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  • ACTIS signs MoU with UNEP in Nairobi

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    ACTIS recently signed a new MoU with UNEP in Nairobi in order to design and host YES courses in Africa. YES courses were previously hosted with UNEP in 2005 and 2007, and this new agreement will allow for additional courses to be hosted from 2012 onwards. Both partners look forward [...]

  • YES Students Participate in the World Resources Forum

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    ACTIS was invited to bring a delegation of YES participants to the third annual World Resources Forum in Davos in September. A total of 35 participants from 22 different countries represented the YES course at the conference, and contributed to the conference by running parallel sessions, speaking in the wrap [...]

Past courses

A list of all YES courses held to date is provided below.

Basic Courses:

YES Switzerland

2001 – 2010
15 courses in partnership with AGS, MIT, University of Tokyo, ETH Zurich and Chalmers University
2011
1 course in partnership with the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and the World Resources Forum, Davos

YES Latin America, Costa Rica

2002 – 2005
2 courses in partnership with INCAE Business School and CATIE

YES Central and Eastern Europe, Slovakia and Austria

2006 – 2008
3 courses in partnership with the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Economics Bratislava

YES Africa, Kenya

2007 – Current
1 course in partnership with UNEP and Egerton University in Njoro/Nakuru

YES Japan

2007 – Current
4 courses in partnership with Hosei University

YES Australia

2009
1 course in partnership with the International Water Center Brisbane
(IWC – a joint venture of the University of Queensland, Monash University, Griffith University and the University of Western Australia)

YES Serbia

2011 – Current
1 course in partnership with the Environmental Engineering Group Novi Sad

Special Courses:

Water and Sustainability, Sinai Desert, Egypt

2008
In partnership with the Wadi Environmental Science Center, Cairo, Egypt.
See the course video here. (insert link to video in gallery)

Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, Stellenbosh, South Africa

2009
In partnership with the Sustainability Institute of the University of Stellenbosch.

Sustainability through Social Entrepreneurship, Armenia, Colombia

2010
In partnership with AVINA