As institute focused at education and research capacity building, we highly support open access sharing. The informational sources included in this part of the website are freely available to learn and use.
Public policy toolkits
The Public Policy labour market increasingly demands multifunctional and interdisciplinary skill sets, as well as professionals able to use them. To help meet this demand, we developed SMART Tools – a set of open access online toolkits for students, alumni and anyone who wants to get acquainted with the skillset necessary for a career in Public Policy. SMART Tools offers a growing list of interactive toolkits, introducing methodologies and professional tools relevant for students and professionals in Public Policy and related disciplines.
The SURF Project at UNU-MERIT was created with innovation and accessibility of the Institute’s outreach in mind. Our project is co-financed by the Open and Online Education’ Incentive Scheme of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and SURF. All our toolkits are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, which means that they can be viewed, distributed, and adapted freely if our authorship is acknowledged duly. We hope you will find them helpful and informative.
The Lab
The Lab @ UNU-MERIT focuses on experiments and explorations in innovation policy research, education & training, and knowledge transfer & outreach. All activities follow an academic excellence, policy relevance and a societal, multi-actor, multiple-value creation and delivery perspective:A socio-technical perspective which significantly concentrates on complexity, governance and sustainability issues and solutions. http://lab.merit.unu.edu
MPP SMART Choices
Our Institute offers a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP). Within this programme, students may choose a specialisation track from seven options. Because this decision is shaping the type of degree they will obtain, it is important to us that our students make their choice as well-informed as possible. Therefore we created SMART Choices, a group of seven short online-courses presenting the topics, structure, and teaching methods of the different specialisations. We hope that current MPP students will find these materials valuable in informing their specialisation decision. Moreover, prospective students, Alumni, and other individuals interested in the diverse field of public policy may find these materials useful.
The SURF Project at UNU-MERIT was created with innovation and accessibility of the Institute’s outreach in mind. Our project is co-financed by the Open and Online Education’ Incentive Scheme of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and SURF. All our toolkits are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, which means that they can be viewed, distributed, and adapted freely if our authorship is acknowledged duly. We hope you will find them helpful and informative.
Community of Learning for Africa (CoLA)
CoLA is designed to increase access to knowledge and resources for PhD students working on their dissertations through African universities. CoLA is an online learning network developed by UNU-MERIT which aims to offer support for PhD fellows in Africa to conduct research and write high quality academic papers. This support is facilitated by offering content courses around the research themes of UNU-MERIT. In addition, the community offers a repository of useful open educational resources, and the option to obtain research feedback and platforms for discussion with other researchers.
