CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration
This description is only available in English.
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Autumn Semester 2025
Start -
3 months
Duration -
Hybrid: online plus field trip to Italy
Location -
EnglishTuition language
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01–30.06.2025
Application period
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CHF 8,230
Programme fee
In brief: The CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration
To deal with complexity, we expand our worldviews, form a nuanced, applicable understanding of regeneration as an expression of life, learn to design as nature, build inner resilience and lead transformation processes.
Structure and content
Programme description
This programme teaches scientific, designerly, embodied and inner ways to deal with complex societal challenges and nested crises – for designing toward resilience and regeneration. Participants expand their mental model of regeneration and learn applicable skills from real-world practice at the living systems lab MonViso Institute in Italy, where we embody complex systems across multiple governance scales. This allows for applicability and leadership across system types and dynamics.
Objectives
To meet today’s challenges, e.g. climate change, economic inequality, and uncertainty, this CAS builds the capacity to befriend emergence by (non) intervening in complex systems through science, design, embodied practices, and inner processes. The programme opens our worldviews and forms a critical understanding of regeneration as an expression of life. We learn to concretise resilience and regeneration to design as nature, support bioregional economies, nurture circularities across system types, and lead processes in local communities.
Professional perspectives
The CAS is systemic, diverse, and inclusive in terms of topics, ways of reasoning, methods, data types, systems scales, focal areas, and cultures. The inclusiveness of this programme allows for engineers, economists, biologists, activists, service designers, teachers, permaculture designs, farmers, tourism managers, architects and city mayors, from different positions, ages, cultures, to co-create and synergise as part of complex systems toward desired resilience and becoming regenerative.
Structure and format
The CAS is a hybrid course, organised in six thematic modules that build upon the MOOCs content structure. After an introduction week the course engages in a real-world design field trip to the MonViso Institute, Italy, including a serious game development and a Systemic Cycles multiple day bike tour.
Additional information
After the virtual introduction week, we engage in a physical real-world design field trip to the MonViso Institute, Italy. The following course modules include virtual live meetings with invited speakers, in-depth (visual) dialogues, individual Quest coaching, and peer learning. Virtual content stimulates physical and social interaction specific to place, fostering inner processes and leadership.
At the end of the CAS, participants will submit a self-reflection of their Quest in textual and graphical format. This CAS counts toward the MAS ETH in Regenerative Systems.
Tuition language(s)
English
Credits
12 ECTS credits
Target group and admission
Target group
The programme addresses thought leaders and decision makers from a variety of fields who want to embrace uncertainty and co-design across governance scales, cultures and thought schools for a better, more resilient and regenerative future.
Requirements
Master's degree acknowledged by ETH or equivalent educational qualifications.
Required language skills
English: C1 (German: C1) – external page Show proficiency scales
Language(s) of performance assessment
English
Dates and venue
Start
Autumn Semester 2025
Duration
3 months plus MOOC#1 participation prior to the CAS (approx. 12 weeks)
Application period
01–30.06.2025 (admission after the application deadline)
Location
Online plus field trip to Italy
Fees
Programme fee
CHF 8,230
Application fee
CHF 50 for persons with a Swiss university degree, CHF 150 for persons with another university degree (non-refundable, credit card payment only)
Withdrawal fee
- Within 30 days after the admission date: free of charge
- More than 30 days after the admission date: CHF 3,000
- After the start of the programme: CHF 8,230
Application
Questions about the application
ETH Zurich, School for Continuing Education, HG E 17–18.5, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Tel. external page +41 44 632 56 59, E-mail
Application documents
- Diploma certificate and transcript (of records) of the highest or most relevant degree
- Passport or identity card
- Download Declaration of consent (PDF, 94 KB)
Additional application documents
- Certificate of ETH DRRS MOOC#1 Sustainability to Regeneration
- Written essay with graphical elements: reflect about your personal QUEST in the context of this study programme
Organiser
Programme management
Contact
ETH Zurich
D-BAUG (Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL)
Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS)
8093
Zurich
Responsible body
ETH Zurich, D-BAUG, Institute of Construction & Infrastructure Management (IBI), Chair of Sustainable Construction