Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience
Nature-based Solutions for increasing disaster and climate resilience are relevant to everybody and each of us can take some actions – small or large in promoting them. With this in mind, the introductory module is designed to be accessible to everyone, whatever your level of experience or your background.
Financing Social Health Protection
The key objective of the course is to introduce concepts of social protection and relates it to international conventions and their reflection in the national legislation
Rehabilitation and Restoration of Degraded Landscapes
Online course: “Guiding principles of forest landscape restoration (FLR) based on
definition by IUCN” and insides into GIZ-Forests4Future, Joerg Lohmann, Advisor, GIZ-Forests4Future
Business Model Development for International Students
This course supports students to evaluate research results and business ideas. Could your idea turn into a start up project? Selection criteria for the course is to have a business idea. There will be an outlook on a first financing strategy.
Critical Sustainability
The integrated course is a common course for students of all disciplines. It conveys the theoretical foundations of the term sustainability as well as the interrelationships between technology, nature, the individual, society and democracy. Through the interactive design, the participants question and discuss the knowledge imparted. There is an exchange about different aspects of sustainability related to the different disciplines of the participants
Sustainability of Renewable Energies
In order to understand the complex transformation processes of our current energy supply system towards a more sustainable one we have to consider implications that go far beyond the technological arena. Effects of the COVI-19 pandemic are shifting the focus to integral mobility planning, home working and mobility avoidance. The transition from a predominantly fossil-fuelled combustion-engine and individual passenger based mobility system towards a more diversified and electric one will be analysed.
Terrorism & Political Violence
The course will offer detailed analysis of the problems and key debates in terrorism research. It will focus on issues of conceptualization, historical development and theoretical explanations.
Disaster Management & Humanitarian Response
This lecture will provide better understanding of civil protection mechanisms and humanitarian response; operational coordination of disaster management and humanitarian response;