SG in UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT PROGRAMME - Follow-up of launch and Plan of Activities

Academic Impact is a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in actively supporting ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution. The Academic Impact also asks each participating college or university to actively demonstrate support of at least one of those principles each year.

FOLLOW UP OF UNAI LAUNCH

- Report on UNAI launch produced by Prof. John Tuppen, SG President

- Report on the launch event produced by the Lehigh University Student Rapporteurs

SPEECHES

-UN Secretary-General address

18 November

- Official launch of the UN Academic Impact
- Afternoon session
19 November

- Morning session

- Inaugural concert: speeches

PLAN OF ACTIVITIES

Ten global hubs corresponding to each of UNAI's ten governing principles were created and are seeking for expressions of interest for each theme. Below is the list of the ten institutions which will serve in this capacity for two years. Their mandate will include the following responsibilities:

Maintaining on their websites repositories of activities undertaken in respect of the specific principle by member institutions during the year and sharing best practices
Developing a database of academic experts who could participate in conferences, media opportunities and the like on the principle.

Principle		Country	Institution
1	Commitment to the UN Charter	Japan	J.F. Oberlin University
2	Human rights	USA	Benedict College (South Carolina)
3	Education opportunity for all	Pakistan	Lahore University of Management Sciences
4	Higher education opportunity for every interested individual	Israel	Hadassah College
5	Capacity-building in higher education systems	Republic of Korea	Handong Global University
6	Global citizenship	USA	Lehigh University
7	Peace and conflict resolution	India	Calcutta University
8	Addressing poverty	South Africa	University of Kwazulu-Natal
9	Sustainabilty	Romania	Black Sea University Network
10	Inter-cultural dialogue and understanding and the unlearning of intolerance	Ecuador	Escuela Politécnica Javeriana del Ecuador

The first event for 2011 is the Education for All e-discussions.

This will take the form of a series of four consecutive e-discussions to be moderated by four UNAI members and hosted on the UNAI Facebook page from mid-February to mid-March 2011. Acting as rapporteur, a fifth UNAI member will prepare a short report in collaboration with the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination.

For more information on the UNAI Programme, please click here or visit the UNAI website .