Nairobi, 11 January 2022 – UN-Habitat announces the opening of the online application process for events and the booking process for exhibition space at the Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF11) in Katowice, Poland. 

The Urban Expo has no deadline and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Application deadline for the following six events is 7 March 2022:

  1. Networking events
  2. Voices from Cities
  3. SDG in Action
  4. Urban Library
  5. ONE UN
  6. Training events

The online registration for the June 26-30 event started on 15 December 2021 and will remain open until 22 June 2022.

Interested partners should complete the WUF11 online registration process (https://www.unevents.org/Home/Register) and then fill out the appropriate application form for the above-mentioned events type through the Personal Profile dashboard.  

WUF11 is co-organised with Poland’s Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy and the Municipal Office of Katowice.

WUF is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat. It examines the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. 

Thousands of participants and guests representing national, regional, and local governments, academics, business leaders, community leaders, urban planners are expected to attend WUF11.