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Courses 2024
Urban Sustainability: Engage in the Future
top courseIn a world grappling with the challenges of climate and various other crises, cities play a critical role in understanding these issues and their impact on society's dependence on...
Diagnosis of Plant Disease
top courseThe course will introduce you to common plant diseases in crop plants. It is based on short introductory sessions followed by practical exercises, in which you diagnose plant disea...
Certificate in Environmental Data Science
blended courseThe Certificate in Environmental Data Science is an innovative program designed to combine the power of data science and artificial intelligence with the need to address global env...
Interdisciplinary Science for Marine and Coastal Conservation in a Changing World
The MAllorca Science School aims to equip researchers in the early stages of their career with the necessary knowledge and research skills to address significant environmental chal...
Environmental Signaling in Plants
top courseOur society depends on plants. Experimental Plant Sciences study the fundamental life processes of plants at different organizational levels, from molecules and cells to whole plan...
Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Change
Under current EU legislation and international agreements there is an increasing obligation to protect and restore ecosystems. While restoration is scale up, there is increasing em...
Global Energy Transition in a Fossil World
top courseDo we need to phase down or to phase out fossil fuels for a successful energy transition? Meeting the Paris climate goals is far from a done deal. While the need for a global trans...
EU Food Law
Legal issues concerning food quality and food safety are rapidly developing. Food standards are being developed and applied at the national level, at the EU level and at global lev...
How Can STEM Support Sustainability: The Sustainability Summer Programme
online courseWith the world progressing into a deeper climate crisis, the concept of sustainable living is becoming a priority for governments, organisations and even individual households. Man...
Coyote Teaching
The animals live their secret lives all around us. The fox that visits the garden every night or the robin that nests nearby or the sparrow hawk who watches that robin, are often i...
Environmental Justice in Theory and Practice
top courseThis summer course will introduce students to environmental justice from a variety of perspectives. We will engage with philosophical attempts to identify normative standards for w...
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...
Governing Climate Change: Theory and Practice
top course"Climate change may well be the most pressing environmental challenge facing humankind. A complex global web of institutions, instruments and actors is being created seeking to gov...
Environmental Impacts on Health and Disease
Overview Course aims Teaching and learning Fees Entry requirements How to apply Overview Academic Lead: Stavroula Kanoni This summer school will provide clear understanding of...
Climate Nexus: Interlinking Energy, Agriculture, and Water
The climate crisis requires changes to the major systems that cause climate change (energy and agriculture) and those that need to adapt (agriculture and water). This course provid...
Feed Ration Planning in Dairy Cattle Herds
top courseBefore the course students individually prepare a report (2 standard pages) about their current and previous national feed evaluation system for dairy cattle and a presentation (10...
Pre-University Summer School
PreUni is a unique opportunity to broaden the horizons of students between the ages of 16 and 18 who are already thinking about their university studies by attending classes with w...
Climate Justice
The module is both solutions-focused and interactive, and you will have the chance to work in groups throughout as you reflect collectively on how you would address particular chal...
SHEroes Resilience: Empowering Women in Disaster Risk Reduction through Heritage - Cultural Heritage in Context.
The programme will focus on societal resilience and explore cultural natural heritage drivers for enhancing adaptation and preparedness for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Summer Scho...
Sustainability and the Sciences Focus
The European Summer Program is a four-week intercultural and interactive academic course for international students who want to discover France and Europe. It has taken place in Ju...
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change
“A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change” (CCSS) is a unique opportunity to broaden your knowledge by attending classes with world-class university professors and expand you...
Sustainable Inititatives in France
In this course, students will discover local initiatives, sustainable urban development, and biodiversity strategies. This course will be based onteamwork.
Agrobiodiversity Summer School 2024
Agrobiodiversity includes the diversity of crops and livestock species and varieties, the diversity of production and food supply systems, different agricultural practices and inte...
Sustainable Cities and Societies
top courseThis course delves into the topic of sustainable cities and societies from a range of concepts, theories and practices that relate to urban planning and design. The course consider...
Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in Nature Pedagogy
Permaculture is a design system that creates resilient, sustainable relationships between human beings and the rest of the natural world.” - The Children in Permaculture Manual (Al...
Pre-University Honours Programme: Sustainable Thinking
Working towards a sustainable society means learning to live in harmony with our natural environment whilst consciously making changes which allow future generations to flourish. Y...
Sustainability Transition of Food Systems
During the course, students will get an understanding of the sustainability transitions of food systems. The intensive course provides an overview of the different food system acto...
Water Management
This course will focus on an aerial view of worldwide macro-trends in Water Resource Management and Policy. It will provide attending students with a basic understanding of water m...
Europe 2040: Smart Energy Systems for a Sustainable Future
In an intensive 5-day program, the summer school offers insight into the challenges faced by today’s energy sector and the impacts of different prospective solutions. Through semin...
Re-Imagin(in)g Environmental Issues an Interdisciplinary Course on Visual Environmental Communication
In line with the fundamentals of design-based research this collaborative course consists of two complementary modules. On the one hand it gives a theoretical introduction into the...
Global Energy Transition
In order to act locally, we need to think globally when it comes to energy transition. Hence an international mindset is required. Engagement is also needed to foster local learnin...
Solving Wicked Problems of the Future Ocean
Solving wicked problems of the future ocean course aims to introduce the students to some of the current ocean-related wicked problems, related to e.g. climate change, biodiversity...
Public Participation in Sustainable Transitions: Energy island Ameland
top courseCurrent environmental crises such as climate change, the loss of biodiversity in sensitive habitats, and the reduction of natural resources ask for new approaches to the energy tra...
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...
Climate Action – Advanced Seminar Workshop Course
During the course, students will go deeper into MOOC-course contents regarding climate action by participating in a seminar teamwork project.
Biodiversity.now
The course deepens understanding about biodiversity, gives examples from nature and biodiversity conservation and maintenance, provides group working skills and critical thinking a...
Sustainability in Practice- From Science to Business
Apply for our one-week course to explore the fundamentals of climate change, understand the economic and social consequences of our dependence on fossil fuels, and examine the prom...
Environmental Humanities
top courseExplore our relationships with nature, why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis. In our sessions, you'll: * look...
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...
People and Planet: Humanities and Ecological Justice
Content – the world is facing a number of inter-related crises from climate change, conflict, inequalities, threats to food security, pandemic disease, pollution, and habitat loss....
Development, Sustainability and Globalization
top courseThe Prague Summer School on Development, Sustainability and Globalization aims to enrich the discussion on the new tasks for the global development. The program is conceptualized w...
Solution Designs for Sustainability Transitions
blended courseThis course will offer in-depth insights into how systems thinking, solution design frameworks, and the design thinking approach can be applied by individuals, organisations, and p...
On the Renovation Wave - Sustainable Thermomodernisation - Toward Climate Neutral Cities
blended courseThis summer school is an international program which aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to deal with the modernization solutions in existing buildings in...
Developing Solutions to Environmental Challenges (Environment and Geography)
The University of York's Pre-University Summer School is a residential programme designed for students aged 16-18 to get a taste of what it means to study at a top university in th...
Resilience and Nature Intelligence as Tools for Our Children in a Threatened World
Our children are facing challenges that we are neither aware of today nor can we properly assess their extent. Instead of the canon of knowledge of the last century, they therefore...
The Global Energy Problem: The Scientific Basis of Energy Management
The objective of the course is twofold. First, it should provide the students the scientific basis necessary for understanding energy management, both at global and local scales. F...
Modelling and Forecasting Energy Markets
In the last two decades, energy markets operators have witnessed major structural changes that have had a profund impact on how prices are determined on the market. Events like mar...
Net-zero Emission Buildings – Maximum Energy Efficiency and Comfort for Users
blended courseCurrently, the building design sector is facing a number of challenges for engineers related to the European climate neutral policy , as well as the climate change. The proposed co...
Geospatial Technologies for Monitoring SDGs: Early Warnings for All
Geospatial technologies and remote sensing are valuable resources for monitoring the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding targets and indica...
Promoting Natural Intelligence With Thematic Projects on the Example "Stone Age"
Discovering and utilizing their own resources, high resilience and robust physical and mental health are characteristics of children with high natural intelligence. This concept of...
Science Diplomacy in the Age of Climate Change
Science Diplomacy is a tool that recognizes science as a process for pursuing evidence and diplomacy as a process for dialogue and cooperation between different stakeholders. In ou...
Global Environmental Challenges and Security
online courseThis course appears to focus on addressing contemporary global environmental issues through an interdisciplinary approach, with a particular emphasis on adult education principles...
Environment & Biodiversity in Italy
Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Sicily's ecosystems, from the Mediterranean coast to the volcanic majesty of Mount Etna. Our summer course on Environment & Biodiversity of...
Summer Seminar of Environmental Modeling
The seminar handles timely topics of environmental modeling. Yearly 2-3 selected application areas of environmental modeling are studied in the seminar presentations. For the year...
Sustainable Landscapes - The Wadden Experience
top courseHow to steer towards sustainability at the landscape level? In the Northern part of the Netherlands lies the World Heritage Wadden Sea Region. Within this region, human and natural...
The Sustainability Summer School
blended courseSustainMV is jointly presented by all universities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The overarching theme for this unique event is sustainability in the fields of Tourism, Renewab...
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...
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...
Global Affairs, Energy Security and the Green Transition:
top courseThis module examines a selected variety of topics relevant to international cooperation and conflict. A particular emphasis will be paid to the role of energy resources in internat...
On Agriculture, Forest and Environmental Geodata Statistical Analysis, Modelling and Machine Learning [SAFEST]
top courseThe international Summer School on Agriculture, Forest and Environmental geodata Statistical analysis, modelling and machine learning [SAFEST] will provide theoretical and practica...
Ecology: Living Landscapes in the West of Ireland
This course offers students practical experience of the natural environment in the west of Ireland. It provides students with survey skills to identify natural resources, and deve...
Bioactive Molecules in Agroecology
top courseThe course covers the bioactive compounds that play a role in the agroecological context – i.e. in the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment within agricu...
Sustainable Development Academy
In the Sustainable Development Academy (SDA), participants engage with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a critical and solution‐oriented way. The goal of...
CityLAB X: The Sustainable City
This summer school aims to address the sustainable city from an interdisciplinary perspective. Together we explore how we can transform contemporary cities towards sustainability....
Climate Change - Cross-disciplinary Challenges and Solutions
top courseEarth’s climate is changing, and this raises a multitude of associated problems for society. The required solutions need to combine knowledge and skills from all sciences. Therefor...
Past courses
Advanced Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology
top courseIn this course advanced exposure assessment methods will be introduced, discussed and applied in lectures, case studies and computer practicals. Themes covered in the course are...
Courses 2023
Environmental Crimes
online courseUNICRI and the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI) are organizing the seventh edition of the Winter School on Environmental Crimes, which will be delivered online...
Blue Science - Social and Ecological Responsibility Across Disciplines
Blue Science is a module that allows students to experience interactive university teaching and learning by dealing with their social and ecological responsibility in concrete and...
Climate Change Policy – Public Participation and Art
This course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the science, impacts, and policy responses related to climate change. The course will cover the causes and consequences of c...
Climate Action – Advanced Seminar Workshop Course
During the course, students will go deeper into MOOC-course (Massive Open Online Course) contents regarding climate action by participating in a seminar teamwork project. Acqui...
Sustainability Program Global Course + Internship
Learn about the newly developed and most desired area - sustainability. Get an internship in a visionary and impactful company and go through thirty most relevant areas of sustaina...
Mountain Ecosystems & Resource Management
blended courseThe Grassroots Institute (Canada), Valahia University of Targoviste (Romania), Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania), World Agricultural Heritage Forum (Italy), NatRisk at the...
Transformative Change for Sustainability Action
Transformations are needed to achieve sustainable development. In this course, you will discuss the dynamics that drive and hamper sustainable transformations, and explore approach...
Technology and Sustainability Modelling for Net-zero Industries
Industry remains fundamental to ensure economic growth and employment in Europe. In this course, you will learn new technologies, economic and environmental modelling methods to st...
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change
“A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change” (CCSS) is a unique opportunity to broaden your knowledge by attending classes with world-class university professors and expand you...
Disaster Risk Reduction
As a result of climate change, extreme weather conditions are on the rise around the world. Last year, there was widespread damage from extremely heavy rain and resulting flash flo...
Environment and Sustainability
Week 1 and 2 You will be introduced to the culture, lifestyle and the environment of the UK and explore: - Natural environments - Ecology - Hydrology/flooding/wat...
Thinking About Climate Change
The consequences of climate change on wine in France Vincent Moriniaux, geography, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University History of the environment Nestor Herr...
Ensuring Sustainable Futures
At the University of York, we consider sustainability to be a key element of our responsibilities and values. We want our students to understand the sustainability challenges our w...
Keep Cool: Stories of Adaptation in the Warming City
online courseClimate change is one of the most urgent and complex problems we face today. With the publication of the latest IPCC synthesis report in March of this year, climate scientists issu...
Sustainable Protected Horticulture: Soilless Cultivation Systems and Hydroponics
Would you like to become a real competitive professional in the field of Horticulture? If so, this course will help you to improve! Our course "Horticultura protegida sostenible...
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...
Sustainable Business: Strategy & Innovation
Climate change, environmental pollution, waste of resources and the decline of biodiversity clearly show mankind that processes of change are necessary. On a policy level, the Unit...
Young Researcher Forum on Sustainable Biomass and Climate Change
The obvious changes observable in Earth’s climate can be directly connected to the past 150 years of industrialisation relying on fossil sources for energy and materials. The young...
Green Fuels and Environment
This course aims to provide participants with information on fuel properties, with particular emphasis on biofuels, and the impact of their use on environmental protection. The cou...
Climate Neutral Energy Systems and Societies in Times of the Energy Crisis
CNESS Summer School provides the opportunity to attend an intensive academic program with lectures covering the most prominent energy-related topics (politics, engineering, constru...
Agrobiodiversity
Agrobiodiversity includes the diversity of crops and livestock species and varieties, the diversity of production and food supply systems, different agricultural practices and inte...
Designing for Systems Change not Climate Change
Learn how to break down the complexity of climate change, and address this challenge using your creativity, systems thinking, and design mindset. COVID-19 has clearly shown us t...
Science Diplomacy in the age of Climate Change
Science Diplomacy is a tool that recognizes science as a process for pursuing evidence and diplomacy as a process for dialogue and cooperation between different stakeholders. In ou...
EPG Summer School 2023
Established in 2018, the summer school is one of EPG’s flagship learning programmes, designed for students and young professionals to offer them a general overview of the fundament...
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...
Design Thinking for Sustainable Design & Development
Design thinking is a powerful holistic process, which aims to shift the paradigm and focus from innovation centered on technology and economy towards the one on human needs and exp...
Summer Field School on Mountain Ecosystems & Resource Management
blended courseThis international training program examines the mountain ecosystems in contexts of human development and natural resources, principles of managing natural resources, and governing...
Managed Aquifer Recharge, MARISS
Due to climate change, groundwater recharge, in addition to demand management, is an important measure to conserve, convey and safeguard groundwater systems and to protect and impr...
Pre-University Summer School
PreUni is a unique opportunity to broaden the horizons of students between the ages of 16 and 18 who are already thinking about their university studies by attending classes with w...
Survivor's Guide to Stable Isotope Ecology
The fifth edition of The Survivors’ Guide to Stable Isotope Ecology sees our great team of lecturers from all over the world come together again to unlock the secrets of stable iso...
Developing Solutions to Environmental Challenges
There’s never been a more important time to study environmental issues. Climate change is having major impacts on agriculture and wildlife. Air pollution is affecting human health...
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...
Thermal Comfort and Renewable Energy for Low Energy Buildings
The main goal of the course is to teach students the holistic approach to the design of the low energy demand buildings with special emphasis on the utilization of renewable energy...
The Self Observing Landscape
blended courseThe Visiting School “The Self-Observing Landscape”proposes an educational program built around the construction of small digital landscapes, replicas of portions of physical territ...
EU Environmental Policies and Law
The POLLEN Module aims to foster excellence-in-teaching in EU Environmental studies and consists of a two-week course of 43 teaching hours (staggered hours) covering the following...
Smart Cities
“Smart cities” is a rapidly growing concept both in research and in public policy practices. It considered the main solution enabling cities to better address key societal challeng...
Financing, Participation, and Environmental Protection in Community Renewable Energy Projects
“SummerSchool Energy – Financing, participation, and environmental protection in community renewable energy projects” from August 28 – September 1, 2023 in Lüneburg (Germany). To...
Interdisciplinary Perspective on Micro- and Nano-plastics
top courseMicro- and nano-plastics are pieces of plastic of a size between 5 millimeters and 1 nanometer that have infiltrated everything on earth, including the top of mount Everest and the...
Courses 2022
Environmental Humanities in a Global World
It is becoming increasingly clear that “hard” science alone cannot solve the global environmental problems such as climate change, nature degradation, biodiversity loss etc. in a w...
Climate Neutral Energy Systems and Society
CNESS Summer School provides the opportunity to attend an intensive academic program with lectures covering the most prominent energy-related topics (politics, engineering, constru...
Sustainable Agriculture
blended course"This programme offers a unique, intensive, and hands-on immersion on the topics of sustainable and regenerative agriculture and its impact on the food production systems (carbon m...
Strengthening the Resilience of Forests to Climate Change
As part of the LIFE-IP CARE4CLIMATE project, the Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) is organizing an international summer school "Strengthening the resilience of forests to climate...
ClimACTES 2022
This intense 2 weeks course focuses on 10 concrete ways to act collectively in order to mitigate climate change (described on our website). It also features an important entrepre...
Science Diplomacy: Improving Capacity of Science to Inform Policy
Science Diplomacy is a tool that recognizes science as a process for pursuing evidence and diplomacy as a process for dialogue and cooperation between different stakeholders. In ou...
Food Hygiene
The programme presupposes linking between the teaching to the standard curriculum of the individual veterinary faculties and their complementation so as the final knowledge and pra...
Technology & Society & Energy Transitions
In the form of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants of this course will learn how to understand, assess and shape such socio-technical dynamics. For this, we have organize...
WMU Summer Institute on Maritime Decarbonization
The World Maritime University (WMU) is a unique academic institution, founded within the framework of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the Uni...
Circular Cities and Sustainability
This course was developed to support the transitional planning towards Circular Cities (CC) and sustainability by means of the CC framework. The purpose of which is to guide (in a...
Critical Studies on Food: from Production to Waste
This course combines traditional lectures and discussion meetings with hands-on co-curricular activities and field trips in and around Rome, as well as in the Lazio region and Cil...
Google Earth Engine
Lessons will start on Monday 09/05 with an introduction by Professor Gherardo Chirici – University of Florence. Then, the participants will form groups based on their skills and in...
Pre-University Summer School
The Pre-University Summer School (PreUniSS) is a unique opportunity to broaden the horizons of students between the ages of 16 and 18 who are already thinking about their universit...
Water & Sanitation: Technical, Environmental and Political Issues Related to Water
The European School of Positive Impact and Responsibility (ESPOIR) aims to expose motivated students to state-of-the-art learning and innovative activities to gain a better underst...
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change
UAM-SpaCIE’s Summer School “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change” (SSMACC) is a unique opportunity to broaden your horizons in one of the most beautiful and liveliest cit...
Decarbonising Industry: Technology, Policy, and Societal Readiness
Industry is a major emitter of carbon, yet it remains central to the modern economy. In this course globally recognised experts provide a robust, interdisciplinary perspective on i...
Climate Crisis: Social & Economic Impact
The School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics of the University Center of International Programmes of Studies of the International Hellenic University (I.H.U.) in coopera...
Water Resources, Land-use and Forestry
The main purpose of the course is (a) to provide an overview of the impact of climate change on water resources, water-related hazards, land and forestry management; (b) to set the...
International Summer School on Food Sustainability
online courseParma, world-famous for its Parmesan cheese and Parma ham, lies at the centre of one of the most important food-producing regions in Europe and it is not by chance that its surroun...
Microplastic Pollution - from Problem Identification to Solution
The aim of this course is to learn about microplastic pollution and its impact on the environment and society. In this course, we will focus on the characterization and the basic p...
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...
Energy & Climate
The need for rapid emissions cuts, alongside growing global demand for (renewable) energy, raise critical questions. In this course, we will cover fundamental knowledge, specific c...
Masterclass Artistic Research
blended courseThis hybrid programme consists of one to one mentorship, project work and a series of lectures, screenings and workshops. The mentors are a group of international artist filmmakers...
Improved Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs)
Give initial training to pre-doctoral students (last year master students with the potential of starting a PhD) and PhD students, so that they can develop their doctoral thesis in...
Austrian Summer School of Energy Transition
The Austrian Summer School of Energy Transition (ASSET22) is a 10-day intensive course that provides international and interdisciplinary students an overview of sustainable develop...
Current Issues in Environmental Science
This multi-focus, cross-disciplinary course will explore various issues that are currently relevant to the environment in different regions of the world. These include air polluti...
Courses 2021
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...
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...
Crisis and Transition: Environmental Humanities in a Global World
In this summer school, we will investigate social and cultural aspects of the environmental crisis and sustainable transitions. Specifically, we will explore how methods and theori...
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...
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...
Sustainable Development Academy
The Sustainable Development Academy allows participants to engage critically and effectively with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students will learn abou...
Sustainable Energy Transition
online course021 Summer School in e-learning mode GEM 2021 Edition will take place in an innovative e-learning mode. On Mondays, from August 30th to October 1st 2021, students will have online...
Discovering the Environment - Gran Sasso Fan Camp
blended courseAll the programmes offer the opportunity for individuals, groups, university cohorts to living life in Italy, in Abruzzo, flavoured by the most renowned of the Roman Emperors, Hadr...
From Lab to Soil to Truck: Mediterranean Greenhouse Horticulture
Located in the heart of the highest concentration of medium technology plastic greenhouses in the world, the University of Almeria (UAL) has been recognized as the best Spanish uni...
Crisis and Transition: Environmental Humanities in a Global World
online courseIn this summer school, we will investigate social and cultural aspects of the environmental crisis and sustainable transitions. Specifically, we will explore how methods and theori...
ClimACTES
This 2 weeks intensive summer school focusses on the mitigation of Climate Change in a spirit of social justice. The first week is devoted to 18 lectures, 12 round tables, 6 work...
Wastewater and Biosolids Management
online course6th distance education e-learning International Summer School and Workshop on “Wastewater and Biosolids Management” (WWSS21)
Mountain Ecosystems and Resource Management
online courseTo build the capacities of future leaders (researchers, students, practitioners and scholars) we have announced a 10-days international program namely FSc MER 2021 or “Summer Field...
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...
Bioeconomy
How can we transform from a fossil-based to a bio-based economy ? What challenges are we facing ? Which technologies, methods or concepts could help in the process ? What are our s...
Sustainable protected horticulture: soilless and hydroponic growing systems
Do you know about greenhouses? Do you want to know more about how to maximize the positive environmental impact of greenhouse cultivation? Have you ever visited a commercial protec...
Courses 2020
Entrepreneurship in the CE (PhD Summer School)
online courseThe Winter School offers the PhD Students and Young Researchers an unique opportunity to acquaint to various elements of the circular economy (CE) implementation in the raw materia...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a worldwide-used methodology for the compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs and the potential environmental impacts associated with produc...
MEDEA - Mediterranean Diet, Biodiversity and Functional Food
The First Edition of MEDEA Summer School is a collaboration between the University of Milan-Bicocca as promoter and many Institutions localized in the Eastern part of Sicily around...
Young Scientists Summer Program
Every summer from 1 June to 31 August, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosts up to 50 doctoral students from around the world in its Young Scientis...
Frontiers of Environmental Principles and Research
Subjects covered: • natural hazards and risks, • paleclimatology and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, • erosion and soil protection, • nature conservation and biodiversity...
Courses 2019
WIN! Water Innovations Summer School
The WIN! Water Innovations summer school in Tartu (Estonia) between August 12-23 will be a vibrant mixture of interactive sessions, field trips, and group work in a unique setting,...
Valorization of by-products from agri-food supply chains for the development of functional ingredients, foods and nutraceuticals
The growing interest for the establishment of a circular economy model to reduce the production of wastes forces to investigate novel approaches and technologies for the valorizati...
Jean Monnet Module in EU Environmental Policies and Law (POLLEN)
The POLLEN Jean Monnet Module aims to foster excellence-in-teaching in EU Environmental studies and consists of a two-week course of 43 teaching hours (staggered hours) covering th...
Integrated Management, Sustainable Tourism, and Promotion of Biosphere Reserves
The Summer University seeks to provide a high-quality training to post graduate students, young scientists, and practitioners from Biosphere Reserves from Europe and the Mediterran...
Dynamics of City Development
For the first time, the Centre international de formation européenne organizes a programme in Albania. The programme will take place in SHKODER, the most touristic Region of Albani...
Limnology Lake Constance and Danube River
IN this Course you learn (1) how to catch and Analyse Plankton samples from lake Constance, (2) about the re-oligotrophication success in restoring the lake, (3) the actual Researc...
Climate Change Impacts on the MED-Agro-Food Chain
The Summer School links theory with application. It is built on an intensive programme of keynote lectures, workshops, excursions and project work. Overall, participants will incre...
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...
Energy transition and YOU!
The global energy transition can’t succeed without the full participation of citizens. We need a paradigm shift towards more renewable energy which is sustainable, affordabl...
5th distance education e-learning Summer School on "Wastewater and Biosolids Management"
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 5th distance education e-learning Summer School on "Wastewater and Biosolids Management" (WWSS19), taking place in Patras, Greece, July 22...
Future of Food: Feeding Tomorrows World
The International Spring School "Future of Food: Feeding Tomorrow’s World" offers key notes, various lectures, and workshops covering main trends in nutrition and food research. T...
Sustainable Food Supply
Turn your research into practice with our two-week PhD Autumn school on Sustainable Land Use. Sustainable food value chain has economic, environmental and social impacts contribute...
Courses 2018
Institutional Economics and Agricultural Development
USAMV Bucharest and its partners within the ENHANCE consortium invite highly motivated postgraduate students (Master or PhD), researchers from agro-economics disciplines, and young...
Social Change and Sustainable Development
The 2018 Summer School of the International Graduate School (IGS) North-South will focus on “Social Change and Sustainable Develpment”. The course will delve into the following ten...
European Summer School - Creating Forest Experiences
Do you want to meet people from all over Europe? Do you want to implement your own forest project? Do you want to raise your voice as the future generation? What’s it about?...
Blue Economy, Water Research & Climate Change
Blue Economy, Water Research & Climate Change
IT Fundamentals of National Park Monitoring
Do you study a subject in the fields of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Computer Science or Engineering? Are you also interested in working in a national park or biosphere reser...
Winter School 2018: ECO2 – Arctic Climate Safety and Security
The Winter School provides you with the most intensive study tour you can get! This study tour takes place above the Arctic Circle covering 3 countries (Norway, Finland, and Sweden...
Space Technology for food security
Space Technology for food security
Into the Wilderness! Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Black Forest National Park
This summer we'll come together at Black Forest National Park to enjoy and experience wilderness first-hand! We're offering you a diverse program which includes: - hiking into th...
Energy Union
This two-week executive training course wishes to embrace the logic of the Energy Union, thus putting energy consumers – i.e. businesses and households – at the centre of European...
Summer School on Environmental Crimes
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI) are organizing the third edition of the...
Academic Courses in Environmental Science
Environmental Science takes an interdisciplinary view of the environment, embracing and integrating a wide range of subject areas. Incorporating the systematic scientific study of...
Modelling Sustainable Farming Systems Under Climate Change 2018
Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity worldwide while world food demand is steadily increasing. Such global challenge is framed by UN sustainable development g...
Courses 2017
Understanding and Managing Climate Change: Coping with Sea Level Rise ea Level Rise
Students will explore and become familiar with the following topics: Causes and consequences of global environmental change and Sea Level Rise: available records, models and futu...
Life cycle approaches to sustainable regional development
The series of LCSS -Life Cycle Summer Schools - is dedicated to exploring the applicability of life cycle approaches to sustainable regional development. It seeks to integrate the...
Energy and the Environment in the Mediterranean Sea
The programme highlights the impacts and vulnerability of the Mediterranean energy system in the face of the inevitable climate change in the region. It also shows how development...
Climate-KIC PhD Summer School Catapult: Sustainable Production Systems
Turn your research into practice and create climate and business impact with our PhD Summer School on Sustainable Production Systems. The industrial sector uses a large part of raw...
Policy Evaluation in Agriculture
USAMV Bucharest and its partners within the ENHANCE consortium invite highly motivated postgraduate students (Master or PhD), researchers from agro-economics disciplines, and young...
VIU International PhD Academy - Global Challenges Series: WATER
The first Global Challenge proposed for 2017 relates to the issue of water, addressing different aspects: ecological, eco-toxicological, economical, sociological, cultural, politic...
IT Fundamentals of National Park Monitoring
Do you study a subject in the fields of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Computer Science or Engineering? Are you also interested in working in a national park or biosphere reser...
Winter School on Environmental Crimes
The course will provide participants a fundamental understanding of what environmental crimes are and on how law enforcement bodies and judicial systems are responding. The existin...
Methods and strategies to monitor and manage human impact on urbanized protected areas (UPAs)
The PhD summer school is a five-day event during which students work in interdisciplinary teams on one NPHK case related to management problems. They are supported by keynote speak...
Introduction to the Circular Economy, Economics and Management of Natural Resources
Resource supply risk can be turned into economic opportunities. Students will learn basic knowledge about economics and management of eploitation of natural resources. This is nece...
Balancing Bio-resources and energy production
The eseia International Summer School 2017 “Balancing of bio-resources and energy production” aims to cover fundamental aspects and to reveal solutions in the quest for innovations...
Weak signals and emerging issues in ecological transition
The COTE Cluster of Excellence organises its fifth Summer School on "Weak signals and emerging issues in ecological transition" in Bordeaux, France (03-07 July 2017). The Summer Sc...
Nachhaltigkeit entdecken: Sommerakademie im Biosphärengebiet Schwäbische Alb
In an interdiscplinary group young people from Germany and other countries come together learn more and to dicuss th topic of sustainable landscape management in middle-Europe.
Wastewater and Biosolids Management
The Hellenic Open University (HOU) is organizing the 3rd distance education e-learning Summer School on "Wastewater and Biosolids Management " (WWSS17), in the context of the Postg...
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...
Courses 2016
UGent Blue Growth
Oceans and seas are identified as key drivers for European economic development and, as a result, have the potential to deliver new jobs in the coming years. The European Commissio...
Integrated Land Use Systems
The rapidly growing world population is placing increasing pressures on agricultural and forestry production systems. However, conventional intensification of production systems to...
Environmental Management in a Changing World: Coping with Sea Level Rise
The Nicholas School of the Environment (Duke University) and Venice International University offer a Summer Program that provides training in key topics about the impact of sea lev...
Creating, managing and preserving of cultural Landscapes - Wer schaf(f)t Landschaft?
This summer course offers a diversified 6 day programm on the topic of sustainable landscape management in the Swabian Alb biosphere reserve (southern germany). Together with up to...
Managed Aquifer Recharge
Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) represents the intentional recharge of surface water to aquifers. MAR can be applied for seasonal water storage, restoration of overexploited aquifer...
Energy Efficiency
Subtitle: International Project Management - From Theory to Practice From the generation of the first project ideas to the successful implementation of projects in intercultural a...
Climate-Smart Agriculture- From fundamentals to application
This course addresses the interlinked challenges of agriculture and climate change in a holistic manner approaching CSA from various perspectives including animal & plant sciences,...
Courses 2015
Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development
The objective of the Summer School is to provide advanced training to undergraduate students, doctoral, post-doctoral students and young professionals, including researchers of les...
Nudge Global Leadership Challenge
How can we achieve a sustainable society? What kind of leadership is needed? Who are the leaders of the future? How do we identify these leaders? What tools can we provide to enabl...
Douro - Environment, Resources and Sustainability
This course is about environment and sustainable development in Northern Portugal, one of the most populated European regions, especially focused in the city of Porto and Douro, bo...
Innovator Catalyst - Boosting sustainable economy in rural areas
This particular programme forms part of the Climate-KIC Innovator Catalyst series and is aimed at experienced professionals with the enthusiasm and potential for influencing organi...
The Future of Environmental and Human Health Exposure Modelling of Chemicals
The MERLIN-Expo software is a new tool for the assessment of human exposure to environmental contaminants, and will play a central part in this summer school in the teaching of sub...
Environmental Management in a Changing World: Coping with Sea Level Rise
The Nicholas School of the Environment (Duke University) and Venice International University offer the second edition of a Summer Program that provides training in key topics about...
Short course - Building Information Modelling and Energy Analysis Tools
In this short course, we will provide you with skills and knowledge about how you can combine Building Information Modelling (BIM) technologies with energy analysis tools in order...
Food Marketing,Consumer Behavior and Quantitative Methods of Market Research
The Department of Business Administration of the School of Management and Economics of the Technological Institute of Thessaly ( previously TEI of Larissa ), in cooperation with th...
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...
Basics of Inferential Statistics for Political Scientists
This is a refresher course in basic concepts of inferential statistics. Although mathematics will be minimized, at least one course in college level algebra is assumed. Understandi...
Courses 2013
European Environmental Studies
In the field of environmental policy the EU has clearly defined objectives such as confronting global climate change, protection of biodiversity and human health, and sustainable r...
Introduction to Organic Agriculture
If you are concerned about where your food comes from, what’s in it (or on it), or simply interested in how organic can contribute to benefit our shared environment, promote fair r...
Courses 2012
Advanced Energy
Energy is a fundamental resource that makes modern life possible. It is an essential element of productivity, growth and quality of life. With global energy consumption projected t...
Courses 2011
The Organic City: method or metaphor?
Almere is a New Town created 30 years ago; it has plans to double its size within the next twenty years. A large part of this extension will be planned by using experimental method...