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Dive into the latest LinkedIn updates of our learning community

11-04-24

Curious about the learning programmes we have hosted thus far this year? Explore the freshest insights straight from the voices of our participants and partners.

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Insight into the Practical Perspective of Intellectual Property Rights and Commercialization

20 January – 31 January 2025: The training, held from 20th – 31st January 2025 at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark, brought together professionals from India, Indonesia and Brazil, focusing on IP protection, patent and trademark searches, GI, licensing agreements and strategic commercialization. The programme also included interactive workshops, institutional visits and peer learning sessions, enabling participants to gain practical exposure to global best practices.

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“Bonds Unforeseen”: the power of connection at Danida Fellowship Centre

Learning is more than absorbing knowledge, it’s about meeting new people, feeling at home in a foreign country, and experiencing emotions that tie us together across borders. Oboli Augustine is a fellow from Danida Fellowship Centre’s Organisational Change Management learning programme, and in this beautiful poem he sent us – Bonds Unforeseen – he managed to capture not only his, but every Danida fellow´s journey.

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Insight into the Practical Perspective of Intellectual Property Rights and Commercialization.

The learning programme has been designed specifically for the IPFCs to learn best practices and enable them to advise and help small businesses use their intellectual property for growth. Read more

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EAC Youth Fellowship

September – October 2024: The EAC Youth Fellowship is a prestigious initiative designed to engage and empower young people in regional integration and leadership within the East African Community (EAC). This fellowship aims to harness youth’s potential and promote their active participation in shaping the region’s future. Read more

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Masters Programme

From November 2024: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the Danida Fellowship Centre are piloting a Master’s scholarship pilot programme. The objective of the programme is to support the green transition in Africa by further strengthening the capacity of institutions working within areas of importance to the green transition and to sustainable production. Read more

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Renewable Energy Integration into Power Systems

21 October – 8 November 2024: In the course the participants will learn about the possibilities and limitations for RE integration in the power system at both transmission and distribution level. Read more

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De-carbonization, energy efficiency, and new green solutions in shipping

October – 22 November 2024: Taking its starting point in the IMO’s 2023 Strategy on Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from
Ships, the course addresses the global challenge of decarbonizing the shipping and port sectors by
2050 focusing on environmental, social, and economic aspects of this transition.

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Health Economics and Digital Health

21 October – 1 November 2024: The course is meant to further strengthen the exchange of knowledge between Denmark and partner countries on better use of health data and on how to share data across levels of healthcare, health professionals and patients, as part of the Strategic Sector Cooperation. Read more

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Women in Management

September – October 2024:For the third year in a row, Danida Fellowship Centre’s learning programme Empowering Women in Management, took place in MS TCDC’s beautiful compound. This time, 25 accomplished women in senior leadership roles in diverse sectors across Africa took part. Read more

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Responsive Project Management 

28 October – 15 November 2024: The learning programme aims to provide participants with the tools needed to effectively implement organizational projects and programmes in a responsive way, and to enable positive change management and effective communication.Read more

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Result-Based Management 

October 2024: This results-based management course provides the philosophy, principles, approaches, processes, tools and techniques for those at the forefront of organizational change and development. Read more

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Next Generation DTU SkyLab

2 August – 25 October 2024: A global initiative enabling youth-led ideas, perspectives and action toward Sustainable Futures – Leaving No One Behind. Supported by Danida Fellowship Centre. Read more

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Green and Circular Economy

23 September – 11 October 2024: The course cuts across business, innovation, governance and urban planning perspectives in order to highlight the core perspectives and opportunities of the green and circular economy. Read more

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Offshore Wind Energy

16 September – 4 October 2024: The focus of this course is for participants to acquire fundamental knowledge about offshore wind energy technology, learn how to plan an offshore wind farm, and how to plan a new offshore wind area at a strategic level. Read more

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Energy systems modelling using Balmorel

16 September – 4 October 2024: This course provides participants with the knowledge and tools needed to understand and further develop the Balmorel model, for the purpose of constructing and performing energy systems analyses tailored to their own context.Read more

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Physical and Financial Power Markets

9 September – 27 September 2024: Read more

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Practices, Tools and Technologies for the Green Transition

19 August – 5 September 2024: The learning programme aims at inspiring and enabling you to address the triple planetary crisis relating to climate change, loss of biodiversity and natural habitats, and pollution and waste. Read more

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Organizational Change Management

12 August – 30 August 2024: This course seeks to enable participants to make a real difference and facilitate positive change in society, in their organisation and within themselves by providing practical tools and approaches to facilitate this effort. Read more

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Master´s Programme

From August 2024: As part of the Danish government’s new strategy to strengthen its engagement with African countries, Africa’s Century, Danida Fellowship Centre is excited to welcome 17 new Master’s students from Africa in August 2024. This initiative reflects Denmark’s commitment to building stronger ties and equal partnerships with the countries in Africa, and to promoting sustainable development across the African continent Read more

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Empowering Women in Management

26 August – 6 September 2024: To improve the ability of female participants to understand and analyse barriers for equal rights and opportunities in the work force, to understand how gender impacts leadership and management and build confidence in their personal abilities as managers and leaders to lead others and take steps towards their own career growth. Read more

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Storytelling for Development

12 August – 16 August 2024: Learn how to tell powerful and compelling stories about social change issues so that you can strategically
promote your organisation, products or services.Read more

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Advanced Water Cycle Management

11 August – 24 August 2024: The course will provide the participants with an essential knowledge about groundwater mapping and management, and knowledge on how to minimize
water loss from the distribution system. Read more

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Next Generation Digital Action

2 August – 31 October 2024: A global initiative enabling youth-led ideas, perspectives and action toward Sustainable Futures. This is a DTU Summer School, partially supported by Danida Fellowship Centre. Read more

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Global Health Challenges Summer Course

5 August – 15 August 2024: This course seeks to provide perspectives and an introductionto the key concepts, determinants, opportunities and challenges in global public health.Read more

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Empowerment of Youth to Influence SDG Implementation

3 June – 21 June 2024: The world’s largest generation of children and young people to date is an enormous resource for delivering sustainable and lasting change.
Throughout the world, young activists take the lead in fighting for equality, democracy, human rights and the climate. This learning programme brings together members of the Danish Embassies’ Youth Sounding Boards to further strengthen their capacity to influence sustainable development in their communities, regions and enhance their network across borders. Read more

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Extended Producer Responsibility

15 April – 3 May 2024: The learning program will support capacity building in governmental institutions as well as business associations in countries without current functioning extended producer responsibility but also in countries with upstarting EPR experiences.Read more

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Environmental Governance at Local Level

8 April – 26 April 2024: To acquire knowledge about greening and compliance with environmental policies, laws and regulations at local level. This includes knowledge on insufficient enforcement, implementation barriers as wells as how to collaborate with utility companies and local stakeholders. Read more

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Organizational Change Management

4 March – 22 March 2024: This course seeks to enable participants to make a real difference and facilitate positive change in society, in their organisation and within themselves by providing practical tools and approaches to facilitate this effort.Read more

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Data and Digital Technology as enablers for Environmentally Sustainable Societies

4 March – 22 March 2024: The programme is designed to build a digital sustainability mindset as well as give the participants an introduction to the Danish context taking the point of departure in the Danish digitalization and sustainability experiences. Furthermore, the program is designed on the belief that transition towards a sustainable future is not a single-standing effort by any one public agency but a strategic objective that must be cross-cutting and undertaken at all levels of government and society. Read more

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Human Rights Based Approach

26 February – 1 March 2024: With this course participants will gain the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to ground their development programming in the principles of HRBA, enabling them to more effectively address societal inequalities and injustices within the context of their work. This course will draw from real life case studies to help participants understand the advantages and limitations of HRBA, while also incorporating practical exercises allowing participants to learn how to integrate the core principles of HRBA into all stages of development programming and advocacy work: from planning and implementation, to monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. Read more

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Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development

26 February – 15 March 2024: The programme is designed to build a digital sustainability mindset as well as give the participants an introduction to the Danish context taking the point of departure in the Danish digitalization and sustainability experiences. Furthermore, the program is designed on the belief that transition towards a sustainable future is not a single-standing effort by any one public agency but a strategic objective that must be cross-cutting and undertaken at all levels of government and society. Read more

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Conflict Management – Environmental Focus

5 February – 23 February 2024: The objective is to strengthen the capacity of participants to apply conflict analysis and conflict management approaches and tools to environmentally related conflicts. This includes understanding the causes of conflict related to environmental conditions, scarce resources, and environmental and climate change – and how this relates to the broader analysis of conflict in the contexts that participants come from. Moreover, it is the ambition to enable the participants to contribute to instituting a conflict transformation culture in the participants’ organisations, which drive change, action, and learning in relation to conflict prevention and conflict management. Read more

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Efficient and Transparent Approval processes for Pharmaceuticals

15 January – 26 February 2024: The objective is for the participants to gain more knowledge on risk assessment, tools for benefit/risk assessment, and to develop their thinking on global pharmaceutical policy, stakeholders, market access of medicines and patient involvement. This will alter their behaviour with respect to how to ensure transparency in regulatory decision-making and how to evaluate quality of medicines. Read more

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Annually, the Danida Fellowship Centre offers about 40 learning programs spanning various topics from energy, environment, health, and food production to areas such as public-private partnerships, digitization, and strategic leadership. Read more

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