The United Nations University (UNU) is the
academic arm of the United Nations. It bridges the academic world and the United Nations system. Its
goal is to develop sustainable solutions for current and future problems of
humankind in all aspects of life. Through a problem-oriented and
interdisciplinary approach it aims at teaching, applied research and education
on a global scale. UNU was founded in 1973 as an autonomous organ of the United
Nations General Assembly. The University comprises headquarters in Tokyo, Japan,
and more than a dozen Institutes and Programmes worldwide.
UNU-FLORES
is about to be established in Dresden, Germany, in cooperation with the Dresden
University of Technology (TUD). It will be funded by the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Saxon State Ministry for
Higher Education, Research and the Fine Arts (SMWK).
UNU-FLORES will contribute to improve the efficiency of the use and
management of resources, such as water, soil and waste in developing and
emerging countries in scientific, educational, managerial, technological and
institutional terms.
As a result of research and development projects, decision support for
various target groups, such as ministries and governmental organizations,
municipalities, enterprises, NGOs and other stakeholders will be provided.
The Institute is to be consisted out of five
departments: Systems and Flux Analysis, Global Change, Water Management,
Soil and Land use Management, Waste Management and Contaminated Sites.
UNU-FLORES, as all UNU Institutes, will engage both in policy relevant
research in the above described challenging areas and in postgraduate
capacity-building activities at Master and PhD level. At postgraduate level a
very close synergy will be sought and explored with similar programmes
offered by TUD.
The publication documents the state of the art concerning the
establishment of the United Nations University Institute for
Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) in Dresden and its envisaged Twin in Mozambique. It keeps up
and manifests the momentum gained during the 1st International Scoping Workshop that took place in November 2010 in Dresden.
Following the favourable
decision of the Saxon State Cabinet on 16 November 2010, a four-partite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) was signed shortly after the First International Scoping Workshop took place.|Read more
From 11 to 12 November 2010 the first international scoping workshop on
the establishment of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated
Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) and its Twin Institute in Mozambique took place in Dresden, Germany. Prof. Dr. Konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU, attended the workshop among other high-ranking delegates. |Read more
