New MOOC on the Management of Urban Infrastructures
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The Chair in Management of Network Industries, directed by Prof. Matthias Finger, will offer its first free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the Management of Urban Infrastructures as of February 15th, 2016.
Management of Urban Infrastructures is a MOOC that offers an introduction to principles of management of urban infrastructure systems. It addresses the main challenges that urban infrastructures are facing today, along with the corresponding management challenges that should be addressed in order to improve the performance of cities.
Increasing demand for sustainable, inclusive, reliable and efficient urban service puts our urban infrastructures under a huge pressure. In such a challenging situation, management of urban infrastructures plays a key role to ensure the delivery of expected level of services in cities. This course will provide the participants with the basic principles that have to be considered for successful management of urban infrastructures.
This MOOC is one of the outcomes of the IGLUS project, in which participants will learn principles from academics (EPFL, CUNY), practitioners (City of Geneva, Veolia, Boston Consulting Group, CarPostal) and experts (The World Bank).
The course is structured into 4 blocks. In the first two blocks, general principles of urban infrastructure management are covered. The last two blocks of the course focus on management of urban energy and urban transportation systems as concrete cases. This course, offered by EPFL and diffused through the Coursera platform, starts on February 15th 2016.
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Registration: Via the Coursera Platform