Learning Goals / Career Perspectives

The TPP continuing education programme targets professionals from both the private and public sector who want to develop the public policy analysis skills needed to address societal challenges in their current or future careers.

The two CAS will equip programme participants with essential skills in public policy analysis by focusing on how to systematically analyse, design and manage policy-making processes (CAS TPP: Policy Process); to assess policy options in terms of their expected effects, in order to identify appropriate policy designs; and to evaluate the implications of implemented policies so as to be able to adapt them where needed (CAS TPP: Impact Analysis).

The learning objectives are designed to equip participants with skills that are essential for:

• CAS TPP: Policy Process
  • analysing how public institutions function and how policy choices are made;
  • managing policy-making processes and communicating effectively with policy-makers, stakeholders, and the public.
• CAS TPP: Impact Analysis
  • designing policy interventions based on systematic analyses of their expected economic, social, and political consequences (ex ante policy analysis);
  • evaluating how implemented policy interventions perform in terms of their actual effectiveness, efficiency, and equity (ex post policy analysis).

The programme combines general skills in policy analysis with opportunities to apply these skills to the policy issues that interest programme participants or to problems that are relevant in their professional settings (e.g., mobility, energy, public health, the digital space, urban planning, environment / sustainability, security). In this sense, the TPP programme is transsectoral meaning that it does not focus on one policy field in specific, but rather touches upon several policy fields at the interface of technology and public policy, also depending on the programme participants' backgrounds and interests.

The graded proofs of performance will consist of one 'mini essay' exam for each of the three modules in each CAS TPP degree. Completion of the CAS TPP degrees does not require handing in a thesis.

Career Perspectives

Graduates of the TPP programme will belong to a new generation of policy analysts and decision-​makers who are literate in science and technology as well as public policy analysis. With the acquired knowledge and skills, they will be well prepared to shape public policies addressing today’s grand societal challenges in areas such as, for example, climate change, sustainable use of natural resources, urban development, sustainable mobility, the energy transition, ageing societies, public health, and the digital transformation.