Post-graduate Course on Technology and Sustainable Development
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM ) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne - EPFL) will organize the third edition of a sixteen-week long joint post-graduate course on 'Technology and Sustainable Development - Innovative and integrated approaches in emerging countries' at the IIT Madras, India from 2 January - 22 April 2008. The course is open to graduate students and professionals, with a university degree, in various occupations who are not necessarily specialists in the field.
The course is designed to provide an appreciation of the role of technology and how it may contribute most effectively to sustainable development in the context of developing and emerging countries.
Applications are already open and the deadline for submission is 30 September 2007 for participants from Asia and Australia and 15 July 2007 for applications from other countries. Partial financial support may be available to deserving candidates, based on available funds, merit and financial need.
Detailed information on the course, application procedure and alumni feedbacks are available at www.epfl.ch/tsd.