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Universitas

The Universitas Programme is one of the working tools of the KIP International School. Originally set up in 2001 by ILO, UNDP, and UNOPS, Universitas is based on the premise that universities and research centres have an important role to play in taking forward the commitments of the main international summits of the ‘90s and the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

Universitas works with universities and research institutes of the south and north to design and realize professional development activities, higher education programmes and action-oriented research to meet the development priorities of their territories in line with the UN 2030 Agenda. In doing this, it brings together academics and researchers, practitioners, policy makers and students and engages them directly in concrete development practices: the programme organizes intensive short courses (summer schools) and post-graduate diploma courses, and provides technical assistance for setting up local human development laboratories that encourage the systematization of practice, action research for innovation and international exchanges among researchers, practitioners and students. In interested countries, these activities are guided, at national level, by a steering committee with pertinent national institutions. Where interest exists, the programme facilitates the establishment of international university and decentralized cooperation partnerships for the implementation of these activities.

Universitas also manages a peer-reviewed open-access electronic journal, Universitas Forum (www.universitasforum.org), that publishes material in four languages and in various formats related to local human development and the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, giving priority to knowledge and know-how coming from southern contexts that may not be well-known internationally but could be pertinent in other realities. Where possible, Universitas establishes agreements with international partners to launch research projects aimed to systematize innovative practice in forms that can be published as articles, videos, teaching tools and so on.

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