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.
Innovation Management course
February 2025: “This experience brought me back to my undergraduate research on Bandung’s urban innovation program (PIPPK), while also opening a new perspective: Innovation is not only about great ideas, it is about how ideas can be formalized, standardized, protected, and scaled up.”
Women´s Leadership course, Brazil
February-March 2025: “Febrero lo cerré con una emoción-valor poderosa: GRATITUD.”
Risk- and HACCP-based Danish and EU Food Safety Systems
January 2025: “This experience has been both enriching and inspiring.”
SDGs course Danida Fellow
January 2025: “As part of the Denmark in Kenya -Youth SoundingBoard, I had the pleasure of joining a select youth team that had a consultative meeting with the team of the Ambassadors of the Embassies of Nordic countries in Kenya that includes Denmark, Finland, Sweden & Norway.”
Danida Alumni Network Tanzania
January 2025:”How does it feel to step into a new space for the first time?”
Reporting from the frontline of the global climate crisis in an era of fake news
November 2025: After COP30 and a few days of vacation, I return with renewed battery and faith in humanity. If the COP opens up how big the challenges are, it also reminds us that there are still those who unite to face them. Read more
Annual General Meeting: Danida Fellows Network Mexico
November 2025: It was encouraging to see how we have continued to make progress, bear fruit and strengthen ties between Mexico, Denmark and this proactive, forward-thinking group since 2019. Read more
Reporting from the frontline of the global climate crisis
November 2025: As an Amazonian journalist, I had the great opportunity to cover a UN Climate Conference for the first time. Read more
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Decarbonization, energy efficiency and green transition
10 – 28 November 2025: Today was the sixth day of the Danida Fellowship Centre course on Decarbonization, energy efficiency and green transition in the maritime sector. In the morning we ventured to Marstal Navigationsskole to discuss how to promote energy efficiency in training and education.
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Next Generation Digital Action (NGDA) 2025
5-6 November 2025: The week, hosted by DTU Skylab in collaboration with the Danida Fellowship Centre among other sponsors , was packed with learning, networking, and collaborating. Read more
Physical and Financial Power Markets
22 September – 10 October 2025: The journey on << Physical and Financial Power Markets >> offered an unique blend of academic depth and practical immersion Read more
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The program, now in its 4th cohort, aimed to strengthen the leadership and management capabilities of 23 – – – from Ghana, Mali, the Gambia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Read more
Sustainable Urban Development and Climate Resilience
3-14 November 2025: The programme offered deep insights into process design and visioning, nature-based solutions, the role of secondary cities in Africa, project preparation and bankability, and climate financing. Read more
Solid Waste Management
August 2025: August 2022 changed my outlook completely. For what I thought would be a simple, three-week short course on Solid Waste Management at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) turned out to be a defining moment in my journey. Read more
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Energy Efficiency
18 August – 29 August 2025 : These were intense and challenging days, in which I had to revisit concepts such as thermodynamics and energy balance, in addition to reflecting on how to rethink processes to optimize the use of energy. Read more
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Advanced Water Cycle Management
10 August – 23 August 2025: Didn’t you believe me when I said min rejse (my journey) here was just getting started? Read more
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Drinking Water Management and Operation
25 August – 12 September 2025 : Great to share knowledge with global water professionals from Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Indonesia, India, Ghana, Ethiopia, Colombia and China. Read more
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Reporting from the frontline of the global climate crisis
September 2025: Ahead of the African Climate Summit 2025, African journalists who are alumni of the Danida Fellowship gathered virtually to share their insights. Read more
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Energy Efficiency and Energy Management in Buildings and Industry
18 August – 29 August 2025: A key message throughout was that energy efficiency is not about isolated fixes, it is about optimizing interconnected systems. Read more
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Reporting from the frontline of the global climate crisis
September 2025: Journalists from three continents spotlight fake news in the climate crisis. Read more
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Clean District Energy
25 August – 12 September 2025: Thanks to all the fantastic participants from Brasil, Turkey, China, and Ukraine. Read more
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Reporting from the frontline of the global climate crisis
September 2025: This is a debate that good journalism must always face with seriousness and responsibility. Read more
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Offshore Wind Energy
8 September – 26 September 2025: I am sure that I will bring back to Brazil important knowledge to foster discussions on the integration of offshore wind generation in the country. Read more
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Public Policy Influencing and Advocacy
September 2025: The most challenging task I encountered was engaging policymakers and policy implementers, particularly on issues related to the National Youth Policy. Read more
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Solid Waste Management
8 September – 26 September 2025: Before the plane even landed in Copenhagen, I already knew this trip would change something in me. Read more
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Storytelling for development
August 2025: This experience broadened my knowledge and sharpened my skills in communication, journalism, and digital content development. Read more
Advanced Water Cycle Management Summer School
10 August – 23 August 2025: Welcoming the Next Generation of Water Leaders! Read more
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Clean District Energy
25 August – 12 September 2025: We ended the first week with a lot of learning and exchange of experiences. Read more
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Advanced Water Cycle Management Summer School
10 August – 23 August 2025: We are course participants, academic lecturers, water professionals from industry and utilities from 15 countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.Read more
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Energy Systems Modelling using Balmorel
28 April – 16 May 2025: Just wrapped up a rewarding three-week course in Energy systems modelling using Balmorel. Read more
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Environmental Governance at Local level
23 June – 11 July 2025: Successful “Environmental Governance at the Local Level” relies heavily on cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary cooperation. Read more
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Danida Fellows Network Leaders Convening 2025
2 – 7 February 2025: A truly transformative experience at MS TCDC (Tanzania), made possible by the incredible support of Circle Generation and the Danida Fellowship Centre. Read more
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Creating Healthy Cities (University Summer Course)
11 August – 22 August 2025: Participar en el curso Creating Healthy Cities en Copenhague ha sido una experiencia extraordinaria de formación y colaboración. Read more
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Responsive Project Management
16 June – 4 July 2025: The past three weeks have been both exciting and insightful… Read more
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Environmental Governance at Local level
2 June – 20 June 2025: Dialogue at a local level is very important in order to describe environmental problems and assure a successful green transition. Read more
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SDG Champions Accelerator and Strategy Summit
August 2025: Last week SDG Champions gathered in Nairobi to accelerate progress on the 2030 Agenda. Read more
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Energy Planning
16 June – 4 July 2025: July 4th marked the completion of the three-week . Read more
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Empowerment of Youth to Influence SDG Implementation
2 June – 20 June 2025: It’s hard to believe a month has already passed since I joined the incredible community of Danida fellows. Read more
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Empowerment of Youth to Influence SDG Implementation
2 June – 20 June 2025: This journey has been a tapestry woven with discomfort and adventure, curiosity and profound learning. It’s the kind of experience that empties you, then refills you with improved system thinking. Read more
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Organisational Change Management
5 May – 23 May 2025: 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
13 January – 31 January 2025: 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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Organisational Change Management
5 May – 23 May 2025: 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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Sustainable Food Systems
26 May – 13 June 2025: “It’s time for us, the Danida fellows, to implement our learning from the program in our food systems and try to achieve the sustainability”. Read more
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Next Generation Action
June 2025: Fostering an inclusive mindset for sustainable solutions. Read more
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Transformational Leadership at MS TCDC
June 2025: “Did you know feminist leadership is not just about women?”. Read more
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Sustainable Food Systems
26 May – 13 June 2025: “During the course I had the opportunity of sharing with classmates of 10 different countries (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Ukraine, Vietnam and Mexico!”. Read more
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Sustainable Food Systems
26 May – 13 June 2025: Field visit to DLG Group owned by farmers cooperatives and Solrød Biogas owned by Solrød Kommune as a part of Danida Fellowship Centre programme. Read more
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Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development
We are glad to inform you that the Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) Learning Programme on Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development 2025 has been completed. Read more
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Climate Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience
5 May – 23 May 2025: The course aims at inspiring participants to mainstream climate change considerations into the work of their home organisation. Read more
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Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development
Friday the 16th May marked the closing day of this year’s “Sustainable and Inclusive Urban development”. Read more
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Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development
Also this year, we have a wonderful group of practitioners attending our training on “Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development” for the Danida Fellowship Centre. Read more
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Climate Change Action Training
Day Two of the Climate Change Action Training at the Kenya School of Government sponsored by Danida Fellowship Centre. Read more
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Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development
28 April – 16 May -2025: The third round of “sustainable and inclusive urban development” for Danida Fellowship Centre launched this week. As cities face multiple challenges and are hot spots for climate solutions it is essential to acknowledge planning and planning transition by addressing sustainability as an organizational principle for urban change. Contemporary urban challenges demand holistic and multilayered understandings of cities and an approach to problem identification that take seriously the interconnected complexity of urban sustainability challenges and the definition of systemic solutions. The learning programme introduces a combined wicked problems approach and urban system thinking, coupled with process design, strategic and action planning, as well as political power mappings.
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Masters Programme
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Wastewater Management
24 March – 11. April 2025: This course provides an overview of all existing solutions for water treatment and valorisation, tools for the evaluation of the different solutions for given scenarios, and an understanding of how the different actors interact and support the development of new sustainable solutions. Read more
Green and Circular Economy
24 March – 11 April 2025: Diving into green and circular economy ideas that can shape tomorrow’s economies. Read more
Renewable Energy Integration into Power Systems
The program brought together 22 participants from 8 developing countries, fostering an in-depth understanding of the complexities surrounding renewable energy integration. Read more
How to ensure efficient and transparent approval processes for pharmaceuticals
24 February – 7 March 2025: The objective of this learning programme 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. Read more
FLLoCA: a national programme that helps Kenya’s 47 counties plan, fund, and implement climate solutions in partnership with local communities.
Danida Fellowship Centre and the Royal Danish Embassy in Nairobi equip local leaders with the tools to drive climate action. Through a series of five climate capacity-building trainings, we support the Financially-led Local Climate Action (FLLoCA) programme—a bold initiative strengthening Kenya’s resilience to climate change from the ground up.
Next Generation by DTU Skylab
Embassy of Denmark in South Africa hosted a special networking reception to reconnect with bright young minds from the Next Generation by DTU Skylab by DTU Skylab and celebrate their innovative contributions to solving water challenges in South Africa and India. Read more
Intellectual Property Rights and Commercialization
Training in intellectual property is an essential step in strengthening innovation ecosystems!
Learn, Apply, Act: Enabling Change Agency for the Transfer of Knowledge into Action
As an alumnus of Danida’s training on Human Rights-Based Approaches (HRBA), this opportunity is an exciting next step in translating knowledge into tangible impact.
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.
“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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Physical and Financial Power Markets
9 September – 27 September 2024: Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
