The platform teaches the models it runs
Analysts trained on the same models their ministry uses. Fourteen courses, one for each school, each run four times a year — in person in Nairobi and Accra, and live virtual on East Africa and West Africa time — with certification, fellowships and a training partner network.
Four ways to take a course
Every course runs four times a year: twice in person, in Nairobi and in Accra, and twice live virtual, on East Africa and on West Africa time. A participant chooses the cohort, and the fee follows its mode.
Self-paced
Online modules with exercises, datasets and a laboratory environment. Six to twelve hours, taken over as long as the participant needs. Certificate of completion.
Live virtual
Facilitated cohorts taught into the EDIS laboratory, one on East Africa time and one on West Africa time, with supervised model runs and assessed work. US$80 a contact day.
In-person
Taught in the room at the EDIS regional hubs in Nairobi and Accra, with the laboratories run at the keyboard under supervision. US$200 a contact day.
Institutional
A programme designed around one ministry, bank or university, using that institution’s own data and its own live policy questions.
Fourteen courses
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The courses themselves
Each course is one school of the Academy, and runs five to ten contact days depending on how many modules it teaches and how deep they are. The course catalogue gives every course in full — its modules, each module’s own summary, outcomes and outline, the day-by-day plan and the certificate. The training calendar shows all 56 cohorts, between 15 January 2027 and 2 June 2028.
Certification
Assessed courses lead to an EDIS Academy certificate naming the models the participant is certified to operate, at what level, and the date of assessment. Certificates are verifiable against the Academy register.
Fellowships
Longer placements for analysts from ministries, central banks and research institutes, working on a real policy question with supervision, ending in a published piece of work.
Laboratories
Each course carries temporary model access, training datasets and a sandboxed workspace. Access expires with the course; work produced in it can be exported.
Delivered with institutions, licensed by EDIS
Universities, regional training institutes and professional bodies can deliver EDIS Academy courses under a training partnership. The partner delivers the teaching; the platform access, the datasets, the model versions and the certification remain managed by EDIS, so a certificate means the same thing wherever it was earned.
What a partnership includes
- Course materials, exercises and training datasets
- Trainer certification for the partner’s own faculty
- Laboratory environments provisioned per cohort
- Participant registration and progress tracking
- Joint certification under the Academy register
- A route from Academy access to an institutional licence
Enrol, or nominate a team
Individual enrolment opens per cohort. Institutions nominating a group are scheduled directly, so the course can be built around the institution’s own questions.