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MOOC: Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges
Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) How can we address societal challenges with research? Investigate the principles, processes, and uses of transdisciplinarity. In today’s world, we face many complex societal challenges. Projects addressing these challenges often involve actors and stakeholders from different fields and disciplines bringing together their own perspectives or knowledge on a topic. Accordingly, collaborative transdisciplinary approaches are crucial for the success of a project. On this course, you’ll explore how to meet the challenges of conducting effective transdisciplinary research. You’ll gain insights into a variety of case studies from different fields as you learn from the experiences of peers and experts.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • English
Topic

Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE), Switzerland


Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development
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
Topic

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland


Migraciones y Relaciones Internacionales
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) Fechas de realización: Del 14 de octubre al 20 de diciembre de 2019

La Migración y la Globalización desde 1989 se han convertido en actores importantes dentro del sistema de Relaciones Internacionales. A través de este curso se intentarán responder cuestiones tales como ¿Cómo se han convertido los flujos migratorios en un actor internacional? ¿Cuáles han sido las políticas diseñadas por los gobiernos y las organizaciones internacionales hacia los flujos migratorios? ¿Qué tipos de migraciones existen? Al finalizar este Diploma se contará con el conocimiento necesario para analizar y evaluar el impacto de las migraciones en el ámbito internacional, así como con las bases para profundizar en este ámbito.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • Spanish
Topic

Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Spain


China in Africa: Free Course Explores the Oil Link
Introduction to Migration Studies
United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) Take courses from the comfort of your own home or office! Perfect for those of you who want to increase your knowledge about migration, immigration and emigration without having to follow a full-time course.

This course is geared towards practitioners in the field but is also open to other types of students interested in learning more about migration studies. This course covers eight weeks. You will receive weekly assignments and online lectures. You are free to work at your own pace and within the confines of your own schedule. Over eight weeks you will cover: important terms, concepts, definitions, data and flows. Theories across disciplines will be covered including theories on:
1) Causes of migration: functionalist and structuralist perspectives,
2) Impacts of migration: migration and development,
3) The continuation of migration: networks, migration systems and cumulative causation, and
4) Migration as an intrinsic part of development and change.
The course finishes up with country case studies from both migrant sending countries and migrant receiving countries.

After completing this course, you will have the opportunity to take other online migration courses including: Course 2: Migration and Remittance Effects and Course 3: Comparative Migration Policy
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • English
Topic

United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Netherlands


Industrial Policy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for Africa, Starting 9 September 2019
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) In this course from the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), brought to you by the SDG Academy, you will hear from researcher John Page and other leading voices in development economics about the range of activities known “industries without smokestacks,” and learn how industrial policy that promotes the growth of these industries presents a win-win scenario for economic development in Africa. This course is for Policy professionals who want to understand how industrial policy can create win-win strategies for growth and development; Development practitioners seeking insight into how to address the need for industrialization in Africa and Advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in economics, development, industrialization, and other key concepts related to Africa’s development
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • English

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Finland


Global Development Management
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP) Gain a framework for analysing development management practice
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
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • English
Topic

Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP), United Kingdom


International Development (Poverty, Inequality and Development) by Distance Learning MSc/PGDip
International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD) Study from anywhere in the world with practitioners in government, civil society and the private sector, as well as with people new to development.

The broad purpose of this programme is to give those working in the area of poverty reduction and development in developing and transitional countries, or those wishing to work in such areas, a firmer grounding in understanding poverty and inequality, promoting poverty reduction and analysing the performance of major poverty reducing programmes and policies.

The core module aims to familiarise students with key concepts (eg development and poverty) and theories (eg modernisation, dependency, neo-liberalism and the ‘crisis’ in development theory) and with the changing roles of international development organisations and states in promoting international development (eg through aid, trade and fiscal, monetary and social policies).

The emphasis throughout will be on encouraging students to reflect critically on what has worked well or not and why. Students will select three optional modules (at 20 credits each) based on their individual interests and career aspirations.

Start date: September
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • English
Topic

International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD), United Kingdom


Children's Rights and the Right to Development, 9 October - 5 November 2019
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) n October 2019, ISS professor Karin Arts will be teaching about Children's Rights and the Right to Development as part of the free online course 'Operationalizing the Right to Development in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals' organized by the University for Peace. Running now the fourth time, this course will be held from 9 October to 5 November 2019. There is no fee for this interactive e-learning module though registration is required. The deadline for registration is 31 August 2019.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • English

International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands


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Introduction to Political Science
United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) Are you too busy to be a full-time student for 10 weeks while looking, at the same time, to increase your knowledge in the foundations of political science? If yes, we have the solution. Enrol in our online political science course and follow it from the comfort of your home. This course is designed to offer academic quality knowledge on theory and practice of political science in a thorough and highly accessible way.

The course ‘Introduction to Political Science’ provides a rigorous introduction to the foundation, structure and operation of the world politics. It includes leading theoretical and institutional flows in the study of state, ideologies, nation, ethnicity, identity, democracy, globalisation, and political interaction. These are fundaments which are indispensable to understanding political dynamics in the contemporary world. The structure of the course is oriented towards understanding the strengths and weaknesses of political concepts in order for every participant to gain a critical perspective on their own.

The duration of the course is 10 weeks, split in 5 learning modules. All learning modules consist of online lectures, tutorial supervision, and weekly assignments. The moderation of readings and the tutor-student interaction will allow participants to work efficiently according to everyone’s personal schedule. Upon completion of this course (or in parallel to it) you can follow another online course, namely ‘Governance in Theory and Practice’.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
  • English
Topic

United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Netherlands


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