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In the Wintersemester of 2023/24, EA Aachen offers an official university course on Effective Altruism in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University.

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Course Summary

The overarching goal of this course is to convey scientifically grounded ideas and methods that you can apply in your own live to do good more effectively. Our course will feature talks from world-leading experts, both from academia and the philanthropic sector. For example, some of our speakers research how to mitigate climate change or prevention strategies for global pandemics and will discuss their findings with us. Other speakers have founded internationally operating charities and will share with us the experience and insights they gained by working directly on saving lives.

The course will be part of the Project Leonardo - learn more about it here.

Program

The program for WS 23/24 is still in planning. For a reference of what it might look like, you can look at the course overview from last year:

1) “Effective Altruism” – An introduction

Effective Altruism Aachen e.V.

2) Global Health (zoom)

Bruce Tsai, Rethink Priorities

3) Farmed Animal Welfare (zoom)

Jamie Harris, Animal Advocacy Careers

4) Summary “Neartermism” and introduction “Longtermism”

Effective Altruism Aachen e.V.

5) Biorisk (zoom)

Crystal Watson, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

6) AI Safety

Tom Lieberum (AI safety researcher)

7) Summary “Longtermism” and critisism regarding effective altruism

Effective Altruism Aachen e.V, Prof. Kellerwessel


Participate

As an RWTH student: register via RWTH Online. Depending on your course of study, you might be eligible for Credit Points.

As an external: just write a quick email to info@ea-aachen.org and you are ready to join.