ETH - Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Forum-SCM at ETH
Kreuzplatz 5
8032
Zürich
Switzerland
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This course enhances participants’ understanding of the challenges low- and middle-income countries face in achieving food security. It focuses on measurement tools and intervention design in different contexts.
Sep 29, 2025 - Oct 01, 2025
General Management
English
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This course explores the complex relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and sustainable human development.
Nov 03, 2025 - Nov 04, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
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This course provides insights on dialogue, negotiation, and mediation process design in the areas of development, peace, and governance-building in fragile contexts.
Nov 03, 2025 - Nov 04, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
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This course covers political processes and how they intertwine with the goals and strategies of various agents in international cooperation.
Nov 13, 2025 - Nov 14, 2025
Entrepreneurship/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility
English
5
If you wonder how to handle disinformation in international cooperation contexts, this course is for you.
Nov 24, 2025 - Nov 26, 2025
Project Management
English
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This course covers political processes and how they intertwine with the goals and strategies of various agents in international cooperation.
Dec 01, 2025 - Dec 03, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
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This course explores the various roles that international cooperation actors can play, with a specific emphasis on conflict, persecution and migration, labour migration and the intersections of migration, environment, and climate change.
Dec 08, 2025 - Dec 10, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
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This course equips participants to integrate behavior change into development interventions. It covers ethical considerations, social norm change, and principles for effective social and behaviour change communication.
Dec 16, 2025 - Dec 18, 2025
Change/ Government / Public Administration/ Strategy
English
9
This course explores the various roles that international cooperation actors can play, with a specific emphasis on conflict, persecution and migration, labour migration and the intersections of migration, environment, and climate change.
Jan 19, 2026 - Jan 23, 2026
Government / Public Administration
English
10
This course enhances your understanding of cooperation modalities, organisational dynamics, and equips you to assess opportunities and risks in joint initiatives.
Jan 26, 2026 - Jan 28, 2026
Government / Public Administration
English
11
This course offers pragmatic conflict analysis approaches and peacebuilding tools that can be embedded into conflict management practices and programmes.
Feb 02, 2026 - Feb 05, 2026
Government / Public Administration
English
1
Impact evaluation in practice
The objective of this course is to enable participants to use existing impact evaluations for strategic and operational decision-making, and to commission and manage new impact evaluations when needed.
Sep 24, 2025 - Sep 26, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
2
Gender and economics
Economic inequalities between men and women persist in many countries. This course trains development practitioners and agency staff in formulating and implementing gender-responsive economic policies.
Jun 23, 2025 - Jun 27, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
3
Design thinking for sustainable development
This course provides an introduction to design thinking for social impact. Participants will gain an introduction to the design thinking process, methods, tools, and mindsets, and experience and reflect on them through application to a real sustainable development challenge.
May 26, 2025 - May 28, 2025
Design Thinking
English
Completed
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Decolonising aid
The understanding of the impacts of colonialism and its relics in contemporary aid management is important for development practitioners. This course offers insights into this, and provides tools and approaches for decolonising aid.
May 05, 2025 - May 09, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
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Evaluation of projects and programmes
This class uses practical examples and peer interaction to deepen participants’ understanding of planning, accompanying and appraising evaluations of projects and programmes in international cooperation, from the perspective of a commissioning officer.
Mar 24, 2025 - Mar 28, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
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Climate change and sustainable development
This course aims to equip participants with a basic understanding of climate change topics as they relate to sustainable development, and to give them the tools to integrate climate change considerations into development projects.
Mar 17, 2025 - Mar 21, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
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Geodatenanalyse und -verarbeitung mit Python und Opensource-Bibliotheken
Dieser Kurs vermittelt, wie Geodaten mit Open-Source-Tools wie GDAL/OGR und Shapely analysiert, verarbeitet und visualisiert werden, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Vektordaten liegt.
Mar 12, 2025 - Mar 14, 2025
Information Technology (IT)
German
Completed
13
Modellbasierter Datenaustausch und Strukturumbau mit INTERLIS
Dieser Kurs behandelt die Grundlagen und Werkzeuge zur Umsetzung einer Geodaten-Infrastruktur (GDI) mit Fokus auf die effiziente Vernetzung von Geodatenbereitstellung und -nutzung.
Mar 10, 2025 - Mar 12, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
German
Completed
14
Geodatenmanagement mit PostgreSQL und PostGIS
Dieser Kurs bietet eine Einführung in das Open-Source-Datenbanksystem PostgreSQL und die räumliche Erweiterung PostGIS. Inhalte umfassen Geodatenmodellierung, Datenbankadministration, Vektor- und Rasteranalysen, Projektionen, Trigger, und Funktionen. Praktische GIS-Beispiele ergänzen das theoretische Wissen.
Mar 05, 2025 - Mar 07, 2025
Energy & Natural Resources/ Information Technology (IT)
German
Completed
15
ICT4D – concepts, strategies and good practices
Digitalisation brings immense opportunities, but it also risks further marginalising disadvantaged groups. We explore ways to ensure that innovation and technology are applied equitably and responsibly.
Mar 04, 2025 - Mar 05, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
16
Geoprozessierung mit Python: Einführung in die Skriptsprache und Geodatenverarbeitung mit ArcPy
Dieser Kurs bietet eine Einführung in die Python-Syntax und -Konzepte, die für die Automatisierung von GIS-Prozessen in ArcGIS Pro notwendig sind.
Mar 03, 2025 - Mar 05, 2025
Information Technology (IT)
German
Completed
17
Leveraging private impact investors in development cooperation
The course provides an introduction to the terminology and instruments involved in impact investing and evaluates developmental opportunities and trade-offs.
Feb 26, 2025 - Feb 28, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
18
Planning and monitoring of projects
Real-life project examples, individual and group exercises, and peer exchanges build on participants’ experiences to reinforce their knowledge of the methods and tools used in planning and monitoring projects in international cooperation.
Feb 17, 2025 - Feb 21, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
19
Health data and AI: responsible innovations, ethics and regulatory strategies
This short course offers a critical overview and understanding of the ethical and regulatory challenges triggered by the use of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) in the health sector.
Jan 27, 2025 - Jan 29, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Healthcare
English
Completed
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Planning and monitoring of projects
Real-life project examples, individual and group exercises, and peer exchanges build on participants’ experiences to reinforce their knowledge of the methods and tools used in planning and monitoring projects in international cooperation.
Sep 15, 2025 - Sep 19, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
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Forum-SCM at ETH
Kreuzplatz 5
8032
Zürich
Switzerland
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