Spain's Universitat de Barcelona (UB) has joined the Virtual Institute network, becoming the 25th core university member, and joining Canada, France and Italy as the fourth member institution from a developed country.
UB has already contributed to the network this year by offering scholarships to candidates from Vi member universities for its Masters in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO).
Alena Petrushkevich, Associate Professor and Vi coordinator at Belarus State Economic University wrote she was proud that her University was chosen to host UNCTAD's 14th regional training course on Key Issues of the International Economic Agenda.
Twenty four participants from 12 countries in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) attended the course held June 23-July 11.
The World Trade Organization has chosen Bogotá's Universidad Sergio Arboleda to host its regional courses on trade policy for Latin America for the next three years. The university's bid came on top out of the 16 proposals received from countries in the region.
"This is without doubt good news," said Dr. Rodrigo Noguera, university Rector. "It represents for the university the enhancement of its institutional capacity, through the WTO secretariat's training and consolidating of our human resources to offer training and research programs on international trade."
The UNCTAD Virtual Institute and the Work Programme on International Investment Agreements (IIAs) are organizing a workshop on the Teaching and Research of International Investment Agreements.
Based on the Vi's teaching material on Legal and Economic Aspects of IIAs, the workshop has been designed for academic and research institutions in English-speaking developing, and particularly least developed, countries in Africa.
Deadline for applications is September 22.
Vi members in the Western Asian region are invited to apply for the next UNCTAD Course on International Economic Issues to be held in Manama, Bahrain, from October 26 to November 13.
Since 2006, about 25 Vi members have taken part in the courses, originally designed exclusively for government officials in ministries and trade-related institutions.
With the Vi we managed to secure funds for a project which has helped us support three Vi member universities to launch new Master’s programmes and to bring several dozen researchers and lecturers to Berlin and to participating partner universities.
