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’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). Now, as we mark the 75th anniversary of the UDHR, 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 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.
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. A set of live virtual dialogues explicitly held for college and university audiences has been developed within this framework. These “Global Policy Dialogues for the Classroom” will feature an expert presenting in-depth the major findings of one of the Department’s flagship reports, with time for questions from the audience.
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. The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) as the initiative within the Department of Global Communications of the United Nations Secretariat 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 UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO-IESALC) as the sole spe
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Higher Education: A Space for Gender Equality
Topic: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS) AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A SPACE FOR GENDER EQUALITY
(side-event of the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)
Date: Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Time: 10am - 12pm (EDT/New York time)
Format: Online/Virtual via Microsoft Teams
Objective: This event will 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 difusión llevadas a cabo por la iniciativa Impacto Académico de las Naciones Unidas (UNAI, por sus siglas en inglés), y dado el interés de muchos recién graduados, jóvenes profesionales y personas con amplia experiencia laboral, en trabajar con las Naciones Unidas en ámbitos 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:
Tópico: TRABAJANDO POR EL MEDIO AMBIENTE CON LAS NACIONES UNIDAS
Fecha: Jueves, 10 de Noviembre de 2022
Hora: 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.
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
Topic: HUMANITARIAN IMPACT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE: RESPONSE FROM UNIVERSITIES
Objective: 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.
Date: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Time: 10am to 11am [New York time]
RSVP/Registration form: Click here
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? 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:
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. Please see below the details of the next webinar in the UNAI Digital Dialogue Series:
Title: ADVANCING THE SDGs: THE ROLE OF SCIENCE
Date: Wednesday, 10 November 2021 (within the framework of the World Science Day for Peace and Development)
Time: 9:30am to 11:30am [New York time]
RSVP/Registration form: https://bit.ly/rsvp10nov
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.
Title: United Nations Careers Webinar for Mid-Career Professionals in the Pacific
Date: Friday, 24 September 2021
Time: 10am to 12:00pm (AEST), 12pm to 2:00pm (NZST/FJT)
RSVP/Registration form: https://bit.ly/24seprsvp
[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. Alinhada à Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, a UNAI, em conjunto com a UNISINOS, uma instituição membro no Brasil, que também atua como o Hub UNAI para o Objetivo de Desenvolvimento Sustentável 11: Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis, convida todos a participar de mais um webinar da nossa série Diálogos Digitais:
Evento: CIDADES SUSTENTÁVEIS: O QUE APRENDEMOS COM A COVID 19
Data: quinta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2021