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✨ A milestone for UniPID! ✨

One month into our move to the University of Eastern Finland, and it’s already an inspiring start. 🚀

Cheers to new beginnings and strengthened collaboration! ✨

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The University of Eastern Finland Hosts the Coordination of the UniPID Network 2026-2029. — UniPID
Starting in 2026, the UniPID Coordination Unit moved from the University of Helsinki to the University of Eastern Finland. To learn more about what this transition means, we invite you to read this te...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Thank you for a fantastic 2025! ✨ A year of milestones, challenges & opportunities. We’re recharging our batteries to kick off 2026 🚀

Wishing you a warm holiday season ☃️ Let’s keep fostering universities’ global responsibility ahead.

— UniPID Team ✨
December 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
As 2025 comes to an end, UniPID is also closing a chapter at the @helsinki.fi. After five years of generous hosting, we are moving on while our close collaboration continues.

Maria Brockhaus reflects on UniPID’s 23-year journey and five proud years at UH.

👉 www.unipid.fi/news/a-farew...
A Farewell to UniPID – and a Tale of Successfully Navigating Difficult (Pandemic) Times, Achieving Milestones, and Moving Forward to New Endeavours. — UniPID
As 2025 draws to a close, it also marks the end of a significant era for UniPID: the University of Helsinki chapter. After five years of supportive hosting, the UniPID Coordination Unit is leaving the...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
You are invited to a lecture during the launch of Dr. Suraj Milind Yengde’s latest book, Caste: A Global Story - a powerful exploration of how the caste system continues to shape societies around the world today.
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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🍃 Nature has rights. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights made it clear in its historic #AdvisoryOpinion on the climate emergency.

👇 An analysis by attorney Luisa Gómez unpacks what this means for those working to protect ecosystems and advance #ClimateJustice.

🔗 READ HERE: bit.ly/RoNat25
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Read our new blog post - “Faces Behind the Course: Meet Nari and Vera and Their Journey Linking Trademarks, Branding, and Sustainability.” Nari and Vera share their journeys that inspired creation of the course Brands, Trademark Law, and Sustainability-Lessons from/for the Global South.
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚀 Registration now open! 🌍

Registration is now open for the UniPID Virtual Studies course “Climate and Food Security in the Arctic with Global Consequences.” This course explores how climate change affects food systems in the Arctic and what it means for food security globally.
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🚀 Registration now open! 🌍📚

📘 Registration is now open for the UniPID Virtual Studies course “Brands, Trademark Law & Sustainability – Lessons from/for the Global South.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🌳 Event Announcement – Online Book Launch 📚

Join us for the virtual launch of Clearcut: Political Economies of Deforestation, authored by Prof. Markus Kröger, and hosted by the EXALT Initiative and the TreesForDev Project .
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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👉 Join us for Scholars at Risk Finland Day 2025 on Dec 5 at the University of Tampere or online to discuss academic freedom and scholar protection.

Speakers inc. Frank Geary, Kaarle Hämeri, Tuija Saresma.

✏️ Register by Dec 1, link in the comments
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Would you like some practical direction for building equitable and impactful international research collaborations? Then find the Guide for Global Research Partnerships that highlights 6 core principles as the foundation of strong global partnerships.
✨The revised Guide for Global Research Partnerships is now available✨
The 6 principles for Global Research Partnerships point at the main pillars of global collaboration. Background information you in strengthening Global Research in practice.
👉 www.grp-guide.ch
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📢 The recording and slides from the UniPID Virtual Studies Call for Pooling Courses 2026 info session are now available! 🎉

If you missed the session or would like to review the content as you prepare your course proposal, you can now access everything via the link below.
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📢 Happening This Week! | Science Forum South Africa 2025

UniPID, together with members of the GLOBUS project, University of Namibia (UNAM), Stellenbosch University, The University of the Western Cape , will be present at the Science Forum South Africa 2025 happening this week.
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Read an inspiring blog “Empowering Schools for Climate Education: An Interview with Zubir Agani and Dr. Golaleh Makrooni.” It explores how educators can strengthen climate action by designing locally relevant curricula, integrating climate topics across different subjects,
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🚀 Registration is now open for UniPID course “Curriculum Development for Climate Change Education” is now open. This course empowers participants to understand and design effective educational responses to the climate crisis, with a strong focus on curriculum innovation and contextual adaptation
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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💻 As #DigitalTrade grows, technical standards are crucial—yet developing countries often experience a “standardization gap.”

In a 🆕 brief, Craig Atkinson & Dr. Hanane Becha explain why standards matter, share recommendations for policy-makers & more: bit.ly/3LYoPNw 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🚨 Opportunity Alert! 🌍✨
Are you a PhD student passionate about solving real global challenges through systems thinking? The @iiasa.ac.at (IIASA) is inviting applications for the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) 2026, taking place 1 June – 28 August 2026 in Austria.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Call for abstracts, Seed Panel

Innovating Methods to Find (G)local Solutions for Global Challenges

Conv. by Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) & @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🎉 You are all welcomed to the Opening Ceremony of the Finnish Southern Africa Cooperation Institute (FSAI)!

📅 24 Nov 2025 |🕑 14:00 – 17:00

📍 Juhlahuoneisto, Unioninkatu 33, 00170 Helsinki

🗣️The programme in Finnish with English interpretation provided.

Learn more about FSAI - fsai.fi/en/home/
FSAI
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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The blog from our 2025 Annual Seminar is now available.
Whether you attended the seminar or are passionate about advancing fairness and integrity in academic partnerships, this is a valuable read.

👉 Read the full blog here:
www.unipid.fi/news/equity-...
Equity in Co-Authorship Across Continents: Insights from the UniPID - INASP Annual Seminar — UniPID
UniPID hosted its Annual Seminar 2025 through a joint webinar with the International Network for Advancing Science and Policy (INASP), focusing on equitable practices in research co-authorship across ...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:

Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures

Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
💻 Join us and LEAP-RE for a webinar on Data-Driven Approaches to Enhance Solar PV System Design, Performance & Efficiency!
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📢 Last chance to register!

The registration period for the UniPID MOOC “Essentials in Development Studies” closes tomorrow.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🌍 Call for Papers & Participation | Development Days 2026

The Development Days 2026 conference, themed “Development in Ruins, Hope in the Cracks: A Time for Reckoning, Reclaiming, and Reawakening,” is now accepting abstracts and participation proposals.
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🔔 Reminder: Registration Closes Soon!

Don’t miss a chance to join the UniPID MOOC “Essentials in Development Studies” (Autumn 2025)!
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM