Curricula development

The ITTrms develops training concepts and teaching materials related to the natural resources management. Our offer includes curricula development for postgraduate education and training programmes as well as development of e-learning modules. In our teaching materials and curricula we promote case study based learning with practice oriented and interactive methods. Participants are exposed to real life case studies from our research regions. This inspires them to learn for themselves and gives knowledge and skills required to deal with challenges faced in professional life.

Selected projects:

Developing introductory training materials related to the Water-Energy-Food-Security Nexus (GIZ/EU 2017-2019)

We developed a variety of training materials and concepts related to the WEF Security Nexus in the scope of the Nexus Regional Dialogues Program Phase I (2016 – 2018) funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The overall objective is to promote the dialogue and a stronger cross-sectoral collaboration between the water, energy, agricultural and environment related sectors to improve decision-making processes. The program involves five regional Nexus dialogues, which are active in the Niger Basin, Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central Asia (Aral Sea region) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and involves national and regional policy makers, the private sector, academia and civil society. We developed two training modules that present hands-on tools and instruments on how to approach these challenges in practice: 1. Introduction to the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Security Nexus, 2. WEF Nexus case studies from Europe and Germany.