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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.Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE), Switzerland
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
A Resilient Future: Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction
What you'll learn
Participants will be able to:
- Explain Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) related concepts and science and technology for DRR.
- Identify and describe existing and emerging technologies for landslide and flood reduction.
- Explain methodological tools to assess vulnerabilities and risk and strengthen the resilience of communities at risk of landslides, floods and earthquakes.
- Exemplify the role and the challenges of science and technological innovations for disaster risk reduction in an interdisciplinary manner including the importance of social aspects.
- Recognize some of the actors active in DRR and international policy frameworks and technology for DRR.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
This course aims to introduce participants to existing and emerging technologies suitable for disaster risk reduction while promoting the overall aim of sustainable development. The course focuses on three main natural hazards- floods, landslides and earthquakes. It also discusses the challenges and limits of adapting and adopting technologies depending on context (Global North and Global South) with examples from Switzerland, Nepal, Colombia, Philippines and other countries.What you'll learn
Participants will be able to:
- Explain Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) related concepts and science and technology for DRR.
- Identify and describe existing and emerging technologies for landslide and flood reduction.
- Explain methodological tools to assess vulnerabilities and risk and strengthen the resilience of communities at risk of landslides, floods and earthquakes.
- Exemplify the role and the challenges of science and technological innovations for disaster risk reduction in an interdisciplinary manner including the importance of social aspects.
- Recognize some of the actors active in DRR and international policy frameworks and technology for DRR.
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
Migraciones y Relaciones Internacionales
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.
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)
Fechas de realización: Del 14 de octubre al 20 de diciembre de 2019La 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
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Spain
International Development (Poverty, Inequality and Development) by Distance Learning MSc/PGDip
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
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
International Development Department, University of Birmingham (IDD), United Kingdom
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 developmentUnited Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Finland
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
Environmental Justice - Understand How Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Deforestation Affect People, Exploring Justice in Environment Management.
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV)
5 weeks course, 4 hours per weekSchool of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV), United Kingdom
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