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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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2022
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....
Qualitative Research into Health Professions Education
online courseIf you’re interested in the qualitative research process and how to go through it from start to finish, you’ll get a lot out of this course. On the way, we’ll consider all the esse...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Machine-Learning for the Social & Behavioural Sciences
top courseHow can we understand how societies become polarized using Twitter data? How might we extract emotion dynamics from individual time series data? In order to answer research questio...
Qualitative Analysis: from Interviews to Results
top course 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....
Research Integrity: How to Conduct Responsible Research
top course online courseThis course reviews research integrity in academia in both the conduct of science, the evaluation of science, the peer review system and in the academic community at large. This...
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...
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...
Data Analysis in R
top course 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...
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...
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...
Kick Start Your Career: Academic Skills During and After University
top course 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,...
Economic Evaluation in Health Care
top course online courseThis course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the design and conduct of cost-effectiveness studies. Cost-effectiveness is becoming essential in decision-making processes...
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...
Careers in (Post-) COVID times: Successful but not alone?!
online courseThis course introduces students to a variety of crucial discussion points surrounding sustainable career theory. Take this course if you’re interested in learning more about the...
Flow for Scientists and Innovators
online courseThe course will prepare you to enter the world of entrepreneurship by taking advantage of accelerating trends in technology, social organisation & culture. Learn how to make a wide...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Programming in Python (beginners)
top course 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...
The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
top course online courseThroughout this course, we will explore modern-day terrorism from a theoretical angle and from an empirical perspective. After defining and delineating particular types of terroris...
Introduction to Sub-Molecular Medical Sciences
online courseThe aim of this course is to take a single concept in quantum mechanics and demonstrate it with practical application. The course shall apply the same teaching methodology employed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gestures: How to Analyse Forms, Functions, and Meanings
top course 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...
Digital Transformation Series: Your Disruptive Advantage in the Digital Economy
top course 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...
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 Sub-Molecular Agricultural Sciences
online courseThe aim of this course is to teach students how to take a single idea in quantum mechanics and demonstrate it through practical application. The course shall apply the same teachin...
Econometrics of Networks
top course online courseThis course offers a concise introduction to the most recent econometric methods for processing, visualising, and learning from network data. Networks play an increasingly dominan...
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...
Software and Sustainability: Towards an Ethical Digital Society
top course 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...
Research-creation: merging the critical and the creative
online courseThis course invites students to rethink and re-evaluate the standard methods of thinking, knowing, and doing within academia. We will highlight artistic practise as a path to resea...
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...
Academic Writing Skills - From PhD Paper to Publication for Business School Students
top course 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...
Meta-analysis: Know-how and Beyond
top course 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....
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...
Intercultural Philosophy in Global Times
top course 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...
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...
The Art and Science of Connecting: Interpersonal Neuroscience in Dance, Music, and Cinema
top course online courseThis online course aims to provide students with knowledge into the state-of-the-art in interpersonal neuroscience, basic research skills and tools for developing applications of i...
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...
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Courses 2021
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...
The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
online courseWhat do we know about the roots and motivations of ISIS, the KKK, al-Qaeda, or the Lord’s Resistance Army beyond speculation, snippets of incomplete information, and stereotypical...
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...
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...
How to Evaluate Psychological Interventions Through Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
online courseThe number of studies examining relevant research questions is staggering. Each year thousands of new randomized controlled trials are conducted, and endless numbers of epidemiolog...
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...
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...
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...
Linear Algebra for Neuroscientists
Neuroscience is moving towards "big data," with new and improved brain measurement technologies that acquire an ever-increasing amount of data. Examples include multichannel LFP/te...
Clinical Skills in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression: Hands-on Practice and Heads-on Theory
online courseThis unique course will provide you with hands-on knowledge and experience with evidence-based techniques as well as experimental innovative interventions for the treatment of anxi...
AI Society 4.0: from Earth to Space
top course online courseSocieties are changing. Artificial intelligence (AI) challenges our status quo due to its multiple benefits but also due to the risks posed by an active implementation of this adva...
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...
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 Arbitration Training Course
online courseThe 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...
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...
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 Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
online courseChatbots, robots, smart agents in virtual reality – social computers are popping up everywhere. With the commercialization of chatbots and virtual reality, our society is becoming...
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...
Data Analysis in R
online courseThis course focuses upon understanding statistical models and analysing the results whilst learning to work with R. As well as introducing the software to newcomers, it presents ba...
Nature & Nurture: Twin Research and Human Genetics
online courseDo twins hold the key to understanding complex human traits and diseases? Can they resolve the age-old debate between nature and nurture? What is determined by our DNA, what comes...
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...
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...
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...
Automated Content Analysis using Python
top course online courseThis workshop will give an introduction to the valuable programming language, Python, that can be used to apply those strategies within data analysis. Python is an extremely versat...
Gender & Diversity Studies: Core Concepts
The interdisciplinary Summer School course Gender & Diversity Studies: Core concepts is based in the academic work that is being done at Radboud University Nijmegen and will be tau...
How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis Using Open-Science Software
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...
Human AI: Modelling, Simulation and Analysis of Adaptive Human Mental, Social and Health-Related Processes
online 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...
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...
Creativity and Innovation (in collaboration with Cardiff University)
online courseInnovation and creativity are the key drivers of success in many industries today. They fuel the uptake of new technologies, the development of products and services and the formul...
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...
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...
Citizenship and Migration: Europe's 21st century Challenges
online courseCitizens and/or migrants? Citizenship and migration are highly contested and politicized topics in today's Europe. Brexit, the 'migration crisis' or people dying in the Mediterr...
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...
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...
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...
Organizational Behaviour Management
online courseTo change behaviour within an organization, we first need to understand it. Only then can we effectively improve leadership, motivation and culture, creating a more productive work...
Fintech and Emerging Financing Models in a Dynamic World
online courseMany of the jobs we will be doing in five years do not exist today. The world is changing rapidly and the world of finance has to change with it. New innovations will take place bo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Using Logic as a Tool for Modelling
online courseLogic is the study of different forms of reasoning. It can also be a useful tool for modelling diverse phenomena. This course starts with the basics, as we explain what is meant by...
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...
Corporate Leadership
online courseNOTE: The course is offered online. Taught by a former corporate CEO and CFO who is now a leadership scholar, this course will provide students with a comprehensive understandi...
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...
Diplomacy VS Nationalism
online courseNegotiation can help you understand international relations better than theory. After all, there cannot be any international relations without negotiations. Foreign policy is often...
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...
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...
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...
Exploring Religious and Global Identity in Africa
online courseThis course is designed to be an introduction to African Studies within a global context. As a result, it will cover the growth of African intellectual culture, which emerged in th...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stress Management: A Personalised Approach to Dealing with Long & Short Term Stress Effectively
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...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
Understanding patterns in data is crucial for understanding human societies and making sound decisions. Learn R and Rstudio to become a modern data scientist in the social sciences...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Perfecting your Academic Writing Skills
Although writing is one of the most essential skills for a PhD student, many are not the productive super writers they would like to be. During this one week course, experienced wr...
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...
Interacting from Brain to EEG Signals
top course online courseElectroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the neuro-imaging techniques that is widely used in research and clinical practice to study brain activity. It allows measuring neural processe...
Operations Research: A Mathematical Way to Optimize Your World
NOTE: Given the insecurity about the development of covid-19 and its influence on on-campus (offline) activities, all –then applicable- guidelines from the Dutch government will be...
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...
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...
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...
Hands-On Anthropology and Ethnographic Storytelling
online courseEthnography or what Clifford Geertz called ‘deep-hanging out’ (1998) is becoming an increasingly popular research method among the main social science disciplines like anthropology...
Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
online course-- 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...
Social Media Theory and Research
Understanding social media in everyday life in political communication on social media, the news on social media to entertainment of social media. Social media (such as Twitter...
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...
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...
Existential Questions Regarding Life Issues. An Intercultural and Integrated Approach
online courseOn many moments in life people are confronted with questions about their existence. Unique questions about what they will do or not do, about their relationships with others, the e...
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 Global Energy Transition in a Fossil World
online courseThe need for a global transition to a low-carbon energy sector is contested by few, but opinions on what this means in practice and on how to get there vary widely. This course wil...
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...
Interpersonal Neuroscience: Connecting People Via Their Bodies and Brains
online courseHow can friends understand each other without words? Are lovers’ brains literally ‘on the same wavelength’? Why does communication sometimes fail despite people’s best intentions?...
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...
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...
Digital Methods for Media and Democracy
online courseNews reports of ‘click farms’ or ‘follower factories’ have pushed the phenomenon of ‘fake’ likes, followers, and views to the centre of public debates. The more recent rise of cons...
Difficult Settings, Preparing for Fieldwork
top course online courseIn this winter course, the lecturers speak about the difficulties and concerns that they have encountered in their various fields of research. By openly discussing specific issues,...
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...
Law and Governance in Contemporary China
online courseEU-China interdependent relations have evolved in recent decades. To decision makers and opinion leaders across the EU States, “engaging and cooperating with China is both an oppor...
Courses 2020
Psychedelic Medicine 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of Mind-altering Substances in Therapy
Long before Western people in the sixties and seventies tried out psychedelics for recreational and therapeutic purposes, other cultures had already been using them for ages becaus...
Museum Objects as Evidence
top courseOver the course of two weeks, participants will work closely with an interdisciplinary team of researchers, curators, conservators, and scientists from the Rijksmuseum, the Conserv...
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...
Foundations of Strategy: How to Succeed as a Strategist
In the world of strategic management, inspiration can come in many forms: classical literature and cutting-edge research, role models, movies, unconventional excursions, even a mar...
Law & Artificial Intelligence
online courseArtificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in day-to-day life. Most households and the vast majority of employees possess AI-enabled devices. Although it has p...
Gray Matter: an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Aging Brain
top courseAs our life expectancy increases, so does the number of older adults in society. Aging is accompanied by changes at the level of the brain, cognition, and behavior. Yet, trajectori...
Decolonizing Europe: History, Memory, Redress (in collaboration with the Center for Slavery & Justice at Brown University)
‘Decolonizing Europe’ takes a fresh approach to current debates surrounding notions of citizenship, belonging and the colonial past within postcolonial, post-WWII and post-Cold War...
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...
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...
Oncology
This year our 16th edition of the Summer School Oncology will be organized in Groningen, the Netherlands. From the 1st until the 10th of July 2020 an interactive program is offered...
BioBusiness Summer School 2020
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...
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural communication skills are crucial in today’s ever changing world. As we encounter the challenges of globalized business and rapid cross cultural communication in our d...
Climate Change: Causes, Health Impacts and Responses
Climate change poses serious challenges for humans around the world. Global warming is perceived as one of the biggest global health risks of the twentieth century which could have...
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...
Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
-- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this Institute will be organised online -- Organised by Leiden Law School and Duke Law School, the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnation...
A Rhetoric-Based Approach to Grant Proposal Writing
This course begins from the premise that a well-written grant is one that provides relevant information to the reader when they expect it. This course will give students tools for...
Journalistiek en Effectief Schrijven
Ben je op zoek naar een vlotte pen en goede interviewvaardigheden? Of droom je zelfs van een journalistieke carrière? Deze Summerschoolcursus is een mooie inleiding in effectief sc...
Big Data in Society
More and more data is being collected about us and our activities. Our social media interactions, online search and shopping behaviour, but also offline location tracking and senso...
Amsterdam in Global Capitalism: 1500-Present
online courseCapitalism from its origins operated on a global scale, but it has also always produced dynamic centres of wealth and power. From 1600 onwards, for a long time Amsterdam was at the...
BCF Grant Application Course
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or starting group leader and do you want to enhance your career prospects in academia? Do you wish to improve one of the most vital skills of succeed...
Country Risk Analysis: Macro-Economic and Political Risk Drivers of Emerging Markets
Rising political risks, recent calls for protectionism and warnings of a global recession underline the relevance of country risk analysis. This course teaches you the skills to st...
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...
Crash Course in Experimental Economics
top course online courseThis introductory course provides an in-depth analysis of some recent developments, including the rapid growth of behavioural economics and the increased use of field experiments....
Urban Studies: Sense, Space & Strategy
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...
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...
Geopolitical Scenario Planning: National Security, Territorial/Maritime Conflicts and Foreign Policy Strategy
The melting Arctic ice cap, the disputed South China Sea boundaries and the tense situation in Kashmir underline the importance of territorial and maritime conflicts in internation...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law: Human Rights and Beyond
-- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course has been postponed to 2021 -- This summer school focuses on the emergence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and interse...
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...
Medical Ethics: Moral Health Care Dilemmas and Choices From a European Perspective
Those who are working in the medical professions are often confronted with decision making procedures that go far beyond the mere technological aspects that are involved in the cas...
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...
History Great Power Systems
How do the most powerful countries in the world get along? How do they balance their own interests with the general desirability for the world to be a stable and peaceful place? Wh...
Human and Animal Relationships and Interactions (HARI)
Though we live with them, eat them, love them, and wear them, we give very little academic attention to the roles of animals in society. In this course, we will examine the most in...
Geopolitical Trends Analysis: China's Global Power, Nationalism in Europe and Africa’s Natural Resources
The world seems to change faster than ever, raising important geopolitical questions. For example, how does China’s Belt and Road Initiative change the power relations between Chin...
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...
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...
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...
Corpo-real Summer School 2020
Are you interested in the theme ‘corpo-real: the study of the ever-changing relationship between human beings and space? Do you want to develop your design-based research skills? O...
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...
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...
Think Like a Physicist
Overview As a part of the natural sciences, physics often relies heavily on tools of mathematics. Mathematics can be seen as essential for physics. Just as a telescope is an ins...
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...
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...
Translational Summer School on Neuromuscular Diseases 2020
Attendees of the summer school discover how networks such as the European Reference Network EURO-NMD and TREAT-NMD work and collaborate with patients and regulators to facilitate t...
Out of my Mind: Embodied Cognition, Mechanistic Explanation and Mental Disorder
The latest research in cognitive science is revealing that cognitive phenomena such as spatial navigation, action perception and emotional understanding all depend on the human bod...
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...
Introduction to Industry 4.0: implications for the management of organizations
The 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...
Scapino Summer Creative
In the summer of 2020 the second edition of the Scapino Summer Creative will take place. During two weeks you can participate in an intensive program that contains ballet classes,...
Ethics: Assessing Moral Dilemmas Through Ethical Theorizing
This course encourages students to reflect on ethical matters, mixing practical tasks with theoretical reflection. It will make use of case studies on various moral issues, which s...
Security Governance & Conflict Resolution
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...
International Arbitration Training Course
-- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course has been postponed to 2021 -- The International Arbitration Training Course, offered by Leiden Law School in cooperation with the Perm...
International Relations and World Politics
How do you study, analyse and understand the world politics? What are the constant and changing elements in world politics? How do states decide their foreign policies and strategi...
UNISCA Summer Course
top course online courseThe UNISCA Summer Course is a Model United Nations: a simulation of the United Nations where the official rules of the organization and some of its official Committees are being si...
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...
Business Strategy in the European Luxury Industry
A focused study of the European luxury industry with emphasis on current and developing trends and issues. Topics covered include business strategy, marketing, retailing, managemen...
NIOZ Marine Masters Summer Course
NIOZ offers an annual Marine Masters Summer Course that gives insight into state-of-the-art marine research. This introductory, multidisciplinary course covers physics, chemistry,...
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...
Behavioral Macro and Complexity
top course 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...
Football Behaviour Management
online courseProfessional football (*European/soccer) organisations are curious in how they operate. In the past, such organisations would place heavy emphasis on entertainment, whereas in rec...
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...
Big Data Management and Analysis in Linux
The growing availability of extremely large datasets requires scientists and analysts to use powerful supercomputers or computer clusters to store, manage, and analyze these data....
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...
An Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
In this course, students will be introduced to the innovative and ’mind-blowing’ field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions wi...
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...
Global Intercultural Management
Overview Global Intercultural Management explores different aspects of intercultural management, including intercultural teambuilding, effective cross cultural leadership, human...
Analysis of EEG Data in MATLAB
online courseDo you want to learn how to analyze neurophysiological data, but aren’t sure how to translate concepts to code or how to implement your ideas in Matlab? During this course, you wil...
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...
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...
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...
Sustainable Diplomacy
Last year the Young Diplomat organized a summer school on Democracy and Diplomacy, which became a great success. Now, as you know, the world is facing a great challenge in COVID-19...
Courses 2019
Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
This 6-day course will familiarize participants with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and how to use SEM in testing theories that contain multiple equations involving dependence...
International Business & Sustainable Development
In July 2019 the Maastricht School of Management (MSM) Summer School offers you the opportunity to follow a number of business or industry-focused related specialization courses a...
Maintenance and Engineering
Are you a technical Master student or young professional (within 10 years after graduation), with a special interest in Maintenance Management & Engineering, then apply to our WCM...
Medical Ethics - Moral Healthcare Dilemmas and Choices from a European Perspective
Those who are working in the medical professions are often confronted with decision making procedures that go far beyond the mere technological aspects that are involved in the cas...
Public Sector Management
In July 2019 Maastricht School of Management (MSM) Summer School offers you the opportunity to follow a number of business- related or industry focused specialization courses at th...
Hands-on Anthropology: Role of the Ethnographer
Everyone has a story to tell. For anthropologists, such accounts can reveal as much about the people and societies we study as more conventional research. But the process of collec...
Human Resources Management, Leadership and Culture in an International Context
Human Resources Management, Leadership and Culture in an International Context. This Summer Course is a two week 4 ECT program focusing on adding a global dimension to the particip...
Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
Organised in cooperation with Duke University School of Law, ranked 1st in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, The Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnation...
International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice
This summer the Grotius Centre will host the fourth edition of the International Humanitarian Law Summer School. The course is designed by the Grotius Centre Kalshoven-Gieskes Foru...
Economics of European Integration - Challenges, policies & practices in the European business environment
The 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...
Buddhism and Psychology
Since the late nineteenth century, various forms of Buddhism have emerged from modernizing Asia and, with apparent ease, have penetrated new cognitive, spiritual and cultural domai...
DSOPM Summercamp
Het Summercamp van DSOPM vindt plaats van maandag 22 t/m vrijdag 26 juli in de Q-Factory in Amsterdam. Elke dag wordt er van 10:00-18:00 een divers programma afgewerkt, met onder a...
International Cyber Security Summer School
The International Cyber Security Summer School (ICSSS) is an annual summer school, originally organised by NATO C&I Agency, Europol, the Netherlands Ministry of Defence Cyber Comma...
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural communication skills are crucial in today’s ever changing world. As we encounter the challenges of globalized business and rapid cross cultural communication in our d...
BioBusiness Summer School
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...
Law and Literature
Law is a fundamental component of society and it also plays an important role in the creation of fictional scenarios within literature. The use of law in literature can serve as an...
Transnational Policing, Security and Justice
Policing and security have become key priorities in regional, national and international politics and policy-making. At the same time, they are issues at the centre of polarizing p...
International Business: Transatlantic Trade and Investment
This course focuses on recent trends in European Union (EU) trade with the United States in goods and services and in foreign direct investment (FDI). The EU–United States (US) eco...
Programming in Python
Programming is a true twenty-first century skill, allowing you to really explore the wonderful – and crucial – world of data and computers. Aimed at beginners and near-beginners, t...
Fintech: the Future of Finance
The combination of Finance and Technology—commonly known as Fintech—is revolutionizing the way financial services are provided. The availability of the Internet and smart phones ar...
Critical discourse Analysis of Media Representations
The campaigns of both supporters and opponents of BREXIT, the many photos on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and the debate on whether media should speak of immigrants or refugees...
Wildlife Crime Analysis: Data-Driven Nature Protection
From the cruel slaughter of critically endangered rhinos for their horns to illegal hunting and the destruction of protected habitats, crimes involving wildlife evoke a visceral em...
Personal Leadership in Times of Disruption
The workplace faces radical changes under the influence of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. From managers and employees, this requires flexibility, adaptabi...
Health, Well-being and Culture
What does it mean to be sick and what does it mean to be healthy? What is the role of culture in how we experience and practice our well-being in the world? How do people negotiate...
Human Rights, Security and Development
During The Hague Summer School 2019 this course is offered twice: July 1-12 & July 15-26. We live in turbulent times marked by terrorism, climate change, economic crises and int...
Phd Summer School Europeanisation of national administrative law
Europeanisation of national administrative law through general principles of law: from resistance to voluntary adoption. The systems of administrative law in the EU Member State...
Summer School Health Entrepreneurship
The EIT Health Entrepreneurship Summerschool aims to collect challenges from the healthcare providers, take them through a robust development process of analysis, ideation and fina...
Cultural Objects, Human Rights and International Law
The Summer School on Cultural Objects, Human Rights and International Law is a collaboration between the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus...
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...
Positive Psychology
Positive psychology was introduced by Martin Seligman around 2000 and can be viewed as a supplementary approach to clinical psychology. The positive psychological movement formulat...
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...
Immune Modulation in Human and Animal Infections: Impact on Health, Disease and Therapy
This 5-day Summer School will focus on immunotherapy, vaccinology, microbiota interventions and drug development for infectious and hyperinflammatory diseases, including novel ther...
Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Conflict: Achievements, Challenges and Ways Forward
All around the world, numerous men, women, boys and girls suffer the harsh consequences of human trafficking and sexual violence in conflict. Thousands of people are forced into se...
The Digital Economy
In July 2019 Maastricht School of Management (MSM) Summer School offers you the opportunity to follow a number of business- related or industry focused specialization courses at th...
European Public Policy (introduction)
Public policy is the language through which governments across the world communicate with their administrations and societies. This course will focus on public policy practices, sp...
Columbia Summer Programme in American Law
top courseFor more than fifty years Columbia Law School has offered this Summer Program in American Law in collaboration with the law faculties of Leiden and Amsterdam Universities. The Prog...
Geopolitical Scenario Planning
The melting of the Arctic ice cap, the disputed maritime boundaries in the South China Sea and the involvement of many states in the Syrian War underline the geopolitical complexit...
Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century
The world seems to change faster than ever in geopolitical and economic terms, thereby raising uncertainty in business, politics and media. How does the New Silk Road reflect and a...
Media Framing Analysis
The millions of photos we post on social media, the strong resonance of magazine covers and the tweets of US-President Donald Trump underline the importance of media framing analys...
Global Intercultural Management
Global Intercultural Management explores different aspects of intercultural management, including teams, leadership, Human Resource Management, values, culture and negotiations. Th...
Sustainable Entrepreneurial Thinking
Tackling the SDGs starts with you. Many of us want to understand how we can use our own skills to have a positive impact on our world and the challenges we face as a global society...
Entrepreneurship
In July 2019 Maastricht School of Management (MSM) Summer School offers you the opportunity to follow a number of business- related or industry focused specialization courses at th...
New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurship - Session 3
The creation of new ventures is one of the most important economic issues of our time, throughout the world. This means not only start-ups, but also the development of new activiti...
Kickstart your International Career in Events & Hospitality
Tio University of Applied Sciences is a force to be reckoned with. With award winning Bachelor programmes in Tourism, Business, Hotel and Events this Summer School will bring you t...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law: Human Rights and Beyond
This summer school focuses on the emergence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and intersex issues in different areas of international law, such as human rights law,...
Discover (the) Dutch: Dutch Language and Culture - Session 1
Learn to speak and understand the Dutch language and society at a basic level. At the end of this course you will be able to join a basic conversation, using general expressions an...
Sustainable Cities
Cities are growing; generally, they grow at high rates in the developing world, but urban growth is also continuing in the industrialized world. Moreover, city dwellers consume mor...
Minding Music, Making Sound
Incorporating artistic arguments into otherwise rational thinking is an essential prerequisite for understanding ‘how art works’, and this is why this course is highly interesting...
Innovation in Cardiology
Each year the Summer School Committee of RAMS (Radboud Annals of Medical Students) organizes a Summer School for (bio)medical students. The theme of this year’s Summer School is In...
Fund Raising for Development
Fundraising skills and techniques are critical to have access to development grants and projects. Competition is fierce and international agencies and donors are increasingly deman...
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...
Advanced Summer Programme: Preventing, Detecting and Responding to the Violent Extremist Threat
This advanced summer programme focuses on the field of preventing violent extremism and gives you insights into the opportunities and challenges of a networked approach. The lat...
Political Risk Analysis
The recent developments in Turkey, the social unrest in Venezuela and the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine underline the continued importance of political risk analysis for companie...
Migration Challenge Summer School
Would you like to learn how complex international challenges can be approached through cross-cultural collaboration and design? Then join our fun, impactful and insightful “Migrati...
The Hague India Cyber Security Summer School
From Sunday, June 2 to Friday, June 7, 2019, the second edition of The Hague India Cyber Security Summer School (#NICSSS19) will take place. The Summer School will take place in b...
Healthcare Management
In July 2019 Maastricht School of Management (MSM) Summer School offers you the opportunity to follow a number of business- related or industry focused specialization courses at th...
Marketing (skills) for the 21st Century
Think of your day. How many different company names, advertisements, online banners etc. did you see? Probably A LOT. The average internet user sees about 11,000 ads per month. Now...
Entrepreneurship: it's all about creating value
Today 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...
European Public Health in a Globalising World
The course provides an overview of modern health challenges in Europe and how they are embraced by a variety of stakeholders: policy makers, researchers, practitioners and the civi...
Leadership and Management in a Global World
The course is about leadership, strategy and change in a global business context. It confronts students with strategic business issues of today with the aim to develop business kno...
Accounting & Finance
In July 2019 Maastricht School of Management (MSM) Summer School offers you the opportunity to follow a number of business- related or industry focused specialization courses at th...
Law and Politics, Current Topics in the European Union
This course is targeted at students particularly interested in exploring the history and development of European integration. In an ever globalising world increasing interaction be...
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. It combine...
Research Summer School
The Core Research Methods for Business and Economics offers three intense courses, where researchers and practitioners from around the world can come together to learn and build re...
Terrorism, Countering Terrorism and the Rule of Law
From 26 – 30 August 2019, ICCT and T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague will host the ninth Advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law. During an...
Global Journalism: Searching for Truth in the Age of Fake News
Most 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 even the concept of objectivity i...
European welfare state: current challenges and perspectives
This course 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 poverty and unem...
Summerschool Comic Design
Fancy spending a whole week this summer making your own comic strip, graphic novel or pictorial story? Then register for our Summerschool Comic Design.
Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics
The course introduces students to modern monetary theory. The balance sheets and transactions that are relevant for understanding modern money are examined, with a focus on the Eur...
Machine Learning and Data Mining with Python
This 6-day course will familiarize participants with Machine Learning and Data Mining algorithms using the Python programming language. You will learn to recognize the correct mach...
Family Business and Governance
Family-owned businesses are the backbone of many economies around the world and it is estimated that the total economic impact of family businesses to global GDP is over 70%. The...
An Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
In this course, students will be introduced to the innovative and ’mind- blowing’ field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions will...
Summerschool Animation Design
Would you like to spend a week in summer working on the pre-production of a new animation film based on your own existing material? Then sign up for the Animation Design Summer Sch...
Human Rights, Security and Development
During The Hague Summer School 2019 this course is offered twice: July 1-12 & July 15-26. We live in turbulent times marked by terrorism, climate change, economic crises and int...
Country Risk Analysis
The Asian Crisis in 1997-1998, Argentina's default in 2001 and the recent economic downturns in Brazil, Russia and South Africa underline the relevance of country risk analysis for...
Fundamentals of Population Health Management
Population Health Management as an innovative approach to ensure sustainability of health care systems, is a highly relevant research theme worldwide. Many countries and their heal...
Data Analysis using STATA
The 6-day course is a practical introduction to statistic and econometric methods using STATA. You will improve your data handling, analysis and interpretation skills needed to car...
Journalistiek en effectief schrijven
Ben je op zoek naar een vlotte pen en goede interviewvaardigheden? Of droom je zelfs van een journalistieke carrière? Deze Summerschoolcursus is een mooie inleiding in effectief sc...
Leadership for Sustainable Innovations
The world has major sustainability issues (social, ecological and economical). There is a need for innovative leadership and bottom-up solutions to these challenges. This elective...
Geopolitics of Water Wars
Oil was the reason for various so-called “resource wars” in the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, however, water wars will become more commonplace. This has at least...
Financial Statements - How to Prepare and Analyze
Are you studying, or planning to study, business? Or are you running, or planning to open, a business of your own? Then you definitely need to know how to prepare financial stateme...
Summer School Green Genetics
The Summer School Green Genetics consist of a great mixture of lectures, WUR research facility visits, company visits, a company market, some practical, hands on training and a net...
Essential Academic English (B2)
English is the language of higher education, in the Netherlands and elsewhere. If you want to bring your English to the required level for academic studies, Essential Academic Engl...
The Local Impact of Global Migration
In this module we will examine the consequences of migration in an urban context. We will look at images, pictures, cartoons, architecture and all other traces of migration in the...
Big Ideas in Computer Science: Understanding the Digitized World
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” – Edgar W. Dijkstra. Interaction with computers has become a big part of our daily life, but t...
Human Movement Analysis
From elite sport to clinical rehabilitation, we are constantly trying to enhance the physical capabilities of the human body. Today, the main tool in this process is movement analy...
Fake News, Frames and Facts
The strong growth of social media, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States and the widespread accusations against particular states of spreading lies have si...
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...
Development Projects Management
Understand development project as a concept; Knowledge of the Project Life Cycle and the involved decision-making processes; Familiar with the Log Frame Approach; Aware of the impo...
Social Policy
Part of the public policy family, social policy is the discipline concerned with the governmental action aimed at insuring individuals in situations when these fail or face difficu...
Scapino Summer Creative
For (pre)professional contemporary dancers In the summer of 2019 the first edition of the Scapino Summer Creative will take place. During two weeks you can participate in an int...
International lawyering in a public interest
Explore the challenges of public interest advocacy in international law and rethink what it means to practice public interest advocacy in the international system. At the Internati...
Empirical Research Methods for Legal Studies
Empirical legal questions are increasingly pressing for society and academics alike. Covering the law in action, victims, governmental accountability, police investigation, reporti...
Courses 2018
Artificial Intelligence For a Healthy Life
Healthy living is a hot topic in today’s world. Many of us want to be fitter, stronger, healthier… Not least students, despite the challenges posed by their particular situation. I...
Sustainable Cities
Cities are growing; generally they grow at high rates in the developing world, but urban growth is also continuing in the industrialized world. Moreover, city dwellers consume more...
Design for Health Care - Youth Care Innovation
Youth care innovation platform Garage 2020 has conducted research on the state of foster care family recruitment in The Netherlands. Based on their data analysis a customer journey...
Advanced Summer Programme: Preventing, Detecting and Responding to the Violent Extremist Threat
This advanced summer programme focuses on the field of preventing violent extremism and gives you insights into the opportunities and challenges of a networked approach. The lat...
ArtEZ Summer School Cultural Enterprise
ArtEZ educates artists and designers who are able to find their own way through the creative economy, which calls for thorough preparation for the follow-up steps of graduates and...
Entrepreneurship and Financing in a Changing Society
Entrepreneurs are making important changes in global societies. They are developing new products and services and generating billions of pounds worth of profits. But as the world c...
Cybercrime: The Human Factor
As society has gone digital, so has crime. Not only have new offences appeared, like hacking and attacks designed to take down websites or networks, but IT has begun to play an inc...
EPIcenter: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Summer School on Healthy Living and Happy Ageing
EPIcenter is a two-week summer school that brings together promising students to develop solutions that enable seniors to live a healthy, active and enjoyable life. Participants go...
The Hague India Cyber Security Summer School
From 9 – 13 July 2018, the first edition of the The Hague India Cyber Security Summer School (NICSSS) will take place. The Hague India Cyber Security Summer School is co-organised...
Applications of Fluorescence in the Life Sciences
Fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy have become common techniques in cell biology and biophysics. This is due to the incredibly high sensitivity and selectivity of fluorescenc...
Leadership and Sustainable Innovation
Final Deadline for enrolment: 1st June 2018 The world has major sustainability issues (social, ecological and economical). There is a need for innovative leadership and bottom-up...
DJ Summer School
In July the Dutch DJ Academy aka DJ School Utrecht, organizes the DJ Summer School again! In which the students get to follow DJ courses in beatmatching, turntablism, performance...
Winter Academy - Doing Business Right: Corporate Social Responsibility in Transnational Law and Practice
This five-day Winter Academy provides a comprehensive overview of the legal mechanisms ensuring that multinational corporations conduct their business activities responsibly. The p...
Out of my Mind: Embodied Cognition, Mechanistic Explanation and Mental Disorder
The latest research in cognitive science is revealing that cognitive phenomena such as spatial navigation, action perception and emotional understanding all depend on the human bod...
Vaccinology Summer School 2018
Are you interested in the latest developments in vaccinology, both in infectious diseases and in cancer? Want to learn about vaccine design, manufacture and clinical development th...
Sustainable and smart urban growth
This program is set up around multiple visits to the Randstad Megapolis. The 'Randstad' is not a one city; it is a dynamic metropolitan region characterizing the presence of the...
Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
This Institute provides a strong foundation in international and comparative law. It offers a wide range of courses on, inter alia, human rights, trade law and criminal justice....
International Criminal Law: From Theory To Practice
This school deals with all aspects of International Criminal Law, from substantive crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression) to complementarity, modes o...
Start-Up Challenge
Become an independent self-starter and develop your own business. Do you want to transform your idea into a promising business model? Then we are looking for you! Forget about tr...
Human Rights, Security and Development
The Hague, City of International City of Peace, Justice and Security, boasts around 131 international institutes and 80 justice organizations and together with New York, Geneva and...
Frontiers of Children’s Rights
This school takes a close look at contemporary children’s rights issues such as juvenile justice, alternative care, protection and participation of children in (armed) conflict, em...
The MENA Region in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology
The MENA Region in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology. The upcoming IAPSS-CIFE Winter School will be held in Tunis, Tunisia on the subject: The MENA Region in...
Managing Cultural Diversity course in Eindhoven
In July & August 2018, Maastricht School of Management offers you the opportunity to follow up to four intensive summer courses to become ‘certified in management.’ You can apply f...
Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and Environmental Protection
This year’s Summer School on Human Rights and Transitional Justice addresses the confluence of two global crises: environmental protection and the response to mass atrocity. Prote...
Criminal Organizations: An Economic Perspective
Popular TV shows like Narcos, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy and The Sopranos purport to portray the workings of organized crime, and their huge audiences reveal our fascination wit...
International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice
This unique programme gives a broad overview of the laws of armed conflict, covering, among others, the classification of conflicts, protection of the civilian population, combatan...
Causal Evaluation Methods in Education Research
How do education vouchers affect learning outcomes? What is the impact of financial aid upon higher education enrollments? Does reducing class sizes really improve student performa...
Project Mapping: a Design Method to Gather, Capture and Visualize Your Project
Innovation teams are often multidisciplinary teams that work on complex cases, with a variety of stakeholders and objectives to keep in mind. Project Mapping is a very effective wa...
Health, Well-Being and Culture
What does it mean to be sick and what does it mean to be healthy? What is the role of culture in how we experience and practice our well-being in the world? How do people negotiate...
Global Trends
The world is getting more and more connected, not only consumers but also organizations are increasingly interlinked. The public and private sector, once clearly separated, are mov...
Sports Management
In July 2018 Maastricht School of Management (MSM) Summer School offers you the opportunity to follow a number of business- related or industry focused specialization courses at th...
Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law
Historically, heritage has always been targeted in times of conflict and transition for its symbolic value. However, the difference between historical acts of iconoclasm and the de...
Crime in Numbers: From Correlation to Causation
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for causal inference. Using an experimental and a control group, double-blind and with a placebo, the effect of an intervention c...
European Young Entrepreneurs
The NHTV Summer School for European Young Entrepreneurs takes place in three European countries: the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Programme content will focus on: internationa...
International Arbitration Training Course
The Training Course covers international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration and inter-state arbitration as if focuses on the theory and practice of international...
Summerschool Comic Design
Fancy spending a whole week this summer making your own comic strip, graphic novel or pictorial story? Then register for our Summerschool Comic Design. This is the ArtEZ Summers...
Destination and Experience Marketing
In July 2018 the third edition of the International Summer Programme will take place. Together with our international partner Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) in Macao, NHTV wil...
International Cyber Security Summer School 2018
From 19 – 24 August 2018, the fourth edition of the International Cyber Security Summer School 2018 (#ICSSS18) will take place in the City of The Hague (City of Peace, Justice and...
Brain and Mind
How does the human mind work? We all know the brain is responsible, but what are the mechanisms involved? How do our minds become conscious, perceive, remember and make important d...
Columbia Summer Program
This summer, Leiden Law School will host the Columbia Summer Program. For more than fifty years Columbia Law School has offered this Summer Program in American Law, in cooperation...
Asser-ACIL Summer School on International Lawyering in a Public Interest
What does it take to practice international law for public interests? This summer school will explore the challenges of public interest advocacy in international law, from question...
Laws in Antiquity: Crime and Punishment in the Ancient World
The laws and legal systems governing our lives today have deep historical roots. As early as the third millennium BC, people in Mesopotamia were compiling laws and employing variou...