Celebration of United Nations Day (UN Day) 2025 with presentation of the 'Lokale Agenda Dresden Award 2025' on October 24, 2025.

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Technology and science have a long tradition in Saxony. However, there is still a gender imbalance in career choices in our region. How does this come about? On UN Day 2025 in Dresden, we will be exploring the question of how early the gender gap in the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) arises, what global differences exist and how innovative teaching and learning formats can help to overcome educational inequalities.

In 2015, the member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with a total of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In line with this year's focus topic 'Education shapes the future', UN Day 2025 is specifically addressing SDG 4 'Quality education'.

We are looking forward to an exciting panel discussion, which will be introduced by Prof. Christian Leßmann (Professor of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations, TUD) with a short impulse address to introduce the audience to the topic and the discussion. Together with Prof. Edeltraud Günther (Director of UNU-FLORES), he will moderate the panel, which will be accompanied by a welcome address from the First Mayor of the City of Dresden, Department of Education, Youth and Sport, Jan Donhauser.

The panel discussion will be followed by the 26th Lokale Agenda Award Ceremony in the second part of the event.

Registration form

We look forward to receiving your registration for the United Nations Day with award ceremony of the 26th Lokale Agenda Award.

Due to the limited number of places, we will provide you with a livestream on the YouTube channel of the City of Dresden. The recording will also be available after the event via the same link. The link will be made available on this page shortly before the event.

Program

• Opening by Jan Donhauser (First Mayor of the City of Dresden, Department of Education, Youth and Sport)
• Panel discussion with:

  Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther (Director UNU-FLORES) - Moderation
  Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann (Chair of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations, TUD Dresden University of Technology) - Impulse and Moderation

  Henriette Greulich (Head of Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL), TUD Dresden University of Technology)
  Prof. Dr. Kamila Cygan-Rehm (Chair of Quantitative Methods, esp. Econometrics, TUD Dresden University of Technology)
  more panelists to follow
• Presentation of the 26th Lokale Agenda Award
• Musical support
• Reception with drinks and a light snack

We look forward to your participation - on site or via livestream!

Note on accessibility:
The Plenary Hall of Dresden City Hall is barrier-free. There are elevators, wheelchair-accessible seats and an inductive hearing system for people with hearing aids. If you require assistance, our staff will be happy to help you on site. If you have any special requirements, please let us know when you register - we will be happy to assist you.

Contact us

This project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State governments.