Events

Emotional Intelligence, or EI, is broadly defined as the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in an effective and positive way. On Friday, 17 May UN Academic Impact will host a half-day conference on using Emotional Intelligence to achieve the SDGs from 10am-2pm in the ECOSOC Chamber at UNHQ in New York. We’ll hear from experts in the field of Emotional Intelligence as well as representatives from UN Member States and civil society who will discuss the need for these skills if we hope to achieve a more peaceful and prosperous world.

To raise awareness and highlight the need to address creeping annexation in the occupied Palestinian territory including in and around East Jerusalem, its impact on the viability of the two-State solution and on the prospects to find a peaceful resolution to the Question of Palestine, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) will convene the United Nations Forum on the Question of Palestine “The threat of de facto annexation – What next for Palestine?” on 4 April 2019 at the UN Headquarters in New York.

The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is pleased to invite you to the panel discussion entitled The United Nations at 75: South-South Cooperation and the UN Development System, to take place on 25 April 2019 at 3:00 p.m. at United Nations Headquarters.

The Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the United Nations and the World Jewish Congress invite you to The Genocide Convention at 70: From Definition to Implementation with Raphael Lemkin Award for exemplary work in the fight against genocide recepient: Father Patrick Desboi. 

The event will held on March 26, 2019 at 10:00 AM in the ECOSOC Chamber, UN Headquarters. 

To RSVP click here. 

Join United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and the Hasso Plattner Institute for a discussion on the immense opportunities and challenges presented by our increasingly data-driven society, the value that can be gained from data that is well-prepared and the dangers of data when misapplied. We have access to, and use, more data than ever, but what are the opportunities and challenges presented by such a data-driven society?

Prof. Felix Naumann, chair for information systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam in Germany, will deliver a talk on these issues followed by Q&A with the audience on Monday, 25 March in the ECOSOC Chamber, UN Headquarters from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.

On 7 March at UNHQ, on the margins of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will host a side event featuring the screening of a documentary film titled “Naila and the Uprising” on the role of Palestinian women during the first intifada, followed by a discussion with some of the protagonists and other panelists. The film will be screened in the Conference Room 2, March 7 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EST.

Have you ever run a project as part of your Model United Nations (MUN) conference, or taken part in a campaign to raise awareness or solve a problem in your community? Sign up today to share your experience at the inaugural United Nations Model UN Youth Summit, which will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on 12 April 2019 in New York.

United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual J. Michael Adams Lecture and Conversation, to be held on Thursday, 29 November 2018 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The State University of New York - SUNY Oswego (United States), a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is organizing for this Friday and Saturday, 9 and 10 November 2018, the 12th Global Awareness Conference, which is a day and a half on campus conference that provides the opportunity to learn about other cultures and global issues

The University for Peace (Costa Rica), a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), and in particular its Earth Charter Center for Education for Sustainable Development, created to forge new paths in education for sustainable development, global citizenship education, and emerging leadership paradigms, is organizing the conference Leading the Way to Sustainability 2030

The Division for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), launched a call for submissions of good practices, success stories and lessons learned in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs

The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) - ASPIRE Chapter of the Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering (India), a member institution of the UNAI, in association with the Kerala Forum on United Nations Academic Impact (KFUNAI), is organizing the International Consortium on Global Climate (ICGC) with the theme Climate Action and Life on Land, based on the Goals 13 and 15 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Learn the story behind the original design and creation as well as the meticulous renovation of the 20th century 's most remarkable meeting space: the Security Council Chamber.

The University of Canberra (Australia), a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), is organizing jointly with the Australia­­­n Centre for Agricultural Research and the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, the international conference Gender Equality Through Agricultural Research for Development, which will take place from 2 - 4 April 2019 at the University of Canberra

The University of Geneva (Switzerland), a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), is organizing through its Global Studies Institute and with the support of the Foreign Affairs Office, the canton of Geneva and the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, the Human Rights Week. It will take place from 13 - 17 November 2018 ahead of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

The American University in Cairo (Egypt), a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), is organizing through its Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies, the Seminar on "Geopolitics, Civil Society and Refugees", with a lecture that will take place on 18 November 2018

The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding - APCEIU is organizing, jointly with the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, the 2018 UN Global Citizenship Education Forum under the theme "Global Citizenship Education as a Key Enabler of SDGs". The event will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 13 November 2018

Office of Global Affairs of the State University of New York, a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), is hosting a panel discussion "Searching for the Future: Preservation of the Academic Heritage in the Middle East" this Friday, 2 November 2018.

The University for Peace (Costa Rica), a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), jointly with the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations, is hosting on 26 October 2018 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Interactive Dialogue on the University for Peace and the Role of Education and Dialogue in Achieving Sustainable Peace, organized in conjunction with the presentation of the Triannual Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the University for Peace to the United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations Bookshop invites you to a Meet the Author event with Jimmy Nelson, award-winning photographer known for his portraits of indigenous peoples. Jimmy Nelson has traveled the world with his camera, visiting some of its most remote and ancient cultures. The resulting images are beautifully published in HOMAGE TO HUMANITY.