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2025/2/21

Two faculty members joined the UN initiative: “Higher Education Sustainability...

2025/2/10

Third Group of Young Female Scientist from UNCTAD Short-Term Program...

2025/2/10

Okayama University and UNCTAD Hosted Research Presentation for the 4th...

2025/1/31

Vice President Prof. Yokoi was invited to participate in an...

2025/1/16

Vice President and UNESCO Chairholder Prof. Yokoi was invited to...

2024/11/18

TEDx Okayama University Student Speakers Competition

2024/10/11

【Call for Participation】Invitation to Okayama University and United Nations University...

2024/8/6

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases a joint statement by...

2024/8/5

President Nasu Participated in the United Nations SDSN Asia-Pacific University...
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Partnerships

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York University
York University in Canada, which promotes the SDGs throughout the university, is one of the top universities in the world in terms of SDG initiatives, and is ranked in the top 100 in THE University Impact Ranking, a well-known global ranking of SDGs.

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US Department of State
The U.S. Department of State administers the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program in 15 languages around the world, and the University offers intensive Japanese language and culture programs to top students selected by the Department.

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UPEACE
Created by UN General Assembly Resolution 35/55, the University for Peace has been training leaders for peace for the past four decades.

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Earth Charter
The Earth Charter International Headquarters is located at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica, Central America, where the UNESCO Chair on ESD is located.

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University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii in the U.S. is one of the world's leading universities in the field of oceanography, and is collaborating with the Ushimado coastal laboratory attached to the Faculty of Science at Okayama University.

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Okayama University
In April 2020, the Okayama University Global Engagement Office(OUGEO) was established in a bid to commit to the Okayama University global engagement strategy and to support seamless interaction and coordination of the activities of the Vice President for Global Engagement Strategy; Okayama University as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization chair institution in Asia's first "Research and Education for Sustainable Development"; and the Institute of Global Human Resource Development.

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UNU
The General Assembly ordered a feasibility study and appointed a panel of experts to work closely with UNESCO in examining the potential for building such an institution. The panel submitted a report to the UN Economic and Social Council in September 1972, and in December 1972 the General Assembly adopted the decision to establish the United Nations University (UNU), thereby formally establishing the world’s first international university.

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APCEIU
Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) is a UNESCO Category 2 Centre established in 2000 by the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Korea and UNESCO to promote and develop Education for International Understanding (EIU), currently regarded as Global Citizenship Education (GCED).

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UNESCO Beijing
Director Oliveira said, “The ESD activities and other initiatives toward achieving the SDGs have the highest priority also at UNESCO. We would like to deepen cooperation across the entire East Asian region which is under the jurisdiction of the UNESC O Beijing Cluster Office”.

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UNESCO Bangkok
Since 1961, UNESCO Bangkok has had a dual role as both the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and as a Cluster Office in the Asia-Pacific region. As a regional bureau for education, UNESCO Bangkok provides technical expertise and assistance, and it serves advisory, knowledge production and sharing, and monitoring and evaluation functions to assist the Asia-Pacific Member States, UNESCO field offices and the antenna office in the area of education.

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One Young World
One Young World is one of the world's largest annual gatherings of the next generation of young leaders representing over 190 countries.

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Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens
The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens is a Quasi-International Organization based in Vienna, Austria. The Centre was established in January 2018 and is co-chaired by Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the UN (2007 ? 2016) and by Heinz Fischer , 11th President of the Republic of Austria (2004 ? 2016). The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens is an independent nonprofit organization under Austrian law.

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UNCTAD
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the central institution of the United Nations that comprehensively addresses trade and development, as well as related issues of finance, investment, technology and sustainable development.

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UNESCO
In consequence whereof they do hereby create the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the purpose of advancing, through the educational and scientific and cultural relations of the peoples of the world, the objectives of international peace and of the common welfare of mankind for which the United Nations Organization was established and which its Charter proclaims.

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