Trainings
Recent and upcoming trainings for the E+E network are listed here. Additional internal trainings are accessible in our member area (restricted access).
Please note that our capacity-building webinars are listed under events and news.
Our trainings
The E+E section offers regular trainings:
- SDC – PSE Basics Course: FDFA only - The section E+E organizes introductory PSE courses for SDC staff on a regular basis. For more information or to register, please consult the course description on SuccessFactors Learning.
- SDC - PSE Deep Dive: FDFA only - how to initiate and steer projects, to unsterand the rational, characteristics and modalities of PSE projects as well as the PSE risk management process.
- SDC – ‹PSE 100 Workshop›: On demand by SDC cooperation offices, for concrete expertise about PSE, introduction into PSE basics and formats, systemic examination of the potential of PSE to advance the unit’s mid-term strategy, portfolio screening to detect the most promising projects and partners and develop a short list with concrete goals and tasks.
- Education in Emergencies EiE Crash Course
The E+E section further offers tailor-made trainings, which can be obtained by contacting our section via eenetwork@eda.admin.ch.
Trainings offered by others / our partners
- Geneva Graduate Institute Executive Education courses
- IHEID, NORRAG, IIEP-UNESCO: Innovative Financing for Education course
- IIEP-UNESCO online specialized courses for professionals
- INEE Minimum Standards Trainings
- Réseau Suisse Education & Coopération Internationale (RECI), events and webinars on selected topics
- Save the Children EiE Professional Development Programme with various options
- UNIGE Centre for Continuing and Distance Education, Education and Training courses, including courses on Education in Emergencies
- UNIGE: Introductory course on EiE at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) – a chance to introduce new professionals to EiE or refresh knowledge (16-20 June 2025, Geneva)
- Center for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) of ETH Zurich «VET between Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development», go to course programme
- Center on the Economics and Management of Education and Training Systems (CEMETS) of ETH Zurich «Summer Institute on Policy Development for Educational Reform Leaders», go to programme summer institute
- GIZ Academy for International Cooperation, TVET Academy «Education and TVET systems in International Cooperation» (current course offers), check if mentioned course is still available.
- International Training Centre of the ILO «Academy on Skills Development» (among other VSD training offers)
- SFIVET – Swiss International VET Academy, Instructing and Teaching in VET & Understanding Quality in VET
- Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education, University of Zurich «Programme for Doctoral Students in Economics of Education»
- Center for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) of ETH Zurich «Market Systems Development», and «Gender and Economics», go to course programme
- Mesopartner «Summer Academy on Economic Development»
- Miehlbradt Consultancy «Results Measurement for Sustainable Private Sector Development» and «Advanced Training Workshop in Results Measurement for Private Sector Development», go to trainings
- SPRINGFIELD «Making Markets Work»
- DevLearn online courses on market systems development (MSD), monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and Advanced Market Systems Development
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, various courses (microfinance, -insurance, digital finance, agrifinance, MSME finance, etc.)
- ILO: Impact Insurance Facility
- Initiative for Blended Finance University of Zurich «Impact Investment & Blended Finance for Development Agencies & Foundations»
- Social Finance Academy «Access to Impact Investment for Social enterprises»
- Universität Zurich: Courses on microfinance, check single courses
- Social Finance Academy (SFA), focus on blended finance by Roots of Impact
- The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) offers regular trainings and webinars with a focus on blended finance and impact investing
- The innovative finance initiative has recently started offering training on blended and innovative finance, such as this one