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

Get a degree at IHS without leaving home

Students who do not have the opportunity to travel and study at IHS in Rotterdam are offered a different portal to the IHS knowledge. The new e-learning course; “Innovations in Financing Cities” will provide the latest innovations in financing urban public projects online. Participants can study from home, do not have to leave their employers and save on investments in travels. Excellent candidates can also apply for a partial IHS fellowship. The course starts in October, apply as soon as possible!

Since many years IHS aims to provide courses in Rotterdam for participants from all over the world. The topics that are taught at IHS are designed to tackle global and local issues in the field of urban management and development in an international environment that includes participants from diverse countries. Many participants to IHS programmes were able to finance their study with financial aid from the Netherlands government, international fellowships or with support from IHS. Others have not found similar opportunities to come to IHS and have been disappointed. IHS wishes to share its knowledge with all those who are looking for it and has been working on solutions to reach more people.

In 2009 IHS has started the development of new 'Distance Learning courses to meet the needs of potential students who are unable to finance the more traditional courses. The first three month course online; “Innovations in Financing Cities” will start on 11 October 2010.

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.

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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. 

Wednesday, 25 August 2010