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Refresher Courses

For many years, IHS has organised regional refresher courses addressed to its alumni thanks to the financial support provided by NUFFIC. The duration of these courses are usually 2 weeks and is organised annually in close cooperation with a local organisation that also benefits from the wealth of experience brought by IHS staff and IHS alumni.

The courses refresh previous issues and fine tune participants’ experience and knowledge with current international policy practices and new issues that have emerged since their participation in IHS courses. The courses are very interactive. Participants have the chance to present their experiences and often this generates a rapid assessment of what is going on regionally. It is an excellent opportunity for networking and for assessing the impact of their previous training at IHS.

In recent years courses have been offered in Ecuador, Zambia, Indonesia, India, Zimbabwe, Jordan, Egypt, China, Cuba, Peru, Ghana, Vietnam, Costa Rica If you belong to an Alumni association or if your organisation would like to host such a course, contact IHS.

The refresher courses is one of the sub-programmes of the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) and participants have to be NFP alumni to apply for a fellowship. Find out whether you are elegible to join a refresher course in your region in the list of eligibility criteria

Refresher Courses 2011

In 2011 IHS will be able organise 4 refresher coureses for IHS Alumni thanks to the financial support of Nuffic.

The deadlines to apply for any of these refresher courses in 2011 is 2 months prior to the starting date of the course.

Go to eligibility criteria and application

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IHS Alumni Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria

On the occasion of the refresher course that took place in Abjua, IHS Alumni got together

1st meeting of IHS Alumni Colombia

A new IHS Alumni Association is born

IHS salutes a new batch of urban professionals into the wide world

Jolita Sinkiene reports on the graduation of UMD7 (september 2011)

Regional Alumni Meeting in Quito, Ecuador

Chairman of IHS AI Mr. Jaime Hernandez reports on the event (in Spanish)

An inspiring occasion for IHS Alumni work

Ulas Akin, Antonio Beltran and Maritza Mayo D'arrigo back at IHS

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