'Innovations in Financing Cities' provides the latest innovations in financing urban projects online

Get a degree at IHS without leaving home

This October, for the first time, IHS is offering an e-learning course that will provide participants with the latest innovations in financing urban public projects. The course includes a number of interactive activities that allows peer-learning opportunities through the use of online discussion boards, role-playing games, wikis, and group exercises.

This course has a time frame of 10 weeks. It consists of 5 modules; Land Value Capture, Public-Private Partnerships, Accessing Capital Markets, Remittances and a module on developing integrated strategies for financing a project. The course gives you the possibility to read the prescribed material and interact with other participants in the form of games and discussion boards where you will be applying the lessons from the literature to actual problems. This makes it possible for full-time employed participants to follow the course during evenings and weekends. Participants are expected to devote about 10 to 12 hours a week to this course!

Learning how to finance urban projects is our aim; therefore we want to expose our participants to these factors which will broaden their views on these topics. We also want to provide them with the principles of each financing innovation, which will help them meet the necessary needs in their own cities.

This course is designed to cater to the knowledge needs of mayor's advisors, staff members of urban finance department, economic development department, infrastructure departments (water, roads, etc.) and more broadly for urban consultants and academics interested in knowing about various innovative methods of financing urban public projects.
 
The prices of this course is €1950, this is including all the online materials needed to access this course online.

Interactivity online
The course is designed to be a 10 weeks instructor-led course with modules on land value capture, public-private partnerships, accessing capital markets and remittances. It will include a number of interactive activities that facilitate peer-learning among an international group of cohorts through the use of online discussion forums, role-playing games, wikis and group exercises. The goal is to expose to the participants all possible ways to finance large urban projects and to provide them with the underlying principles of each financing innovation so that they can improvise them to match the needs of their own cities.

The international outlook of the course leaves space for a local approach of the tools that are provided. Participants are challenged with their own specific historical, political, economic and institutional context in their city to apply the principles learned in the course in design of a financing scheme for a proposed public project.

See for more information:

Course information: Innovations in Financing Cities

Apply online through www.ihs.nl/login. Contact:  Anirban Pal; Course Coordinator (a.pal@ihs.nl; 010-4089864)and complete your request for an IHS partial fellowship. 

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