Online Courses

UNU-MERIT offers a range of online and blended courses for working professionals keen to expand their expertise in public policy.

We provide a comprehensive combination of theoretical insights, educational tools, technical skills and sector-specific knowledge to put theory into practice. Focused on policy design, policy analysis and the methods and techniques of policy research, our learning programmes offer skills and knowledge often difficult to obtain during full-time employment. To accommodate our participants’ needs, these courses are available as single online courses but also as certificate programmes and blended learning programmes. In case of specific needs, we also design tailor-made online course packages upon request.

 

Application deadlines and starting dates for 2025

online courses schedule

Our Online Courses

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Economics of Innovation

The course aims at providing an introduction to the main theoretical and empirical issues surrounding the economic analysis of innovation

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Governance in Theory and Practice

This course introduces the wider multidisciplinary study of governance and offers diverse literature and methodological approaches.

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Introduction to Impact Evaluation of Policies and Programmes

A course instructing the methodologies required to conduct a rigorous impact evaluation of a development policy, programme, or intervention.

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Impact Evaluation of Policies and Programmes: Estimation and Analysis of Causal Impacts

This course builds upon the impact evaluation course and provides a hands-on approach to estimating and analysing causal impacts

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Introduction to Migration Studies

Over eight the course will cover important terms, concepts, definitions, data and flows related to migration studies.

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Public Policy Analysis

This course will be introduced to the fundamentals of public policy analysis in developed and developing settings.

Capacity Development Office - Online course

The Public Policy Process

This course provides a critical analytic and descriptive framework to analyse the different aspects of the policy process.

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Certificate Programme: Governance and Policy Evaluation

This certificate programme is a bundle of three online courses.

Capacity Development Office - Online course

Certificate Programme: The Public Policy track in Social Protection

This certificate programme is a bundle of three online courses.