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UNU 2010 Annual Report
Posted: 2011-08-25
The UN University drew a step closer to becoming a fully-fledged global graduate school in 2010, with the agreement of rules and regulations for masters and doctoral programmes. We also laid the foundations for two new institutes that are set to open in 2012: first in Barcelona in the form of the Institute for the Alliance of Civilizations (UNU-IIAOC), and second in Dresden with the Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES). Read more by downloading the annual report below.| Related items: | | |
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Open Education: New workshop on providers and services
Posted: 2011-08-11
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Service Concepts and Provider Perspectives is the topic of our second workshop on Open Education, to be held in Tampere, Finland on 29 September. Co-organized by the European Learning Industry Group, and running alongside the MindTrek Conference, the workshop will feature interactive sessions on OE concepts and practices. No further registration is required for MindTrek attendees. Please sign up via the link below.| Related items: | | |
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Immigration and social protection in the Netherlands
Posted: 2011-08-09 | Updated: 2011-08-10
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Delicate questions on immigration surfaced in Norway after the July 22nd attacker cited anti-Muslim views as motivating the assault. That tragedy has sparked debate on issues faced by many developed countries as immigration patterns shift with global change. A recent article by Melissa Siegel surveys the history of immigration in the Netherlands, exploring the links between immigration, policies and attitudes towards immigrants and how they shift over time. Read the article at UNU HQ or check the working paper on the links below.| Related items: | | |
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Working Paper: A historical perspective on immigration and social protection in the Netherlands |
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Social impacts of statistical indicator development
Posted: 2011-08-09
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As the worlds economic future hangs in the balance, concepts like Gross Domestic Product, inflation rate and unemployment figures inevitably enter the debate. Yet what exactly are statistical indicators? How do they develop, change behaviours and intersect with broader social change? And, in the context of the UNUs work, how does this apply to science, technology and innovation indicators? UNU-MERIT Professorial Fellow Fred Gault explains.| Related items: | | |
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Boosting innovation in the Western Balkans
Posted: 2011-08-05 | Updated: 2011-08-09
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Ren Wintjes joins an EU workshop on 23 September in Montenegro, to give a lecture on the major concepts, tools and policies involved in knowledge transfer. The seminar is part of a programme to support innovation in the Western Balkans by improving policy coordination, funded by the EUs seventh framework programme for research (FP7). Other speakers, from Slovenia and Turkey, focus on intellectual property agreements and the links between industry and society. | Related items: | | |
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Training workshop 'Knowledge Transfer: Tools and Mechanisms for supporting Innovation' |
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Prizing Open Education: Animoto slideshow
Posted: 2011-08-01 | Updated: 2011-08-09
Can OpenEd bring formal education up to speed with the flatter, online world of the 21st century? Can it guarantee a new wave of culture and class-neutral education? How far is it penetrating beyond the English speaking world? Created almost entirely with open source tools, this podcast features four members of United Nations University speaking from Germany, Holland and Portugal, and follows a workshop held on the sidelines of the Open Knowledge Conference 2011. Creative commons images courtesy of Flickr user 'Opensourceway'.
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Working Paper Word Clouds
Posted: 2011-07-12 | Updated: 2011-08-17
See our latest Working Papers visualized as word clouds. Click play, zoom in, explore, and download directly from the prezi below.
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Rural nonfarm Employment and International Migration as Alternatives to Agricultural Employment: The case of Kyrgyzstan - Aziz Atamanov
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Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy in Developing Countries (DEIP)
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Analysing the role of conditional dissociation in the evolution of cooperation, using agent-based modeling and evolutionary game theory - Luis Izquierdo
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Poverty Alleviation: Aid and Social Pensions - Frieda Vandeninden |
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Regions at Risk Predicting Conflict Zones in African Civil Wars - Sebastian Schutte
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[2011-047] A. Atamanov & M. van den Berg: International migration and local employment: analysis of self-selection and earnings in Tajikistan
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[2011-046] E. Schuering: Preferences for conditioning and being conditioned - experimental & survey evidence from Zambia
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[2011-045] R. Narula & G. Santangelo: New insights on the role of location advantages in international innovation
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[2011-044] K. Kuschminder & M. Hercog: The power of the strong state: A comparative analysis of the diaspora engagement strategies of India and Ethiopia
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[2011-043] M. Gebreeyesus & P. Mohnen: Innovation performance and embeddedness in networks: evidence from the Ethiopian footwear cluster
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[2011-042] F. Gassmann: Protecting vulnerable families in Central Asia: Poverty, vulnerability and the impact of the economic crisis
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