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OcampoTop UN Official to inaugurate Maastricht Policy Seminar Series
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José Antonio Ocampo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs will inaugurate the new UNU-MERIT/Maastricht School of Governance Joint Seminar Series on 17 April 2007. The lecture at Maastricht University is the first of a monthly series that seeks to bridge the academic and policy dimensions of key global issues in the area of technological development, innovation, international policy and governance.
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Disarmament, Peace and Conflict Prevention
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UNU-MERIT Conference in honour of Ramesh Thakur, Outgoing Vice Rector, UNU
Maastricht, the Netherlands
May 1st, 2007
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Innovation Performance: Europe closing in on US
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For the fourth consecutive year the innovation gap between the US and the EU has decreased, according to the 2006 European Innovation Scoreboard, a comprehensive analysis of the innovation performance of European Countries, the United States and Japan. The Nordic countries and Switzerland continue to top the innovation league tables, while many of the new Member States are steadily catching up with the EU average. The study was prepared by UNU-MERIT researchers Hugo Hollanders, Anthony Arundel, Minna Kanerva and Cati Bordoy.
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UNU launches global recycling initiative this month
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Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) is an ambitious global public-private partnership that aims to standardize recycling processes to harvest valuable components in electrical and electronic scrap (E-scrap), extend the life of products and markets for their reuse, and harmonize world legislative and policy approaches to e-scrap. Major high-tech manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, Ericsson, Philips and Cisco Systems, have joined hands with UN, governmental, NGO and academic institutions, and recycling/refurbishing companies as charter members of the initiative, officially launched on March 7. The StEP secretariat is based in Bonn, Germany.
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Innovations by Mauritius textile industry, government paying off
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Until quite recently Mauritius' clothing and textiles industry faced a bleak future, with external pressures such as the dismantling of the Multi-Fibre Agreement in January 2005 and the emergence of low-cost producers such as China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka greatly eroding its export revenues. However, the sector appears to be reinventing itself and carving out a global niche as a supplier of upper range commodities. A recent UNU-MERIT study has analysed changes within the national policy environment, as well as the textile sector that helped drive the restructuring of the industry. The study findings will be published as a UNU-MERIT Working Paper shortly. For more information, please write to the study coordinator, Dr. Kaushalesh Lal.
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Ongoing research
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The following research projects have started recently:
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FACE OF THE MONTH: Eveline in de Braek
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Eveline in de Braek joined INTECH (now UNU-MERIT) in August 2001 as research secretary, and is currently responsible for the two PhD Programmes. A native of Limburg, the southern-most province of the Netherlands where the Institute is based, Eveline enjoys interacting with the Institute's multicultural staff and acquainting them with the sometimes strange traditions of this part of the world.
“I am proud of the opportunity to work in an international environment, and to work with PhD students right from the moment they join the institute, to their final thesis defence.”
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Call for Papers: PhD seminar series
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Interested PhD candidates t! hat are working on economic and socio-cultural issues related to development economics, technological change and governance are invited to submit paper proposals for the joint UNU-MERIT / Maastricht Graduate School of Governance PhD seminar series.
Proposals can be sent to Semih Akcomak or Bianca Buligescu .
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