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UNU Magazine Wins 2008 Weblog Award
27 February, 2009
UNU's OurWorld 2.0 web magazine has won the 2008 Weblog Award for Best Blog Design. In the field of 10 finalists, Our World 2.0 received 31% of the votes, 4% more than the second-place finisher.
The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition. In 2008, more than 933,000 votes were cast in 48 categories over seven days of voting.
Our World 2.0, launched by the UNU Media Studio in July 2008, explores the interconnections between climate change, peak oil and food security. It showcases articles written by the UNU academic faculty and other contributors, as well as video briefs that includes stories from around the world and Japan. All articles are in English and Japanese.
The goal of Our World 2.0 is to inspire people to learn about these pressing global issues and to inspire people to act and bring about the innovative changes that we need in order to respond to the climate, energy and food challenges. The design philosophy underpinning the Our World 2.0 webzine is one of collaboration and sharing of both content and knowledge.
The site is built in an open source platform called Wordpress and all content is licensed under Creative Commons. Photos on the web magazine are provided by the Flickr community. The UNU videos accessible via Youtube and Vimeo.
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UNU News
17 November, 2009
UNU and Dentsu Inc. Sign Agreement on Collaboration
An agreement of collaboration on joint projects between UNU and one of the largest advertising and media companies in the world is a door-opener for entirely new adventures, new ideas, and new perspectives," according to Rector Osterwalder.16 November, 2009
UNU Holds Global Seminars in Namibia and Ghana
The seminar in Windhoek, Namibia was hosted by the University of Namibia on the theme "Africa's Natural Resources: From Conflict to Sustainable Development".The seminar in Ghana was hosted by the University of Ghana, Legon on the theme "Strategies for Sustainable Development and the pressures of Globalization: Policy Challenges in Africa".13 November, 2009
A former UNU fellow in a delegation visiting Iceland
The heads of various fisheries departments in the Ministry of Agriculture in Estonia studying fisheries management in Iceland visited UNU-FTP.11 November, 2009
Short Course on Surface Exploration for Geothermal Resources in El Salvador
A course organized by UNU-GTP and LaGeo for young professionals in Central America and the Caribbean was opened in El Salvador on October 17th.10 November, 2009
Call for Applications - UNU-EHS Summer Academy 2010
Munich Re Foundation and UNU-EHS proudly announce the fifth annual Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability. The theme is "Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy and institutional frameworks".UNU Conversation Series:
The Economic Crisis
UNU brings together important global intellectual and policy voices, including Olivier Blanchard, Francois Bourguignon, Noam Chomsky, Richard Cooper, Robert Johnson, Eisuke Sakakibara, Joseph Stiglitz, in a multimedia intellectual forum on the economic crisis entitled "UNU Economic Crisis Conversation Series".
Visit our Economic Crisis Conversation Series Website.
UNU-ONY 2009 Brochure:
UNU & Climate Change
UNU supports research on the causes and effects of global warming, the development of viable solutions and their implementation. Learn more at www.unu.edu/climate.
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