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		<title>UNU, Dentsu sign collaboration agreement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UNU has signed an agreement with and Japanese advertising and media company Dentsu to collaborate on joint projects. The aim is to "garner the wisdom of humankind" in search of new values for the twenty-first century.]]></description>
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		<title>Prof Plate retires as UNU-EHS advisor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. e.H. Erich J. Plate retired from the Advisory Committee of UNU-EHS.  He had been a member since the inauguration of the committee in 2003, when UNU-EHS was founded. ]]></description>
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		<title>UNU affiliated economist wins Nobel Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics, Elinor Ostrom, has been associated with UNU-WIDER for more than a decade. She a contributor to the UNU-WIDER research project on Land Distribution, Land Reform and Economic Growth and more recently worked on the 2004 UNU-WIDER conference on "Unlocking Human Potential".]]></description>
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		<title>UNU Rector visits Shimadzu HQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early October, UNU Rector Osterwalder toured the headquarters of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto. Shimadzu, a producer of chemical analysis equipment, has been a long-term supporter of the UNU project “Environmental Monitoring and Governance in the Asian Coastal Hydrosphere“.]]></description>
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		<title>Linking traditional knowledge and Western science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can traditional knowledge converge with Western science to help solve today's global challenges? Numerous research initiatives are exploring this question, such as an Australian carbon abatement project that is based on Aboriginal fire-burning practices.]]></description>
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		<title>UNU-EHS founding director retires</title>
		<link>http://update.unuhq.info/2009/09/29/unu-ehs-founding-director-retires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Prof. Dr. Janos Bogardi retired after almost six years as Director of the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and two years as UNU Vice-Rector ad interim. This is his "open letter of farewell".]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Academy suggests “hot system” approach to climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week-long 2009 UNU &#038; MRF Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability focused on understanding the nature of tipping points of climate change as they are related to potential humanitarian crises and forced migration.]]></description>
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		<title>Successful first AquaCrop workshop in Burkina Faso</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNW-DPC, in cooperation with FAO and 2iE, organized a July regional workshop in Burkina Faso on “Capacity Development for Farm Management Strategies to Improve Crop-Water Productivity using AquaCrop”.]]></description>
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		<title>UNU project measures regional innovation, tech performance</title>
		<link>http://update.unuhq.info/2009/08/27/unu-project-measures-regional-innovation-tech-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Regional Impact of Technological Change in 2020 is a UNU-MERIT project that seeks to improve our understanding of the relation between the shift towards a knowledge-based economy and regional disparities in Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>UNU-MERIT paper wins IIE award</title>
		<link>http://update.unuhq.info/2009/06/10/unu-merit-paper-wins-iie-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The paper "Designing plans for organizational development, lessons from three large-scale SME-initiatives", derived from the UNU-MERIT Strategic Innovation project, was selected as the IIE’s 2009 Best Track Paper in Engineering Management.]]></description>
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