Training courses
Agridea offers a broad range of technical and methodological courses on agricultural and rural development topics. Some of them address an international audience, while the majority is targeted primarily at a Swiss audience. Here the course offers addressed at the international scene are presented.
On request, we design all these courses to fit your organisation or your project exactly. Contents, language and timing are adapted to suit your particular needs. Most courses can be offered in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. We also offer tailor-made training on further topics within our thematic domains.
Contact us for more information!
E-Facilitation/E-Moderation (online courses)
Are you involved in the facilitation of web-based collaboration, online discussions or online experience exchange or do you plan to become so? Are you interested to do these tasks in a (more) professional and successful way? Then have a look at our online trainings in E-Facilitation/E-Moderation. These trainings are held in English language and will take place entirely online. Allocation of slots on a first come, first served base.
Further courses
Register now! Outcome Mapping - Training and Workshop 5 days in Switzerland
Building learning and reflection into Project Cycle Management
Register now for the winter course, December 13th - 17th, 2010
(next summer course will be in July 2011)
Outcome Mapping (OM) is increasingly used as an innovative project cycle management approach which focuses on behaviour changes as outcomes of development interventions. OM concentrates on independent actions of project partners right from the start of the project; in this way handing over problems at the end can be avoided. Further it emphasises continuous learning from experiences made along the implementation pathway. What does this mean in practice? We offer you the opportunity to get to know and use OM as a new instrument in PCM in this well designed 5-day workshop.
course flyer
Please register directly at: carsten.schulz (at) agridea.ch
Training for facilitators
Learn more about the art of facilitating team work. Practice facilitation techniques: appearance in front of a group, visualisation, body language, guiding discussions, formulating questions. Design structure and sequences of courses and group work. Learn to understand, and react to, group processes.
Next dates: April 26th - 30th, 2010 and November 15th - 19th, 2010.
Course flyer (in German)
On request the course can be offered also in English, French and Spanish
Coaching for experienced facilitators
May 19th - 20th, 2010.
Refreshing and expanding facilitators' personal repertoires of moderation techniques. Successful practices and methods for facilitating group processes. Using and guiding role-plays. Handling difficult leadership situations. Developing a personal facilitation and leadership style.
Course flyer (in German)
Training and workshops on knowledge management and networks / Communities of Practice
(Wissen teilen in Netzwerken und Communities of Practice (CoP))
June 15th - 16th, 2010
On behalf of SDC Training section we design and conduct workshops on knowledge management and networks / Communities of Practice for development organisations.
SDC trainings on knowledge management
Innovative financing mechanisms for rural extension
On request as a web-based or face-to-face course
Due to the changing role of government and the private sector, decreasing availability of funds and the need to achieve more accountability of public and private extension service providers, reforms in financing and delivery of extension services are implemented in many places. Learn more about the essential concepts to analyze the complex issues of financing and delivery of extension services, about the key conditions and factors, which can make the difference between success and failure, about innovative financing mechanisms.
Innovation management as a competitive advantage
On request
Develop competence to manage innovation processes with imagination and consequence. Create a favourable atmosphere for creative ideas. Enable the utilisation of the innovation potential in your working environment