- 21st Century Diplomacy (online course)
Training Institution: DiploFoundation
Start and finish date: 26 Jul 2010 for 10 weeks
Short description: This course gives insight into the contemporary practice of diplomacy, blending theoretical concepts with practice. Assuming that course participants are familiar with the basics, it should deepen their understanding of significant issues in diplomacy management. It focuses on the way relations between countries are managed, and how the foreign policy process operates in the real world. The studies are practitioner-oriented, and should interest working diplomats, international affairs specialists, and those engaged in international organisations and global business.
This course was originally developed in a shorter, self-learning format for the Canadian Foreign Service Institute.
This course is conducted entirely online over a period of 10 weeks. Reading materials and tools for online interaction are provided through an online classroom. Each week, participants read the provided lecture text, adding questions, comments and references in the form of hypertext entries. Lecturers and other participants read and respond to these entries, creating interaction based on the lecture text. During the week, participants complete additional online activities (for example, further discussion via blogs or forums, quizzes, group tasks, simulations or short assignments). At the end of the week, participants and lecturers meet online in a chat room to discuss the week’s topic. To complete the course successfully, participants must also write one or two essay assignments and a final examination. Courses are based on a collaborative approach to learning, involving a high level of interaction.
Location of study: Online
- A World in Motion: A Multinational Conference on Migration and Migration Policy
Training Institution: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University
Start and finish date: 18-20 February 2010
Location of study: Maastricht
- Advanced Master in International Development AMID
Training Institution: Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen
Start and finish date: The programme lasts one year and runs from January till December.
Short description: The complex challenges of poverty and development in a globalizing world are making increasing demands on those working in the field of development cooperation. Meeting these challenges asks for creative professionals who can integrate critical thinking and practical experience.
With the Advanced Master in International Development, CIDIN aims to educate young academics by linking their first work experience in the field of development cooperation with personal, professional and academic training and reflection. The programme seeks to keep abreast with the challenging realities of the development sector and the changing requirements of women and men starting a career in the field of development.
The 25 to 30 trainees are employed by one of the participating development organisations in the Netherlands for four days a week. On Fridays the trainees have lectures at the university. Trainees are employed as junior staff and take up regular tasks in programme or policy departments under supervision of senior staff.
Location of study: Around 15-20 NGOs, based in the Netherlands. Courses at CIDIN, Radboud university Nijmegen.
- Africa and International Development MSc
Training Institution: Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Start and finish date: From September 2009 annually (one year full-time)
Short description: The MSc in Africa and International Development locates African development firmly in theory and practice. It contextualises and analyses the processes that have shaped poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, and the many responses to them. The programme provides students with critical skills in analysing development policy and undertaking development research.
Location of study: Edinburgh
- African Studies MSc
Training Institution: Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Start and finish date: From September annually (one year full-time)
Short description: Africa has become the focus of unprecedented global attention in recent years and embodies many of the most fundamental issues that face us in a rapidly changing world: how we interact with the environment; how globalisation affects our cultures and lives; how to assess the limits and potential of the state; how to erradicate poverty; and how the past shapes the future. More than ever, contextual knowledge and new analytical perspectives are needed to interpret, understand and respond to these issues and challenges. As well, research on and in Africa is providing exciting and new perspectives on scientific, humanistic and social science disciplines, and the arts. Our MSc programme equips students to develop these perspectives using approaches from a wide range of disciplines, and provides a broad knowledge of this dynamic and diverse continent.
The MSc in African Studies focuses on analysing the dynamics of contemporary Africa and its historical roots drawing on the core disciplines of politics, history, social anthropology and religious studies.
Location of study: The University of Edinburgh
Graduate School of Social and Political Studies
- African Studies MSc by Research
Training Institution: Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Start and finish date: From September annually
Short description: The MSc by Research provides training in the advanced research skills necessary to complete independent research in the African context. This training may form preparation for a PhD in African Studies. The MSc by Research provides students with either a structured training for research skills relevant to African Studies to enable them to continue to the PhD or MPhil, or, as a stand-alone degree, the basis for a research career.
A typical programme might involve successful completion of the following training courses in the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies.
* Research Design
* Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection
* Core Quantitative Data Analysis
Together with the following courses in the African Studies subject group.
* Africa: Methodological and Practical Issues
* African Studies: Conceptual and Theoretical Underpinnings
* Understanding Contemporary African Issues
Location of study: The University of Edinburgh
Graduate School of Social and Political Studies
- African Studies PhD
Training Institution: Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Start and finish date: From September annually
Short description: The Centre of African Studies offers a PhD programme with an international reputation, awarded from one of the world's leading universities.
Usually undertaken full-time over three years, or part-time over six years, the PhD in African Studies is a research degree in which students make an original contribution to our knowledge of Africa by pursuing an extended and focused piece of research on a topic of interest to them. The Centre of African Studies is supported by the Graduate School of Social and Political Science and this enables students to acquire a broader set of transferable and research skills during their time studying for their PhD.
Location of study: The University of Edinburgh
Graduate School of Social and Political Studies
- Agricultural Sciences in Goettingen (IPAG) - International Ph.D. Program
Training Institution: Centre for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Forestry, Georg-August University Goettingen
Short description: IPAG is designed to provide PhD candidates professional training in one of the following six majors:
* Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology,
* Agronomy,
* Animal Production,
* Management of Natural Resources, and
* Agribusiness.
Tropical and International Agriculture The PhD program emphasizes independent research on the part of the participants. The graduate program includes lectures, tutorials, seminars, and methods courses.
Location of study: University of Göttingen
- Aid Effectiveness and Development (Short Course)
Training Institution: Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Start and finish date: Friday 23rd April 2010 and Thursday 20th May 2010
Short description: Aid effectiveness has become a central concern within international development. This one-day course explores the aid effectiveness agenda in theory and practice, drawing on a range of case studies. Through tutor-led discussions and exercises it will address the following issues:
• where the aid effectiveness agenda emerged from and why
• what are the key concepts and what do they mean
• new ways of working and new modalities of aid
• what aid effectiveness means in practice for aid agencies and recipient countries
• the advantages and disadvantages of this approach
• whether aid effectiveness is leading to better development results
Location of study: Edinburgh
- Aid Management MSc/GradDip
Training Institution: International Development Department
Start and finish date: October 2009 - September 2010
Short description: This programme explores how current management of aid is changing; accountability for aid; intended and unintended effects of aid; reform of aid; the strengths and weaknesses of traditional and new ways of distributing aid; and the relation of aid to politics, public finance, public services, economic and social development, the private sector and international trade. These topics are addressed within the context of public economic management and finance. The programme includes taught modules comprising 120 credits and a dissertation of 10,000 words.
Location of study: University of Birmingham
- Analyse Economique et Developpement International (AEDI), specialite Developpement durable dans les pays en developpement et en transition Master
Training Institution: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International
- Analysing Europe (MA)
Training Institution: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University
Short description: The Master of Arts in Analysing Europe is designed to provide training for students of different backgrounds, broadening their knowledge of theories and methods that are relevant to a critical study of European integration. It aims to equip students with the skills necessary for the conduct of independent research analysing European political, economic and social phenomena.
The Master of Arts in Analysing Europe is offered in cooperation with five European partner universities, which together form the International Master's Programme in European Studies (IMPREST) network. You can follow the entire programme in Maastricht as a single degree programme, or you can follow it as a double degree programme by taking the second semester in Maastricht after having completed the first semester at either Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) or the University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom).
The European dream is to be “united in diversity”. The meaning of this phrase is the subject of an ongoing debate. Both unity and diversity have many faces in Europe. How to research this variety is the underlying question that drives the master's programme Analysing Europe offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This programme will give you both the tools and experience to conduct critical research in the field of European integration.
Location of study: Maastricht
You can follow the entire programme in Maastricht as a single degree programme, or you can follow it as a double degree programme by taking the second semester in Maastricht after having completed the first semester at either Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) or the University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom).
- Anthropology and Development Studies
Training Institution: Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen
Start and finish date: Start date: September (each year)
Length of programme: 1 year
Short description: This unique Master’s programme, which is at the cutting edge of social and cultural anthropology as well as development studies, also includes knowledge derived from sociology, politicology, economics and geography. Using a multidisciplinary perspective you will be encouraged to go deeper into the most relevant current local and global issues, including poverty, health, environment, inequality, mobility, multiculturalism and transnational networks. It’s a study designed for those who want to break with traditional paradigms.
CIDIN together with the city’s cultural centre Lux organizes a series of debates – under the title Global – involving academics with international reputations in the field of development. The Nijmegen programme is also part of the European Association of Development Institutes. In short, this programme will open doors for you around the world.
The programme takes one year. At the start you choose one of the two options – Anthropology or Development Studies. Then the structure of the programme is as follows:
Location of study: University of Nijmegen
- Asian Studies Master
Training Institution: The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies / Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Start and finish date: two years
Short description: The Asia-Master is a two-year multidisciplinary course which offers students the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of the problems of contemporary Asia and to gain an introduction to or increase their knowledge of a major Asian language. Master of Advanced Studies/MAS (post-masters) programme. Offered jointly with the University of Geneva
Location of study: University of Geneva
- Banking and Finance in Emerging Economies (MSc)
Training Institution: Department of Economics, University of Reading Buisness School
Start and finish date: This postgraduate Economics course begins in October each year. Full-time 12 months, Part-time 24 months
Short description: This postgraduate masters course, within the School of Economics, explores banking and finance in an international context, with an emphasis on emerging economies. MSc Banking and Finance in Emerging Economies is designed for students seeking a career in commercial and investments banks, financial development corporations, multilateral and bilateral development agencies and non-governmental organisations that work with transitional and emerging economies
Location of study: School of Economics
University of Reading
- Bayesian Disease Mapping in Epidemiology and Public Health
Training Institution: Swiss Tropical Institute
Start and finish date: 12 – 23 July 2010
Short description: This 2-weeks course will provide a comprehensive introduction to Bayesian spatial modeling in public health and epidemiology. Participants will be introduced to the basics of Bayesian modeling and computation and they will learn how to model areal and geostatistical data for identifying significant covariates and for geographical prediction and mapping of a range of health-related outcomes.
Participants will be also introduced in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in order to extract environmental predictors from satellite sources, process satellite data and map raw data as well as model-based predictions. The course will involve theory and computer practical exercises in R, Winbugs, IDRISI, and OpenGIS.
Location of study: Swiss Tropical Institute,Basel
- Bilateral Diplomacy (online course)
Training Institution: DiploFoundation
Start and finish date: 10 May 2010 for 10 weeks
Short description: Bilateral diplomacy is one of the building blocks of international relations. This course offers a practitioner’s perspective, looking at concepts, and how these operate in real life as countries work to promote their interests in the contemporary global environment. The course provides participants with the tools to analyze world affairs, and attempts to impart to them the craft skills of diplomacy. Participants will sharpen their analytical skills, and become aware of the complex and concurrent objectives that countries pursue in their external relationships, and how this makes the foreign ministry the hub of a dynamic network that has many actors, state and non-state, each with a legitimate role in foreign affairs.
Adapted versions of this course, in a self-learning format, are currently being used by the Canadian Foreign Service Institute and the British Foreign Office.
Location of study: Online
- Biofuels and Technology for Development (Short Course)
Training Institution: Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Start and finish date: Thursday 22nd April 2010 and Friday 14th May
Short description: Science and technology play an increasingly prominent role in global development. Many of the Millennium Development Goals will require the development and provision of new technologies if they are to be met. Global issues of food security, climate change and energy security require us to develop new knowledge, new practice and new technologies, as well as making better use of what we already know. Optimism regarding technologies for development has often been tempered by disappointments, vaccines taking years to reach those who need them, new agricultural approaches bringing problems as well as benefits, and massive infrastructural benefits
not being translated into sustainable economic growth, for example.
This course aims to explore, using a range of case studies, the role science and technology has, and can, play in shaping development. Questions to be addressed include:
• how can science policy make science and technology work better for development, and in particular for the
poor
• how does technological innovation takes place
• how can innovation be encouraged and supported
• how can this approach build better relationships between scientists, policymakers, entrepreneurs and the potential end-users of new technologies.
Location of study: Edinburgh
- Biogeology (MSc)
Training Institution: Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht
Start and finish date: Duration: 2 years
Start: September and February
Short description: This MSc programme is an interdisciplinary programme combining biology and earth sciences. It is designed for students with a Bachelor's degree in one of these disciplines and an interest in ecology, evolution, palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology/palaeooceanography.
It is possible to specialise in almost any aspect of the discipline. The first year of the MSc programme is devoted to course work, while the second year is primarily spent on conducting independent research and/or following a traineeship.
The programme focuses on 'system Earth' as a whole, studying the fundamental processes that drive natural systems – in particular those processes that have a strong impact on the biosphere and biodiversity. Emphasis is placed on the interaction between communities of living organisms and the changing lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Biogeologists use knowledge of processes that have affected the Earth in the past (e.g. the effects of climate change on the biosphere) to analyse future threats to our global system.
Location of study: Utrecht University
Faculty of Geosciences
- Biology BSc Studies
Training Institution: Swiss Tropical Institute
Short description: (Courses in German)
The following courses are offered by the Swiss Tropical Institute for the Bachelor curriculum in Biology at the University of Basel:
-Parasitologie und Parasitismus
-Protozoologie
-Block course „Infektionsbiologie und Epidemiologie“
Six weeks’ course in organismic or integrated biology in the 2nd half of the autumn semester of the 3rd year
