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MAS ETH in Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development

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With an MAS ETH in Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development, young professionals kick-start their careers in international cooperation. The programme combines studies at ETH Zurich with 8 months on-the-job training with an international organisation around the world.

Course: Decolonizing 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 decolonizing aid.

Details:

Duration: 05/05–09/05/2025
Teaching format: Classroom
ECTS points: 3
Course fee: CHF 950
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CAS ETH in Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development

Deepen your expertise in sustainable development and project management with the CAS ETH in Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development programme for mid-career professionals.
The programme can be completed part-time within three years or full-time in six weeks during the Spring Semester.

Courses in 2025

For programme leaders and task managers we offer specialized 2 to 5 days courses on a wide range of policies and methods to foster sustainable development and poverty reduction. Participants can choose from 30 different courses to advance their expertise.

Course Information

Spring semester: starts 4th of November 2024
Autumn semester: starts 2nd of June 2025

Swiss Panel Global Cooperation

In 2021, NADEL conducted the first nationwide survey on the attitudes and commitments of the Swiss population to development cooperation. The Swiss Panel Global Cooperation will be carried out annually until 2030.

To the survey results 2023

Podcast "1.90 pro Tag"

– rethinking international cooperation.

Episdoe 18: Beatrice Maser Mallor discusses how the World Bank is adapting to address both poverty reduction and climate change.

Episode 17: Patrick Elmer, iGravity, on the bridges between the knowledge of international cooperation and the mechanisms of the financial world to reduce global poverty

Episode 16: Carole Nordmann discusses what it needs beyond social and labor standards to improve working conditions and agricultural workers’ livelihoods.

Episode 15: Sonja Hofstetter, Swisscontact, on vocational training, digitalisation and migration

Melchior Lengsfeld. Photo: Maurice K. Grünig

Episode 14: Melchior Lengsfeld, Executive Director of Helvetas, on Inequality, Power and the Future of Development Cooperation

Episode 13: Nicole Stejskal, CO-OPERAID, on the global education crisis, salaries, and small NGOs

Additional Information

About ETH NADEL

We connect science with practice to inspire and train the next generation working on global cooperation to implement the 2030 agenda for sustainable and equitable development.

Code of Conduct

We aim to inspire students to take action for a more sustainable and inclusive world. In this spirit the team members of NADEL follow an ecological and social Download Code of Conduct (PDF, 1.6 MB) – also day to day in the office.

Words Matter

NADEL’s unfinished Download guide to word choice (PDF, 1.6 MB) for teaching in international cooperation.

Partner institutions at ETH

Our activities are closely linked to the research conducted by the Development Economics Group (DEC) and to the initiative ETH4D which supports the development and scaling of innovations for the global population and educates future leaders in sustainable development.

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