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Courses 2023
Advanced Water Cycle Management
The course will initially provide the student with a review of the three main theme at the course, ground water resource management, water distribution, and wastewater handling. Th...
Micro- and Nano-plastics
Micro- 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...
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...
Sustainable Development Academy 2023
The Sustainable Development Academy (SDA) allows participants to engage critically and effectively with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The overall goal o...
Atlantic Adventure Experience (AAE) 1
Embrace an unforgettable experience that resembles the UWC Atlantic adventures of today. The Atlantic Adventure Experience (AAE) will take you on a journey that promises to challen...
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...
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...
Dealing Professionally with Climate Change Issues
online courseClimate Change topics are becoming more and more relevant to various fields of science and related studies and get a strong multidisciplinary character: from Earth Sciences to Sust...
Urban Environmental Politics
top courseAs the planet’s land use and human population become increasingly urban, environmental problems and politics of cities are evermore critical for improving socio-environmental relat...
The Anthropocene: Ecologies, Tensions, Futures
online courseThe Anthropocene - or Human Age - is a proposed geological and cultural epoch, marked by wide scale human intervention on our planet. But what are the costs of such 'dominance' for...
Climate and Energy (Level 2)
top courseWhat is the evidence for anthropogenic climate change? How can we generate low-carbon electricity from nuclear and renewable sources, and how can we make our transport infrastructu...
Hands-on Advanced Methods and Techniques in Plant Science and Biotechnology
The Danish and global plant production is facing major challenges. Plant production is central in the on-going green transition made necessary by climate changes, because it can de...
Genomic Prediction in Animals and Plants
The course focuses on the quantitative genetics and statistical background of different genomic prediction models, covering also estimation of variance components, theory on genomi...
Diagnosis of Plant Disease
The 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...
Bioactive Molecules in Agroecology
The 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...
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...
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...
Atlantic Adventure Experience (AAE) 2
Embrace an unforgettable experience that resembles the UWC Atlantic adventures of today. The Atlantic Adventure Experience (AAE) will take you on a journey that promises to challen...
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...
Urban Geoscience: the London Perspective
top courseUrban geoscience encompasses the geological aspects of the built environment in the context of construction materials and, the underlying bedrock that affects the stability of buil...
Sustainable Landscapes - The Wadden Experience
How 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...
Our Connection with a Fast-changing Arctic
The 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...
Module in 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...
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Courses 2022
Desalination and Renewable Energies
Due to the challenges of the climate change as well as energy and water scarcity, the development of advanced technical solutions under specific local boundary conditions becomes u...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Co-designing Solutions 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...
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...
Leadership for Sustainability Transition
Sustainability Transitions: Design, Diplomacy and Data (8 ECTS) 80 hours of class; 40 hours of teaching; 10 hours of site-visits; 20 hours of presentations from external experts...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Designing Sustainable Landscapes within Regional Food Systems
Learn all about designing sustainable regional food systems and agroecological landscapes for the North of The Netherlands! A redesign of the agricultural systems and resulting lan...
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...
The Transformational Leader & the Sustainable Development Goals
online courseThis innovative course programme explores leadership and contemporary challenges through the lens of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Participants inve...
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...
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...
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. In 2022,...
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...
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...
Thermal Comfort and Renewable Energy for Low Energy Buildings
The course focuses on thermal comfort and heat production (to supply heating and domestic hot water systems) for low energy buildings. The subject covers solutions based on sustain...
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...
In Transition to a Pure Green Energy Economy
blended courseThe International Summer University is a short term program taught in English dealing with the prospects of an energy system and a whole economy relying solely on renewable energy....
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...
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...
Introduction to Geospatial Technologies for Achieving SDGs
Geospatial technologies and remote sensing offer a crucial location element to the monitoring of SDGs and their corresponding targets and indicators, but the technologies’ uptake i...
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...
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...
Environment and Health
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Generating Impact in Complex Natural Resource Contexts
online courseThis 1.5 week summer school will be all about collaboration and co-designing. A focus will be on tropical coastal settings as examples of urgent sustainability challenges and compl...
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...
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...
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...
Using Citizen Science to Fight Mosquitos
This course will use the problem of disease-vector mosquitoes as a way to introduce students to citizen science, disease ecology, and statistics.
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wastewater and Biosolids Management
online course6th distance education e-learning International Summer School and Workshop on “Wastewater and Biosolids Management” (WWSS21)
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2020
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...
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...
Global Environment, Energy and Risk
UNESCO defines global citizenship as a “sense of belonging to a broader community and common humanity”. Global citizenship education, in this context, concerns learning to recogniz...
Frontiers of Environmental Principles and Research
Subjects covered: • natural hazards and risks, • paleclimatology and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, • erosion and soil protection, • nature conservation and biodiversity...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2019
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2018
Instalaciones Solares Térmicas y Fotovoltaicas: Modelado y Aplicaciones al Diseño
This course belongs to the STUDY ABROAD summer program of the University of Almeria. This Summer Program offers 4-week intensive academic and professional courses taught by Doctors...
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...
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...
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...
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...
White Biotechnology Based on the Use of Environmental Microorganisms
This course belongs to the STUDY ABROAD summer program of the University of Almeria. This Summer Program offers 4-week intensive academic and professional courses taught by Doctors...
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...
Tecnología de Invernaderos: el Modelo Almería, ejemplo de éxito y reparto de riqueza
This course belongs to the STUDY ABROAD summer program of the University of Almeria. This Summer Program offers 4-week intensive academic and professional courses taught by Doctors...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
Horticultura Protegida Sostenible: Sistemas de Cultivo sin Suelo e Hidroponía
This course belongs to the STUDY ABROAD summer program of the University of Almeria. This Summer Program offers 4-week intensive academic and professional courses taught by Doctors...
Space Technology for food security
Space Technology for food security
Blue Economy, Water Research & Climate Change
Blue Economy, Water Research & Climate Change
Integrated Pest Management: Certification of Product Quality
This course belongs to the STUDY ABROAD summer program of the University of Almeria. This Summer Program offers 4-week intensive academic and professional courses taught by Doctors...
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...
Courses 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2016
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Courses 2015
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Courses 2013
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...
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...
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...