About the project

In collaboration with the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), UNSA is planning to build a “UN Studies 2.0” knowledge base.

This unique and state-of-the-art online, interactive knowledge base will fill the information and communication gap between UN-related online platforms such as ACUNS, UNSA, national UNAs and other (academic) websites – all of which are depositories of knowledge, yet unconnected.

The new portal will be developed as a project under the leadership of ACUNS and become part of the existing ACUNS website. It is expected to bring all scattered knowledge concerning UN research and teaching to the surface and make it easily accessible in one central location (the ACUNS website):

• reading material
• syllabi
• bibliographies
• articles
• conference papers
• all other kinds of material and files
• information about events, people, institutions, programs

Over the course of a about one year, a content development team will gather initial content, discuss and create new content to be reviewed by an editorial team. All qualified content will then be fed into the new knowledge base. Once we have tested the technology as well as key processes and work flows, the knowledge base will be opened up to UNSA and ACUNS members.

Read more:

  Background and Problem Statement

  Our joint vision:  a centralized, integrated and open access knowledge base

  How to get there - project outline