Circularity for Resilient Food Systems
In an upcoming course, participants will learn how to use systemic and transdisciplinary approaches to transform waste into resources, close loops, create shared value, and leverage interconnections to design interventions that build resilience.
In March, the World Food System Center is offering a short course to help participants build their toolbox to redesign the food system.
This course offers the chance to connect with like-minded professionals from around the world and engage in interactive and creative skill building opportunities. Participants will have the chance to step back from silos, look at the big picture, and understand connections. The course will be hosted live online with the chance to engage with systems and transdisciplinary tools in a hands-on way with colleagues from diverse backgrounds. And space for personal reflection about how to apply these concepts in life and work will be supplied.
We at the Center are passionate about creating engaging and inspiring learning environments where you play an active role in contributing to your own learning. We will make use of a wide variety of tools and platforms to keep you energized and motivated through the four days, with plenty of space to regenerate. Join us to explore how to use the concepts of circularity and solidarity to build food systems resilience!
Course Details:
- Designing for Food Systems Resilience: A Circular Approach
- Dates: 3, 4, 7 and 8 March 2022
- Format: Live online
- Language: English
- Fee: university/ public institutions/ NPO/ self-employed/ start-up rate: 650 CHF
company rate: 900 CHF
A limited number of scholarships are available. - Application: Closes 23 January 2022
- Organizers: ETH Zurich World Food System Center and Sustainable Agroecosystems Group
- Further information: https://worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/education/wfsc-courses/professional-courses.html
If you have any questions, please contact Toya Bezzola, Project Manager Education and Research at the World Food System Center.
Testimonials from 2021 Course
The course brings a deep insight into how crucial is to tackle complex problems with a systemic approach, especially when are talking about increased resilience in food systems as a key for mitigating climate change and hunger on our planet. – Lorena de Oliveira Felipe, Doctoral candidate, Japan
The diversity of the presenters and the participants in terms of geographical locations, worldly experiences, cultural backgrounds, really made for such rich conversations that stretched one's own interpretations and assumptions about things and people and culture. Using that diversity and the frameworks of systems and design thinking to then see issues from a larger, well-mapped, systemic point of view is crucial to really seeing the whole, in order to work out from that whole, more compassionate, caring and holistic solutions. – Teresa D. Ruelas, Founder & Executive Director, Communities for Alternative Food Ecosystems Initiative, Philippines
This was an extremely well-designed course. I had a chance to interact with a group of motivated participants from all frontiers, coming together to solve a problem. We were introduced to some exciting tools and problem-solving techniques during this course. The interactive and dynamic nature of this course made it enjoyable and enriching at the same time. – Chandrima Shrivastava, Doctoral candidate, Empa, Switzerland