📖 Read our latest blog – “Strengthening AU–EU Research Cooperation in Brussels: UniPID Contributes to the High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation.”

#HorizonEurope must remain focused on excellent research, including collaborative research. It should not be repurposed as a tool to deliver industrial or short-term political objectives. 👉 Read EUA’s full analysis of the Commission’s proposal https://bit.ly/4nxoFL4 #FP10 #EUCompetFund

Although Europe’s competitiveness agenda has been formulated by institutions in Brussels, the challenge is shared by universities. Universities are ready to actively engage, because they also want a strong, independent and sustainable Europe. 📔 https://bit.ly/4o8vp29

Canada tabled #Budget2025 & its Climate Competitiveness Strategy, giving mixed signals at a time when Canada needs certainty. The government must recommit to phasing out fossil fuels subsidies & ensure investments align with economic climate goals. Statement: www.iisd.org/articles/sta...

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel: Digital Pathways to Social Protection: Access, Equity, and Accountability 📍 @iobua.bsky.social Conv. by Katja Bender (@h-brs.bsky.social) & Markus Loewe (@idos-research.bsky.social) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Join UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research (FSDR) for the panel discussion “Global Promises, Local Pressures: Education Leadership Amid Austerity” as part of the SDG4 Seminar 2025 - "Leadership in Education", organized by the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

🔔 Reminder: Last chance to register our Annual Seminar! Today is the last day to register for our annual seminar co-organised with @inasp.bsky.social. The seminar focusses on “Equitable Practices in Research Co-Authorship Across Continents.”

Our UniPID newsletter is out! 🍂 This autumn has been full of exciting opportunities to strengthen our activities and connect with many of you. 📰 Inside: 💫 Register for our annual webinar 💫 Upcoming events & study opportunities 💫 Funding & job calls 👉 Read more: mailchi.mp/8a90554aab47...

🌍 Meet the speakers for the upcoming UniPID & @inasp.bsky.social joint webinar “Equitable Practices in Research Co-Authorship Across Continents”

Happening now! Our team is at the LEAP-RE Stakeholder Forum in Brussels as part of the Brussels Clustering Event, featuring sessions on Grid Modelling and the WEF Nexus. Join the conversation online get insights on renewable energy research and innovation. 👉Join now - leap-re.app/event-578

🚨 Opportunity Alert! 🏛️ @bokuvienna.bsky.social Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, is inviting applications for a Tenure-Track Position in Forest Economics.

🎓 Congratulations to our DocNet member, Emilio Del Pupo!🎉 We invite you to Emilio Del Pupo's public doctoral dissertation defence titled “Green Deals and Raw Deals: Power, Sustainability and Agriculture in EU-Mercosur Trade Negotiations”.

🌍 Don’t miss the opportunity to join our Annual Seminar! This year’s UniPID Annual Webinar is organised in collaboration with @inasp.bsky.social, will focus on “Equitable Practices in Research Co-Authorship Across Continents.”

🤝Meet our partner for our annual seminar 2025, @inasp.bsky.social - a global development organisation working with partners across Africa, Latin America, & Asia to strengthen southern knowledge systems by equipping researchers, institutions, and educators to lead in research, policy, and impact.

🔔 Reminder: Registration Closing Soon! 🌍 Don’t miss the chance to join the "Climate Change and Trade in the Global South" course which explores how climate change affects global & regional trade policy in the Global South. 🕒Register by: 18 Oct 2025 👉 Register now: www.unipid.fi/virtual-stud...

🌍 Opportunity Alert! The Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI) is hiring a Technical Assistant in Education Policies (Global Education Partnerships) for the PEERS Project based at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, Nigeria.

Join this webinar by Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö OAJ, Teachers Without Borders and Finn Church Aid on the Global Learning Crisis and its Solutions featuring Prof. Ritva Reinikka from @aalto.fi to celebrate World teachers’ Day.

🌍 Join a panel discussion - "What do we know about poverty and inequality for the next development agenda?" by the @unu-wider.bsky.social This high level discussion will explore the best way forward on global poverty & inequality and how they can be measured for the next development agenda.

Join us, CEA-FIRST and AfriFOODlinks, for a side Event at the AU–EU Senior Officials Meeting to explore how AU–EU cooperation can strengthen evidence-based policymaking. 📅 21 Oct 2025 🕒 9:00–17:00 CET 📍 Venue: University Foundation, Brussels 👉 Register here - elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Join UniPID and @inasp.bsky.social in our annual seminar 2025 'Equitable Practices in Research Co-Authorship Across Continents'. 📅 Date: 6 Nov 2025 |🕒 Time: 14:30 – 16:00 EET 📍 Location: Online |📝 Registration Deadline: 3 Nov 2025 👉 Read more and register - bit.ly/4mJHKZ8

🔔 Reminder: Registration ongoing for our MOOC “Essentials in Development Studies”, developed in collaboration with @helsinki.fi and @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social 📅 Course dates: 25 August – 11 Dec 2025 📝 Registration ends: 20 Nov 2025 👉 Learn more and self-enroll: www.unipid.fi/virtual-stud...

Helsingin yliopiston matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta on Pohjoismaiden suurimpia tieteen ja teknologian keskittymiä. Siellä koulutetaan kovan tason ongelmanratkaisijoita. Mitä luonnontieteiden tutkimus tarjoaa yrityksille? #tekoäly #kvanttiteknologia www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/k...

📢 The #NorDev25, kicked off yesterday. If you’re at #NorDev25, join a panel discussion themed: Envisioning an equitable future for research across the North–South Divide convened by UniPID in collaboration with Southern Voice and @ids.ac.uk ⏰ 16:30–18:00 Hrs | 📍 Kornrommet, Vitenparken

📢 Abstract submission is now open for Wisdom Days Conference 2026 themed: Science for Sustainability Transformations. 🌍✨ ⏰ Call for papers deadline: 14 Nov 2025 | 📅Conference dates: 6–8 May 2026 | 📍 @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social 🔗 Read more and submit your abstract: www.jyu.fi/en/events/wi...

📢 Webinar Alert! Climate University(CU), coordinated at the @helsinki.fi, invites higher education teachers, coordinators, and staff to a webinar showcasing Climate University (CU) courses, share teaching experiences, and explore how CU materials can be integrated and promoted across institutions

Grateful to INAR for hosting us to share UniPID’s Ethical Guidelines for Responsible Academic Partnership with the Global South 🌍✨ Great discussions on building more ethical, inclusive collaborations. 🎥 Watch the video: www.unipid.fi/for-society/... 📖 Full guidelines: www.unipid.fi/for-society/...

📢 Save the Date – SDG4 Seminar 2025 Join us at the SDG4 Seminar 2025. In this seminar, UniPID in collaboration with he Finnish Society for Development Research (FSDR), will convene a panel discussion titled: "Global Promises, Local Pressures: Education Leadership Amid Austerity."

Join @sabaheta.bsky.social for a hybrid book launch for the book: “Socioecological Transformations: Linking Ontologies with Structures, Personal with Collective Change” at the #NorDev25 🗓 25th September | 🕒 16:30–18:00 (CEST) | 📍 Online via Teams & at #NorDev25 🔗 Join on Teams - bit.ly/3I3HWEr

🚜🌱 Webinar: How can we support and inspire youth to shape the future of food? Fewer young people are choosing careers in agriculture and food production - how to reverse this trend? 🗓️ Engaging youth in the future of food 🕐 2 October, 13:00-14:00 CET 💻 Online 🔗 nordregio.org/events/engag...

📢 Career Opportunity! @luke.fi (Luke) is hiring a Senior Scientist – Forest Management Methods 🌲 This role focuses on rotational & continuous cover forestry, sustainability assessments, research, stakeholder engagement, and project leadership. 👉 Apply here- valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/seni...

🚨 Tender Opportunity Alert! The EU-funded Team Europe Initiative – Regional Teachers Initiative for Africa (RTIA) is supporting teacher education and professional development across Sub-Saharan Africa.

📢 Don’t miss out on Black History Month 2025 in Helsinki, happening this week! Join the Black History Month 2025 event in Helsinki, organised by University of Helsinki's AFRISTADI, Historians without Borders and FinNamKnow Project(@koneensaatio.fi, @utu.fi and University of Namibia)

🌍 HELSUS-RESET BBL is back with Prof. Bodo Steiner discussing how geopolitical uncertainty shapes sustainability debates & food systems. 🗓️ 25.9. 11:30–12:30 📍 UH Main Building 2069 💻 Zoom. Bring your lunch & join the discussion! 🥗 More information on the event website: lnkd.in/ewDvgjRT

📢 GEP Forum 2025 – Registration is now open! FinCEED and Education Finland are organizing the Global Education Partnerships (GEP) Forum 2025. 🗓️ 29–30 October 2025 📍 Helsinki Congress Paasitorni 🔗 Learn more & register here - tapahtumat.oph.fi/gepforum2025...

🚨 Event Alert! Join an online session on Accessing Food Systems Innovation – Unlocking Opportunities for the Private Sector, which focuses on strengthening private access to research in Europe and Africa. 📅 24 Sept 2024 | ⏰ 14:00–16:00 CET | 📍 Online Register- coleacp-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎉 Exciting news! UniPID has been awarded Team Finland Knowledge Programme 2025 funding🎉 Finnish & Southern African universities, we’ll co-design 8 virtual COIL courses on global sustainable development. Stay tuned for updates & learn more 👉 www.unipid.fi/news/unipid-...

✨ Exciting day meeting so many of you today at 🎓 @utu.fi, 🎓 Åbo Akademi & 🎓 @helsinki.fi! 📍 We’re still at the 🎓 @helsinki.fi check-in event until ⏰ 16:00 and all day tomorrow too. Stop by, say hi and learn about 💻 UniPID Virtual Studies 🌱🌐 🎁 Plenty of UniPID laptop stickers left to grab!

Hey UniPID students, orientation week is here! Meet us and learn about virtual studies this August at 🎓 utu.fi –Welcome Fair - 🗓27 | 12:00–14:00 |University Hill 🎓Åbo Aka Akademi –Orientation Week |🗓27 |11:40 |Arken building, Turku 🎓 helsinki.fi –Check-in Event |🗓27 & 28 |9:00–16:00 |Juhlasali

Start your week with something new! 🌍 UniPID’s MOOC Essentials in Development Studies is open for self-enrollment on DigiCampus. 👉 Details + enrollment here: www.unipid.fi/virtual-stud...

📣 UniPID Newsletter is out! We’re back after summer with: ✅ New virtual courses ✅ Funding from Team Finland Knowledge Program 2025 ✅ Job & funding opportunities … & more 🌍✨ 👉 Check it out! mailchi.mp/6fc1ea1af56a...

"The period of global convergence driven by China and India appears to be over. Maybe a global inequality ‘boomerang’ is coming given some of the underlying dynamics." www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2334

🚨 Final call! Applications for the UniPID Master’s Award 2025 is closing tomorrow 15 Aug. Read more and submit your thesis here: www.unipid.fi/unipid-calls...

📣 Master’s students: Apply now for the course Global Palestine: tracing the shifting horizons of violence and power (8 Sept–19 Oct, 5 ECTS). Explore Palestine’s role in global violence, economy & geopolitics. Coordinator: @fimeinstitute.bsky.social Apply by 15 Aug 👉 www.fime.fi/university-c...

💭 Who holds the power when climate disasters force people to move? This UniPID course examines climate (im)mobilities and highlights power dynamics between affected communities and aid providers. 🔗 Enroll now to join the discussion: www.unipid.fi/virtual-stud...

Welcome to join the first edition of Southern Voice Talks: Local Solutions to Global Challenges: Financing for Development in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape 📅 14 Aug | 🕓 14:00 UTC | 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Exciting News! 💯 Registration is now open for four (4) of our UniPID courses. 🔗 Explore the courses and enroll today: www.unipid.fi/students/vir...

⏳ Have you explored the 2025–2026 UniPID Virtual Studies Catalogue yet? Registration for some courses opens tomorrow! 💡 13 courses. 🌱 Critical global topics. 🆕 3 new additions. Check it out + turn on notifications so you don’t miss your chance www.unipid.fi/students/vir...

Couple of weeks left! ⚠️ Apply for the UniPID Master’s Award in Development Studies 2025 and win €1,000! 🗓 Deadline: 15 August 🌐 Details: www.unipid.fi/unipid-calls...

🌍✨ We're excited to welcome Abraham Openy to DocNet! A medical doctor researching air pollution & respiratory health in sub-Saharan Africa, he bridges public health, climate justice & health systems. 🔗 Read his story: www.unipid.fi/news/story-b...