The UNIDO Institute for Capacity Development was established to respond effectively to the industrial development challenges being faced by UNIDO Member States. The overall aim of the Institute is to strengthen UNIDO's academic partnership, networking efforts, capacity-building and training activities. It provides training on key issues pertaining to sustainable industrial development. It serves as a platform for knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and as a catalyst for innovative solutions and ideas for addressing specific policy challenges to achieve more inclusive and sustainable patterns of globalization.

In cooperation with the Central European University (CEU) and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland as well as with support from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the UNIDO Institute is conducting the follow-up Summer Course “Green Industry: Pathways Towards the Industry of the Future”. Building on the success of the initial 2012 Summer Course “Green Industry: Moving Towards the Industry of the Future”, the 2013 course will challenge young professionals further by facilitating more in-depth deliberations on how to raise awareness of solutions that will help turn the ”Green Industry” concept into practice and bolster its sustainability. The Summer Course will comprise of a one-month distance learning component and a two-week residential component in the CEU Summer University in Budapest, Hungary.

Recent debate over the future of manufacturing has gained international attention by politicians, private sector representatives and academics alike. Policymakers, who are still coping with the aftermath of the financial crisis and are seeking to stimulate high-value job growth and achieve sustained economic recovery, have shown keen interest in boosting the competitiveness of their manufacturing industries. Advancements in digital modelling, composite materials and biological research combined with increasingly integrated supply chains are driving the long-term development of the manufacturing sector based on technology.

Improving industrial performance requires a profound understanding of the underlying technological, structural and demographic changes that influence the evolution of manufacturing. The UNIDO Institute for Capacity Development offers an Executive Programme that provides such comprehensive insights and makes the necessary tools available to leaders to design and implement policies targeted at boosting the performance of their respective manufacturing sectors, both at the domestic and global market level. Participation is upon invitation only.

With support from the Polish Ministry of Economy, the online part of the “Regional Trade Capacity Building Training Programme: Central Asia” has just started this week. The course is designed to encourage systemic trade development along value chains. It seeks to promote growth through capacity building to ensure informed and timely trade-related policymaking and by strengthening institutions/infrastructures that are part of the enabling environment for effective trade participation. The training consists of a 5-week distance learning component, and an 8-day residential component which includes a dynamic mix of lecture-based and participatory teaching methods.

The training focuses on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The course and all related material are in Russian. For further information, please download the information brochure in Russian or English.

The University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, UNIDO and the Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway) are jointly organizing the 4th edition of the conference on the  “Economics of Global Interactions”. The event will provide scholars with the opportunity to discuss their recent contributions in the  areas of theoretical and empirical aspects of International trade, determinants and effects of International Migration and FDI, globalization and development and globalization, sustainability and the environment. It will host a UNIDO session dedicated to "Industrialization in developing countries: new evidence, new perspectives".

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