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Outstanding Students from LDCs Successfully Sail into International Design Education Program at Zhejiang University - Admission

19 August 2021

Mr. Alexei Valkov, SPIEF Director and Mr. Joshua Setipa, UN Technology Bank Managing Director

Roscongress Foundation and UN Technology Bank sign cooperation agreement

03 June 2021

Lighting up lives: Training women in Malawi to become solar power engineers.

UN Technology Bank and The Network of African Science Academies support the launch of the Academy of Sciences in Malawi

19 May 2021

The training center offers various courses for young people to enter the job market in Madagascar.

UN Technology Bank and the IDRC partner to support SMEs programs with funding opportunity in LDCs

11 May 2021

Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal,

UN Technology Bank, the TUBITAK and the USIMP partner to facilitate access to technology for least developed countries

07 April 2021

The International Design Education program in LDCs

24 March 2021

UN Technology Bank and NASAC teamed up to support the launch of the Lesotho Academy of Science and Technology

15 March 2021

Rosсongress Foundation and Secretariat of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum partner with UN Technology Bank to support LDCs

05 March 2021

UN Technology Bank, TWAS and ICGEB launch a programme to building scientific development in LDCs

20 January 2021

The Sahara Desert.

UN Technology Bank and UNOOSA partner to expand the use of satellite data in LDCs

22 December 2020

The workshop on enhancing geospatial technologies for the disaster management in Mozambique .

UN Technology Bank and UNITAR-UNOSAT enhance geospatial technologies for the disaster management in Mozambique

14 December 2020

Joshua Setipa, UN Technology Bank’s Managing Director and Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland signing the MoU.

UN Technology Bank and The Commonwealth join forces to support LDCs

03 November 2020

Critical COVID-19 protective supplies delivered to frontline workers in Kingdom of Lesotho

25 August 2020

COVID-19 in Mali.

UN agencies launch Tech Access Partnership in joint effort to scale up local production of life-saving health technologies for COVID-19

12 May 2020

Seen from above, the waters of Lake George, Uganda.

Experts and policy-makers share knowledge on potential benefits of geospatial technologies for Uganda

09 March 2020

Innovative solutions

United Nations to strengthen national Academies of Science in Asia and the Pacific

03 February 2020

Solar power panels bring light and connectivity into homes in Afghanistan.

New Council Members for UN Technology Bank as it enters second year of operations

16 January 2020

UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited the UN Technology Bank in Gebze, Turkey.

UN Secretary General visits offices of UN Technology Bank

31 October 2019

Enhancing capacity, knowledge and technology support to build climate resilience

UN to strengthen National Academies of Science in Northern Africa

25 September 2019

Guinea’s frontline healthcare workers receive practical training in identifying, isolating

United Nations to strengthen National Academies of Science in Western Africa

09 September 2019

Analyzing the bean diseases at the lab in Kawanda, Uganda.

United Nations to strengthen National Academies of Science in Eastern Africa

02 September 2019

Bringing solar irrigation to farmers and solar home systems to families in Bangladesh.

World’s least developed countries to benefit from Turkish expertise and support through UN Technology Bank

15 February 2019

Mr. Joshua Setipa, a new Managing Director of the Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries.

New Managing Director for Technology Bank welcomed to United Nations

04 December 2018

The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed (right) and Faruk Özlü (centre), Minister of Science

Technology Bank for least developed countries inaugurated in Turkey

04 June 2018