The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in furthering the realization of the purposes and mandate of the Organization through activities and research in a shared culture of intellectual social responsibility.
Membership in the United Nations Academic Impact is open to all institutions of higher education granting degrees or their equivalent, as well as bodies whose substantive responsibilities relate to the conduct of research.
The formal enrollment of academic institutions in the United Nations Academic Impact must be approved by their Chief Executive Officers and processed through the online enrollment form.
United Nations Academic Impact Partners are organizations of colleges and universities who endorse the principles of the Academic Impact and actively encourage their affiliated institutions of higher education to join the Academic Impact as individual members.
Academic Consortium 21 (AC21)
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
Association of Arab Universities (AARU)
The student branch of the UN Academic Impact is known as ASPIRE: Action by Students to Promote Innovation and Reform through Education.
ASPIRE is a student-driven initiative and actively embodies UNAI’s principles within student communities around the world. Operating locally within their communities, the activities of each ASPIRE group contributes to UNAI’s overall message of unity and action to address global challenges.
United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) have announced a strategic collaboration to mobilize universities and other knowledge institutions to promote teaching, applied research, and problem solving around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)! Find out more about the collaboration and how to get involved with their initiatives here.
With Uganda hosting almost one million South Sudanese refugees “as sisters and brothers and sharing with them their land and everything they have,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today urged the international community to show solidarity with those that had fled their homes, as well as with the Ugandan Government and people.
It has been a long time since the North Lawn garden of the United Nations in New York has been used, due to the eight-year renovation of the Secretariat building and grounds, but something of its intended natural life finally returned to the green space yesterday, 20 June 2017: the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations had invited yogis from all walks of life to a yoga session in celebration of the third International Day of Yoga.
2016 - the hottest year on record - and another year of challenges for the United Nations.
The Year in Review 2016 presents the key moments around the globe during the past 12 months.
Visit UN Channel on You Tube link: https://youtu.be/l2sck1yq5Wk to see the 2016 United Nations Year in Review Video!