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What is UN 2.0? How does it apply to my day-to-day work? Where do I start?
The UN system is evolving fast, and those who adapt will lead. The UN 2.0 Bootcamp equips staff to turn emerging approaches into practical results.
In five focused days, following a short online onboarding session, you will build confidence to apply new tools, test ideas, and rethink how you work, alongside peers from across the UN system. You will leave with clear, actionable steps you can start using immediately to strengthen impact in your role.
The Bootcamp explores the Quintet of Change skills - data, digital, foresight, innovation, and behavioural science - as complementary capabilities that can strengthen how you plan, deliver, and adapt your work.
Rather than addressing each skill in isolation, the programme covers how these capabilities come together in practice, helping you:
- Make more informed, evidence-based decisions
- Design solutions that better reflect how people and systems behave
- Anticipate change and adapt proactively
- Experiment with new approaches and scale what works
Throughout the week, you will work on realistic scenarios and reflect on your own work challenges, supported by facilitators and peers.
By the end of the Bootcamp, you will be able to:
- Explain UN 2.0 and the Quintet of Change
- Apply relevant Quintet of Change concepts to your own work context
- Test and adapt practical tools and approaches through hands-on exercises
- Analyse and reflect on the implications of UN 2.0 skills for your practice
- Define and initiate next steps to integrate these approaches into your work
This Bootcamp combines pre-learning, interactive sessions, and applied practice:
Before the in-person session
Self-paced introductory module (1 month before):
- Participants complete the UN 2.0 - First Steps online micro-module. (1 hour)
Onboarding webinar (28 September 2026):
- An interactive session to meet facilitators and fellow participants, align expectations, and begin reflecting on your work context. (2 hours)
During the Bootcamp (5 to 9 October 2026)
The face-to-face experience is designed as an interactive learning environment focusing on the skills of Data, Digital, Foresight, Innovation and Behavioural science. It combines:
- Focused inputs to build shared understanding
- Hands-on exercises to experiment with tools and approaches
- Peer exchange and expert inputs to learn from diverse UN contexts
- Reflection sessions to connect learning to your own work
Participants will experiment with selected tools and approaches from across the Quintet of Change and explore how to adapt them to their own organizational realities.
In the Bootcamp, you will engage with the following aspects of the Quintet of Change:
- Data - exploring how data can inform decisions, including basic concepts, simple tools, and ways to interpret and communicate insights.
- Digital - reflecting on the role of digital technologies in your work and how to navigate digital transformation in practice.
- Foresight - exploring how to think about trends, risks, and uncertainty to inform planning and day-to-day decisions in your work.
- Innovation – using practical approaches to frame challenges, generate ideas, and test solutions in your work.
- Behavioural science – exploring how people make decisions and how small changes can improve how you design and deliver your work.
UN staff at P-2 level and above, including those who are:
- working across functions (programme, policy, operations, coordination, administration, etc.).
- seeking to strengthen how they approach their work, using UN 2.0 skills.
- interested in experimenting with new ways of working, even without prior expertise in the Quintet of Change.
The individual fee for this programme is USD 2,500, and covers all elements described above.
UN entities interested in enrolling groups of staff may be charged a discounted fee.
