WUN fosters interdisciplinary and international research in four key areas known as the Global Challenges:
- Global Higher Education and Research
- Public Health
- Responding to Climate Change
- Understanding Cultures
Research Projects
Via the WUN Research Development Fund, an annual competitive fund, WUN brings together established/senior and mid-career postdoctoral researchers from WUN member universities to work on a range of focused problems related to the WUN Global Challenges and Sustainable Development.
Research Development Fund
WUN also invests in education for sustainable development:.WUN promotes initiatives that bring students from multiple partner universities together to discuss exciting research related to sustainable development in its annual WUN Summer School for shared research experience.
Summer-School
WUN promotes globally engaged /early and mid-career sustainability researchers/research talents: WUN provides opportunities for doctoral and and postdoctoral researchers, to broaden their professional networks and to gain and/or expand their international experiences and profile and to establish global research networks via virtual WUN webinars, workshops and a global research network on themes related to the WUN Global Challenges.
Benefits for RUB´s Research Community
- The network complements other international alliances, such as UNIC.
- The WUN focus on the SDGs helps RUB to discuss its sustainability goals with complementary partner institutions and achieve synergies.
- WUN is a research network in which researchers, junior researchers as well as students interested in research can connect with like-minded people and lay the foundation for joint research proposals.
Networking