Notices
Classes July 5, 2024
(Updated)【Deadline: July 16 (Tue)】（UNU-IAS: UNU Intensive Core Courses）
UNU-IAS organises UNU Intensive Core (IC) Courses focusing on the sustainability, global change and international development project in September 2024.
These courses are designed to provide analyses of global issues from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Although advanced in nature, they are open to postgraduate students and professionals in various occupations who are not necessarily specialists in the field.
One course consists of fifteen 100-minute lectures.
| Duration: | 3-27 September 2024 *schedule |
| Modality: | Tokyo & online *Applicant needs to have regular access to a laptop or computer, with a reliable internet connection of high-speed broadband for the optimal learning experience by using Zoom. Details are available here. |
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Language: |
English |
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Programme details: |
UNU Intensive Core Courses |
Courses
| UN System and Sustainable Development: |
| The 17 goals, which are central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, are interrelated. Of the five "P "s that are particularly emphasised, this course focuses on people, prosperity, peace, and partnership among the 5Ps of the SDGs to analyse current issues and examine necessary actions to achieve the SDGs. Programme Period: 4-13 September 2024 Venue: UNU Headquarters, Tokyo (No online streaming is planned.) |
| Global Change and Planetary Boundaries: |
| Among the five "P"s enphasised in the 2030 Agenda, this course primarily covers on planet, prosperity, and partnership to analyse current issues and examine necessary actions to achieve the SDGs. Programme Period: 17-26 September 2024 Venue: UNU Headquarters, Tokyo (No online streaming is planned.) |
| Principles of International Development Project: |
| This course has two sections: lectures and group work. In the lecture series, you can learn about the core issues of developing countries, project evaluation methods, relationships between engineering and international development, applications of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to preserve world heritage sites, development and natural disasters, global urban climatology, and education in the context of international development, and the case of an international plant construction project. The group work session aims to develop a proposal for an international development project. Suppose you are an expert consultant on a project, and it has been requested that you recommend development policies and projects to politicians and/or economic leaders in a developing country. Programme Period: 3-27 September 2024 Venue: Hybrid (Online & UNU Headquarters, Tokyo) |
Those who wish to take courses should send an email to the PEAK/GPEAK Section referring the guidelines below by 【7/16(Tue)】.
Contact: gpeak.admin.c(at)gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp
【Required items when applying】
Email Subject: [UNU-IAS course application] Name (student ID number)
Name, student ID number, and department
Name of course(s) you wish to take
*Email indicating that you have obtained approval from your academic advisor (with the sender's and recipient's email addresses indicated)
If the number of applicants exceeds the number of places available, the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability (UNU-IAS) will select participants for the course.
If you have to cancel your course registration, please contact the PEAK/GPEAK Section as soon as possible (registration cannot be cancelled after September).
There is no course fee for students from partner institutions.
