UNDP Accelerator Labs – We design, test and scale solutions to complex issues

We design, test and scale solutions to complex issues

Although Serbia has a relatively high proportion of women in STEM, women are still facing significant headwinds in their careers. We are working to understand and resolve these issues through in-depth and innovative research.

Depopulation Portfolio

Faced with one of the most rapidly declining populations in the world, Serbia needs to redefine what it takes to be a thriving, productive society. We bring a new framing to depopulation, one of the most significant global trends of the future.

Depopulation Data Challenge

As an example of collective intelligence in action, we established new partnerships that leveraged alternative data sources – such as mobile data, social networks data, job ads data, satellite data – to shine a new light on the complex challenge of depopulation in Serbia.

Other themes

From encouraging models of circular migration to forecasting how work will look in the future, we are investigating and trying to overcome key developmental challenges in Serbia through novel approaches

Depopulation Data Challenge: Examining Depopulation Through a New Lens

Challenge call for individuals and organizations to use alternative data sources and bring new insights on depopulation

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Reproducing inequality: How AI image generators show biases against women in STEM

This blog explores the ways in which AI algorithms can reproduce gender stereotypes, and how this can have real-world implications for women in STEM.

Digital Nomads

We are investigating the value that digital nomads and other types of digital professionals bring to the development of a place, and testing how to maximize it.

Returning point and job market opportunity

Accelerator Lab and Returning point collaboration with Infostud, the largest job market company in Serbia, on creating new job opportunities for Serbian diaspora and returnees (Serbian only)

Two Things We Can Do to Prepare Our Societies for Changing Demographics

Op-ed by Francine Pickup (UNDP Serbia Resident Representative) for the Belgrade Security Forum on the strategic direction for addressing depopulation in Serbia

Depopulation Data Challenge Solution #4 – Biosense – Depopulation sensing by integrative knowledge discovery from big data

The solution developed by the PopInsight team of researchers from the BioSense Institute in Novi Sad (a winner of the Depopulation Data Challenge) used mobile, satellite and open data in order to better understand state-level depopulation trends

We know business as usual doesn’t work. But what does the alternative look like?

First in a three-part blog series explaining the portfolio approach as an instrument for system transformation, what it means and looks like in practice and how it differs from a traditional project approach. Based on an interview with Irena Cerovic (Head of Solutions mapping) as an early practitioner in UNDP