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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
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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
Civil Engineering (BSc)
One of your tasks consists of defining the size of the work. As the case may be, you will succeed thanks to statics (the calculation of stresses in a structure), your expertise in the behavior of materials (resistance and deformability), your knowledge of geotechnology (soil characteristics), of hydraulics, or in the field or energy or transportation. Work, which increasingly relies on computer modeling tools. Besides gaining expertise in the primary building techniques, you must also demonstrate your creativity, in order to offer solutions which are able to gain the broadest possible support for your projects.
Program Presentation BSc (180 ECTS credits)
The training in basic sciences (mathematics and physics) is spread out over the three years of the BSc, thus allowing you to tackle a good number of specific civil-engineering classes even in the first year (statics, geology, structures, materials). The second and third years include classes in soil and fluid mechanics, structures (concrete, metal, etc.), hydraulics, ending with a first project applying and synthesizing your knowledge.
Deadlines: Applications can be filled online from end of January to the 30th of April.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
As a civil engineer you not only participate in the design, planning, and execution of infrastructures but also in their maintenance and use. Depending on the scope of the project, one and the same person can be entrusted with all of these tasks or they can be shared out as team work.One of your tasks consists of defining the size of the work. As the case may be, you will succeed thanks to statics (the calculation of stresses in a structure), your expertise in the behavior of materials (resistance and deformability), your knowledge of geotechnology (soil characteristics), of hydraulics, or in the field or energy or transportation. Work, which increasingly relies on computer modeling tools. Besides gaining expertise in the primary building techniques, you must also demonstrate your creativity, in order to offer solutions which are able to gain the broadest possible support for your projects.
Program Presentation BSc (180 ECTS credits)
The training in basic sciences (mathematics and physics) is spread out over the three years of the BSc, thus allowing you to tackle a good number of specific civil-engineering classes even in the first year (statics, geology, structures, materials). The second and third years include classes in soil and fluid mechanics, structures (concrete, metal, etc.), hydraulics, ending with a first project applying and synthesizing your knowledge.
Deadlines: Applications can be filled online from end of January to the 30th of April.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Fragile Contexts – From Humanitarian Aid to Development (25.11. – 29.11.2019)
Duration: 25.11. – 29.11.2019
Registration for courses in the fall semester 2019 start on the 27th of May 2019.
The course can either be taken individually, or as a part of the CAS in Development Cooperation.
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
Turbulence, uncertainty, novelty and ambiguity (TUNA) have become key features in many countries where international cooperation is engaged, often alongside of actors from humanitarian aid, mediation and security. To cope with permanent change, successful strategies and programs need to enhance agility and collaboration in planning, management and steering. Combining theoretical input with case studies, this course explores the characteristics of fragility, how they can be assessed and monitored and how development programming has to be adapted. It also discusses cooperation between actors seeking to engage in these contexts.Duration: 25.11. – 29.11.2019
Registration for courses in the fall semester 2019 start on the 27th of May 2019.
The course can either be taken individually, or as a part of the CAS in Development Cooperation.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL), 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
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
VET Between Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development (04.11. – 08.11.2019)
Duration: 04.11. – 08.11.2019
Registration for courses in the fall semester 2019 start on the 27th of May 2019.
The course can either be taken individually, or as a part of the CAS in Development Cooperation.
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
In recent years there has been increasing international interest in vocational education and training (VET). The discussion about the success factors of VET and the extent dual VET can offer advantages to developing countries however is still ongoing. Switzerland, with its own unique and strong VET system has a long tradition of implementing VET in development countries. Experts from the field will feed in their experience into the course, which provides an overview of the systems and process dimensions of VET, opportunities for VET implementation, their implications, as well as constraints. At the end, participants will have strengthened their competence in portfolio management for VET, skills development and labor market policies.Duration: 04.11. – 08.11.2019
Registration for courses in the fall semester 2019 start on the 27th of May 2019.
The course can either be taken individually, or as a part of the CAS in Development Cooperation.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL), Switzerland
Communication Systems
Program’s Objectives
The internationally diverse faculty is composed of world-renowned visionaries in their fields. The research programs cover almost all aspects of modern communications, including theoretical foundations, security, signal processing, vision, networking, computer engineering and systems. The extensive list of our industrial contacts favors fruitful interplay between our cutting-edge research and its transfer into real world situations, and helps students gain valuable industrial experience during their studies.
Graduates from the program in Communication Systems will be ready for careers in fields such as development, research, operations and management. Numerous graduates have also launched their own companies.
Entry Requirements
Candidates must have a certificate of Bachelor in Computer Science from a recognized university , with excellent academic records. A Bachelor title in Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field may be accepted with complementary credits to fill any gaps.
Application: important deadlines
Applications can be filled online from mid-November to the 15th of January, or from the 16th of January to the 15th of April.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
The Master's Program in Communication Systems offers prospective candidates a unique education emphasizing the global interplay of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Research in this program is focused on building and demonstrating technologies that will be required in next-generation systems and their integration into operational communication systems.Program’s Objectives
The internationally diverse faculty is composed of world-renowned visionaries in their fields. The research programs cover almost all aspects of modern communications, including theoretical foundations, security, signal processing, vision, networking, computer engineering and systems. The extensive list of our industrial contacts favors fruitful interplay between our cutting-edge research and its transfer into real world situations, and helps students gain valuable industrial experience during their studies.
Graduates from the program in Communication Systems will be ready for careers in fields such as development, research, operations and management. Numerous graduates have also launched their own companies.
Entry Requirements
Candidates must have a certificate of Bachelor in Computer Science from a recognized university , with excellent academic records. A Bachelor title in Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field may be accepted with complementary credits to fill any gaps.
Application: important deadlines
Applications can be filled online from mid-November to the 15th of January, or from the 16th of January to the 15th of April.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Qualitative Research for Development Practitioners (28.10. – 01.11.2019)
Duration: 28.10. – 01.11.2019
Registration for courses in the fall semester 2019 start on the 27th of May 2019.
The course can either be taken individually, or as a part of the CAS in Development Cooperation.
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
Qualitative research has much to offer to the practical work of development organizations. This course will provide an overview of the principles and practice of qualitative research and illustrate ways in which qualitative research can be incorporated into the program cycle. Participants will learn to collect data using qualitative methods such as observation, interviews and focus group discussion, and will become familiar with the techniques of qualitative data analysis and the communication of results. The course aims to build the skills of development practitioners in using qualitative methods confidently, including the ability to communicate findings to different audiences.Duration: 28.10. – 01.11.2019
Registration for courses in the fall semester 2019 start on the 27th of May 2019.
The course can either be taken individually, or as a part of the CAS in Development Cooperation.
DegreeCourse TypeLanguage
- English
ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL), Switzerland
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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