The Network University facilitates innovative learning and capacity building for a global network of professionals, students, non-profit organizations, agencies and networks, specializing in creating e-tools for education and networking in the field of development.
From October 13th - November 9th, 2008, TNU offers a new online course 'Post-Conflict Politics'. If you are interested in participating, please contact Bart Overbeek and register online!
From May to November 2008 TNU will facilitate four online courses for InWEnt: 'Consultancy as a Professional Option', 'Implementing Gender Mainstreaming in Management Processes', 'Knowledge Management', and 'Results Oriented Monitoring'.
New e-learning course on ecological sanitation: March 24th to 31st 2008 - Capacity Building for Ecological Sanitation. For more information please download the announcement. or go directly to the MyNetworks website.
Ecosan Training Course: Ecosan Services Foundation offers this face-to-face course for Indian participants from May 12th - May 24th, 2008. For more information and registration, visit the ESF website.
After a succesful campaign 88 days last year, Mamacash launched her new campaign on December 10th, 2007. The campaign ended on March 8th, 2008. Please visit the campaign website to read more about the campaign and its results. In the meantime we also developed a new website for the regular Mamacash website.
During the National Water Conference organised by the Indian Waterworks Association in Mumbai, TNU offered two workshops to promote a training module on Ecological Sanitation in a public/private setting. The module was developed in cooperation with Ecosan Services Foundation and five Indian partners. You can find more information about this course on the Ecosan Services Foundation website.In a second stage the module will be offered as an online course throughout India. Please keep an eye on our website for more announcements.
In cooperation with MyNetworks and CMES, TNU developed an online course on ecosanitation and waste management. Click here for more information about the course.
TNU developed two courses for InWEnt's (Capacity Building International, Germany) online learning environment 'Global Campus 21': 'Gender Mainstreaming' and 'Conflict Management'. The latter was also developed in Spanish. For more information about these courses, please send us an email.
Our Summer School on Conflict Transformation was a great success! The Summer School, consisting of three award-winning online courses, attracted more than 75 participants, from over 25 different countries. The Summer School will again be organised in the summer of 2008.
ID21 mentioned The Biotechnology and Development Monitor website as one of the main websites publishing on biotech in an issue of Insights magazine on development research, debating GM crops.
TNU has developed a tool that invites users to explore both sides of a conflict. We call this tool 'SplitScreen'. The tool was piloted by a group of Dutch Arab and Isreali youth. The results of the pilot can be viewed here. Note you will need flashplayer to view this file. Contact us if you would like more information on SplitScreen.
The Network University, UNOY Peacebuilders and other partners, organised the Youth Transforming Conflict online training course for the first time, which aims to empower youth leaders to deal responsibly with conflicts in their environment and to transform them.
Those who would like to have an overview of the course and the discussions it triggered can order the CD ROM for € 10 (+ € 3,50 for shipping and handling). To order, fill in the following form or send an e-mail to info@netuni.uva.nl. For a look at the course’s demo site click here.
TNU and Partners in Geneve at the WSIS
The Network University, together with the Swiss Development for Development Cooperation and
IEES have cooperated in the creation of
MyNetworks - a collaborative learning and community platform on ecological engineering.
The partners will be exhibiting at the World Summit Information Societies Conference held in Geneve in December and can be found at the ICT 4D platform (Human Capacity and Empowerment Street). Alternatively come and meet us at the daily round table discussions. The zipped flyer on MyNetworks can be downloaded here (note: the file is 2 MB large).
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Transforming Civil Conflict |
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Gender and Conflict Transformation |
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Youth Transforming Conflict |
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Dynamics of the Water Section |
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Socially Responsible Investment |
