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In nearly five years, the United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC-Hamburg) has evolved from a visionary concept into a key innovation lab shaping urban futures.

Accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through renewed cooperation and actionable solutions took the spotlight at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2025 held from June 2-3 2025.

UNITAC is recruiting three remote positions through the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) to support the project “Just transitions in vulnerable places: digital tools and capacity for inclusive, smart and resilient urban recovery.”

The conference, organized by UNITAC and Kyiv School of Economics, will critically examine the role of innovative digital tools and their potential application in the post-war recovery of Ukraine’s cities and communities.

The Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum took place in Cairo from 4-8 November 2024. UNITAC was represented with a booth at the Urban Expo and participated in several sessions together with its partners.

UNITAC Hamburg organized and hosted the "Urban Tech for Equity" conference from June 18th to 20th, 2024. This significant event has taken place as part of UN-Habitat's consultations to develop International Guidelines on People-Centred Smart Cities.

UN-Habitat has launched an open online consultation for external stakeholders to contribute with views, inputs and ideas on how to leverage technologies, data and innovation for sustainable urban development and to address peoples’ needs to leave no one behind.

UNITAC selects three new projects from the Open Call 2024.

UNITAC invites organizations to submit project ideas that address the most pressing urban challenges with data or technology solutions.

UNITAC Ukraine team contributed to the sixth German-Ukrainian Municipal Partnership Conference, hosted in Leipzig, Germany, from 13 to 15 November 2023.