findings of one of the Department鈥檚 flagship reports, with time for questions from the audience.
Joint Webinar "The Implementation of the SDGs in Higher Education"
In the听Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),听听and in the context of the ongoing global challenges, the role of institutions of higher education in advancing the听is more critical than ever.听The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) as the initiative within the Department of Global Communications of the United Nations Secretariat听that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in supporting and contributing to the realization of the Organization's purposes and principles, and the 听as the sole spe
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Higher Education: A Space for Gender Equality
This event aimed to听provide a platform for the discussion around the use of information and communication technologies in universities and colleges as a way to advance, promote, and protect gender equality, while addressing related issues of gender-based violence, women's empowerment and greater access of women to higher education. The event will also explore how university policies have evolved and the way in which academic and scientific research is connected to these issues.
[In Spanish language] Trabajando por el Medio Ambiente con las Naciones Unidas
En el marco de las actividades de difusi贸n llevadas a cabo por la iniciativa Impacto Acad茅mico de las Naciones Unidas (UNAI, por sus siglas en ingl茅s), y dado el inter茅s de muchos reci茅n graduados, j贸venes profesionales y personas con amplia experiencia laboral, en trabajar con las Naciones Unidas en 谩mbitos como el del medio ambiente, hemos co-organizado este evento virtual con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente y la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Nairobi:
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T贸pico: TRABAJANDO POR EL MEDIO AMBIENTE CON LAS NACIONES UNIDAS
Fecha:听Jueves, 10 de Noviembre de 2022
Hora:听09:00 Ciudad de Panama | 10:00 Nueva York | 11:00 Buenos Aires | 17:00 Nairobi
Lugar o Modalidad: Virtual
Higher Education and Multilateralism: Academia Responding to Global Challenges
Seventy-seven years after the foundation of the United Nations as the cornerstone of multilateralism, its principles and values remain valid. In the current global context, with the emergence of crises and conflicts and several global challenges, the United Nations is a center to harmonize actions and a beacon of hope for billions. For decades, institutions of higher education, particularly its faculty, have been studying this Organization extensively while teaching, researching, and writing about it. Lecturers, professors, and scientists have made significant contributions to the work of the United Nations. Moreover, the interest in the United Nations, and the expectations about the Organization, have grown significantly. And in parallel to it, youth, particularly university students, have been increasingly seen as more actively advocating for the different campaigns, causes, and initiatives the United Nations carries out.
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The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Transformation of Future-Fit Education
Education is a critical driver of the 2030 Agenda. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) including universities and colleges worldwide are preparing future professionals, conducting meaningful research, and engaging with the community and stakeholders to tackle local, national, regional, and global challenges.听These HEIs are at the forefront of the solutions required to advance the Sustainable Development Goals, which underscores the fundamental role of education in creating healthy and inclusive societies as envisioned in the 2030 Agenda.听
Virtual Event - Fighting Hate Speech: Global Perspectives
The听United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), jointly with the听Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme听and the United Nations听Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery, and the Outreach Programme on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, to mark the first International Day for Countering Hate Speech, is organizing a virtual event to recognize the significant role of higher education and academics, in the global efforts to promote human dignity and inclusion in times when dissemination of hatred is alarming and rising.听Please see below the details of this event:
Briefing - Humanitarian Impact of the War in Ukraine: Response from Universities
Topic:听HUMANITARIAN IMPACT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE: RESPONSE FROM UNIVERSITIES
Objective:听This briefing will听review the multidimensional response from institutions of higher education in assisting those in need due to the war in Ukraine, thus contributing to addressing the humanitarian impact and challenges caused by the conflict. It will also provide an overview of the situation on the ground and the response from the United Nations.
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Date:听Wednesday, 20 April 2022听
Time:听10am to 11am [New York time]
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Youth Innovation in the Decade of Action: Stories from Universities
The topic of the S is Ways of Knowing, Modes of Living: Dialogues across a fragmented Earth for the 2030 Agenda. The challenges and existential threats that underlie the , demand action. How do we find new and innovative ways to develop sustainable actions rooted in the SDGs?听Within this Conference, Day Zero will be an academic festival with creative spaces (workshops, exhibitions, debates, etc.) presenting work of relevance to the SDGs. For Day Zero, the UN Academic Impact (UNAI) has organized this event:
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Topic: YOUTH INNOVATION IN THE DECADE OF ACTION: STORIES FROM UNIVERSITIES
UNAI Digital Dialogue Series: Advancing the SDGs: The Role of Science
The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is holding a global conversation with scholars, educators, researchers, and students to discuss priorities for the future, obstacles to achieving them, and the role of global academic cooperation in addressing global issues.听Please see below the details of the next webinar in the UNAI Digital Dialogue听Series:
Title:听ADVANCING THE SDGs: THE ROLE OF SCIENCE
Date:听Wednesday, 10 November 2021 (within the framework of the World Science Day for 91麻豆天美 and Development)
Time: 9:30am to 11:30am [New York time]
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