Events
Impact investment – the future of development cooperation?
17 June 2025, from 18:00 CEST
ETH food&lab
Ahead of the fourth UN-led Financing for Development Conference in early July, we take stock of the trajectory of impact investment to date and explore what role private capital might have on social development in the future.
MAS Graduation Ceremony
9 December 2024, 18:00-21:00 CEST
ETH food&lab
The MAS Graduation Ceremony Celebrates Classes of 2020-2022 and 2022-2024, highlighting their achievements and honoring ETH Medalist Mischa Weber for his outstanding thesis on the climate-conflict nexus in Ethiopia.
Rethinking Migration - with Hein de Haas
19 September 2024, 18:00-19:30 CEST, ETH Main Building, E5
Public talk about the facts and myths surrounding modern migration from the renowned Dutch sociologist Hein de Haas.
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Webinar: Forests and the Energy Transition: Navigating Sustainable and Just Pathways
8 July 2024, 14:00-15:30 CEST
online via Zoom
Organized by NRGI and ETH NADEL, this public closing event of the advanced course on Natural Resource Governance and Energy Transition: Policies and Practice aims to shed light on the challenges and opportunities of energy transition projects in forest regions.For presentations of NADEL and DEC members at conferences, please visit the DEC website.
ETH4D & NADEL - Office Hours for Career Advice
26 March 2024 16:00-17:00
06 May 2024 12:00-13:00
Dr. Adina Rom (ETH4D), Jasmine Neve and Shruti Patel (NADEL) answer questions from students seeking advice on careers in the global development sector.
Switzerland and Bangladesh - exploring political, economic and environmental linkages
7 March 2024, 17:30-19:30
ETH Zürich, CLD A1, Clausiusstrasse 37
Documentary film screening and panel discussion, followed by a light apéro
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Online Q&A lunch session
24 January 2024, 12:00-13:00 CET
online via Zoom.
Ask your questions about the MAS ETH in Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development.
Mirror COP28: Progress in climate action and what you can contribute
6 December 2023, 17:00-18:00
ETH Zürich, CLD A1
Florian Egli (Energy and Technology Policy Group) and Jasmine Neve (NADEL) explore the progress that has been made in climate change mitigation and adaptation globally, as well as discuss what we can do personally to advance climate action.
Info session MAS ETH in Development and Cooperation (online)
14 November 2023, 17:30
Online via Zoom
Online event to find out more about the programme, starting in September 2024.
Info session MAS ETH in Development and Cooperation (on-site)
6 November 2023, 17:30
ETH NADEL, CLD A1, Clausiusstrasse 37, Zurich
In-person event to find out more about the programme, starting in September 2024.
Rethinking Gender for Inclusive Institutions. A conversation with Dr. Eugenia Cheng.
28 June 2023, 17:00-18:30
Audimax, ETH Zurich
The mathematician, pianist and author Dr. Eugenia Cheng will discuss how mathematics can help us understand gender inequality, and other kinds of inequality, and proposes a conceptual framework to forge a path out of division and exclusion.
Domestic Energy Transitions in Resource-rich Countries: The Role of Gas and Renewables
26 June 2023, 14:00-15:30 CET.
Online
Public Closing Event with Panel Discussion.
Decolonising Language & Word Choice: The Case for Linguistic Equity
11 May 2023, 14:00-15:30 CET
Online
Workshop with Shruti Patel and Jasmine Neve (ETH NADEL) at the KFPE Annual Conference “Decolonizing Swiss Research Collaborations”, co-organized with University of Zurich and University of Bern.
Financing the Agenda 2030
2 May 2023, 18:00 – 19:15 CET, 8:00 – 19:15 CET, HG E 5, ETH Zurich
Development banks could be drivers of sustainable development, but their business model is in urgent need of reform. What is needed to unlock their full potential? Panel discussion with experts from the public and the private sector and from ETH.
Webinar: SDC / NADEL Impact Award
2 February 2023, 14:00-15:30 pm CET
Online
Closing event to share experiences and present the findings from the last round of Impact Award winners.
Event: Good COP, Bad COP. What Is at Stake for Global Development at COP27?
15 November 2022, 18:15-19:15
ETH Zentrum, ML Building, Room F39
Dr Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis, Jasmine Neve
Event: aha Science Festival 2022
11 November 2022, 18:30 and 12 November 2022, 17:00 and 20:00
Bernisches Historisches Museum
Lectures by Dario Meili and Dr Adina Rom
Event: The New International Poverty Line: Why and how has it been calculated & what does it mean for global poverty?
3 November 2022, 17:30
ETH Zurich (Main Building), HG E 1.1, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich
A seminar with Dr Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah, World Bank Research Unit and ETH Alumnus.
Organised by NADEL and ETH4D
Lecture: Agroecology and the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems. Participation.
18 October 2022, 18:15
Online
WFSC Public Lecture Series
Shruti Patel
Podium: The Great Green Wall: Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion
29 September 2022, 19:30
Rote Fabrik, Zurich
Dr Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis
Conversation with Rutger Bregman (NADEL 50 Years Event): Why the narrative about human nature is up for a revision and what this implies for global cooperation.
7 April 2022, 17:00
Audimax, ETH Zurich
Lecture: Wie eine Spende wirkungsvoll eingesetzt wird
21 November 2021
ETH Zurich, Zurich
Dr Adina Rom
Lecture: Gut gebildet und schlecht bezahlt?
21 November 2021
ETH Zurich, Zurich
Prof Isabel Günther
Podium: Almosen für Afrika?
9 November 2021
ETH Zurich, Zurich
Prof Isabel Günther
Webinar with Mariana Mazzucato (NADEL 50 Years Event)
22 October 2021, 17:00h
Online