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Our ‘Dual Focus PhD’ series tracks the working lives of our part-time PhD fellows. Many work at the highest of levels, both nationally and internationally, and they come to Maastricht in person for our part-time PhD programme on Innovation, Economics, Governance and Sustainable Development (IEGSD). ...

UNU-MERIT · Director’s Corner – Sept 2022   In this month’s episode of the Director’s Corner, Prof. Bartel Van de Walle welcomes staff and students to the institute after the summer break and outlines his plans for the autumn. In conversation with Keith Burnet, Senior Ad...

  At the invitation of the Government of Kerala, India, Dr Nanditha Mathew, Research Fellow, participated in the Loka Kerala Sabha convention as an independent expert contributor. Loka Kerala Sabha was formed to deepen the democratic space and debate on the directionality of policies by hearing...

A post by Nordine Es-Sadki. The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is the reference survey on innovation in enterprises. The EU Member States first introduced the survey in 1992; since then, it has become the regular biennial data collection. UNU-MERIT’s Anthony Arundel has been involved in the early...

This article is republished from Development Matters. Read the original article here. A joint post By Michele Delera, Prof Carlo Pietrobelli, UNU-MERIT , and Elisa Calza and Dr Alejandro Lavopa, UNIDO[1] There are many controversies among economists but one fact is undisputed: long-run productivity ...

In this month’s episode of the Director’s Corner, Prof. Bartel Van de Walle is joined by Keith Burnet, Senior Communications Advisor. They discussed the Institute’s progress this academic year and look toward the future. Some of the topics discussed in this podcast are: -Updates on the impleme...

26 July, Tokyo ― The United Nations University (UNU) is pleased to announce that Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala of South Africa, currently Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg, has been appointed as the next Rector of UNU. Prof. Marwala will take office as Rector of the United Na...

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A joint post by Dr Rasmus Lema (UNU-MERIT) and Dr Clovis Freire (UNCTAD) Hydrogen will play a crucial role in the mounting global efforts to decarbonize our economic systems in the coming decades. Many developing countries have the potential to influence the hydrogen economy, which may provide one-f...

MPP Closing Ceremony Another Year Complete: We congratulate our 2021-2022 cohort on completing the programme! Enter keywords...

A team of UNU-MERIT researchers composed of Maximilian Bruder, Thomas Baar, Prof Shyama Ramani & Cristina Garcia Santos authored a literature review on humanitarian innovation commissioned by the evaluation department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The report’s aim is to ...

UNU-MERIT is launching a scholarship to offer a non-EU citizen the opportunity to join the Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development. To start the first year of the scholarship, UNU-MERIT has donated 20,000 euros towards its creation and we are now looking for wider support to contrib...

Day 5: Symposium 19 May 2022 Day 3 17 May 2022 Day 2 16 May 2022 Day 1: Policy Action Lab 13 May 2022 Photo credits: H. Pijpers / UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University...

UNU-MERIT: Fifteen Years of Partnerships This is the story of UNU-MERIT, our purpose, how we work – and the people who made us  Enter keywords...

In April 2022, UNU joined other UN entities in endorsing a UN System pledge on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). In this blog series, members of the United Nations University Migration Network (UNU-MN) and guest contributors reflect on the equitable and evidence-based...

How to choose a topic for your master’s thesis? “Few assignments can be as intimidating at university as writing a thesis,” acknowledges Master’s student Lais Bonetto. How do you pick your topic and how do you conduct your research? Find out what motivated Lais and her fellow students in their choic...

Register to participate in the May Event Series here. A series of landmark events will be held during May to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the first collaboration between the United Nations University, Maastricht University and the MERIT Foundation, which led to the creation of UNU-MERIT.  ...

 UNU-MERIT · Director’s Crossover: Bartel Van de Walle & Edeltraud Guenther In this month’s episode of the Director’s Corner, Prof. Bartel Van de Walle is joined by Prof. Edeltraud Guenther, Director of UNU-FLORES, our sister Institute in Dresden, Germany. They talk about the ...

Our ‘Dual Focus PhD’ series tracks the working lives of our part-time PhD fellows. Many work at the highest of levels, both nationally and internationally — and in normal times they come to Maastricht in person for our unique PhD Dual Career Training Programme in Governance and Policy Analysis (GPAC...

Researchers of UNU-MERIT, the Maastricht Sustainability Institute and the Department of Chemical Engineering of Maastricht University have obtained a 1.5 million euro grant to contribute to an EU-funded project on plastic packaging recycling.  The EU is allocating a total budget of 9.6 million euros...