Events

Traverse: International Investment Treaty Reform

Tuesday, 27.03.2018 – Tuesday, 27.03.2018
Public event

Location: Kursaal, Bern

HUNGER – Annual Conference Humanitarian Aid and SHA

A man is watering a little garden in the midst of war in Syria.

Friday, 23.03.2018 – Friday, 23.03.2018
Conference Assembly

HUNGER Annual Conference Humanitarian Aid and SHA Friday, 23 March 2018, 1.30 pm, Congress Centre, Biel

Location: Biel/Bienne Congress Centre, Zentralstrasse 60, Biel

Spotlight on Mongolia at the 32nd Fribourg International Film Festival

A woman on a cinema screen. Her right cheekbone is scraped and bruised and she is crying.

Friday, 16.03.2018 – Saturday, 24.03.2018
Cultural event; Public event

The 32nd Fribourg International Film SFestival (FIFF) shines the spotlight on cinematography from Mongolia. The SDC has supported the festival since its inception.

Location: Fribourg

Women in Displacement

Thursday, 08.03.2018 – Thursday, 08.03.2018
Public event

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Federal Commission on Migration (FCM) and the Embassy of Canada to Switzerland host a panel discussion on “Women in Displacement” on 8 March 2018 from 6pm to 8pm. The event takes place within the framework of the “DISPLACED” exhibition currently on display in the Historischen Museum in Bern.

Location: Bernisches Historisches Museum, Helvetiaplatz 5, CH-3005 Bern

CROSSROADS – International perspectives on culture, art and society

Thursday, 08.02.2018 – Saturday, 10.02.2018
Public event; Cultural event; Conference

What impact do cultural exchange and international networks have? What roles do art and culture play in the process of social change? CROSSROADS, organised by The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), offers a platform for discussion with a conference and a cultural programme on these core questions.

Location: Basel & Geneva

Exhibition DISPLACED

Thursday, 25.01.2018 – Sunday, 16.09.2018
Exposition

“DISPLACED” is a project by the Swiss Federal Commission on Migration (FCM), the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Location: Bernisches Historisches Museum

International cooperation: women’s capacity for action in Benin – Round table on 20 November in Lausanne, Switzerland

A Beninese woman watering her kitchen garden

Monday, 20.11.2017 – Monday, 20.11.2017
Public event

Looking ahead to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the SDC is organising a round table on women’s capacity for action in Benin, featuring guest speakers from Benin and Switzerland.

Location: Casino de Montbenon (main auditorium) in Lausanne

Traverse: Corruption and the Commodity Sector

Women, men and children from a village in Sierra Leone, standing waist-deep in water in a gold mine trying to wash away the dirt from the extracted gold.

Thursday, 16.11.2017 – Thursday, 16.11.2017
Public event

Challenges and Room for Action for Switzerland and its Development Cooperation.

Location: Schule für Gestaltung Bern, Aula

Panel discussion: Clean Energy for All – a challenge for Eastern Europe

Invitation card for the panel discussion, showing solar panels.

Wednesday, 15.11.2017 – Wednesday, 15.11.2017
Public event

Energy issues are more relevant than ever before – not just in Switzerland. The countries of Eastern Europe in particular are facing the challenge of supplying reliable and affordable energy for all people and companies without a negative impact on the climate. In a region where most of the energy consumed still comes from non-renewable resources this is no easy task.

Location: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Sierre

Taking responsibility

World map with areas of high water risks

Wednesday, 08.11.2017 – Wednesday, 08.11.2017
Public event

More than three quarters of the water we consume does not come from Switzerland. What are the risks of this unsustainable use of water for humans and nature? Representatives of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), WWF Switzerland and Nestlé S.A. will discuss this topic with the audience.

Location: Alpines Museum der Schweiz, Helvetiaplatz 4, 3005 Bern

The Short Film Festival of Switzerland in Winterthur

A couple riding a scooter, with the man in front and the woman behind him with her arms wrapped tightly around him.

Tuesday, 07.11.2017 – Sunday, 12.11.2017
Movie

From 7 to 12 November 2017, the 21th edition of the “Internationale Kurzfilmtage, The Short Film Festival of Switzerland,” will be held in Winterthur. Film-makers will be invited from all over the world to present a wide variety of short films.

Location: Winterthur

Swiss launch of the Global Education Monitoring Report 2017

Title page of the Global Education Monitoring Report 2017 A group of children holding up a poster that says ‘Education matters’.

Monday, 06.11.2017 – Thursday, 14.12.2017
Public event

Swiss launch of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2017 “Accountability in Education: meeting our commitments”, 13 December 2017 in Bern

Location: Bern