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Trade, Intellectual Property & Health, 17-19 February 2020
IHEID
Graduate Institute (IHEID)
This course will introduce participants to the interface of trade, intellectual property and public health policies and increase participant understanding of these intersections. The course will also include the following topics of discussion: The challenges of balancing innovation and access to medical products; How to foster R&D for antimicrobial resistance and balance stewardship; WTO dispute settlement and the example of plain packaging; Food labelling and the WTO TBT and SPS agreements;Challenges and perspectives for the futureGraduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland
IHEID
Master of Advanced Studies in Development and Cooperation (MAS ETH DC)
Autumn Semester:
During the first semester, students acquire theoretical and empirical knowledge about the most pressing global and local challenges. The courses combine lectures and workshops and allow for extensive discussion between classmates and lecturers. The courses are bilingual (in German and English), multidisciplinary, and policy oriented.
In the core courses, students obtain a solid understanding of important historical, socioeconomic, political, and environmental development processes.
On-the-job-training:
The first study semester is followed by a 8-10 month on-the-job training with a multilateral, bi-lateral, or non-governmental organization. This job assignment is designed to immerse students in a complex and intercultural working environment.
Spring Semester
In the final semester, the students deepen their knowledge of specific methods and policies to address global and local development challenges. Students can select from numerous courses on methods to identify innovative solutions or on policy implementation strategies that improve the livelihoods of the poor. They link cutting-edge research with policies and practice. MAS students are given the option of taking the block course on either a full-time (during the spring semester) or part-time basis, but must complete six courses within two years.
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
The Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Development and Cooperation offers students an inspiring environment in which they can acquire an understanding of local and global development challenges as well as the tools and methods to find innovative solutions to address them. The program combines studies at ETH with experiential learning at an international organization. This provides students with both the theoretical background and practical experience necessary to successfully pursue a career devoted to more inclusive and sustainable societies.Autumn Semester:
During the first semester, students acquire theoretical and empirical knowledge about the most pressing global and local challenges. The courses combine lectures and workshops and allow for extensive discussion between classmates and lecturers. The courses are bilingual (in German and English), multidisciplinary, and policy oriented.
In the core courses, students obtain a solid understanding of important historical, socioeconomic, political, and environmental development processes.
On-the-job-training:
The first study semester is followed by a 8-10 month on-the-job training with a multilateral, bi-lateral, or non-governmental organization. This job assignment is designed to immerse students in a complex and intercultural working environment.
Spring Semester
In the final semester, the students deepen their knowledge of specific methods and policies to address global and local development challenges. Students can select from numerous courses on methods to identify innovative solutions or on policy implementation strategies that improve the livelihoods of the poor. They link cutting-edge research with policies and practice. MAS students are given the option of taking the block course on either a full-time (during the spring semester) or part-time basis, but must complete six courses within two years.
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL), Switzerland
Máster Globalización, Desarrollo y Cooperación (XIX edición)
En este contexto de desigualdad económica, social y territorial, el desarrollo y la cooperación, aunque en continua transformación para adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos, siguen siendo dos polos de referencia en cualquier discurso estratégico de futuro, si es que ese futuro ha de ser posible para toda la humanidad.
Este título propio de la Universidad de Barcelona (60 créditos ECTS), organizado conjuntamente con la Fundación Món-3 y la Fundación Solidaritat UB, pretende seguir formando, como lo ha hecho desde 1989, especialistas que puedan intervenir directamente en la construcción de unas estrategias de desarrollo y unas relaciones de cooperación que apuntalen un mundo posible de solidaridad y bienestar, respetuoso con la naturaleza, esperanzador para las generaciones futuras y necesariamente distinto al actual.
De enero de 2020 a septiembre de 2021
Món-3, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (Món-3)
El mundo del siglo XXI ofrece unas terribles asimetrías entre riqueza y pobreza, seguridad y conflictos, progreso y deterioro medioambiental, etc. La globalización económica ha afectado irremisiblemente a los otros ámbitos de la existencia social, configurando definitivamente un sistema económico mundial en el que las brechas entre sus centros y sus periferias no parecen sino reproducirse eternamente.En este contexto de desigualdad económica, social y territorial, el desarrollo y la cooperación, aunque en continua transformación para adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos, siguen siendo dos polos de referencia en cualquier discurso estratégico de futuro, si es que ese futuro ha de ser posible para toda la humanidad.
Este título propio de la Universidad de Barcelona (60 créditos ECTS), organizado conjuntamente con la Fundación Món-3 y la Fundación Solidaritat UB, pretende seguir formando, como lo ha hecho desde 1989, especialistas que puedan intervenir directamente en la construcción de unas estrategias de desarrollo y unas relaciones de cooperación que apuntalen un mundo posible de solidaridad y bienestar, respetuoso con la naturaleza, esperanzador para las generaciones futuras y necesariamente distinto al actual.
De enero de 2020 a septiembre de 2021
DegreeLanguage
- Spanish
Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development
What you'll learn
- Determine how contextual factors influence technology development and deployment.
- Create innovative technologies that sustainably impact poverty.
- Lead a technology innovation process -from initial concept to product scale-up- maximizing impact and minimizing risk.
- Evaluate alternative business models for technologies intended to impact poverty.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Technology innovation can be a great enabler for development in low and middle-income countries. This course presents a methodology and an approach to develop impactful innovations that have the power to foster sustainable development. Whether you are from an industrialized or a developing country, whether you are employed in a company, an NGO, an international organization or a government. Whether you are an academic, an independent entrepreneur, or simply a passionate individual, this course is for you. You will learn how, as an innovator, you can help solve important issues that burden those living in poverty. Through practical examples, we will demonstrate how you can take your initiative from a blank sheet of paper through to large-scale deployment of your technology innovation. This course is not just about coming up with a nice idea, or designing a nice prototype, but more importantly, about sustainably deploying it at large scale. It fosters an entrepreneurial approach, as you will learn how to design business models that are relevant to address development-related challenges. It encourages co-creating the solution with the key stakeholders involved, including the affected populations. Coming-up with solutions that are more affordable and more durable, that require less use of consumables and electricity while still being economically viable, concerns all of us, and not just the people living in poverty. There is no previous knowledge required.What you'll learn
- Determine how contextual factors influence technology development and deployment.
- Create innovative technologies that sustainably impact poverty.
- Lead a technology innovation process -from initial concept to product scale-up- maximizing impact and minimizing risk.
- Evaluate alternative business models for technologies intended to impact poverty.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Climate Change and Development, 30.03. – 03.04.2020
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
The world’s climate is rapidly changing due to global warming, and will continue to do so for decades and centuries ahead. Changing climate has an impact on all regions around the world, but poor people in developing countries are most severely affected. Consequently, climate change has taken a lead position on the international development agenda. This course aims to equip participants with a better understanding of the interlinkages between climate change and development, and enable them to integrate climate change considerations into the planning and implementation of development projects.ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL), Switzerland
MSc Development Management
Key facts
– Thousands of students, from former Presidents to country field workers, from over 100 countries have completed an OU Development Management qualification
– DPP provides supported distance learning. For each module you take you will have a dedicated tutor and access to a programme of tutorials and seminars both online and face-to-face
– DPP offers certificates, diplomas and a full MSc so students can build towards a qualification depending on their work and time commitments
– The Development Management team includes members of the Development Policy and Practice Group – the academics who teach and undertake research into development management – and the Associate Lecturers (ALs), the tutors who help guide the learning of all our students. Wherever you study you will be in the company of the team and our students worldwide, and can enjoy networking with fellow-students, development practitioners and academics
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP)
This course will provide you with the analytical and pragmatic tools to address global challenges, issues of inequalities, violence, migration, health, justice and security. The DPP groups qualifications are grounded in theory from different disciplines but are practice based, providing both ideas to challenge you and practical skills for working in international development. The course offers a range of qualifications, each building towards a Masters programme. This allows you to work in your own time and offers maximum flexibility. The modules mostly run twice a year and have been designed to be studied around your work and family life commitments.Key facts
– Thousands of students, from former Presidents to country field workers, from over 100 countries have completed an OU Development Management qualification
– DPP provides supported distance learning. For each module you take you will have a dedicated tutor and access to a programme of tutorials and seminars both online and face-to-face
– DPP offers certificates, diplomas and a full MSc so students can build towards a qualification depending on their work and time commitments
– The Development Management team includes members of the Development Policy and Practice Group – the academics who teach and undertake research into development management – and the Associate Lecturers (ALs), the tutors who help guide the learning of all our students. Wherever you study you will be in the company of the team and our students worldwide, and can enjoy networking with fellow-students, development practitioners and academics
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP), United Kingdom
Global Development Management
What are the challenges of development? How do we overcome them? This postgraduate qualification addresses the complexities of development and will help you build the skills needed to manage these challenges. This degree builds on the global agenda for sustainable development and assumes that development management is a political and ethical process. It addresses how to achieve goals in contexts affected by conflicts of interests, values, and agendas. You’ll learn skills related to strategic thinking, research, advocacy, and policymaking that are necessary for a career as a development manager.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of your studies, you have studied the:
- different conceptualisations of development and its management in theory and practice
- key concepts and theories that reveal development management as a process that is personal, political and professional
- tools, methods and frameworks for investigation and analysis aimed at informing development policy and practice.
Programs on this degree
- Global Development in Practice: Bringing about change
- Global Development in Practice: Discovering development management
- Global Development in Practice: Doing development
- Global Development in Practice: Understanding development contexts
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP)
Gain a framework for analysing development management practiceWhat are the challenges of development? How do we overcome them? This postgraduate qualification addresses the complexities of development and will help you build the skills needed to manage these challenges. This degree builds on the global agenda for sustainable development and assumes that development management is a political and ethical process. It addresses how to achieve goals in contexts affected by conflicts of interests, values, and agendas. You’ll learn skills related to strategic thinking, research, advocacy, and policymaking that are necessary for a career as a development manager.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of your studies, you have studied the:
- different conceptualisations of development and its management in theory and practice
- key concepts and theories that reveal development management as a process that is personal, political and professional
- tools, methods and frameworks for investigation and analysis aimed at informing development policy and practice.
Programs on this degree
- Global Development in Practice: Bringing about change
- Global Development in Practice: Discovering development management
- Global Development in Practice: Doing development
- Global Development in Practice: Understanding development contexts
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP), United Kingdom
Master of Science "Geopgraphy of Environmental Risks and Human Security"
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United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER); United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS); United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)
The main purpose of the 2-year Master of Science programme is to provide postgraduate students with detailed knowledge, critical understanding, strategies and the tools required to take and interdisciplinary approach towards environmental risks and human security. Deadline for applictions 15 December 2019United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Finland
United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Germany
United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Netherlands
Course to Help Aid Workers Keep Young and Vulnerable Safe - Safeguarding Essentials Course
This course will build your understanding of what safeguarding is in the humanitarian and development sector. It will look at a diverse range of safeguarding issues affecting the vulnerable groups we serve and focus on the 'non-negotiables for conduct' in safeguarding. It is aimed at anyone working in the humanitarian and development sectors, but is relevant to all working in organisations where safeguarding issues are a concern. The course is written at an introductory level and is modularised to facilitate easy engagement and suit practitioners in the field. It is both a pathway to understanding what safeguarding is and how you can help tackle safeguarding breaches.
DegreeLanguage
- English
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP), United Kingdom
Impact Evaluations in Practice, 24.03. – 27.03.2020
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
Impact evaluations are a key tool for making evidence-informed decisions to increase the social impact of projects, policies and organizations. The objective of this course is to enable participants to use existing impact evaluations for project planning and to commission and manage new impact evaluations for their organizations. The course provides an overview of the most often used quantitative methods for impact evaluation as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Participants will discuss and learn from existing impact evaluations within the field of development cooperation and policy. Using case studies that participants will bring from their own organization to the course, they will conduct all the steps involved in an impact evaluation –planning, implementation, analysis and reporting. To follow the course, participants should be familiar with the topics and concepts covered in the course “Planning and Monitoring of Projects” and „Evaluation von Projekten“.DegreeLanguage
- English
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL), Switzerland
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