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Geo Sciences summer courses in Europe
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Courses 2022
Global Environmental Issues
Based in the heart of England where the first industrial revolutions took place, this programme will look at current global environmental issues particularly focussing on air, wate...
Food and Innovation in Rural Transition: the Tuscany case
top courseRural transition has recently become a hot issue in both European and non-European countries. Rural areas are involved in dynamics of development whose sustainability cannot be tak...
Sustainable Development Goals Global Challenges, Local Action, Achieved Outcomes
online courseThis module explores ‘grand’ challenges that are impacting the 21st century, such as environmental degradation, economic shocks and community resilience. The current COVID-19 pande...
Faroe Islands field course: a window to the geology of the Northeast Atlantic
top courseThe course uses the Faroe Island as an example to study aspects of: - Volcanism - Sedimentology - Geotechnics - Geohazards - Sedimentary basins - Coal and hydroca...
Energy and Future Cities: Innovating Architecture
top courseDepletion of traditional fuel stores has been accompanied by increasing pollution levels. Consequently, motivations to lower carbon-emissions have elevated and to ensure this chang...
Hands-on GIS for Earth Scientists
top courseThis course is a hands-on course on GIS with 2 weeks of practicals in the GIS Lab of the faculty of Geosciences. The following topics will be covered: Working with ArcGIS Pro and S...
Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes
COURSE DESCRIPTION Following the success of the University of Geneva Terra Submersa expedition in 2014, the summer school offers an intensive course on a new, multidisciplinary...
Sense making of GPS Data in a GIS environment
top courseThis course focuses on the application of GIS Tools to analyze of outdoor movements of people or animals. The objective is to provide students with insight in the principles of sen...
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...
Introduction to GIS for Human and Behavioral Scientists
top courseThe objective of the course is to provide students, that have a background in social, human or behavioral sciences, with an introduction to GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Th...
Machine Learning in Geosciences
top courseA large number of applications that only a few years ago would have been considered impossible to be performed without any sort of human interaction are now autonomously executed b...
Past courses
Mining industry, CSR and Local Development
top coursePreliminary findings show that the main use of gypsum in Tanzania is for the road construction and cement production. The gypsum produced in Makanya Ward has been transported to ce...
Courses 2021
Geographic Information Systems
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the functions, structure and basic principles of geographic information systems (GIS) including terrain mapping. Emphasis will...
DEPThS: Field-based Summer School on Subduction Forearc Dynamics
Subduction zones are of primary importance for understanding the interactions between the Earth’s surface and the deep levels of the planet and assessing the potential implications...
Geography of Global Change
online courseDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course will be taught virtually in 2021, with the resources and experience gained from the previous year. The course considers the Earth as a...
True Climate Change
online courseWorldwide, climate has become an everyday news item. From wildfires in Australia, heatwaves in Europe, flooding in Dubai to famine in Southern Africa. Learn more about climate chan...
Introduction to GIS with Practical Applications
online courseIntroduction to GIS course provides a start-up for the practical use of GIS software and geospatial datasets. The motivation for conducting this course arises from a fact that know...
Courses 2020
Marine Geoscience
Marine Geoscience is the integration of the disciplines of physical geography, geomorphology, geology, geophysics and geobiochemistry. By applying a theoretical and practical appro...
Winter School on Sustainable Mineral Exploration
Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Grenoble and the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, INFACT and PACIFIC are developing mine...
WRB Summer 2020
Globalization and global environmental issues, as well as unification of scientific research and teaching on the global level require harmonization of technical languages, such as...
Modelling Surface and Subsurface Flow on High-performance Computers
ParFlow is a numerical model that simulates the hydrologic cycle from the bedrock to the top of the plant canopy. It integrates three-dimensional groundwater flow with overland flo...
Courses 2019
Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain
The main goal of the Joint Summer School 2019 is to provide participants with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterize complex terrain and object features usi...
Fossil Hunting: Geology and Paleontology
Educational program is an integrated course of classes and field training supported by a diverse culture and entertaining program, introducing the history and culture of the Volga...
Courses 2018
Academic Courses in Geography
Geography epitomises multi-disciplinary thinking. It brings together the arts with social and natural sciences, providing a grounding in these diverse disciplines which equips stud...
Energies renouvelables, energies rentables ? L'entreprenariat au service des énergies renouvelables
The aim of the International Summer School on Renewable energies is to provide a good overview of the technical, societal and economic issues involved in the development of renewab...
ASC Winter School: Imaging and spectroscopy of materials
Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, together with the consortium of Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry, have the honor of inviting master students to the 2018...
UAV summerschool Tartu 2018
We are organizing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) summer school this summer in Tartu, Estonia. This event is primarily meant as introductory course that will help graduate students (...
Geoscience Communication School
The Geoscience Communication School is the result of the collaboration between some researchers willing to fill the gaps they have found during they careers. Over the past decad...
Courses 2017
Wine, Terroir, Tourism
The summer school “Wine, Terroir, Tourism” introduces participants to the culture of wine and winemaking and explores the different synergies that exist with the field of tourism....
Close Range Sensing in Alpine Terrain
The main goal of the Joint Summer School 2017 is to provide participants with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterise complex terrain and objects using close...
Terrestrial Modelling and High-Performance Scientific Computing
The objectives of this applied course is to provide the theoretical and technical context of terrestrial modeling in high-performance scientific computing (HPSC) environments utili...
Impacts and their Role in the Evolution of Life
Apart from lectures, poster presentations, student-led discussions and excursions to geologically interesting sites several practical exercises including • Search for meteorit...
Convective and volcanic clouds detection, monitoring and modeling
Attending the school you will get an overview of the state of the art techniques and methods for detecting and monitoring the volcanic and convective clouds, you will know the diff...
Courses 2016
Terrestrial Modelling and High-Performance Scientific Computing
The objectives of this applied course is to provide the theoretical and technical context of terrestrial modeling in high-performance scientific computing (HPSC) environments utili...
Geology, Petroleum Engineering and the History of Russian Oil Producing Industry
Nizhnevartovsk Affiliate of Tyumen Industrial University is glad to present its "Samotlor Summer School 2016" within the DAAD "Go-East Summer Schools 2016” program at Foreign Unive...
Geological Raw Materials
Raw materials (rocks, minerals, metals) are essential for modern life, from civil engineering to new technologies. Increasing demand from emerging countries and environmental conce...
Inverse Modelling in Earth and Environmental Sciences
The course objectives are to familiarize the participants with new algorithms that have been developed to estimate model parameters from experimental data using inverse modelling....
The Geography Summer School
Lessons include 2 modules: Problems of physical geography; Economic and social module. During the training course students are going to listen to lectures of leading...
Exobiology and Space Geology
*Ages 13-17* Is life unique to Earth? Our solar system has other rocky planets, many moons, and plenty of asteroids and comets – could alien life ever have existed – could it poss...
Courses 2015
Concepts, frameworks and methods for the comparative analysis of water governance
The IUSF-TIAS Autumn School “Concepts, frameworks and methods for the comparative analysis of water governance” is intended for PhD or postdoctoral researchers focusing on comparat...
Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research on Surface-Atmosphere Exchange over Mountainous Terrain
Surface-Atmosphere exchange processes play an essential role in a wide range of fields such as numerical weather prediction, climate modeling, glaciology, air pollution assessment...
Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain
The main goal of the Joint Summer School 2015 is to provide students with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterize complex terrain and object features using c...
Courses 2014
Gamifying Spatial Collaboration
The summer school will take a close look at the opportunities and challenges that arise through combining geoinformatic technology with gamification for spatial collaboration. Two...