This 2 week residential summer school gives university students and young professionals the chance to understand the challenges and opportunities of the world food system and explore their role in creating change. Participants actively engage in lectures, workshops, group work, case studies, field trips and farm work. The course is hosted in Rheinau, Switzerland.
Lernziel
Understand: the science, relationships, interactions and trade-offs in food systems; potential interventions; and the cultural, socio-political, economic and environmental factors to be considered when designing interventions. Build skills in: systems thinking, design thinking, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary collaboration, participatory processes. Connect to: a network of expert faculty/ scientists/ practitioners.
Participants will receive pre-reading material and a pre-assignment to be completed before the course commences.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes
No prerequisites. Program is open to Masters and PhD students and in special cases upper level Bachelor students. All students (including those from ETH Zurich) must apply through a competitive application process that will open in Feb/March 2021 at http://www.worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/education/summer-schools.html. Participation is subject to successful selection through this competitive process. Participants will be informed of the selection in April 2021.
