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Courses 2024
Making Sense of the Evidence to Inform Programmes, Policies, and Practice
blended courseResearchers and practitioners often have to consolidate and review evidence to inform their work. However, assessing the quality of evidence, or knowing what type of review needs t...
International Trade and Circular Economy
online courseThis course will introduce students to the intersections between international trade and the circular economy and in particular how trade can facilitate the transition to an inclus...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a research approach consisting of both an analytical technique and a conceptual perspective for researchers interested in studying configu...
Regression Analysis II - Linear Models
The goal is to develop an applied and intuitive (not purely theoretical or mathematical) understanding of the topics and procedures, so that participants can use them in their own...
From Wild Consumption to Responsible Engagement - Master
Building on and applying students’ previous knowledge in the area relevant to the course in a holistic and multi-didactic process (lectures, workshops, excursions, groupwork, fires...
Applying Open-source LLMs in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. In short lectures, par...
Discourse Theory and Analysis
Workshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to explore the practical application of discourse theory to the analysis of textual data. There are many different v...
Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange: Coming to the Future, Coming from the Past
blended course“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana) In public health, every new challenge is a mixture of what is already known and experienced a...
Communicating and Visualizing Data with R
Each day will contain a series of short lectures and demonstrations that introduce and discuss new topics. The bulk of each day will be dedicated to hands-on, step-by-step exercise...
Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis II
Statistical mediation and moderation analyses are among the most widely used data analysis techniques. Mediation analysis is used to test various intervening mechanisms by which ca...
Structure-based Computer-aided Drug Design
Computational methods for drug discovery constitute an essential part of the discovery pipeline, notably in pharmaceutical companies. Structure-based computer-aided drug design (CA...
Regression Analysis II - Linear Models
The goal is to develop an applied and intuitive (not purely theoretical or mathematical) understanding of the topics and procedures, so that participants can use them in their own...
Qualitative Research Methods & Data Analysis
Qualitative Research Methods and Data Analysis presents strategies for analyzing and making sense of qualitative data. Both descriptive and interpretive qualitative studies will be...
Introduction to Systems Thinking & System Dynamics Modelling - Public Health Challenges Response Preparation
The course is a “hands on” entry level course to expose participants to the principles of Systems Thinking & System Dynamics Modelling. Public Health policy examples of the use of...
Digital Law
Topics that will be covered include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, big data, digital privacy and online surveillance, free speech, consumer protection, legal issues of soc...
Bayesian Data Analysis
To understand what the Bayesian approach to statistical modeling is and to appreciate the differences between the Bayesian and Frequentist approaches. The students will be able to...
Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Data
Workshop Contents and Objectives Social network analysis is used to understand communities by investigating their structure. How individuals in communities are connected to one...
Communicating and Visualizing Data with R
Each day will contain a series of short lectures and demonstrations that introduce and discuss new topics. The bulk of each day will be dedicated to hands-on, step-by-step exercise...
Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling with R
This intermediate level 5-day course presents the highly popular methodology of multilevel modeling (MLM) across the social, behavioral, educational, life, biomedical, marketing, a...
Experimental Methods for Behavioral Science
The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the essential principles and techniques for conducting scientific experiments on human behavior. It is...
International Contracts Regarding Cross-Border Trade and Investment
online courseThe fabric of international trade is made of international contracts that organise the purchase and sale of goods and services involving consumers, businesses and, at times, public...
Promoting Healthy Behaviors Through Multi-level Approaches
In this course you will learn why promoting lifestyle behaviors through evidence-based, multi-level approaches is as important as ever and what it takes to design for success. You...
Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis I
blended courseStatistical mediation and moderation analyses are among the most widely used data analysis techniques in social science, health, and business fields. Mediation analysis is used to...
Discovering Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Experience a hands-on approach to entrepreneurship and founding a startup. Learn how to develop your business model, the different approaches in funding, branding and leadership....
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a research approach consisting of both an analytical technique and a conceptual perspective for researchers interested in studying configu...
Online Behavioral Research
The Internet is revolutionizing how empirical research is conducted across the social sciences. Without the need for intermediaries, individual researchers can now conduct large-sc...
Experimental Methods for Behavioral Science
The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the essential principles and techniques for conducting scientific experiments on human behavior. It is...
Identifying and Navigating Ethical Issues in Public Health
blended courseImagine you had a vaccine that, if given to one million children, can prevent 11,000 hospitalizations and 2,500 severe cases of disease, but that will also cause 1,000 hospitalizat...
Machine Learning with R - Advanced
blended courseWith machine learning, it is often difficult to make the leap from classroom examples to the real-world. Real-world applications often present challenges that require more advanced...
Qualitative Bayesian Reasoning for Case Studies
blended courseThe way we intuitively approach qualitative case research is similar to how we read detective novels. We consider various different hypotheses to explain what occurred— whether a m...
Causal Analysis with Observational Data
Workshop Contents and Objectives Does smoking cause bad health? Does income inequality increase political extremism? Do schools increase inequality? Many questions of interest t...
Impact Evaluation for Evidence-Informed Global Health Interventions and Policies
Over the last decades, there has been a growing body of applied economic research aimed at developing and employing quantitative tools to obtain robust evidence for the design, imp...
Regression I - Introduction
The primary goal is to develop an applied and intuitive (as opposed to purely theoretical or mathematical) understanding of the topics and procedures. Whenever possible presentati...
Bayesian Modelling
Workshop contents and objectives Bayesian statistics has experienced a surge in popularity over the last few decades, primarily due to the computational advancements that have m...
International Law & International Humanitarian Law
Geneva has long been one of the world’s capitals of international law. The presence of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and many other international organizations a...
Global Health: Advocacy and Diplomacy in Action
The fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, added to the worsening climate, food, economic and political crises disrupt our lives in new ways and further exposes and increases societ...
Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling with R
This intermediate level 5-day course presents the highly popular methodology of multilevel modeling (MLM) across the social, behavioral, educational, life, biomedical, marketing, a...
Structural Equation Models
1. Introduction to latent variable models, measurement error, path diagrams. 2. Estimation, identification, interpretation of model parameters. 3. Scaling and interpreta...
Ethnographic Methods
Workshop Contents and Objectives Ethnographic methods are increasingly being used in diverse and creative ways in both long-term and short-term studies across the social science...
Causal Inference
Causal questions in the form of how X influences Y are pervasive in real life. It is therefore imperative for us to know how to address these questions, especially given the “big d...
A Practical Introduction to the Meta-Analysis Toolkit
blended courseSystematically synthesizing studies stands as a critical element in advancing knowledge and facilitating informed decision-making in public health practice, policy, and research. O...
Data Scraping and Management for Social Scientists with R
blended courseOnline platforms such as Yelp, Twitter, Amazon, or Instagram are large-scale, rich and relevant sources of data. Researchers in the social sciences increasingly tap into these data...
International Investment Law and Sustainable Development
online courseDifferent types of investment pose different challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. Further, over the last decade, the patterns of international production for g...
Prejudice, Discrimination and the Diversity Challenge
Prejudice and discrimination are often causes of individuals’ suffering, social inequalities, and human conflicts in contemporary societies. Prejudice and discrimination are pervas...
Digital Innovations for a Happier, Healthier Aging: A Transdisciplinary Training
We live in an ageing world that is undergoing remarkable changes. Every global region is experiencing an increase in longevity, which naturally brings more physiological limitation...
Deep Learning: Fundamentals and Applications
– Machine Learning Refresh o Supervised Learning vs. Unsupervised Learning o Traditional Machine Learning vs. End-to-End Learning – Fundamentals of Neuronal Networks...
Introduction to Machine Learning
Workshop Contents and Objectives Machine learning is of ever greater importance in data science applications in academia, government, and industry. It is not just another set of...
Global Health, Drugs, Policy and Power
The summer school will address a number of important questions at the heart of international drug policy discussions today. The course will include lectures, case studies, mock deb...
The Law and Economics of Tackling Climate Change
online courseTackling the climate crisis requires rapid and unprecedented regulatory change at domestic and international levels. This course will use a multidisciplinary approach, covering la...
Case Study Methods
blended courseThe central goal of the seminar is to enable students to create and critique methodologically sophisticated case study research designs in the social sciences. To do so, the semina...
Regression Analysis II - Linear Models
The goal is to develop an applied and intuitive (not purely theoretical or mathematical) understanding of the topics and procedures, so that participants can use them in their own...
Qualitative Bayesian Reasoning for Case Studies
blended courseThe way we intuitively approach qualitative case research is similar to how we read detective novels. We consider various different hypotheses to explain what occurred— whether a m...
Text Mining
Text mining is the art and science of extracting insights from large amounts of natural language. The topics of Text Mining will help students add natural language processing techn...
Qualitative Research Methods & Data Analysis
Qualitative Research Methods and Data Analysis presents strategies for analyzing and making sense of qualitative data. Both descriptive and interpretive qualitative studies will be...
Citizenship and the Politics of Contention
This Summer School aims to deepen students' knowledge about citizenship and the politics of contention and to strengthen their engagement with research questions and their capacity...
How to Forge Arguments in Writing Scientific Papers
Workshop contents and objectives Publishing scientific papers represents a core activity of researchers and, increasingly the career of young scholars is determined by their abi...
Web Scraping and Data Mining with R
Workshop contents and objectives The widespread accessibility of the internet and the ongoing digitisation of information has transformed how people communicate and share knowle...
Network Analysis - Statistical Analysis of Social Network Data
Prerequisite knowledge for the course includes the fundamentals of probability and statistics, especially hypothesis testing and regression analysis. This intermediate level cours...
Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation
The Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation is a 2-week program of coursework and hands-on learning for law students and legal practitioners held in the heart of Europe at...
Communicating and Visualizing Data with R
Each day will contain a series of short lectures and demonstrations that introduce and discuss new topics. The bulk of each day will be dedicated to hands-on, step-by-step exercise...
Online Behavioral Research
The Internet is revolutionizing how empirical research is conducted across the social sciences. Without the need for intermediaries, individual researchers can now conduct large-sc...
Mixed Methods
This introductory course will teach participants when, how, and why to integrate a qualitative and a quantitative research component within one research design. The first part will...
Data Scraping and Management for Social Scientists with R
blended courseOnline platforms such as Yelp, Twitter, Amazon, or Instagram are large-scale, rich and relevant sources of data. Researchers in the social sciences increasingly tap into these data...
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Global Purpose
This intensive summer program will look at the different stages of founding a startup. Is your business model ready? What are the different channels of funding? What are investors...
Creating Groups from Data. Cluster Analysis and Latent Class Analysis
Workshop Contents and Objectives In this course, you will learn how to create groups from data. For example, you might want to detect different types of web users based on a set...
Digital Epidemiology
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the crucial need to more fully integrate computational methods into public health practices. Techniques such as digital contact tracing have p...
Case Study Methods
blended courseThe central goal of the seminar is to enable students to create and critique methodologically sophisticated case study research designs in the social sciences. To do so, the semina...
10th Rare Disease Summer School
The 10th Rare Disease Summer School will focus on a wide variety of subjects in the arena of rare diseases, from disease mechanisms and animal models, to improving diagnoses and no...
Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis II
Statistical mediation and moderation analyses are among the most widely used data analysis techniques. Mediation analysis is used to test various intervening mechanisms by which ca...
Structural Equation Models
1. Introduction to latent variable models, measurement error, path diagrams. 2. Estimation, identification, interpretation of model parameters. 3. Scaling and interpreta...
Gaia ChangeMakers Program
The Gaia ChangeMakers Program (GCP) offers a transdisciplinary approach to preparing students for an uncertain world, to empower them to feel confident and ready so they thrive whe...
CircularTech Summer School
This dynamic two-week program is designed for forward-thinking students eager to dive into the world of circular business models.
Implementation Science in Healthcare: How to Effectively Translate Innovations into Real-world Settings
Only a fraction of research evidence is translated into changes in practice and it takes about 15 years to achieve implementation in real-world settings. Implementation science is...
Regression for Publishing
This course builds directly upon the foundations laid in Regression II, with a focus on successfully applying linear and generalized linear regression models. After a brief review...
Climate Change: Intellectual Property Law and Technology Transfer
online courseEffective climate change mitigation and adaptation requires the implementation of appropriate technologies in all countries concerned. Most of these technologies are protected by i...
Deep Learning: Fundamentals and Applications
– Machine Learning Refresh o Supervised Learning vs. Unsupervised Learning o Traditional Machine Learning vs. End-to-End Learning – Fundamentals of Neuronal Networks...
Bayesian Data Analysis
To understand what the Bayesian approach to statistical modeling is and to appreciate the differences between the Bayesian and Frequentist approaches. The students will be able to...
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
online courseWorkshop Contents and Objectives The objective of this course is to show how structural equation modeling can be used to develop and/or test both measurement models (scales) and...
Visual Data and Visual Methods in Social Sciences
Workshop contents and objectives The prevalence of visual elements in our daily lives, such as visual communication in digital and social media, advertising, corporate communica...
Design Thinking for Research
Workshop Contents and Objectives The workshop in a nutshell This workshop is inspired by our course "Research as design" at Stanford University which also led to our book "Cr...
Network Analysis - Statistical Analysis of Social Network Data
Prerequisite knowledge for the course includes the fundamentals of probability and statistics, especially hypothesis testing and regression analysis. This intermediate level cours...
Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis I
blended courseStatistical mediation and moderation analyses are among the most widely used data analysis techniques in social science, health, and business fields. Mediation analysis is used to...
Listen, Engage, Connect: Explore The Science Communication Arena
he Summer School "Listen, Engage, Connect: Explore The Science Communication Arena" aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the key principles and strategies of science communi...
Measuring Health Spending and Results to Improve Health Sector Performance
blended courseThis course will provide an introduction on the challenges and opportunities of tracking expenditures in the health sector, measuring the efficiency and equity of a health system,...
Network Analysis - Statistical Analysis of Social Network Data
Prerequisite knowledge for the course includes the fundamentals of probability and statistics, especially hypothesis testing and regression analysis. This intermediate level cours...
Leadership for Sustainability Transition
Boost your sustainability career skillset with intensive experience into becoming a more resilient and effective agent of sustainable transition. We train both the hard and soft...
Text Mining
Text mining is the art and science of extracting insights from large amounts of natural language. The topics of Text Mining will help students add natural language processing techn...
Causal Inference
Causal questions in the form of how X influences Y are pervasive in real life. It is therefore imperative for us to know how to address these questions, especially given the “big d...
Bridging Research, Policy and Practice to Improve the Health of Migrants
blended courseHealth challenges linked to migration pose significant public health issues, potentially affecting the health and well-being of migrants and host communities alike. Migrants often...
Conducting a Grounded Theory Study
Workshop contents and objectives Grounded theory is a methodology used by social scientists to explore, describe, and understand social phenomena from the perspectives of those...
Qualitative Research Methods & Data Analysis
Qualitative Research Methods and Data Analysis presents strategies for analyzing and making sense of qualitative data. Both descriptive and interpretive qualitative studies will be...
Analyzing Panel Data
Analysts increasingly find themselves presented with data that vary both over cross-sectional units and across time. Such panel data provides unique and valuable opportunities to a...
Transparent Research and Open Science
The course addresses central aspects of good research practice and invites you to think about your own methods and academic habits. We discuss what qualifies as “good” research pra...
Content Analysis and Natural Language Processing
Workshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a practical hands-on, and theoretical understanding of new methods in the content analy...
Generative AI for Text, Audio and Images
We will cover the basic concepts of prominent methods for generative deep learning before starting a deep dive on their application to text, audio and images. Since we will focus o...
SDG Summer School: Open Source Health Solutions
The theme of the 2024 edition of the SDG Summer School is “Open Source Health Solutions”. The school lasts four weeks, from Monday 1 to Friday 26 July. The format is hybrid, with t...
Agent-Based Modelling
Workshop contents and objectives Macro social dynamics, such as ethnic segregation patterns, socio-economic inequalities, and opinion polarization, are puzzling because they are...
Case Study Methods
blended courseThe central goal of the seminar is to enable students to create and critique methodologically sophisticated case study research designs in the social sciences. To do so, the semina...
Causal Inference
Causal questions in the form of how X influences Y are pervasive in real life. It is therefore imperative for us to know how to address these questions, especially given the “big d...
Regression I - Introduction
The primary goal is to develop an applied and intuitive (as opposed to purely theoretical or mathematical) understanding of the topics and procedures. Whenever possible presentati...
Biozentrum Research Summer: Internships for Bachelor's Students
The Biozentrum Research Summer Program offers up to 15 selected Bachelor students the opportunity to experience what it means to be a scientist, to put their classroom learning int...
Analyzing Panel Data
Analysts increasingly find themselves presented with data that vary both over cross-sectional units and across time. Such panel data provides unique and valuable opportunities to a...
Multivariate Methods for Social Researchers
Workshop Contents and Objectives The focus of this workshop is to introduce tools dealing with many variables (multivariate analysis): building models with several variables and...
Qualitative Bayesian Reasoning for Case Studies
blended courseThe way we intuitively approach qualitative case research is similar to how we read detective novels. We consider various different hypotheses to explain what occurred— whether a m...
Regression for Publishing
This course builds directly upon the foundations laid in Regression II, with a focus on successfully applying linear and generalized linear regression models. After a brief review...
International Sports Law
This on-campus Summer School offers unique insights into the legal context in which international sports organizations currently operate as well as into the limits to their autonom...
Applied Digital Health for Health Systems Strengthening
online courseDigital Health has a major role in strengthening health systems around the world, including in low- middle and high-income countries. Governments, NGOs, and donors are increasingly...
NCD Prevention and Control in a Global Health Perspective
The course addresses public health strategies to prevent and control NCDs, and changes needed in the healthcare system, with regard to the most cost-effective, affordable and scala...
Deep Dive into Blockchain
This summer school programme will give you a complete immersion into the topic of blockchain from world-leading experts and practitioners in the field at Europe’s No. 1 university...
Data Scraping and Management for Social Scientists with R
blended courseOnline platforms such as Yelp, Twitter, Amazon, or Instagram are large-scale, rich and relevant sources of data. Researchers in the social sciences increasingly tap into these data...
Health in Emergencies: Assessing and Responding to Health Care Needs in Complex Situations
blended coursePublic health emergencies are a global problem, and the effects and needs vary with the vulnerability of the affected communities and with the fragility of the context where they d...
Applied Panel Data Analysis
Workshop contents and objectives We introduce the properties of panel data as a special case of pooled cross-sectional data and discuss how to prepare panel data for panel analy...
From Wild Consumption to Responsible Engagement - Bachelor
The course aims to give students and other participants a fundamental understanding of how knowledge and experience can enter into dialogue with their distinctive approaches. Stude...
Community-based Participatory Methods in Public Health
blended courseThe importance of Community-Based Participatory Methods (CBPM) is increasingly recognized within the field of Public Health. Participatory approaches are in line with the shift tow...
Machine Learning with R - Introduction
blended courseMachine learning, put simply, involves teaching computers to learn from experience, typically for the purpose of identifying or responding to patterns or making predictions about w...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Research Design and Application
Workshop Contents and Objectives This workshop provides participants with a thorough introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Since its inception (Ragin 1987), QC...
Qualitative Research Designs
Workshop Contents and Objectives At its core, a research design is a basic strategy that guides the research process, from data collection, analysis, interpretation and discussi...
Children at the Heart of Human Rights
Geneva has long been one of the world’s capitals of international law and the headquarters of international institutions dedicated to human rights. This inspiring context naturally...
Online Behavioral Research
The Internet is revolutionizing how empirical research is conducted across the social sciences. Without the need for intermediaries, individual researchers can now conduct large-sc...
Structural Equation Models
1. Introduction to latent variable models, measurement error, path diagrams. 2. Estimation, identification, interpretation of model parameters. 3. Scaling and interpreta...
WIPO - UNIGE : Intellectual Property
The University of Geneva, together with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will organize a two-weeks WIPO-University of Geneva Summer School on Intellectual Prope...
Experimental Methods for Behavioral Science
The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the essential principles and techniques for conducting scientific experiments on human behavior. It is...
Technical Barriers to Trade in Pursuit of Sustainable Development
online courseThis course will provide participants with a thorough understanding of the legal and economic aspects of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) as it relates to sus...
Strategic Project Management
Why do so many projects fail? Why do so many others fail to produce lasting results? Why do so many projects suffer from cost and time overruns? How can organizations identify and...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a research approach consisting of both an analytical technique and a conceptual perspective for researchers interested in studying configu...
Science & Policy for Environmental Action
From climate change to biodiversity loss or plastic pollution, environmental crises have become more complex and intertwined, calling for active engagement between scientists and p...
Analyzing Panel Data
Analysts increasingly find themselves presented with data that vary both over cross-sectional units and across time. Such panel data provides unique and valuable opportunities to a...
Bring Your Own Crystals
The School teaches small-molecule single-crystal X-ray structure determination. The School will consist of lectures, diffractometer experience, computer exercises and practical wor...
Bayesian Data Analysis
To understand what the Bayesian approach to statistical modeling is and to appreciate the differences between the Bayesian and Frequentist approaches. The students will be able to...
Past courses
Courses 2023
Hospitality Business & Innovation
• Welcome to EHL Campus Lausanne - Discover our state-of-the-art campus in Lausanne and get a taste of student life in Switzerland. • Hospitality Business - Ge...
Summer School Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Global Purpose
The first module (from 26.06 to 07.07) entitled "Discovering Entrepreneurship and Innovation" will engage the participant in real-life business problems, attend lectures, discuss c...
Smart Data-Driven Econometrics
Nonparametric density estimation (histograms and kernel densities) for uni- and multivariate distributions; Nonparametric regression (with kernels, kNN, series estimators and splin...
Biomarkers Arising From Nonlinear Analysis of Movement Variability
The Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics (LMB - ETH Zurich) together with the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability (MOVCENTR - UNO Omaha) is organizing a 4-day worksho...
The Alpes as Communication Zone
The Universities of Bern and Zurich are organising the fourth SISA workshop (2023) in Adelboden and Engstligenalp in the Bernese Alps. The SISA will focus on the Alps as a communic...
Hidden Players in the Food Chain-Improving Health at the Interfaces Between Environment, Plants, Animals and Humans
A healthy environment, including healthy soils, plants and animals, is essential for human well-being. One Health is an interdisciplinary framework that helps us to understand the...
Smart Data-Driven Econometrics
Nonparametric density estimation (histograms and kernel densities) for uni- and multivariate distributions; Nonparametric regression (with kernels, kNN, series estimators and splin...
Hospitality in a Digital World
online courseA one week online program to experience Swiss quality education, discover the world of Hospitality and prepare for your future. Join live sessions with industry experts, discover...
Citizen Science
How can citizen science contribute to solving societal challenges and transforming science? What are the potentials of citizen science for increased dialogue between science and s...
Regression Analysis for Spatial Data
This course focuses on the visualization and modeling of spatial data. Examples are taken from different research areas such as political science, empirical international trade, cr...
Writing Smart Contracts
blended courseSmart contracts require a distinct way of thinking and a novel programming approach, different from standard procedural programming. This course introduces students to the releva...
Global Health Law
Today, there exists a field of global health law which stands on its own in international law, with devoted institutions, legal norms, control and monitoring mechanisms and area of...
Visual Thinking for (PhD) Researchers
Workshop Contents and Objectives The overall aim of this workshop is to help participants enhance their thinking and communication skills through the use of visual thinking, such...
Field-based Insights into the Implementation of Renewable Energies
The PhD/Summer school Mont-Soleil is dedicated to Advanced Methods and Technologies for integrated Renewable Energies. The extra-muros organisation of the course will include Field...
Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies – Rituals, Rhetorics, Regulations
Many conflicts, present and past, are perceived and problematized as religious. To date no model for the analysis of religiously connoted conflicts and associated coping strategies...
Science and Policy - How to bridge the Gap?
Are you interested in exploring the intersection of science and policy-making? Then, join us for a 5-day doctoral Summer School "Science and Policy – how to bridge the gap?". It wi...
Biomedical Imaging
The EXCITE Summer School on Biomedical Imaging is dedicated to teaching the basics of biomedical imaging alongside an overview of applications which are vital to understand recent...
Biozentrum Research Summer: Internships for Bachelor's Students
The Biozentrum Research Summer Program offers up to 15 selected Bachelor students the opportunity to experience what it means to be a scientist, to put their classroom learning int...
Exhibiting Architecture - Media, Methods, Agents
The AA Visiting School Zurich invites students and practitioners, from the fields of architecture, design, art, curating, and theory to re-imagine architecture exhibitions, its med...
Text Mining
Text mining is the art and science of extracting insights from large amounts of natural language. The topics of Text Mining will help students add natural language processing techn...
Culinary & Wellness Concepts
Welcome to EHL Campus Passugg - Discover our cosy, resort-style campus in Chur-Passugg and get a taste of life in Switzerland’s top Alpine tourism region. Culinary Arts - Get cr...
Confronting Climate Change
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that “climate change is clear”. Both the scientific community and the governments participating in the IPC...
The Digital Transformation of the Classroom
The digital transformation of schools has been taking place for a long time and continues to do so. In this course, participants will explore the conditions and consequences of the...
Documentary Summer School (Locarno Film Festival)
Join us at the Documentary Summer School (DSS), an esteemed program that has been providing an exceptional learning experience for the past 24 years. Located amidst the vibrant atm...
Ethics in a Global Context
The LSUE’s global dialog focuses on topics such as the ethics of human rights, gender justice, economic, financial and corporate ethics, the ethics of digitization, automation, r...
Co-designing pathways for transformative change
online courseDo you want to be part of the solution? Achieving human well-being and eradicating poverty for all people on earth – while protecting our planet’s climate and biodiversity – will r...
Cell Expansion and Protein Expression in Standard and Single-use Bioreactors
The course provides students from the ZHAW, students from partner schools in Switzerland as well as students from abroad the opportunity of an intercultural exchange and knowledge...
Regression Analysis for Spatial Data
This course focuses on the visualization and modeling of spatial data. Examples are taken from different research areas such as political science, empirical international trade, cr...
Analyzing Unstructured Data
In this class, we will explore different statistical approaches that have proven useful in making sense out of unstructured data. The course is centered around business application...
Climate, Finance, Inequality: Pluralist Solutions to Economic Crises
Would you like to discuss how we can tackle current economic crises focused on: Climate, Finance, Inequality? You are interested in decarbonised economies, buen vivir, ubuntu, fe...
Critical Theory & Critical Sustainability Engagements: Anthropological Perspectives
Critical theoretical and activist engagements on topics such as human rights, gender violence, global pandemics, coloniality, racism and environmental sustainability are hot topics...
Democracy and Environment
This theme, which questions the foundations of democracy, but also the decision-making processes in environmental or climate matters, will be approached in an interdisciplinary man...
Into the Story: Teaching and Learning with Drama
The successful launch of a harmonised curriculum in Switzerland and curriculum reforms in other countries, have highlighted the importance of the so called “soft skills” such as li...
Special Needs and Inclusive Education in Switzerland and in a Global Context
Like many other countries, Switzerland has moved towards greater inclusion of children and young people with special educational needs into regular schools. Switzerland and other c...
Analyzing Unstructured Data
In this class, we will explore different statistical approaches that have proven useful in making sense out of unstructured data. The course is centered around business application...
Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation
We have four (4) travel grants from ThinkSwiss and the Embassy of Switzerland for the United States of America for United States or Canadian students (CHF 1'240 each)! For more inf...
Finance for the Future
Stability, universality, responsibility and excellence – these are the four cornerstones of Swiss banking. These values are the foundation of the success of the Swiss financial cen...
Courses 2022
Biozentrum Research Summer: Internships for Bachelor's Students
The Biozentrum Research Summer Program offers up to 15 selected Bachelor students the opportunity to experience what it means to be a scientist, to put their classroom learning int...
Cell Expansion and Protein Expression in Standard and Single-use Bioreactors
blended courseThe course provides students from the ZHAW, students from partner schools in Switzerland as well as students from abroad the opportunity of an intercultural exchange and knowledge...
Rare Diseases
The 8th Rare Disease Summer School will focus on a wide variety of subjects in the arena of rare diseases, from disease mechanisms and animal models, to improving diagnoses, to nov...
International Cultural Heritage Law
The summer school is organized by the Art-Law Centre and the UNESCO Chair in the International Law of the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the University of Geneva, in collaborat...
Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation
The Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation is a worldwide 2-week program of coursework and hands-on learning for law students and legal practitioners held in the heart of...
Biomedical Imaging
The EXCITE Summer School on Biomedical Imaging is dedicated to teaching the basics of biomedical imaging alongside an overview of applications which are vital to understand recent...
Field-based Insights into the Implementation of Renewable Energies
The PhD/Summer school Mont-Soleil is dedicated to Advanced Methods and Technologies for integrated Renewable Energies. The extra-muros organisation of the course will include Field...
Courses 2021
Biomedical Imaging
The EXCITE Summer School on Biomedical Imaging is dedicated to teaching the basics of biomedical imaging alongside an overview of applications which are vital to understand recent...
Field-based Insights into the Implementation of Renewable Energies
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, this course has been postponed to 2021. The PhD/Summer school Mont-Soleil is dedicated to Advanced Methods and Technologies for integrated Renewabl...
GLOBE - International Relations
Located in a historical resort of the Swiss Alps, the GLOBE winter school in International Relations provides a unique environment for PhD students intending to situate themselves...
Biozentrum Research Summer: Internships for Bachelor's Students
The Biozentrum Research Summer Program offers about 15 selected Bachelor students the opportunity to experience what it means to be a scientist, to put their classroom learning int...
The Future is Sustainable – it's in our Hands!
online courseScope The Summer School is designed to enable students to build system- and transformative knowledge, and to develop their capacity to act in the face of complex challenges throug...
Courses 2020
Summer Undergraduate Research (SUR) Programme in Biology and Medicine
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The program will be rescheduled in 2021. During eight weeks in July and August, the SUR (Summer Underg...
Biozentrum Research Summer: Internships for Bachelor's Students
The Biozentrum Research Summer Program offers up to 15 selected Bachelor students the opportunity to experience what it means to be a scientist, to put their classroom learning int...
Digital Epidemiology and Participatory surveillance: Methods and Applications
The pervasiveness of the Web and mobile technologies as well as the growing adoption of smart wearable sensors have significantly changed the landscape of epidemic intelligence dat...
Causal Inference in Observational Epidemiology
Causal inference from observational data is a key task of epidemiology and of allied disciplines such as behavioural sciences and health services research. Commonly used statistica...
Human Rights and Business
Due to the national emergency concerning the corona virus pandemic in Switzerland and the unknown duration of it we have to cancel the summer school 2020 of the Lucerne Academy for...
Advanced methods in (Network) Meta-Analysis – A Practical Course in R
Standard meta-analysis methods for clinical and epidemiological studies are widely used with focus on comparisons of two interventions, such as a drug versus a placebo, or a new in...
Health Economics for Public Health Decision-making
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The school will be rescheduled in 2021. This course will cover advanced theoretical and methodological...
Gender Studies
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The school will be rescheduled in 2021. Organized jointly by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)...
Advanced Clinical Trial Design
This course will provide an introduction to advanced topics of clinical trial design. The focus will be on trial planning especially sample-size calculations within a hypothesis te...
Parametric Competing Risks and Multi-state models
This course will focus on the use of parametric survival models when analysing data with competing risks and then extending to multi-state models. Multi-state models are increasing...
Transitional Justice and Conflict Transformation
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The school will be rescheduled in 2021. The Lausanne Summer School “Transitional Justice and Conflict...
Biomedical Imaging
The EXCITE summer school is dedicated to teaching the basics and wider context necessary to understand recent advances and current challenges in biological and medical imaging. Cut...
Tools to Assess Risk of Bias in Randomized and Non-Randomized Studies: Cochrane RoB 2 and ROBINS-I
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and systematic reviews of such trials, provide the most reliable evidence about the effects of healthcare interventions. Providing enough parti...
Transdisciplinary Nature Conservation
The “Transdisciplinary Nature Conservation: the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species from evaluation to practice” course is designed for young biologists who would like to understan...
Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies
This course will focus on the systematic review process to identify, critically appraise and summarise data from diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) studies. DTA studies evaluate the pe...
Field-based Insight into the Implementation of Renewable Energies
The PhD/Summer school Mont-Soleil is dedicated to Advanced Methods and Technologies for intergrated Renewable Energies. The extra-muros organisation of the course will include Fiel...
Working Memory
Against the wonderful backdrop of Lake Lucerne, we bring together internationally recognized working memory reearchers with interested and highly motivated Ph.D. students. By creat...
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Using Multiple Imputation and Inverse Probability Weighting
Missing data are ubiquitous in observational and experimental research. They lead to a loss of statistical power, but more importantly, may introduce bias into the analysis. In thi...
Bumblekite 2020
Bumblekite is four’s annual 10-day long machine learning summer school in biosciences and healthcare. The goal of the school is to bridge the skills gap in this interdisciplinary a...
Courses 2019
How Switzerland got rich
This Summer School looks at the development of Switzerland into one of the richest and most globalized countries in the world. The course director Prof. Dr. Patrick Ziltener wil...
WTO Law on Anti-Dumping and Safeguards Measures
This first part of a two week course on international trade remedies will be comprised of lectures and studies that deal primarily with US and EC Anti-Dumping law and pract...
BHRICO Summer School
Every year, the Centre for Human Rights Studies at the University of Zurich hosts a summer school examining the topical theme of business and human rights. The summer school, BHRIC...
Dealing with Uncertainty: Decision-Making and Memory Processes
We have invited four internationally recognized experts in the field of Cognition, Learning, Memory, and Metacognition to be our keynote speakers. They will present their research...
Exoclimes Simulation Platform Summer School
The Exoclimes Simulation Platform (ESP) is a vision to provide the scientific community with publicly-available computer codes designed to simulate the climates of exoplanets, inc...
Finance for the Future: Sustainable Finance and FinTech
Students visiting this summer porgram at the University of Zurich do not only learn theoretical aspects about finance, but also experience as well as apply their acquired knowledge...
Summer School on Social Banking & Sustainable Finance
12th International Summer School on Social Banking & Sustainable Finance Transforming finance. New roles for banks. 23rd to 28th June 2019 in Basel / Switzerland partnered...
Latest Developments in International Investment Law and Dispute Settlement
This course will examine the latest trends in the negotiation and implementation of international investment agreements (IIAs), with respect to investment dispute settlement, dispu...
Intercultural Competence - Drawing on the Swiss Experience
Intercultural communicative competence has become an increasingly important skill and a valuable asset in today’s world characterized by mobility, super-diversity and the global fl...
Microbiomes in soil, plant, animal and human health. nternational PhD and Postdoc Summer School
The first One Health-International PhD and Postdoc Summer School entitled `Microbiomes in soil, plant, animal and human health` consists of conceptual keynote lectures on soil, pla...
Forensic Science and Criminology
The ESC doctoral program brings together PhD students of the School of Criminal Justice (École des Sciences Criminelles – ESC, University of Lausanne) as well as any PhD student fr...
LeVERAGE ICTs for Tourism Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism for preserving LiVing hERitAGE
The 2019 Summer School of the UNESCO chair will take place in Switzerland: the activities of the first two days (August 24th and 25th) will be run within the 2019 edition of the ME...
Experimental Research in Accounting
We will discuss a selection of research topics/studies that draws on behavioral theories to address accounting issues using the experimental method. You will leave this course with...
WTO Law on Border Management and Trade Facilitation
The first part of the course will cover the many challenges of managing the border. The basics of customs law, namely tariff classification, customs valuation and rules of origin w...
Nutritional Aspects in Rehabilitation Exercise
This 4th edition of the summer school on «Nutritional Aspects in Rehabilitation Exercise» at Bern University of Applied Sciences – Departement of Health Professions is organised in...
International Trade Law Practice under the World Trade Organisation (Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Geneva)
Participants will have the opportunity to travel from Brussels through Luxembourg and Strasbourg to Geneva, getting acquainted with the functioning of European and International or...
WTO Law on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
This course will examine the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, their relationship with other WTO agreements, and the manner in which they ha...
Biozentrum Research Summer: Internships for Bachelor's Students
The Biozentrum Research Summer Program offers up to 15 selected Bachelor students the opportunity to experience what it means to be a scientist, to put their classroom learning int...
Policy Evaluation
Does welfare spending reduce poverty? Does the minimum wage destroy jobs? Does trade liberalisation increase inequality? Does development aid really help poor countries? Do longer...
The Masoretic Text, the Septuagint and Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis
As part of a cooperation between Swiss and Russian universities, the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern hosts a summer school on the interplay of the Hebrew Bibl...
GLOBE - International Relations
Located in a historical resort of the Swiss Alps, the GLOBE winter school in International Relations provides a unique environment for PhD students intending to situate themselves...
Trade and Agriculture: New Challenges
Agriculture is one of the more sensitive subjects within the WTO framework. While agriculture was covered by GATT 1947, many exemptions existed which allowed countries to use measu...
International Trade Law Practice under the World Trade Organisation (Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Geneva)
Participants will have the opportunity to travel from Brussels through Luxembourg and Strasbourg to Geneva, getting acquainted with the functioning of European and International or...
13th Zurich Summer School on Biomedical Imaging
The school is dedicated to teaching the basics and wider context necessary to understand recent advances and current challenges in biological and medical imaging. Cutting-edge tech...
Doing, Writing, Thinking Sport History
Organized in collaboration with the International Center for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University (ICSHC), this course aims to provide a unique environment for PhD s...
Swiss International Summer School for Alpine Archaeology 2019
The Swiss International Summer School for Alpine Archaeology (SISA) takes place annually in archaeologically promising high alpine regions. The Summer School deals with high alpine...
Visualizing the Architecture Competition as 'Contact Zone'
This international summer school investigates the 'contact zone' as a new methodological tool to better understand the global-ness of architecture production. Appropriating the ter...
Challenging the Sites of Knowledge. Medial and Pluri-Medial Configurations and Transformations
Due to the impact of globalization and technological development, we are witnessing a growth and diversification of the sites of knowledge generation and the ways in which a variet...
Courses 2018
International Investment Law and Policy: Promotion, Protection and Facilitation
This course will analyse the latest trends in the negotiation and implementation of international investment agreements, devoting particular attention to investment promotion and f...
Making Of – Designing Process Architecture
«The 3D-CAD rendering of a project is so utterly un- realistic. Where do you locate the budgeting [or] the continuous demands of so many conflicting stakeholders — users, communiti...
Middle Eastern Biology of Parasitism
MeBoP is a 2 week intensive course that will host a small select group of top candidates (12-16 grad-students, postdocs and young professionals) from Middle Eastern as well as Nort...
Climate Change and Migration
From the 2015 Paris Agreement under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), along with other int...
Prognostic Research: From Basics to Modelling
Prognosis is the probability that a specific event will occur in the future. Prognostic research is fundamental to clinical decision making, healthcare policy, and discovering new...
International Winter School on Event and Destination Management
The University of Economics, Prague (VSE), Czech Republic and the Lucerne School of Business (LSoB), Switzerland offer a two-week Winter School programme which takes the participan...
The United Nations and Global Challenges
A two-week study programme in International Affairs, at the heart of the Capital of Peace, with a focus on 2 areas: - Understanding the UN system and its actors: a clear mapping...
German as a Foreign Language: Summer Intensive Programme
This three-week-programme is scheduled before the start of the autumn semester 2018. In the mornings participants attend an intensive language course suiting their individual level...
The Future of the Trade and Investment Regime
Recent political developments such as the decision of the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU) and the protectionist agenda of the Trump Administration in the Unite...
Swiss Summer School 2018 in Chemical Biology
The summer school will feature 8 speakers broadly covering chemical biology from natural products discovery and synthesis to fluorescent probes and chemical epigenetics. Participan...
Earth system variability through time
The 17th Swiss Climate Summer School is focusing on the theme “Earth system variability through time”. This theme has been chosen due to its paramount importance in terms of both s...
New Frontiers on Investor-State Dispute Settlement: From Arbitration to Courts, Prevention and Management of Disputes
This course will examine the latest trends in the negotiation and implementation of international investment agreements, with respect to investment dispute settlement, dispute prev...
Gender and Space
Die Sommerschule vermittelt Studierenden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen feministische Theorien, Themen und Methoden an der Schnittstelle zwischen Geographie und Gender Studies....
Sustainable Migration
From the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants to the Global Compact for Migration, the international community has been more committed than ever to develop a comprehensiv...
International Affairs, Trade and Development
The Programme on International Affairs, Trade and Development takes you to the heart of international policy-making: it provides participants with a unique combination of academic...
Perspectives on Human Memory: Memory Functioning and Memory Failures
After four successful and inspiring summer schools in 2014-2017, we are now happy to organize our fifth summer school. The theme of this Summer School is: Perspectives on Human Mem...
Power to X: Fundamentals and Applications of Modern Electrosynthesis
Frontier research in the field of electrosynthesis which includes CO2 conversion, ammonia synthesis, organic electrosynthesis, and water splitting. The so-called Energy Transiti...
International Relations
Do you consider working in international affairs in the future and would like to learn about it? Then come and join us at GSD for a one week program from Monday 16 to Friday 20 Jul...
ETH Summer School: “New Frontiers in Extracellular Matrix Research: From regeneration to immunology, mechanics and soft robotics”
This ECMatrix summer school aims to bring together key opinion leaders with a focus on giving in-depth insights into current innovations and translational directions of the extrace...
Leading health care by Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Innovations in Service Delivery
In this course, participants will be introduced to the full cycle of developing, implementing and evaluating innovations in service delivery, using an implementation science framew...
The United Nations and Global Challenges
A two-week study programme in International Affairs, at the heart of the Capital of Peace, with a focus on 2 areas: - Understanding the UN system and its actors: a clear mapping...
Part 1: Mountain and mining archaeology
The first Swiss Alpine Archaeology Summer School is about Alpine landscapes, geology, mineralogy and ores, copper production, prospection, settlements as well as social and economi...
White White Water Management – Learning Management in a New Way!
This summer school teaches relevant management principles in an action-oriented outdoor & white water environment of Claro, Tessin in Switzerland. The course language is English....
Courses 2017
Globalisation on trial: anti-globalisation, trade, income inequality and human rights
This four day course (1 August is the Swiss National Holiday) will address the causes of the anti-globalisation movement and its most notable consequences, such as the exit of trad...
Adventures in data visualization Virtual Reality
Overview Adventures in data visualization VR edition is a summer workshop dedicated to explorations into the field of data visualization by means of computational design approac...
Beyond CSR: Leadership for Social Innovation
The Executive Summer Course: Beyond CSR. Leadership for Social Innovation addresses professionals from private companies, NGOs, international organisations and the public sector wh...
Trends in Organic Synthesis
Frontier research in the field of innovative synthetic methodology and state of the art natural product total synthesis.
Frontiers of investment rule-making (in partnership with the University of Ottawa and the World Bank)
This advanced two-week course analyses the latest trends in the negotiation and implementation of international investment agreements, dispute prevention and investment litigation,...
Tackling the challenge of chronic illness from patient/family and health care organization perspective
The course will make visible what chronic illness management entails at the patient/family and health care organization level. More specifically, the course will address what it me...
Health Financing Policies, Health System Performance and Obstacles to Universal Coverage
The course provides students with an overview of the patterns and key issues of health systems financing policies, with an emphasis on critical assessment of current and future pol...
Sustainability and Risks – How to deal with risk issues in sustainability research?
This year's Summer School examines the interlinkages between sustainability and risk issues throughout all disciplines. In an inspiring interdisciplinary setting we will discuss an...
5th radiz Rare Diseases Summer School
The 5th Rare Diseases Summer School - organized by radiz (Rare Disease Initiative Zurich) - will take place in the “Tagungszentrum Schloss Au”, Wädenswil (on lake Zurich), from Jun...
Energy Systems in Transition and Sustainable Mobility
Energy systems are entering a transition period as they progressively integrate intermittent renewable production, storage, electric mobility, demand-side management, etc. Energy s...
eHealth: Information and Communication Technology in Health
• Introduction: eHealth concepts and definitions • Key eHealth applications (Health Information Systems , eLearning, Telemedicine) and how they can support healthcare delivery a...
High-resolution climate: observations, models and projections
The 16th International Swiss Climate Summer School focuses on ‘High-resolution climate: observations, models and projections’. With the advent of satellites and high-performance co...
Open science in practice
This course will explain where open science comes from and will give an overview of latest tools researchers can use to be more efficient, more visible and more relevant in their c...
Language and Migration
The Summer School is being organized by the Center for the Study of Language and Society at the University of Bern. It focuses on different aspects of language and migration: langu...
Frontiers in intellectual property governance
This course examines the international framework for IP protection, from the Paris Convention to the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS A...
Governance challenges in the digital economy
The course explores the changes that the Internet is triggering in the global economy and resulting governance challenges. It depicts the evolution and key institutions of Internet...
Pre-doc Summer School on Learning Systems
One of the most prominent scientific challenges of our time is to cope with the complexity which arises in biology, medicine, engineering, economics, sociology and many other areas...
Wine, Terroir, Tourism
The summer school “Wine, Terroir, Tourism” introduces participants to the culture of wine and winemaking and explores the different synergies that exist with the field of tourism....
Cognitive Control and Consciousness: Behavioural and Neural Mechanisms
The theme of this Summer School is: Cognitive Control and Consciousness: Behavioural and Neural Mechanisms. We have invited four internationally recognized experts in the field of...
Global Competitiveness and Innovation
Academic programme Our International Business Summer School offers a varied and intensive programme of specialised studies in International Management and Economics in a Swiss e...
Public Mental Health: from epidemiology, policy and services
Objectives of the course To provide an introduction to epidemiological and population-based research methods for mental health and psychiatric disorders To provide an overvi...
Making markets contestable – exploring the trade and competition interface
This interdisciplinary course delves into the relationships between international trade, competition policy and government procurement from both a legal and economic point of view....
Sustainable development in trade and investment agreements
This course addresses the key regulatory challenges posed by the proliferation of policy initiatives targeting environmental transitions, with a central focus on clean energy gover...
Courses 2016
Domain Specific Modeling - Theory and Practice
Over the last decades, the complexity of systems we study and design (such as Cyber-Physical Systems) has grown exponentially. To manage this complexity, industry and academia now...
Energy Systems in Transition: Economic, Policy and Social Challenges
Topics of the course will be among others • Introduction to energy economy and energy policy • Renewable energy management • Policy risks in financing renewable energy projects...
Voyage – de l’espace d’exposition à l’atelier d’artiste.
Ce cours d’été propose dans un premier temps de partir à la découverte de la création artistique contemporaine par des conférences et des visites d’expositions. Les différentes not...
Questions d'espace
« L'installation est une autre étape dans l'évolution de la notion de la sculpture. Elle met en scène dans une aire donnée des éléments porteurs de divers types d'information. (…)...
4th radiz Rare Diseases Summer School
The 4th radiz Rare Diseases Summer School will focus on a wide variety of subjects in the arena of rare diseases, from disease mechanisms and animal models, to improving diagnoses,...
Good Governance and its Application to Modern Technology Policies
High quality of the public sector is key for the welfare of economies and societies alike. It is essential for a well-functioning State and serves as an effective preventive measur...
Conceptions of Sustainability – and How They Shape Research
In science we encounter overwhelming diversity of sustainability conceptions. The international PhD Summer School ‘Research on Sustainable Development’ helps to find way through th...
Adventures in data visualization
Adventures in data visualization is a summer workshop dedicated to explorations into the field of data visualization by means of computational technologies and design approaches. B...
Arts & Crafts Hands on at 1:1 Scale
In the first week students will be designing, experimenting and finally casting their personal metal sculpture based on sketches and models. The process of developing and fabricati...
Courses 2015
Interdisciplinarity in PhD research – How to achieve relevant results on sound methods
Sustainability essentially considers the interdependences of socio-economic and natural systems. Nevertheless, PhD research projects often do not examine such correlations, but foc...
Points de vue d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Cet atelier propose un voyage singulier dans l’espace et dans le temps : partir à la (re)découverte de quelques éléments remarquables du paysage valaisan en revisitant le point de...
Empirical Research Methods
In 2015, SSERM offers 23 high-level courses from 8-19 June and 4 optional courses outside the June period. In order to guarantee the best possible preparation and assure a similar...
Introduction to Qualitative Research
Participants in the MetLab 2015 Summer School will take four intensive qualitative research methods modules, typically comprising three hours of study each morning and two hours of...
Climate-KIC EIT Master Label
Join our programme, complement the master’s degree programme you are already enrolling for and become part of a community that creates real solutions for climate change mitigation...
Fashion & Luxury Sustainability
The Fashion & Luxury Summer School, Lugano (Switzerland) offers studies in Business Management and Innovative Technologies for the fashion and luxury industry, with a focus on curr...
Translational Biology
The EPFL-ETHZ joint summer school in translational biology is a five-day program, focused on how our fundamental understanding of biological processes and integration of technologi...
IYLC Leadership and Business Summer Camp
Our 2 week residential Summer Camp is hosted in the famous city of Geneva, Switzerland. The camp will help you decide what possible choices for your educational and career paths th...
Voyage II – de l’espace d’exposition à l’atelier d’artiste
Ce cours d’été propose dans un premier temps de partir à la découverte de la création artistique contemporaine par des conférences et des visites d’expositions. Les différentes not...
Courses 2014
Implementation of Phosphorus Recovery from Wastewater - Why and How?
Do you want to be at the forefront of developments since you are already working or plan to work in the field of phosphorus recovery? In the frame of the P-Rex project a summer sc...
Global Environmental Policy
The Executive Summer School provides, in the context of the unique International Geneva setting, a unique opportunity for participants to enlarge their competencies in order to add...