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A post by Maximilian Bruder, PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT Businesses are a key driver of economic growth, job creation and innovation, and they have a significant impact on the environment and society. The private sector therefore has a crucial role to play in attaining the SDGs, by providing a way of do...

In an effort to track the global alignment between science, technology and innovation (STI) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a consortium of seven universities led by UNU-MERIT researcher Tommaso Ciarli released the Steering Research and Innovation for Global Goals (STRINGS) report R...

Free tote bags! Photo corners! Q&As! Snacks! On Saturday 18 March 2023, UNU-MERIT opened its doors to the public for the second Master’s Open Day of the academic year, welcoming potential students to find out more about our MSc in Public Policy and Human Development programme (MPP for shor...

In the second webinar of the UNESCO Chair series on ‘Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in Latin America’, Dr. Pascual Restrepo (Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University) gave a presentation on the ‘Origins and implications of the c...

World Water Day – held on 22 March every year since 1993 – raises awareness and inspires action to help the 2.2 billion people who are living today without access to safe water. At UNU-MERIT, we’re excited to share that we have three World Water Day (WWD) events coming up that all ...

A post by Laura Cleton, researcher at UNU-MERIT. Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day: a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It also marks a call to action to educate and raise awareness for women’s equality and call for positive change ...

Last week at UNU-MERIT, we held our first-ever PhD Research Week, an intensive five-day event where we gathered all of our full-time and part-time PhD fellows together in person to present their research to each other and to staff members. But it wasn’t only about work – the group also e...

Today marks the end of our PhD Research Week and to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, this blog post is dedicated to the work of five of our talented female PhD fellows who are all working on topics related to gender and the empowerment of women and girls.     ...

Paul David – who passed away on January 23rd 2023 – was not just a brilliant economic historian and an exceptional scholar of the economics of technology who established the Stanford economics department as one of the leading research centres in the field, he was also very much a Europea...

In October 2022, UNU-MERIT’s UNESCO Chair on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development for Latin America and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) delivered a Training Programme on Productive Development and Competitiveness in Honduras. The training programme was orie...

 United Nations University – MERIT · Director’s Corner Podcast – Jan 2023   In this episode of the Director’s Corner Podcast, Director Bartel Van de Walle speaks with Holly Tammik, new Communications Officer at UNU-MERIT.  In this conversation, Bartel shares among other thing...

Our quarterly newsletter rounds up the latest news and events from UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance. We explore the push and pull of international development: innovation through science and entrepreneurship, and governance through public policy analysis. ...

Using a Brazilian university as a case study, can international mobility shape students’ attitudes toward inequality? How can we implement more secure, more sustainable and more efficient migration governance? These are just two questions that have been tackled by our researchers in January 20...

Evidence suggests that millions of individuals are disregarded in risk and vulnerability analyses due to a lack of sufficient data. In her master’s thesis research, Katherine Bruni (recent MPP alumna) tried to identify a baseline understanding of the exposure, susceptibility and adaptive capacity of...

Matilde Perotti (alumna of the MPP 2021-22 cohort) outlines the challenges of undertaking research on disaster risk management in refugee camps, drawing on her firsthand experiences of working in a number of challenging situations. I am a graduate of International Relations and Global Affairs, and I...

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe UNU-MERIT is delighted to announce that it has formally become an Academy Training Centre, as part of the International Telecommunications Union’s Academy Training Centre programme.  This programme takes the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU’s) capacity dev...

A post by Dr Zina Nimeh UNU-MERIT mourns the loss of a dear colleague, professor, educator and humanist who passed away on 30 December. Michael Cichon had a long-standing relationship with UNU-MERIT as an honorary professor and as the driving force behind the establishment of the master’s program in...

Prof  Dr Jo Ritzen is an Honorary Professor at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University. He served as Minister of Education, Culture, and Science of the Netherlands from 1989 to 1998, becoming the longest-serving Education Minister in the EU. Subsequently, he was appointed Vice-President of the World Ban...

Last week, a delegation from the City Council visited UNU-MERIT to explore ways to further our partnership. The City’s delegation comprised Ms Anita Bastiaans, Alderman for Welfare, Diversity, Civic Integration, Euregio and Europe; Mr Johan Pas, Alderman for Housing, Education, Student City & We...

During the first webinar of the UNESCO Chair series on ”Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development in Latin America”, Prof. Gabriela Dutrénit  (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México) gave a presentation on “STI Policy, development strate...