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Courses 2021
Sustainable Landscapes
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. How to steer towards sustainability at the landscape level? In the Northern part of the Netherlands an...
International Summer School on Managed Aquifer Recharge
Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we now welcome your registration for the Summer School 2021. The two-week course offers M.Sc./Ph.D./young professionals the opportunity to study b...
Food Processing
Food and drink manufacturing is a fast moving and dynamic industry with excellent opportunities for career development in a range of technical and scientific roles. Here at NTU...
Bioactive Molecules in Agroecology
top courseThousands of molecules influence the biological interactions in ecological systems. The overall objective of the course is that the students achieve understanding of the importance...
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...
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...
Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Social Sustainability
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. This winter school (practical training course) promotes understanding about and develops skills in man...
Urban Geoscience: the London Perspective
online 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...
Mining industry, CSR and Local Development
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Preliminary findings show that the main use of gypsum in Tanzania is for the road construction and cem...
Pathogens, Parasites and their Hosts: Ecology, Molecular Interactions and Evolution
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, the course in 2020 has been postponed to 2021. The summer school will introduce into the ecology, molecular interactions, and evolution of pathogen...
Agrobiodiversity
Are you interested in agrobiodiversity and learning about resilient food systems with an international group of young people? In this International Summer School, you will learn ab...
The Humanities and the Global Environmental Crises
top course online courseThe Anthropocene, the age of humans in the history of the earth system, poses unprecedented challenges that demand radical rethinking of socio-economic models, on the one hand, and...
Advanced Water Cycle Management
top courseThe Advanced Water Cycle Management Course is an international course designed to upgrade your water management skills and provide you with an overview on and substantial knowledge...
Personnel Assessment: Tools and Techniques for Future HR Managers
top courseThe course will focus on the conceptual and operational bases to use the different tools, practices, and approaches related to the management of human resources, with particular re...
Feed Ration Planning in Dairy Cattle Herds
top courseThe course will handle feed supply, including crop rotation, crop production, effects on self-supply, and optimization of feed allocation within and among animal categories/groups,...
Current Issues in Environmental Science
top course“Current Issues in Environmental Science” is a multi-focus, cross-disciplinary course that will explore various issues that are currently relevant to the environment in different r...
Genomic Prediction in Animals and Plants
top course online courseThe course focuses on the quantitative genetics and statistical background of different genomic prediction models, covering also estimation of variance components, theory on genomi...
Mountain Ecosystems and Resource Management
To 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...
Hands-on Advanced Methods and Techniques in Plant Science and Biotechnology
top courseThe Danish and global plant production is facing major challenges. The rapid population growth, the increased consumption of animal products and the use of crops for energy purpose...
Urban Environmental Politics
online 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...
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...
Climate and Energy (Level 2)
online 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...
The Transformational Leader and the Sustainable Development Goals
This course, based in one of the most sustainable universities in the world, explores leadership and contemporary challenges through the lens of the United Nations Global Goals for...
Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Social Sustainability
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. This summer school (practical training course) promotes understanding about and develops skills in man...
Cultures and Geographies of Energy Transitions
This course brings together people with their own local stories of the struggles and success of people and communities transitioning towards a sustainable energy system. Participan...
Foundations of Sustainable Thinking
online courseThis project-based seminar course explores the principles and potentials of sustainable thinking and action. The course offers effective and powerful concepts and exercises in sust...
Past courses
The Anthropocene: Ecology, Crisis, Future
top course online courseThe Anthropocene - or Human Age - is a proposed geological and cultural epoch, marked by wide scale human intervention on our planet. But what are the costs of such 'dominance' for...
Bridging ICTs and the Environment - Monitoring Climate Change Impact Using GEE
online courseEvery hour numerous satellites generate hundreds of images of Earth surface, capturing multiple aspects of anthropogenic activities as well as environmental processes. For many yea...
Bridging ICTs and the Environment - Mapping the World with QGIS
online courseGeographic Information Systems (GIS) became essential tools not only in academic research but also in our daily life. GIS includes (but not limited to) mechanisms of geographic dat...
Green Economy and Sustainable Development
online courseThis quest-like program consists of several modules that combine both practice and theory. Russia has unique ecological situation due to it's vastness and that allows us to offer w...
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...
Feeding The Billions: Challenges and Innovations in Food and Water Security
There are 7 billion people to feed today, and this number is expected to increase to 9 billion by 2050. This implies that more food is needed; more food means that more water is re...
Frontiers of Environmental Principles and Research
Subjects covered: • natural hazards and risks, • paleclimatology and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, • erosion and soil protection, • nature conservation and biodiversity...
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...
Masterclass Artistic Research
online courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, this course will be held online. The Masterclass Artistic Research GLOBE PLAYHOUSE – EXPANDED ANIMATION WORLDS is an invitation to Master and PhD s...
Circular Economy (cancelled)
due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled In the Circular Economy Course, the student will develop skills, which are needed in working life and l...
Anthropogenic and Natural Soil Landscapes in European Russia: From Sea to Sea
online courseThe 3MUGIS summer school is an annual event, which addresses current environmental consequences and opportunities of urbanization with special emphasis on soil functions. The event...
VW Foundation: Social Ecology
This course is sponsored by the VolkswagenStiftung. It is free for participators and travel grants are available for successful applicants. Participation is based on a competitive...
Climate Change: Causes, Health Impacts and Responses
Climate change poses serious challenges for humans around the world. Global warming is perceived as one of the biggest global health risks of the twentieth century which could have...
Contaminants in the Environment
online courseParticipants from around the world have 5 days of training in toxic compounds in the environment. The programme is a balanced mixture of lectures (by 5-10 invited speakers to provi...
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...
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...
Energy & Climate
The oil crises of the 1970s provoked debates about the finite limits of energy resources and triggered an increase in energy efficiency and innovations in the production of alterna...
Governing Climate Change: Theory and Practice
Climate change may well be the most pressing environmental challenge facing humankind. Yet despite scientific consensus on its main cause – us – politicians and governments still l...
Sustainability Transitions: Design, Diplomacy and Data
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...
Regional Environmental Diversity Across the UK
In ancient times our access to food, water and safety influenced where our early ancestors chose to live. More recently the natural environment influences the location of our towns...
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...
Effects of Climate Change on Vegetation in Northern Ecosystems
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The course contains three different themes: (1) Nature of climate change: Climate change prediction...
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...
Biodiversity Research Under Changing Climate (cancelled)
due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled The course introduces students to ecological interdependencies, ecosystem dynamics and trophic levels....
The Global Energy Transition in a Fossil World
online courseThe need for a global transition to a low-carbon energy sector is contested by few, but opinions on what this means in practice and on how to get there vary widely. This course wil...
International Winter Ecological School (IWES)
The IWES includes course of Winter Zoology of Vertebrates, Winter Biology of High Plants, Winter Hydrobiology and Winter Entomology, each of them consisting of field excursions, la...
Food Waste in Italy
online courseIn Italy, food is celebrated, and many Italians cite the pleasure of eating and sharing meals as core cultural values.However, even with its long history of attention to r...
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...
Sustainability Transitions and the Precautionary Principle
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, this course has been postponed to 2021. The school will centrally focus around cross-cutting issues and a subset of case studies from the 'Late Les...
The Future is Sustainable – It's in our Hands!
Scope Worldwide demonstrations against climate change show that the demand for sustainable development is becoming louder and louder. Though some of the sustainable development go...
Courses 2019
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...
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...
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...
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...
International School on Marine, Freshwater and Coastal Ecosystems (ISMFCE)
The training program includes such courses as life cycles and biodiversity: arthropods, freshwater invertebrates, vertebrates, plants; ecology, life cycles and biodiversity: marine...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2018
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...
Animal Breeding and Genetics
“Food security in a changing world – how can animal breeders contribute?” is the key question during the Summer course Animal Breeding and Genetics. The course is meant for student...
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...
Food Hygiene
Program of the summer school is focused on expanding the standard of practical and theoretical knowledge and skills of students of the veterinarian faculties in branch of veterinar...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PhD course Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture: Updates on Modelling and Applications
Participants will learn theories concerning risk analysis and risk coping strategies and will develop proficiency with software to facilitate the initiation of their own research i...
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...
Blue Economy, Water Research & Climate Change
Blue Economy, Water Research & Climate Change
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2017
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...
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...
Greenhouse Horticulture
Wageningen University & Research is the “knowledge heart” of the Dutch Greenhouse Horticulture, which is the most advanced and productive in the world. Scientists of Wageningen Uni...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
The Art of Modelling
Modelling is a crucial part of today's science. Particularly in agronomy, ecology and environmental sciences, where models are used for assessing sensitivity of systems to disturba...
Green genetics
Are you a student? Is the plant breeding world your field of interest? Do terms like green genetics, horticulture & plant breeding sound familiar? Then we invite you to participate...
Dutch dairy chain
The Netherlands are world famous for their high quality and efficient dairy production. What are the key factors of this success? And how can the Dutch best practices be applied in...
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...
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...
Image analysis for plant phenotyping
Are you looking for a complete overview of image analysis techniques for automatic plant phenotyping? The Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (CPIB) at the university of Nottingh...
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...
Courses 2016
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...
Bioinformatics for Microbial Ecologists
Are you drowning in high-throughput amplicon (marker gene) sequence data? How to filter it, cluster it, classify it and extract some ecological information from those hundreds of t...
Fate of Organic Chemicals in the Environment
Why Study Fate of Organics as a Group? Partitioning of Chemicals Fate of Chemicals Transport Bio concentration Degradation
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...