(Munich Re Foundation) The Munich Re Foundation and the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU–EHS)

announce the fifth annual Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability. The theme of the 2010 Summer Academy is “Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy and institutional frameworks”.

Applications are required to be submitted online at www.ehs.unu.edu not later than 15 January 2010.

The Summer Academy is designed to bring Ph.D, LLM and SJD students together with senior United Nations University

and Munich Re Foundation scientists, international experts, and academic professors to facilitate the mutual exchange of research and scholarship on climate change and social vulnerability. The 2010 program will invite a group of outstanding students from graduate programs around the world to participate with experts in mapping a set of potential policy and institutional frameworks to help address the humanitarian and human rights impacts of forced migration related to climate change.

The week-long program will focus on specific country and regional level challenges related to human migration and displacement, with a view to identifying the gaps in policy, law and institutions needed to protect vulnerable groups.

Further information
For further information please download the Announcement for the Summer Academy 2010 or contact Ms. Xiaomeng Shen (shen@ehs.unu.edu) at UNU-EHS.

Source: Munich Re Foundation