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Existential Well-being Counseling: A Person-centered Experiential Approach (edX)

Explore existential themes in your personal and professional life. Develop strengths and counseling skills to improve your well-being and the well-being of others. This humanities course offers you the opportunity to explore what really matters in life and teaches you how to nurture your well-being and enhance the well-being [...]

Research Ethics: a guide for responsible research with human subjects (edX)

Learn to identify the key ethical issues in human subjects research, to critically reflect on these, and to practically approach them through experts’ lectures and interviews, case studies, and interesting exercises. Research ethics has become an established and essential part of scientific research with human subjects. In this course, [...]

Developing Digital Transition Strategies for Cultural Heritage Institutions (edX)

How to develop and implement effective digital strategies in Cultural Heritage Institutions. Recently, the necessity for Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) to keep up with the rapid changes in the digitization of society and culture brought them to confront new challenges: 1) adaptation of new digital technologies and 2) the [...]

Urban Food Systems (edX)

Learn which factors shape food systems in the context of urban growth and land-use patterns. You will learn about food accessibility, food choice, foodsheds, food safety, urban agriculture, urban food governance and more.

Introduction to Global Governance (edX)

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Introduction to Global Governance (edX)
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Critical introduction to the concept, importance and analysis of global governance. In particular, this course provides an overview of the main actors involved in global governance and how these actors manage current key global challenges. Many of the most pressing challenges we are experiencing today are global. Consider climate [...]

Irrigation Efficiency: more food with less water (edX)

Learn to improve the efficiency of different irrigation system components over varying scales in order to extract less water from our resources while producing more food. How can we meet the demands of our ever hungrier and thirstier world? Irrigation water uses 70% of the fresh water extraction worldwide [...]

Clinical Nutrition – evidence-based practice (edX)

Aiming to tackle nutrition-related issues due to chronic or infectious diseases (e.g. obesity, HIV), this course equips you with evidence-based insights and practical know-how on solutions to implement in a varied number of situations. The preventive aspect and importance of nutrition are well-known for both deficiency and chronic diseases. [...]

Sustainable Business Models: Guidance for Future Farmers (edX)

In this course of 5 modules, our team of experts from both academic and non-academic institutes will introduce you to strategic planning for farming businesses of the 21st century. At the end of the course, you will be able to create and refine a Business Model.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals: an Interdisciplinary Academic Introduction (edX)

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals: an Interdisciplinary Academic Introduction (edX)
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An interdisciplinary introduction to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)which looks at all SDGs, their progress and challenges. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, which were adopted in 2015, will determine the course of the global social, ecological and economic agenda until [...]

Sustainable Trade (edX)

Critical interdisciplinary introduction on how to make international trade and global value chains more sustainable from the Global South to the Global North, with a focus on the contribution of voluntary sustainability standards.