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Joint Uni-Club-UNU Lecture Series on Vulnerability in Bonn

23.4.2009 The United Nations University (UNU) and the Universitätsclub (UNICLUB) Bonn sign an agreement of scientific co-operation on Thursday, 30 April 2009. The agreement initiates the new annual public event series “Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture” addressing different aspects of vulnerability. This occasion will also be the last lecture of the director of UNU-EHS and Vice Rector a.i. in Europe, Prof. Dr. Janos Bogardi.

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Once a year, the two organisations will jointly organise and stage a “Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture”. The series commemorates Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, who died in a plane crash in 1961. Hammarskjöld was a distinguished professor whose academic, international civil service and policy-relevant achievements are to be honoured and commemorated with the newly established discussion events.

Prof. Bogardi, one of the founders of UNU in Bonn, will retire in the second half of 2009. He will talk about “Sustainability and Vulnerability: Our Abilities to Confuse Ourselves”.

UNU and UNICLUB Bonn both have the mandate to promote and enhance scientific communication to find solutions for the growing challenges that influence people’s lives around the world today.