Future Events

UNU-MERIT organises a range of activities designed to stimulate academic debate, disseminate research findings, and facilitate knowledge sharing among researchers and policymakers. Regular workshops and training courses are also held as part of the research and policy analysis programme. Regular events include:

• Short-term training programme "Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy" DEIP Coordinator: Anthony Arundel
• UNU-MERIT Seminar Series
  Coordinators: Maria Tomai & Max Bruder
• Metech Seminars
  Coordinators: Racky Balde & Michelle Gonzalez
• Migration Seminar series
  Coordinator: Soha Youssef
• PhD Defences, UNU-MERIT PhD programme
  Contact: Eveline in de Braek

March 2021
03-01	Chris Freeman Centenary Lecture Series Multiple speakers, numerous institutes category: External event venue: Zoom abstract | More information
06	Master's Open Day MPP faculty and admissions staff, students, study association DEMOS, UNU-MERIT, category: Open day venue: Online time: 09:30 - 16:00 abstract | More information
08	Digitalisation and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Digitalisation for SDG 5.2 (End Violence): Exploring Implications, Opportunities and Threats Various Speakers, category: SITE4Society event venue: Online time: 15:00 - 16:30 abstract
10	The immigrant-native wage gap: is there a gap and is it "fair"? Dr. Eva Van Belle, category: Migration seminar venue: https://maastrichtuniversity.zoom.us/j/97540739347 time: 15:00 - 16:00 abstract
18	The AI Economist: Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies Dr. Stephan Zheng, Salesforce Research category: UNU-MERIT Seminar Series venue: via Zoom (please contact us at seminars@merit.unu.edu for the Zoom link) time: 16:30 - 17:30 abstract
22	Water Source Security: Is Desal the way to go? Shyama Ramani et al., UNU-MERIT et al. category: SITE4Society event venue: Zoom time: 13:30 abstract
24	Populations at Risk: Implications of COVID-19 for Hunger, Migration and Displacement Katrina Frappier & Selma El Khawad, WFP & IOM category: Migration seminar venue: Zoom (Click 'More Information' below for the direct link) time: 19:00 - 20:30 abstract | More information
31	The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: From the management of a crisis to a governance of human mobility? Prof. Dr. Valeria Bello, category: Migration seminar venue: https://maastrichtuniversity.zoom.us/j/97677224807 time: 15:00 - 16:00 abstract
April 2021
27	Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada. Dr. Jennifer Elrick, McGill University category: Migration seminar venue: https://maastrichtuniversity.zoom.us/j/92042700179 time: 15:00 - 16:00 abstract