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Epidemics and Social Science: a Holistic Approach
top course online courseThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014-2016) was a turning point for the role of the social sciences in disease outbreak control. The emergency response was led by a biomedical ap...
Open Science & LMER
top courseThe replication crisis in social sciences denotes that findings in behavioral science often cannot be replicated, making it one of the most impactful events. The Open Science movem...
Joint Summer School Doing Business across Europe - Towards a Circular Economy
blended courseDiscover the future of business in a unique European summer programme, taught by Rosenheim Technical University, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences and La Salle-Ramón Llull...
Science and Technology of Nanolithography
top courseIn state-of-the-art nanolithography a mask containing the layout of a computer chip is imaged, using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, onto a thin layer of photo-resist on top of a...
Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability - The case of Lesvos
top course online courseIslands are special cases for Sustainable Development. Methodologically and scientifically, islands are ideal ‘laboratories’ for sustainable landscape stewardship. Islands are uniq...
Leadership for Innovation and Performance Happiness
top courseIn this course, you will discover the key variables of leadership, their relation to innovation and how they stimulate workplace happiness and increased performance. Supported by a...
Composing Film Music for Beginners
top courseFilm music is one of the most essential elements in audiovisual story telling. To become a film music composer, you will need a lot of exercise and experience in different areas. D...
Entrepreneurship through Acquisition and Succession: How to Buy a Company
top courseAre you a possible successor in the family business, or do you want to start your own business? Are you interested in buying a company? During this course, upcoming entrepreneurs a...
Designing Sustainable Landscapes within Regional Food Systems
top courseLearn all about designing sustainable regional food systems and agroecological landscapes for the North of The Netherlands! A redesign of the agricultural systems and resulting lan...
European Cultures and Identities
top courseHave you ever wondered what makes Europeans ‘European’? During this course you will uncover the answers while staying in the beautiful medieval city of Utrecht. You will uncover Eu...
Introduction to Finance and Banking
top courseFinancial news is dominating the headlines. The financial and banking system had and still has a great impact on the economic situation in the world. Sparked by the financial crisi...
Teaching in English for Higher Education Professionals
top courseAre you a non-native English speaker who plans to teach in English in the near future? Our intensive Teaching in English course will help you gain more confidence and become more a...
History of Art: A Thousand Years of European Highlights
top courseThe Utrecht Summer School offers an opportunity to travel back in time and experience the art from both traditions first hand, staying in two cities that played a pivotal part in t...
Pre-University Honours Programme: Journalism
top courseThe 2020s are poised to be challenging years that will grapple with massive topics that touch the lives of people across the globe. The role of journalism and media will without a...
Academic English Skills (B2 → C1) early August
top courseAre you planning to follow (or already in) a Bachelor's or Master’s programme for which you need to have excellent English language skills? This course will help you to improve the...
Pre-University Honours Programme: Politics & Identity
top courseAs our hyper-connected world draws closer together, it falls to present and future generations to understand how this affects the political climate. Every aspect of our lives is in...
Introduction to GIS for Human and Behavioral Scientists
top courseThe objective of the course is to provide students, that have a background in social, human or behavioral sciences, with an introduction to GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Th...
Buddhist Mindfulness and Care
top courseThe increasing interest in Buddhist spiritual caregiving and mindfulness is partly due to a disproportionate increase in mental distress and wellbeing and the promise and potential...
Introduction to Multilevel Analysis
top courseThis course will teach you the theoretical basics of multilevel modelling and some important methodological and statistical issues. You will also learn how to analyse multilevel da...
Interprofessional Collaboration in Stroke Management
top courseIn this summer course you will work in interprofessional groups (e.g. medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, psychology, physiotherapy, speech-language therapy, social work). You...
Translational Medicine: Doing the Right Research Right
top courseThis EUREKA - UMCU online course tackles the intrinsic difficulties of effective translational medicine. It is designed for early-stage researchers interested in this field. COV...
Humanizing Birth: Launching Critical Midwifery Studies
top course online courseobally, the call for the humanization of childbirth is loud and urgent. The amount of childbirth related trauma, the rates of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in BIPOC...
Applied Multivariate Analysis
top courseThe summer school course 'Applied Multivariate Analysis' offers hands-on experience using SPSS for the most frequently encountered multivariate statistical techniques in the social...
International Human Rights Law: An Introduction
top courseInterested in learning about human rights? This one-week online introduction course focuses on the major features of international human rights law. It begins by examining the phil...
Introduction to Generative Syntax - UiL OTS
top courseIn this course, students will be introduced to the basics of generative linguistics, the theoretical framework evolved from and based on Noam Chomsky’s work. The formal tools of ge...
The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem
top courseDue to their environmental impact, cities play a crucial role in the transition towards sustainable societies. Despite the fact that they occupy only 3% of the global terrestrial s...
Dutch Language for German Speakers incl. State Exam (A0 → B2)
top courseAre you a German speaker who’s looking to learn Dutch quickly and effectively? Are you planning to study at a Dutch university, for which you need to pass the NT2 State Exam? Our i...
Rehabilitation of the Hand
top courseAre you interested in rehabilitation of the hand, and do you want to spend two weeks of you summer to accelerate on this topic? This is your chance to join us during our interestin...
Global Surgery & Obs-Gyn
top courseThe Global Surgery & Obstetrics/Gynaecology summer course provides a unique overview of topics related to Global Surgery, Gynaecology and Maternal care, with an emphasis on essenti...
BioBusiness Winter School 2022
online courseThis 3-days online programme covers live lectures and interactive sessions on main business topics such as Business Models, Product Development, Partnerships, Venture Capital and a...
English Upper Intermediate Complete (B1 -> B2)
top courseWould you like to improve your English language skills for study or work and be able to communicate more effectively in English with people from all over the world? Is your goal to...
Learning to Unlearn Decolonially - Disobeying, Delinking and Relinking
top courseColoniality of knowledge, aesthetics and spirituality are areas of experience managed and controlled by major Western institutions. The combination of institutions and languages se...
Sense making of GPS Data in a GIS environment
top courseThis course focuses on the application of GIS Tools to analyze of outdoor movements of people or animals. The objective is to provide students with insight in the principles of sen...
The Early Church as Ideal: Old Catholic Theology Beyond the Basics
top courseThis course offers the possibility to deepen your knowledge of Old Catholic theology by thematic and in-depth case-driven classes, linked to a key starting point of Old Catholic th...
Data Science: Data Analysis
top courseThe course Data science: Data Analysis offers a range of techniques and algorithms from statistics, machine learning and data mining to make predictions about future events and to...
Climate Change and the Long-Term Future
top course online courseAfter several successful installments, the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen will host its yearly Winter School, aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate studen...
Big Data Management and Analysis in the Linux Environment
top course"This course will introduce you to common UNIX command line utilities, teach you how to manage very large datasets (e.g. using sed, awk, and grep commands) and create simple shell...
Exploring Nature's Molecular Machines
top courseYou will experience the stimulating and international environment in our research laboratories and grasp first-hand the meaning of interdisciplinary science. We will focus on the c...
Dutch Language Level 1 (A0 → A1-) early July
top courseWould you like to be able to speak Dutch in shops and cafes? Do you enjoy having small conversations with Dutch natives? Our Dutch Language Level 1 course is designed for beginners...
European Politics and Economy
top courseThe European Union (EU) is a political partnership between 28 democratic European countries. With almost 500 million citizens, it has become a major player in global politics. In t...
Power to the People: Activism and Grassroots Organising
top courseIn this three week programme, participants will examine bottom-up initiatives ranging from protest movements to self-organised communities as they to disrupt established top-down i...
The Making of Europe: From Middle Ages to Modernity
top courseTaking the beautiful city of Utrecht as a starting point, this course will bring you the opportunity to step into history. This historical journey, which illuminates Europe from th...
English Advanced Complete (B2 -> C1) August
top courseWould you like to take your English to an advanced level in just one month? Our 4-week Advanced Cambridge English course is just what you need. You will significantly improve your...
Dutch Language Level 2 (A1- → A1+) mid August
top courseDo you know a few words and phrases in Dutch, but are you still a beginner? Would you like to improve your comprehension of Dutch and express yourself better? Our Dutch Language Le...
Dutch Language Level 2 (A1- → A1+) early August
top courseDo you know a few words and phrases in Dutch, but are you still a beginner? Would you like to improve your comprehension of Dutch and express yourself better? Our Dutch Language Le...
Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
top courseThe course focuses on concepts and methods of mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. Starting from basic assumptions on transmission of infection models will be formulated...
Global Management Game: Strategic Marketing, Management and Finance
top coursePlan, implement and evaluate an international brand marketing strategy within a realistic simulated environment. In this course, participants work as a marketer in a small decision...
Chinese Language and Culture HSK2 -> HSK3
top course online courseThe Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world. Learning Chinese can open a new door for you to explore the culture and society of this rapidly developing cou...
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks
top courseArtificial Intelligence (AI) has grown in the last few years from a promising research field into a widely applied technology. Many processes and decisions in our lives are governe...
Exploring Africa's Religious and Global Identity
top courseThis course will encourage participants to see Africa differently by pointing out its theological and philosophical contributions to religious movements. This course explores the e...
Pre-University Honours Programme: International Relations
top courseThe speed and scope with which international developments unfold is unprecedented. In order to make sense of the increased complexity of world politics, we need historical as well...
Advanced Functional Programming in Haskell
top courseTyped functional programming languages allow for the rapid development of robust programs. This course explores some of the more advanced language features of Haskell, a state-of...
Mental Health, Youth and Society
top courseWith unprecedented levels of mental distress and addiction reported globally, recent events exposed fissures within our social and health care systems. Behavioral health, focused o...
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using Mplus
top courseWe offer a 5-day course on how to perform basic SEM analyses using Mplus. The main objective of this course is to learn how to analyse several models with Mplus (e.g. path models,...
Dutch Language Level 1 (A0 → A1-) early August
top courseWould you like to be able to speak Dutch in shops and cafes? Do you enjoy having small conversations with Dutch natives? Our Dutch Language Level 1 course is designed for beginners...
Governing Climate Change: Theory and Practice
top course"Climate change may well be the most pressing environmental challenge facing humankind. A complex global web of institutions, instruments and actors is being created seeking to gov...
Human AI
top courseHuman processes of all kinds are complex and adaptive. Mental, social, and health-related processes can all change and adapt over time with human behaviour. Thought-based processes...
The Political Economy of Terrorism
top courseThis course considers modern-day terrorism from a theoretical and especially from an empirical perspective. Although the phenomenon of terrorism has been studied extensively from d...
Planning the Cycling City
top courseThis graduate level programme unravels urban cycling from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. We draw on historical and current events and thinking and engage with top Du...
Data Science in Clinical Practice
top course online courseCareful data curation and analyses are essential in developing machine learning algorithms, that may usefully contribute to solving problems encountered in routine healthcare. Neve...
Dutch Language Level 2 (A1- → A1+) early August
top courseDo you know a few words and phrases in Dutch, but are you still a beginner? Would you like to improve your comprehension of Dutch and express yourself better? Our Dutch Language Le...
Regenerative Medicine
top courseLearn how regenerative medicine (RM) may hold the potential to bring (human and animal) therapies from the lab into the clinic. The convergence of science, technology and medicine...
Global Health Ethics & Equity
top courseThe summer course will focus on urgent topics in global health ethics and equity. With an enthusiastic team of experts from all over the world, we will discuss the major challenges...
International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice
This unique programme gives a broad overview of the laws of armed conflict, and offers a range of opportunities to test the acquisition of knowledge through interactive exercises....
Creative Fiction and Non-Fiction: Utrecht Writing Workshop (B2+)
top course online courseWriting creatively, in any genre, is the ultimate way to explore the possibilities for expression and innovation in language. In this course (with instruction in Dutch or English)...
Dutch Language Level 1 (A0 → A1-) mid August
top courseWould you like to be able to speak Dutch in shops and cafes? Do you enjoy having small conversations with Dutch natives? Our Dutch Language Level 1 course is designed for beginners...
Global Health
top courseIn a globalizing world, health challenges transcend national boundaries and are becoming more complex. To face these challenges, including those posed by pandemics like COVID-19 an...
Soft Skills for (Future) Diplomats and Peacebuilders
top courseAre you an (aspiring) diplomat or peacebuilder? And do you have ideals for a better world? And would you like to work on your communication and personal leadership skills? Then thi...
Teaching through English in an international classroom: CLIL and EMI
top courseA professional development course for teachers and lecturers working through English who would like to improve their CLIL/EMI* methodology skills. Participants will develop and imp...
Doing Business in Europe - Sustainable Marketing
Various Hanze UAS schools with a focus on business have joined forces to develop the programme Doing Business in Europe. This first-class Summer School takes you on a journey throu...
Biomedical Research Lab
top courseThis interdisciplinary lab course gives you a realistic insight into the life of a biomedical researcher. We provide advanced bachelor students (with backgrounds in medicine and/or...
Data Science: Introduction to Text Mining with R
top courseApplications of text mining are everywhere: social media, web search, advertising, emails, customer service, healthcare, marketing, etc. In this course, students will learn how to...
History of Art: Relations between Italy and the Netherlands - Track
top courseThe Utrecht Summer School offers an opportunity to travel back in time and experience the art from both traditions first hand, staying in two cities that played a pivotal part in t...
English Upper Intermediate 1 (B1 -> B1+)
top courseWould you like to speak better English and communicate more easily? Do you feel a little bit ‘rusty’ when it comes to English? If so, this course will help you on your way! Our int...
Exploring Culture through Data: Digital methods & Data practices
top course online coursePlease note that the dates for this summer school have not been finalized and may thus still be subject to change. Are you curious, eager to learn and would you like to have an...
Ecogames: The Role of Playful Media in Sustainability Awareness, Communication and Action
top courseWith the impending climate crisis and its short-term repercussions becoming more ‘tangible’ every year, popular media and especially games are increasingly moving into the center o...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law: Human Rights and Beyond
-- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course may be held online -- This summer school focuses on the emergence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and intersex issues...
Discovering the Dutch: Dutch Culture and Society
top courseThis special track explores the question of Dutch identity by placing the history of the Netherlands and Dutch art in a wider European and transatlantic perspective. You will be in...
Introduction to the International Law of the Sea
top courseThe current regime for the oceans is built on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 (LOSC). This framework convention divides the oceans in coastal state mari...
Fine Art and Design Introduction Course
An intensive three-week studio-based programme that introduces students to Dutch culture, the Minerva Art Academy community along with its facilities, and the Dutch approach to art...
Comprehensive Introduction to Research Methodology and Design
top course online courseThis course aims to lay a solid, diverse and integrated foundation for conducting first-rate qualitative and quantitative research, and for embedding it in effective and feasible m...
Bilingualism
top courseAsk someone their opinion on bilingualism and you are likely to hear statements such as: learning two languages from birth confuses children and impairs their cognitive development...
Dutch Language Level 7 (B2+ → C1) early August
top courseDo you want to perfect your Dutch and communicate with the fluency and sophistication of a near-native speaker? Our advanced Dutch Language Level 7 course will help you express you...
Professional English Skills (B2 → C1)
top courseDo you need (or want) to use English for professional purposes, and find that sometimes you miss some of the language skills needed to show what you know in the workplace? If so, t...
Fundamentals of Global Health
top courseThis summer course introduces the principles and scope of global health and health-related strategies important for an understanding of health and disease in a global context. Topi...
Advanced In Vitro Models
top courseLearn about how Advanced In Vitro Models (AIM) hold the potential to reduce animal experimentation by scientific breakthroughs. The convergence of science, technology, legislation...
Environmental Epidemiology
top courseonline This course provides participants with insight in the principles and important issues of environmental and occupational epidemiology. Participants should have basic understa...
Dutch Language Level 7 (B2+ → C1)
top course online courseDo you want to perfect your Dutch and communicate with the fluency and sophistication of a near-native speaker? Our advanced Dutch Language Level 7 course will help you express you...
Data Science: Programming with Python
top coursePython has become the dominant programming language used in data science. This course offers an introduction to computational thinking about data-related problems and the implement...
Neurodegenerative Diseases: Foundation, Tools and Perspectives
top courseThis course will give the students insight into different aspects of neurodegenerative diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Vanishing White Ma...
Research design for Experimental Linguists - Uil OTS
top courseThis course is essential for experimental linguists. In this course you will learn about important aspects of a quantitative study design (research methodology), the basics of stat...
Stress Management: A Personalized Approach to Dealing with Long & Short Term Stress Effectively
top course online courseDuring this course we will discuss the various causes of stress and ways to deal with that stress effectively. The course is based on decades of evidence based and practical resear...
Paediatric Sport and Exercise Medicine
top courseExercise is medicine for healthy children as well as for children with chronic disease. This course will give a thorough introduction in paediatric sport and exercise medicine. Dur...
Introduction to Public International Law
top courseThe Public International Law course will look at the role of international law in responding to today's global challenges. Together, we will examine the nature and function of inte...
A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
top courseThis course describes the stages involved in Bayesian analysis: specifying the prior and data models, deriving inference, model checking and refinement. We discuss prior and poster...
Law and Sustainability
top courseAchieving sustainability is a key goal of modern societies and will remain a priority challenge for future generations. Students will learn how sustainability challenges are dealt...
Urban Studies: Planning and Living in Cities
top courseHousing and urban issues have come to the forefront of social, economic and environmental debates in recent years as metropolitan modes of living have become even more widespread a...
Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills
top courseThis course provides you with a challenging introduction to conflict resolution and mediation skills. The focus of the course is to familiarize you with the backgrounds of human co...
Global Energy Transition
In order to act locally, we need to think globally when it comes to energy transition. Hence an international mindset is required. Engagement is also needed to foster local learnin...
Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
-- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this Institute might be organised online -- Organised by Leiden Law School and Duke Law School, the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnatio...
Sustainable Landscapes - The Wadden Experience
top courseHow to steer towards sustainability at the landscape level? In the Northern part of the Netherlands lies the World Heritage Wadden Sea Region. Within this region, human and natural...
Coaching Skills for Young Leaders
top courseAre you a student or a young professional and do you want to acquire or deepen your coaching skills? Then this Summer School is for you. This course will teach you the empathic coa...
Difficult Settings: Preparing for Fieldwork
top course"This course can help you write an explicit fieldwork plan and enhance your capability of carrying out qualitative research in practice. Most qualitative research methods courses o...
Exploring (Non)Racial Amsterdam
top courseWithin the past year, protest movements like BlackLivesMatter have made racial injustice and institutional racism focal points for broad societal discussions. But racialized otheri...
Applied Social Robotics
top courseAre you interested in how social robots can be implemented in daily life, for example in education, in healthcare, and in hospitality? Do you want to come up with innovative soluti...
FinTech: Practical Introduction to Blockchain and Machine Learning in Finance
top courseFinancial technology, often shortened to FinTech, is an umbrella term for innovative technology in the financial sector. This summer course focuses on two disruptive technologies:...
Challenges for a Global Energy Transition in a Fossil World
top courseDo we need to phase down or to phase out fossil fuels? The COP Climate Conference in Glasgow in 2021 demonstrated once again that successful energy transition to meet the Paris cli...
English Advanced Complete (B2 -> C1) July
top courseWould you like to take your English to an advanced level in just one month? Our 4-week Advanced Cambridge English course is just what you need. You will significantly improve your...
Survey Research: Statistical Analysis and Estimation
top courseThe course is based on a total survey error perspective and discusses the major sources of survey error. Participants will be presented with tools for detection and adjustment of s...
Doing Business in Europe - International Communication
The Doing Business in Europe - International Communication program has two aims. First, to increase your awareness of the importance and complexity of intercultural issues in inter...
Game Design and Development
top courseThe Game Design and Development summer school offers interactive hands-on game design workshops, theoretical game design analysis classes and programming sessions. Practical aspect...
Smart Sustainable Cities
top courseWhat does the city of the future look like? Since the beginning of the 21st Century the majority of the world population lives in an urban area. The Summer School Smart Sustainable...
Creating a Climate for Change
top courseThis April, join our summer school on sustainability education . Are you a lecturer or policymaker in (higher) education? And would you like to put forward and work on challenge...
Data Science: Applied Text Mining
top courseThis course introduces the basic and advanced concepts and ideas in text mining and natural language processing. In this course, students will learn how to apply text mining method...
Data Analysis in R
top courseWith the increasing use of statistical languages like R in data analysis, now is the time to get to grips with them! This course focuses on understanding statistical models and ana...
English Proficiency 2 (C1+ -> C2)
top courseDo you want to perfect your English and communicate with the fluency and sophistication of a near-native speaker? Do you need to achieve the level of English that’s needed to study...
Current Challenges in EU Law
top courseThis course will challenge you to understand and to critically assess the role of EU law in responding to the major challenges the EU is currently facing. It will involve discussin...
Academic English Skills (B2 → C1) early July
top courseAre you planning to follow (or already in) a Bachelor's or Master’s programme for which you need to have excellent English language skills? This course will help you to improve the...
Contemporary Conflict Analysis: Actors, Issues & Technologies of 21st Century Warfare
top courseThis course equips scholars and professionals alike with cutting-edge knowledge and transferable skills for mapping, analysing and responding to warfare in the 21st century. T...
Building Brands and Influencing Behaviour
top courseSteven Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine, once stated “Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business”, as it persuades customers to pay more, pu...
Pre-University Honours Programme: Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship
top courseThis Pre-University Honours Programme is ideal for motivated high school students who are considering pursuing a degree in business. However, no matter what you will study or the k...
Dutch Art from Mesdag to Van Gogh and Mondrian (1700-1920s)
top courseThis course takes you through Dutch art from the 18th and 19th century, up to the early decades of modernism. After the grand 'Golden Age', innovations in the art world stagnated,...
English Proficiency Complete (C1 -> C2)
top courseDo you want to work on bringing your English up to the very highest level, looking at the nuances and complexities of the language in a fun, social class environment? If so, this c...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Europe: Business Models and Financing Models
top courseThis course focuses on the value of knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship in European business and will familiarise students with the interplay between science and technology...
Multilateralism, Globalization & Corporate Diplomacy
top courseDoes climate crisis spell the end of human civilization or a chance for a major breakthrough in global cooperation and multilateralism? Is the resurgence of nativist attitudes a tr...
Sustainable Pattern Cutting & Construction
This course is meant to create more awareness regarding the sustainable use of fashion for individual purpose. Shaping a garment requires patience and a good eye for detail, with f...
English Advanced 1 (B2 -> B2+) July
top courseAre you looking for an in-depth, high-level course to improve your English language skills? Our Advanced course will help you to develop your language skills so that you can commun...
Battlefields Uncovered: Introduction to Archaeological and Historical Investigations of Conflict
top course online courseWhat do battlefields have to tell us about the past and about ourselves? Battlefields Uncovered studies some of the most dramatic turning points in World History through the lens o...
Twin Research Human Genetics
top courseDo twins hold the key to understanding complex human traits and diseases? Can they resolve the age-old debate between nature and nurture? Thanks to recent technological advances, w...
Agile Projects as Dynamic Capability
top courseA central element in the dynamic capabilities of an organization is its ability to successfully transform existing assets and resources into new capabilities. Projects are key inst...
Dutch Art of the Golden Age
top courseAre you curious to learn more about Rembrandt's 'Nightwatch', Vermeer's 'Girl with the pearl earring', Hals's 'laughing figures' or other Dutch masterpieces from the 17th century?...
Project Management: From Theory to Practice
top courseToday’s environment requires organisations to continuously change policies, processes or practices - changes often organised as projects: unique, temporary efforts, performed by mu...
Survey Research: Design, Implementation and Data Processing
top courseChanges in technology and society strongly influence modern survey research. This course covers the essentials of modern survey methodology, organised by the Department of Methodol...
Dutch Culture: Society and Current Issues
top courseIn this course you will explore Dutch culture and identity by focusing on present-day Dutch society and its recent history. You will learn about typically Dutch phenomena such as t...
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology - UiL OTS
top courseIn this course we will investigate sound in language from 5 different perspectives: alphabet (units), acoustics, articulation, prosody and learning. These complementary perspective...
Leadership in Corporations: a Movie Learning Experience
top courseCorporations are complex environments, sometimes difficult to navigate and frustrating, other times fertile ground for your personal and professional flourishing. This course uses...
Childhood Cancer: State-of-the-Art Treatment, Innovative (Bio)Medicine and Patient Centered Care
top courseThroughout this course you will learn more about the latest knowledge in the area of childhood cancer. This course will give students the latest knowledge in state-of-the-art treat...
Data Stewardship
top course online courseDid you ever wonder how to improve your data management and handling? Have you ever hoped for a clean and indisputable database that you could easily share with your collaborators?...
3D Printing and Biofabrication
top courseAdditive manufacturing (3D printing) uses a layer-by-layer principle for manufacturing. This one-week course will provide insight in the opportunities of additive manufacturing tec...
Dutch Culture: History and Art
top courseDuring this course you will be introduced to the rich cultural traditions developed in the Netherlands from the 17th Century to the present day in artistic fields such as painting,...
Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
top courseThe summer course will provide a comprehensive overview of maternal, newborn and child health globally. With an enthusiastic team of experts from all over the world, we will discus...
Dutch Language Level 1 (A0 → A1-) mid July
top courseWould you like to be able to speak Dutch in shops and cafes? Do you enjoy having small conversations with Dutch natives? Our Dutch Language Level 1 course is designed for beginners...
Migration, Integration and Ethnic Relations
top courseDuring this course, we discuss social scientific theories and empirical research on international migration, the socio-economic and cultural integration of immigrants and their chi...
Depression Management and Suicide Prevention
top course online courseOur aim is to provide you with the latest evidence, knowledge and skills in the area of depression management and suicide prevention. Both are highly prevalent worldwide but they c...
Advanced Communication Skills: Between Persuasion and Empathy
top courseEffective communication is key for high performing professionals. If you want to bring your communication skills to the next level and work on your personal development, then this...
Using Logic as a Tool for Modelling
top course online courseLogic is the study of different types of reasoning. Logic is also a technology, a tool for elegantly modelling diverse phenomena. The aim of the course is to introduce you to this...
21st Century Skills for Healthcare Professionals
top courseThis multi-professional course is intended for students in nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, allied health care workers, and many others fields, who want to develop new skills and...
Econometrics of Networks
top courseLearn about recent econometric methods to analyse network data. Networks play an increasingly dominant role in many social, business, and economic environments. Moreover, networ...
Applying Ethics in Digital Innovation
top courseTechnology is not neutral. In this course we discuss and practice how to recognise and address moral questions in digital innovation. How do you respect personal and public values...
Organizational Behaviour Management
top courseOrganisational Behaviour Management (OBM) is the scientific approach of management that puts behaviour first. Every student brings in their own performance improvement case that s/...
Innovation Lab: Design Thinking for Socially-Relevant Innovation
top courseWe see an increase in the need for socially relevant innovation; to boost our networks, activate our communities, and contribute to a healthier society. We invite you to join our ‘...
Dutch Language Level 3 (A1+ → A2) early August
top courseAre you looking to interact more with Dutch natives at the university, at work or in your social life? Do you know basic Dutch, but would you like to improve your grammar and make...
Mathematics Education
top courseThe focus of the Mathematics Education course is bringing participants up to date in curriculum development and research in the field of mathematics education, and refreshing and d...
Corporate Governance after the Financial and Covid-19 Crises
top courseFailing Corporate governance of financial institutions has often been mentioned as an important cause of the crisis. Consequently, having a deeper understanding how Corporate board...
English Advanced 2 (B2+ -> C1) August
top courseWould you like to express yourself more fluently in English at a high level? Do you sometimes find yourself searching for an expression or phrase to capture exactly what you want t...
Data Science: Multiple Imputation in Practice
top courseThis 4-day course teaches you the basics in solving your own missing data problems appropriately. Participants will learn how to form imputation models, how to combine data sets, h...
English Advanced 1 (B2 -> B2+) August
top courseAre you looking for an in-depth, high-level course to improve your English language skills? Our Advanced course will help you to develop your language skills so that you can commun...
The Economics of Urbanization
top courseOver half the world's population now live in cities and, within a few decades, the population of urban areas will exceed the entire global population today. Ongoing urbanization pr...
English Advanced 2 (B2+ -> C1) July
top courseWould you like to express yourself more fluently in English at a high level? Do you sometimes find yourself searching for an expression or phrase to capture exactly what you want t...
Advanced Clinical Research Monitoring Interactive Workshop
top courseThis highly interactive workshop offers both advanced knowledge of GCP (Good Clinical Practice) and the clinical research rules and regulations, including the latest European ones,...
Fashion Design Portfolio Development
Immerse yourself in Fashion for 2 weeks (10 days) on campus and follow an easy, step-by-step supervised project on how to create a fashion portfolio you can use as a ticket to appl...
Finding Metaphors: The Pragglejaz Experience
top courseMetaphors are all around us - a tsunami of corona cases, fighting Covid-19, beating the virus. But how can we reliably and systematically collect them for further study? A systemat...
New Financing Models for a Changing World
top courseSince the credit crisis in 2008, banks have been focused on improving their image and balance sheets. The standards for providing loans have been raised to such an extent that Smal...
Diversity Management for Social Justice
top courseAre you interested in making a change in how diverse people access education, public services, wealth and participate in the public debate? Modern societies host a superdiverse...
Dutch Language Level 2 (A1- → A1+) mid July
top courseDo you know a few words and phrases in Dutch, but are you still a beginner? Would you like to improve your comprehension of Dutch and express yourself better? Our Dutch Language Le...
Introduction to Business and International Management
top courseA basic understanding of business concepts is useful for people pursuing any type of career. Learning the foundations about the most important aspects of business such as how are b...
Deep Reinforcement Learning
top courseReinforcement Learning (RL) is a set of techniques that can be used to solve sequential decision-making tasks. When combined with deep learning as a function approximator, these al...
Dutch Culture in a European Context
top courseThis special track offers you the opportunity to study European and Dutch culture from one of the oldest and most beautiful cities of The Netherlands; the city of Utrecht. Excursio...
Innovation in European Business: Business Models, Leadership and Design
top courseInnovation is key for companies to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment and is arguably the most important factor for long-term organisational success. During this trac...
Hands-on Process Mining
top courseProcess mining is a data analytics technique to discover, evaluate or enhance business processes by analysing the data traces left behind during the execution of these processes. I...
Writing for Publication (C1 -> C1+)
top courseDuring your academic career, publishing your work is of great importance. Following our Writing for Publication course will enable you to improve your written academic discourse by...
Modeling the Dynamics of Intensive Longitudinal Data
top courseThis is a four-day course on how to study dynamics in intensive longitudinal data, such as ambulatory assessments (AA), experience sampling method (ESM) data, ecological momentary...
Rehabilitation Management in Persistent Health Problems (PHP)
top courseDuring this 2 week program we will look at rehabilitation and persistent health problems (PHP) from every angle. We respond to World Health Organization’s call for action to promot...
International Rhythm Course
top courseThe International Rhythm Course Utrecht is a five day program taking place at the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands, where previous and new IRC participants come together in...
LANDac Annual Summer School "Land Governance for Development"
top courseWelcome to the LANDac (the Netherlands Land Academy) Annual Summer School “Land Governance for Development”. Large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South has received a grea...
Introduction to Semantics in L1 and L2 Acquisition - UiL OTS
top courseThis course introduces the basics of (formal) semantics and first and second language (L1/L2) acquisition as well as the interface between them. Days 1 and 2 are devoted to the int...
BCF Grant Application Course 2022
online courseAre you a PhD student or postdoc and do you want to enhance your career prospects in academia? Do you wish to improve one of the most vital skills of succeeding in science? Then jo...
International Criminal Law: From Theory to Practice
This summer school enables students and professionals from all over the world to engage in discussions on the prospects and challenges of international criminal justice. Students w...
Dutch Language Level 3 (A1+ → A2) mid August
top courseAre you looking to interact more with Dutch natives at the university, at work or in your social life? Do you know basic Dutch, but would you like to improve your grammar and make...
Old Catholic Theology: The Early Church as Charism and Challenge
top courseThis track consists of two connected courses that offer in the first week an introduction to Old Catholic theology in its ecumenical context and in the second week the possibility...
Creativity and Innovation (in collaboration with Cardiff University)
top courseThis course will show students how they can make a real difference to the organization, to the market and to the business’s bottom line. Innovation and creativity are the key driv...
The 20th Century: Europe in Three Wars
top courseWhen asked about the twentieth century in Europe, most people's first associations are either Adolf Hitler or the Second World War. However, during the 20th century, Europe not jus...
Psycholinguistics
top courseThis elementary to intermediate level course will provide the student with a basic knowledge of psycholinguistics, a research domain on the intersection of linguistics, psychology...
European Studies
top courseThis special track offers you the opportunity to explore the history and culture of Europe. Studying in the beautiful medieval city of Utrecht, you will not only explore the variou...
Biostatistics for Researchers
top courseThe course provides an introduction in statistical methodology for life sciences and discusses a number of statistical techniques for practical data analysis. Concrete examples and...
Mindfulness and Compassion-based Interventions
top courseAs our world becomes busier and more interconnected, people's lives take different trajectories towards new futures. This socio-cultural shift also affects our well being. But has...
Understanding and Managing Mergers and Acquisitions
top courseMany executives say they use M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) as a means to consolidate or expand the market position or increase its production efficiency. Most mergers and acquisitio...
Chinese Language and Culture HSK1 -> HSK2
top course online courseThe Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world. Learning Chinese can open a new door for you to explore the culture and society of this rapidly developing cou...
Introduction to Complex Systems
top course blended courseOur world has an abundance of so-called complex systems. These are typically large collections of connected elements that influence each other. In this hybrid course, we combine ex...
The Posthuman Life of Methods
top course online courseThe course will build on the tradition of neo-materialist, critical feminist posthuman theory that Braidotti is internationally known for. It focusses on the methodological implica...
Religion in an Unstable World: Challenges, Transformations, and Future Prospects
top courseThis summer school will discuss the topic of religion in the unstable world, including a variety of issues such as climate change, COVID and the health and care crisis, political i...
Cascading Disasters, Institutions and Organizations
top courseFukushima. The Covid-19 pandemic. Islamist terror attacks. Massive floods. Climate-induced droughts. These extreme events are disruptive not only because of the direct impact t...
Arcane Worlds: New Frontiers in the Study of Esotericism
top courseThe study of esotericism is a broad and many-faceted field. In the past, it has been described as 'othered knowledge', and esotericism has often been treated as a fringe pseudo-sci...
Chinese Language and Culture HSK3 -> HSK4
top course online courseThe Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world. Learning Chinese can open a new door for you to explore the culture and society of this rapidly developing cou...
International Arbitration Training Course
The International Arbitration Training Course, offered by Leiden Law School in cooperation with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, focuses on the theory and practice of internatio...
History of Art: Highlights in Germany and the Netherlands - Track
top courseThis four-week course if offered in collaboration with the Freie Universität in Berlin. By combining studies from Utrecht and Berlin, you will be able to get a glimpse of several c...
AI-Aided Systematic Reviewing
top courseMore and more researchers rely upon Systematic Reviews: attempts to synthesize the state of the art in a particular scientific field. However, the scientific output of the world do...
Fintech and Emerging Financing Models in a Dynamic World
top courseDuring this course you will deal with real-life cases and projects while honing your creativity, flexibility, professional insights and social skills in Lean (start-up) projects an...
Cognitive Neuropsychology: From Patients to Functional Models
top course blended courseAs an advanced training in Cognitive Neuropsychology, the course aims to teach PhD students how to collect and interpret patient data in order to test cognitive theories and build...
Healthy Aging
top courseThis course will inform you - from different perspectives - about the factors that keep older people healthy and participating in society. We will focus on a better understanding o...
The Rise of Modern Europe
top courseSeize the opportunity to stay in two of the most exciting cities of Europe: Utrecht and Berlin, and travel back in time! The two parts of this programme will provide you with an ex...
Migration, Integration, and Social Networks
top courseThe nexus between international migration and social networks is crucial in understanding different phases of migration experience. It is well-established that personal links to pr...
Yoga and Green Economy
top courseThe course focuses on gaining conceptual knowledge on contemporary issues from the lens of the Hindu Worldview. The important constituents of the Hindu Worldview which are apprecia...
Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
top courseDuring this four-week advanced programme, participants will build on their existing knowledge of sexuality as it is contextualized by issues of ethnicity, nationality, class, and r...
Intercultural Competence
top courseDo you want to help others develop their intercultural competence? “How can we develop in ourselves and others the necessary mastery and concomitant humility required to be effe...
Law and Economics: Corporate Governance & Mergers and Acquisitions - Track
top courseCorporations and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) provide excellent case studies for Law & Economics. This special track deals with these two subjects. This is a very suitable course...
Diagnostic Avian and Exotic Animals Pathology
top courseIn this course the student is trained to perform post-mortem diagnostics based on protocols, and to formulate, based on this diagnosis, the pathogenesis, the etiology and significa...
Advanced Course on Using Mplus
top courseThis is a five-day course on structural equation modeling (SEM) using Mplus. If you already know how to analyse your data in Mplus but want to learn more about what you are actuall...
Operations Research: A Mathematical Way to Optimize Your World
top courseThis course will introduce you to the most successful models and algorithms from operations research, such as linear optimization, combinatorial optimization, network optimization,...
Founding Europe: From Antiquity to the 19th Century
top courseCome and study in two of the most exciting cities of Europe: Rome and Utrecht! You will dive into the exhilarating history of Europe, from the rise of civilization in Antiquity to...
Chinese Language and Culture for Beginners 0 -> HSK1
top course online courseThe Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world. Learning Chinese can open a new door for you to explore the culture and society of this rapidly developing cou...
Modern Bigness: Connecting the Dots between Big Tech and European Competition Law
top courseThis course will examine the power of big tech companies (Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft) and the concerns they raise in digital markets and society through the European...
Theoretical Physics
top courseThe Institute for Theoretical Physics in Utrecht ranks among the leading institutions in the world in the field of theoretical physics. The target audience of this one-week course...
Visions of the Occult
top courseThe goal of Visions of the Occult is to dive deeper into the study of Western Esotericism. In this three-week summer course, you will study in-person with some of the most respecte...
Image analysis for plant phenotyping
blended courseAre you looking for a complete overview of image analysis techniques for automatic plant phenotyping? The Winter School will provide a mixture of underlying theory and practical ha...
Fashion Business Portfolio Development
Immerse yourself in Fashion for 2 weeks (10 days) on campus and follow an easy, step-by-step supervised fashion project. Learn how to plan, produce, execute and complete a fashion...
European Encounters: Diversity and Integration from West to East - Track
top courseThis track is a joint programme on European integration by the Utrecht University’s Summer School and the University of Latvia. The aim of the course is to introduce the diversity...
English Proficiency 1 (C1 -> C1+)
top courseOur proficiency course will give you the thorough training you need to express yourself more confidently in English at the highest level. You will cover a wide range of challenging...
Developmental Psychopathology and Psychological Assessment in Childhood and Adolescence
top courseThis course provides students with theoretical knowledge on developmental psychopathology. Students acquire knowledge on most common problems in youth, age specific characteristics...
Football Behaviour Management
top courseHow does one become a scout? Or a technical director of a football club? There really isn’t a course you can take for that. That is what we want to change with our Football Behavio...
Placemaking: Sense, Space & Strategy
top courseThis three-week programme will explore the web of relationships between people and place. This innovative and interdisciplinary course borrows from human geography, experimental- a...
Corporate Governance and the Effectiveness of Boards
top courseUnderstanding how corporate boards are formed and how they act has become an important topic. Corporate failures and scandals such as Enron and Parmalat in the early 2000s and, mor...
Data Science: Statistical Programming with R
top courseThis course offers an elaborate introduction to statistical programming with R. Students learn to operate R, form pipelines for data analysis, make high quality graphics, fit, asse...
Collegium Spinozanum
top courseThis Summer School aims at bringing together advanced students and established scholars working broadly on Spinoza’s thought, sources and reception. The goal of the Summer School i...
Network Science
top courseHow can networks help us understand and predict social systems? How to find important individuals and communities? How to predict unobserved connections between genes? How to learn...
Hands-on GIS for Earth Scientists
top courseThis course is a hands-on course on GIS with 2 weeks of practicals in the GIS Lab of the faculty of Geosciences. The following topics will be covered: Working with ArcGIS Pro and S...
Advanced Survey Design
top courseThis course in ‘advanced survey design’ takes students beyond the introductory courses and will discuss the state of the art in both the design and the analysis of survey data. We...
Introduction to Sexuality Studies
top courseSexuality and gender define what it is to be human: they are at the core of our existence. But how does society define and reinforce these concepts? In this summer school, we will...
BioBusiness Summer School 2022
BioBusiness Summer School is a five-day course for academics who are contemplating about a career switch to industry and young professionals in their first industry jobs. This cour...
Dutch Language for German Speakers (A0 → B2)
top courseAre you a German speaker who’s looking to learn Dutch quickly and effectively? Are you planning to work in the Netherlands in the near future? Our intensive Dutch Language Course f...
Science and Values: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
top courseWhat are the values that drive scientific knowledge production? What is the value of science in society? What are the values that give scientific knowledge legitimacy and authority...
Old Catholic Theology in its Ecumenical Context
top courseThis course offers an introduction to Old Catholic theology in an ecumenical context. Old Catholic theology is understood as the main theological currents as they exist in the Unio...
Advanced Multilevel Analysis
top courseThis three day course will teach you advanced topics in multilevel modelling. The three-day course builds upon the contents of the other summer school course “Introduction to multi...
A Journey through Dutch Art
top courseExperience the highlights of Dutch art from the last 400 years at first hand! This track covers many of the country's most renowned artists, museums and cities. Discover the famous...
Cold War Educational Ideals
top courseEducational ideals in the Cold War shaped both educational practice and educational systems. This course will study in detail system changes and practices. Building on recent publi...
Past courses
Gestures: How to Analyse Forms, Functions, and Meanings
online courseIn this course, students will learn how to analyse gestures and incorporate this into the study of language, communication, and interaction. Research has shown that a person’s han...
Qualitative Analysis: from Interviews to Results
online courseThis course will help students hone their analysis skills and teach them how to take their own qualitative data and condense it into an overview of clear and expressible findings....
Introduction to Western Esotericism
top course online courseThe goal of this course is to offer an introductory overview of the study of Western esotericism. In this two-week online winter course, we will investigate the key thematic aspect...
Battlefields Uncovered 2: Developing and Demonstrating Understanding of Places of Past Conflict
top course online courseIf you have previously completed Battlefields Uncovered: Introduction to Archaeological and Historical Investigations of Conflict, you can build on your learning in this course. Yo...
Politics, Identities, and Inequalities
top course online courseRecently, matters of identity and politics have become more and more entangled: when the personal and the political intertwine, inequalities emerge that point precisely to the ways...
Digital Diplomacy & Negotiation
online courseAs our lives become increasingly online it is crucial to develop the skills to communicate on digital platforms successfully. Though online meetings come with the benefit of workin...
Academic Writing Skills - From PhD Paper to Publication for Business School Students
online courseThe goal of this course is to help Business School students improve their academic writing skills. This course will provide you with the information and tools you need to brush up...
Programming in Python (beginners)
online courseIn this course you will learn how to solve problems using structured programming. We will use the Python language, but the skills and principles taught in this course apply to any...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
top course online courseThis online winter course can be completed at your own pace, and will introduce you to the field of Urban Studies through a series of pre-recorded lectures by our team of experts....
Political Economy
top course online courseTo what extent does the economy determine the type of policies a government pursues? And how much sway over the economy does a government have? The fields of politics and economics...
Digital Transformation Series: Your Disruptive Advantage in the Digital Economy
online courseDigital technologies have taken on a significant role with regards to many aspects of businesses. The introduction of new digital functionalities can drive competitive industries f...
Intercultural Philosophy in Global Times
online courseDiscover more about the origins of Intercultural Philosophy. New approaches are on the rise in Philosophy, and this course will help you reflect on which approach may be best suite...
Mining industry, CSR and Local Development
top coursePreliminary findings show that the main use of gypsum in Tanzania is for the road construction and cement production. The gypsum produced in Makanya Ward has been transported to ce...
Data Analysis in R
online courseWith the increasing use of statistical languages like R in data analysis, now is the time to get to grips with them! In this course, we’ll start out with the data structures pre...
Our connection with a fast-changing Arctic
top courseThe Arctic Centre will host a Winter School, aimed at (inter-) national civil servants and policy makers, politicians, managers, financial experts, (young) academics and PhD studen...
Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities
top course online courseThis two-week online winter course will look at legal, political and human ramifications of displacement around the world. In our online international classroom, we will discuss th...
Meta-analysis: Know-how and Beyond
online courseMeta-analysis is essential for developing theories. This course helps students get to grips with the basic and advanced skills required for analysing data in open-science software....
Software and Sustainability: Towards an Ethical Digital Society
online courseThis course views sustainability as an integral part of software and aims to define a method that helps inform sustainability-driven design decisions. The future is digital, and...
Illicit Trade
top course online courseMoney laundering. Terrorist financing. Drug trafficking. Arms smuggling. Illicit trafficking of wildlife, human body parts, and ancient historical artifacts. Tax havens. Proliferat...
Kickstart your Career with Academic Skills - Think Outside the Box
online courseThe goal of this online course is to identify your transferable skills, and how to put them into practice in order to gain the most out of your degree. Understanding your options,...
Bootcamp: Ethnography and Design
top course online courseAre you familiar with ethnographic research and curious about how you can turn your insights into action and pitch your research to an interested organisation? Are you interested i...
The Anthropocene: Ecologies, Tensions, Futures
top course online courseThe Anthropocene - or Human Age - is a proposed geological and cultural epoch, marked by wide scale human intervention on our planet. But what are the costs of such 'dominance' for...
Courses 2021
Deep Learning
online courseThis one-week Deep Learning course covers theoretical and practical aspects, state-of-the-art deep learning architectures and application examples. The lectures will introduce t...
EntrepreneurialU
online courseIn a global economy, people are increasingly being expected to take responsibility for and ownership of their own lives. Our modern society needs individuals who are able to recogn...
True Climate Change
online courseWorldwide, climate has become an everyday news item. From wildfires in Australia, heatwaves in Europe, flooding in Dubai to famine in Southern Africa. Learn more about climate chan...
Global Journalism: Searching for Truth in the Age of Fake News
online courseMost of what we learn about global news events comes to us from the mass media, an industry often described as being grounded in objectivity. But in this era of “alternative facts”...
BioBusiness Summer School
Discover the fascinating world of BioBusiness BioBusiness Summer School will help you obtain an overview of what career options there are in BioBusiness, gain understanding of t...
Transplantation Medicine
blended courseAt the 2021 Transplantation Medicine Summer School, participants can expect to learn about the latest and greatest innovations in the field of transplantation medicine. This summer...
Development Projects Management
online courseGovernments, NGOs and private organizations in the developing world are increasingly engaged in donor-funded projects. Often they are asked to formulate project proposals that are...
Evaluating Future Health Technologies
online courseTechnology is intended to improve the quality of healthcare delivered through earlier diagnosis, less invasive treatment options and reductions in hospital stays and rehabilitation...
Designing AI for Humans: Conceiving, Designing and Evolving AI Solutions from a Human Centered Perspective
online courseIn the last few years, we’ve seen a proliferation of products and services relying on Artificial Intelligence to personalize, automate and sometimes replace human cognitive activit...
International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice
online courseThis unique programme gives a broad overview of the laws of armed conflict, and offers a range of opportunities to test the acquisition of knowledge through interactive exercises....
Economics of European Integration: Challenges, Policies and Practices in the European Business Environment
online courseThe European Union started in 1951 as an attempt to prevent a new World-war in Europe. No other region has displayed similar willingness to give up important parts of national sove...
BioBusiness Winter School
online courseDiscover the fascinating world of BioBusiness This 3-days online programme covers live lectures and interactive sessions on main business topics such as Business Models, Product...
Entrepreneurship: It's All About Creating Value
online courseToday countless innovative business models are emerging. Entirely new industries are forming as old ones crumble. Upstarts are challenging the old guard, some of whom are strugglin...
Introduction to Mindfulness and Compassion
top course online courseThis two-week online winter course will introduce participants to the science of contemplative practices including mindfulness and compassion within emotion regulation framework. I...
How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis Using Open-Science Software
top course online courseWith the increasing use of alternative software packages like R in data analysis, now is the time to learn their ins and outs. The large number of active programmers creating R pac...
Dutch Language and Culture
online courseThe Netherlands is more than its canals, its bikes and the beautiful grey skies. Are you curious about The Netherlands, its language, culture and way of life? This course will offe...
Biotechnology, Agriculture and Food
online courseAre you aware of the challenges and opportunities in the agrifood sector? Are you eager to get to know the innovations and trends in the agrifood sector? Would you like to have a v...
Justice for Victims of Conflict-related Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking?
online courseAll around the world, numerous men, women, boys and girls suffer the harsh consequences of conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking. Thousands of men, women and child...
Managing Organisations in the Digital Age
online courseThe label ‘Industry 4.0’ applies loosely to a set of emerging digital technologies that influence the way goods and services are produced and consumed in contemporary societies. Ev...
Bible and Video Games
online courseThe video game industry is big business. It seems to be focused on economy only. In fact, however, modern-day video games contain many religious elements. Developers use large quan...
Media Representations and Research Methods: Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics and News Framing
online courseThe tweets of US-President Donald Trump, the heated social media debate on Greta Thunberg and the many angles on migration stress the pivotal role of texts and images in our societ...
TechMed
online courseAre you looking for an inspiring Summer School, combining Technical and Medical Science? Sign up for the TechMed Summer School. The program of the summer school will be given onlin...
Leaders of Innovation and Impact
online courseAt the end of the course, you will be able to understand and apply the Design Thinking techniques used at the Design Lab of the University of Twente. These techniques will provide...
International Criminal Law: From Theory to Practice
online courseThis summer school enables students and professionals from all over the world to engage in discussions on the prospects and challenges of international criminal justice. Students w...
Leadership and Management in a Global World
online courseOrganisations and companies are confronted with strategic issues such as increasing speed of innovation, cultural diversity, need for differentiation, increasing competition, risin...
Positive Psychology
online coursePositive psychology was introduced by Martin Seligman around 2000 and can be viewed as a supplementary approach to clinical psychology. The positive psychological movement formulat...
Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Social Sustainability
top courseThis two-week practical training course, which is delivered in English, promotes understanding about and develops skills in managing the social risks and impacts associated with th...
Parallel Computing and Big Data
online courseIn this course, we provide the theory and applications of state-of-the-art techniques for parallel computing. Topics Covered Nowadays, even mobile phones and tablets have mu...
Artificial Intelligence & Value Based Healthcare
online courseThis year the first CAIRELab Summer School, Artificial Intelligence: from theory to Value Based Healthcare practice, will take place online from the 23rd of August to 26st of Augus...
Smart Cities
online courseSmart Cities is a rapidly growing concept in both research and policy practice. It is viewed as a solution for cities to better cope with key societal challenges like energy transi...
Scapino Summer Creative Online Edition
online courseIn the summer of 2021 the second edition of the Scapino Summer Creative will take place online. During three days you can participate in an intensive program that contains ballet c...
Translational School on Neuromuscular Diseases
online courseOur annual winter school, which in association with TREAT-NMD, is especially developed for researchers and clinicians interested in translational research. The following topics...
Hedging and Derivatives
online courseDo you hear about hedging and are you not really sure what it means or includes? Have you ever wondered how the derivatives that you have studied in theory are being utilized in re...
Data Science in Health and Disease
online courseThis online summer course will stimulate international collaborations between students from Brazil and Leiden. The course will provide an introduction to the use of big data analys...
The Smart Investor
online courseIn this course, you will learn about latest investment strategies and performance evaluation. All investors – from the largest endowment funds to the smallest retail investors – sh...
Health and Happiness
online courseResearchers have long known that health and happiness go together. Studies show how individuals can actively influence their own health and well-being. Numerous interventions and t...
Understanding Data with R
online courseWhich companies are committing fraud? Which scientific hypothesis is correct? Do movie critics differ from regular consumers in their ratings? Whether it’s a fun or serious questio...
Population Health Management
online courseAn ageing population, epidemiological challenges, rising healthcare costs, and technical developments in the medical sector: Learn about this new strategy and acquire new competenc...
Research on Productivity, Trade, and Growth
online courseThis course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed in the area of empirical research using firm-level data. The course starts...
Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics
online courseThe course introduces students to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) through the use of a textbook written by the lecturer. The balance sheets and transactions that are relevant for unde...
Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative Medicine is revolutionizing healthcare. This interdisciplinary field draws upon the body’s own healing processes in order to repair, restore or regenerate tissues and...
Financial Management: The Fundamental Tools of Project Evaluation
online course• Are you planning to study Business Studies or Finance soon? Or did you study Finance before but things are not that clear yet? • Are you wondering how to calculate installments...
Greenhouse Horticulture
Important information We aim for a Summer School onsite. However if this is not possible due to corona outbreak regulations we will organize an online edition, with reduced course...
Financial Statement Analysis
online courseThe aim of this course is to make you a financial analyst. After finishing this course, you will be able to analyse financial statements of two or more corporations (such as Micros...
Pre-university Honours Programme: Sustainable Cities
top course online courseThis programme introduces high-school students to sustainability within urban studies, and more specifically, within the context of the cities in which we live. We live in a crucia...
Grant Application Course
online courseSince your career in academia is at nearly every stage, largely determined by how successful you are in obtaining funding, writing sucessful grant applications is a vital skill to...
Insects as Food & Feed
online courseThe field of rearing insects for human food and animal feed is new and exciting. There are many challenges in bringing insects on the market. How can we rear insects in a sustainab...
Cross-border Transfer of Cultural Objects: the Law, Challenges and Practice
online courseThe Centre for Global Heritage and Development's online summer school 2021 will focus on heritage protection and the cross-border transfer of cultural objects. Given the increase o...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
top course online courseThis two-week online course will introduce participants to the field of Urban Studies through a series of lectures from a team of experts on key topics in the multidisciplinary stu...
Dairy Nutrition and Health
online courseAre you interested in engaging with experts who have both scientific knowledge and practical experience in the world of dairy? Do you want to know more about dairy products, in rel...
Financial Accounting: How to Prepare Financial Statements
online courseThis course will teach you how to record business transactions following double entry system and how to prepare financial statements—income statements and Balance Sheets similar to...
Summer Institute on Addiction
top course online courseAddiction and its accompanying health social concerns are major problems in today's world. From substance abuse to technological and sex addictions, there are often tragic conseque...
Family Business and Governance
online courseIn this course, we will explore the multiple factors that determine the long-term success of family businesses. Businesses owned and operated by families constitute the majority of...
Virtual Fashion Design: the new real
online courseDeveloped for experienced fashion students (bachelor or master level) and professionals. This course introduces participants to develop new skills to conceptualize a new fashion vi...
European Welfare State: Current Challenges and Perspectives
online course“The European Welfare State” deals with the social policy characteristics of the European welfare state. The recent economic crisis and developments in the EU have led to a rise in...
Social Science Switch
top course online courseThis online course enables students trained in the natural or medical sciences to switch to a social science mode of thinking, theorizing, reading and writing. Due to a number of i...
Behavioral Macro and Complexity
online courseThis course provides a state of the art overview of complex economic systems with boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The leading paradigm in macroeconomics assumes that econo...
Introduction to Data Analytics in R
online courseMany companies have access to mountains of data and increasingly recognize the importance of turning these data into insights. This development leads to a pressing need for data an...
The Identification and Monitoring of Vulnerable Groups in the Labour Market
online courseThe European Union describes vulnerable groups as those that experience a higher risk of poverty and social exclusion than the general population. These groups include, for instanc...
Inequalities in Health and Healthcare
online courseThis course will arm you with tools to measure health inequality. It will encourage and facilitate evaluation of the normative foundations of inequality measures. You will become f...
Courses 2020
Introduction to (European) Public Policy
Public policy is the language through which governments across the world communicate with their administrations and society’s. This course will focus on public policy practices, sp...
Natural Resource Management in Sustainable Development
This course presents a thematic overview of global issues in natural resource management today and in the future. Students will develop an understanding of stressors to the environ...
Fintech: The Future of Finance
The financial world is changing—it is changing very fast. The combination of Finance and Technology—commonly known as Fintech—is revolutionizing the way financial services are prov...
Intensive Dutch Language Course
online courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, this 29th Intensive Dutch Language Course will be offered as a distance learning course, and can be studied from anywhere across the globe. The teach...
Brain Stimulation
This summer school is an intensive four-day course on non-invasive brain stimulation. Mornings are filled with lectures by international experts, starting from the basics of brain...
Customer Experience Design for Non-Designers
To be successful and to differentiate from their competitors, companies strive to deliver superior Customer Experiences (CX). But what does this mean in practice? How are customer...
Management: The Fundamental Principles
This course is an introduction to the fundamental principles of “management”. The primary emphasis is on individual and group behavior within organizations, in order for you to lea...
International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice
-- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course has been postponed to 2021 -- This unique programme gives a broad overview of the laws of armed conflict, and offers a range of opport...
Multidisciplinary Online Course
top course online courseThis summer programme can be customized to fit your needs. Built of modules that can be combined to create the credit value and schedule of your choosing, you can join us in Amster...
Knitwear Lab Summerschool
Learn all you need to know for designing industrial knitwear. In this 10-day course you will be introduced in the M1plus® pattern software and work on STOLL flatbed knitting machin...
TechMed Summerschool at Leiden
During the Summer School, we will discuss the following themes: Day 1: Imaging of Cancer Day 2: The operating room of the future Day 3: Intramural & extramural health care for...
Columbia Summer Program in American Law
For more than 50 years, students and professionals from all over the world have joined us in the picturesque Dutch cities of Leiden or Amsterdam for the Columbia Summer Program to...
International Criminal Law: From Theory to Practice
-- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course has been postponed to 2021 -- This summer school enables students and professionals from all over the world to engage in discussions o...
Dutch for Reading
top course online courseDutch for Reading is an online course designed for those whom are interested in reading Dutch texts. In this course we will focus on Dutch grammar and (personalized) vocabulary. Th...
Leiden Oxford Transplantation Summer School
The Leiden Oxford Transplantation Summer School, LOTS, is a collaboration between the university of Leiden and Oxford. The school is organised primarily for biomedical and medical...
Future Proof - Ondernemendheid voor professionals
De wereld om ons heen is sterk aan het veranderen. Dit wordt veroorzaakt door de maatschappelijke-, technologische-, demografische, ecologische-, sociale-, economische en juridisch...
Theory and Practice of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing: A JASP Workshop
top courseThe main purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with key Bayesian concepts in hypothesis testing. Concrete examples illustrate how to compute, report, and interpre...
The Real World of Real Options and Financial Derivatives
This course provides you with an overview of derivative markets, introduces you to valuation techniques, and shows you on how to apply the knowledge to investment decisions in comp...
Psychology in our World
In the field of social psychology, we study the effects of the real or imagined presence of others on the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals. The questions asked in s...
The Politics of Suspicion
top course[Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this programme has been cancelled for summer 2020. If you are interested, please visit the programme website and send us an email. We will keep you p...
Consumer Neuroscience and Neurobusiness
This summer course will give you an overview of the crescent field of consumer neuroscience. Moreover, we will explore the applications of neurosciences in different fields such as...
Dutch Art History
The course is about Dutch art – with an emphasis on painting. Ever since the Middle Ages the Netherlands has played a pivotal role in the history of European art and culture. Dutch...
International Amsterdam Medical Summer Course
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, this programme for 2020 has been cancelled. Patients, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, scientists and politics are all involved in the world of r...