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 delved into the incorporation of human flaws, such as gender bias, into generative AI systems and emphasized 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’s 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).
Higher Education and Multilateralism: Teaching and Researching about the United Nations
Seventy-eight 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
Engaging Youth and Academia with the Global Sustainable Development Report 2023
In the Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 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’s 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.
Joint Webinar "The Implementation of the SDGs in Higher Education"
In the Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in the context of the ongoing global challenges, the role of institutions of higher education in advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is more critical than ever.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Higher Education: A Space for Gender Equality
This event aimed to 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.
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.
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. 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.
Virtual Event - Fighting Hate Speech: Global Perspectives
The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), jointly with the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme and the United Nations 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. Please see below the details of this event:
Briefing - Humanitarian Impact of the War in Ukraine: Response from Universities
This briefing will 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.
Youth Innovation in the Decade of Action: Stories from Universities
The topic of the SDG Conference Bergen 2022 is Ways of Knowing, Modes of Living: Dialogues across a fragmented Earth for the 2030 Agenda. The challenges and existential threats that underlie the Sustainable Development Goals, demand action. How do we find new and innovative ways to develop sustainable actions rooted in the SDGs?
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. Please see below the details of the next webinar in the UNAI Digital Dialogue Series
UN Careers Webinar for Mid-Career Professionals in the Pacific
The United Nations is the largest multilateral international organization. It inspires people from around the world to join its mission of maintaining peace, advancing human rights and promoting justice, equality and development.
[In Portuguese language] Cidades sustentáveis: o que aprendemos com a COVID 19
A iniciativa Impacto Acadêmico das Nações Unidas tem organizado importantes debates online, em múltiplos idiomas, com educadores, pesquisadores e estudantes, a fim de discutir o papel da cooperação acadêmica internacional na abordagem de questões de importância global.
[In Spanish language] Combatir el cambio climático: Acciones desde las universidades
La iniciativa Impacto Académico de las Naciones Unidas (UNAI, por sus siglas en inglés) ha venido organizando conversaciones globales en múltiples idiomas con educadores, investigadores y estudiantes a fin de discutir acerca de las prioridades para el futuro, los obstáculos para alcanzar las mismas, y el rol de la cooperación académica internacional al momento de atender y manejar los desafíos de alcance mundial.