Topic outline

  • Week 1: Water & development

    This week will give you a brief overview of global water issue, sustainability and development in general. You'll also get an introduction to using statistics. Note the week starts with a context session on group work; see previous page for more information.

    The week consists of the following submitted tasks:

      • Thematic task: SWOT analysis, group work (DL Wed 6.9. at 11:00)
      • Weekly exercise: Statistical analysis (DL Fri 15.9. at 23:59)

    General schedule for the week is shown in the figure below, while the detailed schedule can be found below the figure.

    schedule



    • Detailed timeschedule

      Monday 04.09. @ water building

      09:00 - 12:00 see page Orientation and first session
      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
      13:00 - 15:00 lecture and discussion on global water and food issues (Matti Kummu)
      15:15 - 16:00 introduction to the weekly task (Matti Kummu)

      In addition, your self-studying task is to listen Marko's online lecture on sustainability available here.

      Tuesday 05.09. @ water building

      09:00 - 10:00 Lecture on water & sustainable development (Olli Varis) > lecture cancelled, time for own work
      09:45 > 10:00 - 12:00 Introduction to SGT: global journey through case-studies (Julia Renko, Matleena Muhonen, Bhattarabhop Viriyaroj)
      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
      Afternoon: Aalto day one activities

      Wednesday 06.09. @ water building

      Morning: Individual/group work + 9:30-10 help desk @ Matti's room (Matti)

      11:00 (sharp)  DL for thematic task; SWOT analysis
      11:00 - 13:00 Lunch
       13:00 - 15:00 Weekly Task presentations & feedback session (Matti)
      15:00 - 16:00 'Wrap-up/feedback' discussion about Global week and motivation to weekly exercise (Thu-Fri) (Matti)

       

      Thursday 07.09. @ Y338

      9:00 - 10:00 Statistics: Lecture (Teemu)
      10:00 - 12:00 Statistics: Guided exercise workshop (Matias, Teemu)
      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
      13:00 - 16:00 Statistics: Guided exercise workshop (Matias, Teemu)

       

      Friday 08.09. afternoon @ Y338

      9:00 - 12:00 Statistics: Individual exercise work (no IT-class room booked, take a free computer in any Aalto IT-class room or use your own)
      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
      13:00 - 16:00 Statistics: Guided exercise workshop (@Y338: Matias, Teemu)

       

       

    • Lecture material

    • Not available unless: You are a(n) Student

    • Exercise material

    • Assignment icon
      Thematic Task: SWOT Analysis Assignment
    • Assignment icon
      Weekly exercise: Statistical analysis Assignment

    • Reading material

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