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Courses 2021
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Research Design and Application
This workshop gives a thorough introduction to the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), with an emphasis on research design and practical application. Since its incept...
Contemporary Economic Sociology
online courseThe aim of the course is to demonstrate what kind of theoretical and empirical phenomena economic sociologists are dealing with. The contemporary themes include sustainable consump...
Responsible Research
Summer School on Responsible Research (RR) is designed to provide you with knowledge and skills needed for responsible conduct of research, regardless of your research background....
Behavioral Data Analysis in R
Behavioral Data Analysis in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place...
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
online courseThe objective of this course is to show how structural equation modeling can be used to develop and/or test both measurement models (scales) and causal theories between latent vari...
Introduction to Machine Learning
online courseMachine learning methods involve methods that deal with multivariate data, learning hidden structures and prediction. In particular within prediction methods, classification is a s...
Racialized Othering
Within the past year, protest movements like BlackLivesMatter have made racial injustice and institutional racism focal points for broad societal discussions. But racialized otheri...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
Understanding patterns in data is crucial for understanding human societies and making sound decisions. Learn R and Rstudio to become a modern data scientist in the social sciences...
Talk at Work
online courseThis course in applied conversation analysis introduces students to the rules of talk-in-interaction and explores how these rules are used in professional settings. In the first pa...
Applied Regression
online courseThe purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with basic regression methods, including linear regression, logistic regression, and Poisson regression. The course assumes kn...
Elementary Forms of Social Life
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The elementary forms of social life refers to an analyt...
Argumenting Science
This workshop aims to provide PhD student and young researchers with a deeper understanding of how novel ideas in science are communicated to peers in order to convince them of the...
Power starts with bioeconomy: from principles to practice
online courseBioeconomy has a great potential to reduce the impact of climate change and contribute to sustainable development goals. Bioeconomy sector focuses on the sustainable use of biologi...
Qualitative Epistemologies: Understanding the Threads in your Tapestry of Methods
online courseThis is an introductory course that covers fundamental questions about qualitative approaches and competing ontologies and epistemologies. The course begins with an examination of...
Crash Course in R
Crash Course in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place on 6 and 7 A...
Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Data
online courseThis course provides an introduction to the theory and application of Multiple Imputation (MI) (Rubin 1987) which has become a very popular way for handling missing data, because i...
(Non-)Probability Samples in the Social Sciences
online courseThe main objective of the course is to provide students with a full overview of the history, theoretical foundations, critical arguments, and accumulated empirical evidence surroun...
A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
top course online courseThis course describes the stages involved in Bayesian analysis: specifying the prior and data models, deriving inference, model checking and refinement. We discuss prior and poster...
Acquisition of Intercultural Skills in and through Dance/Movement
In the course of increasing migration movements, the importance of intercultural competence acquisition is increasingly coming to the fore. It is therefore all the more important t...
Pretesting Survey Questions
online courseThe course covers the basic elements of evaluating questionnaires and highlights the general importance of carrying out (cognitive) pretests before fielding a questionnaire. This i...
Multilevel Modelling
online courseWorkshop contents and objectives Populations commonly exhibit complex structure with many levels, so that patients (level 1) are assigned to clinics (level 2); while individuals...
Transsectoral DigitalLab: (Dis-)Assembling the (Post-)Digital Social
online courseViadrinicum is an annual summer school devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership, and the larger context of Central and Eastern Europe. This year‘s edition is designed as...
Mixed Methods Research and Design
This introductory course will teach participants when, how, and why to integrate a qualitative and a quantitative research component within one research design. The first part will...
Developmental Psychopathology and Psychological Assessment in Childhood and Adolescence
top courseThis course provides students with theoretical knowledge on developmental psychopathology. Students acquire knowledge on most common problems in youth, age specific characteristics...
Introduction to Stata for Data Analysis
online courseThis course will give a thorough introduction to the Software Stata. It is tailored to the needs of academics and other research practitioners who are new to Stata or who wish to r...
Mixed-Methods and Multimethod Research
online courseThis course deals with mixed-methods and multimethod research (MMR) in the social sciences. We will discuss the broader understanding of combining qualitative and quantitative meth...
On Caring Coexistences
As members of the feminist art collective Maternal Fantasies the lecturers propose the ‘aesthetics of care’ as the basis for inter-species coexistence. The workshop explores aut...
Advanced Survey Design
top course online courseThis course in ‘advanced survey design’ takes students beyond the introductory courses and will discuss the state of the art in both the design and the analysis of survey data. We...
Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences
online courseThis course introduces students to experiments as a tool for social science research and provides the tools needed to integrate them into their research agendas. Contemporary socia...
Existential Questions Regarding Life Issues. An Intercultural and Integrated Approach
online courseOn many moments in life people are confronted with questions about their existence. Unique questions about what they will do or not do, about their relationships with others, the e...
Cultural Trauma and National Identity in Greece and Israel
online courseThe summer school explores the ways cultural trauma(s) have shaped, and continue to effect national identity in Greece and Israel. It explores the ways such cultural traumas have s...
Text mining and qualitative data visualisation using R
online courseThis 1/2-day course will explore basic test visualisation using tidytext package to: - Learn how to clean qualitative data, calculate and visualise word frequencies - Create a...
Perfecting your Academic Writing Skills
Although writing is one of the most essential skills for a PhD student, many are not the productive super writers they would like to be. During this one week course, experienced wr...
Social Science Switch
online courseThis online course enables students trained in the natural or medical sciences to switch to a social science mode of thinking, theorizing, reading and writing. Due to a number of i...
Global Citizenship Education
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...
Crash Course in R
online courseCrash Course in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place on 6 and 7 A...
Multilevel Analysis
In case that due to the Covid-19 pandemic an on-campus summerschool is not possible, this module will take place online. Sociological research often deals with the question of h...
Behavioral Data Analysis in R
online courseBehavioral Data Analysis in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place...
Between Cradles and Barricades: Feminist Methodology and Artistic Research Methods
blended courseWhether one agrees that feminist art is a stage in art history, a movement, a discourse or a complete shift in ways of doing things it is clear that it embraces a different way of...
Migrants, Human Rights, Democracy
The Summer School, organized by the Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement - University of Palermo, continues the conversation on “displaced lives and vul...
Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference
online courseThis courses uses causal graphs (or “directed acyclic graphs”) as a remarkably simple, yet general and powerful framework to describe & discuss a large set of problems that empiric...
Bayesian Statistics
online courseBayesian data analysis is a rapidly developing field of statistics, which has many useful applications in various areas of political science, sociology, and international relations...
Introduction to Survey Design
online courseThis course gives an overview of the design and implementation of surveys from the initial planning phase to the data preparation as a final step. Topics include survey mode assess...
Ethnographic Methods
Ethnographic methods are increasingly being used in diverse and creative ways in both long-term and short-term studies across the social sciences. This course provides a comprehens...
Competencies in industry 4.0
blended courseCompetencies can be described as skills, abilities and knowledge that are needed for successful work. Workplaces are changing rapidly in last decades. With development of new techn...
Social Network Analysis
online courseThis workshop examines the theoretical and statistical analysis of social networks from an interdisciplinary perspective. Participants learn about the nature, structures, and dynam...
Applied Multivariate Analysis
top course online courseThe summer school course 'Applied Multivariate Analysis' offers hands-on experience using SPSS for the most frequently encountered multivariate statistical techniques in the social...
Pre-university Honours Programme: Sustainable Cities
online courseThis programme introduces high-school students to sustainability within urban studies, and more specifically, within the context of the cities in which we live. We live in a crucia...
Modeling the Dynamics of Intensive Longitudinal Data
top course blended courseThis is a four-day course on how to study dynamics in intensive longitudinal data, such as ambulatory assessments (AA), experience sampling method (ESM) data, ecological momentary...
Analyzing the Unobservable: Structural Equation Modeling in Comparative Social Research
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. Sociological research is often interested in phenomena...
Understanding and Preventing Crime
top course online courseThis module introduces students to the study of crime and its prevention. It begins by considering the challenges with how we define and measure crime, and the implications thes...
SPSS and Statistics Refresher
online courseYou should attend this workshop if you have no or not much skills with basic statistics and statistical packages, especially if you attend another workshop during the Summer School...
Minorities and the New Digital Paradigm
The notion of a ‘new digital paradigm’ (NDP) has been with us for more than two decades. Digital spaces and online identities have become a pervasive part of our social reality. In...
Feminist Movements, Practices and Experiences of Decolonisation
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The political debate about the restitution of objects r...
Content Analysis and Natural Language Processing
online courseWorkshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a practical hands-on and theoretical understanding of new methods in content analysis m...
Questionnaire Design
online courseBriefly speaking, a respondent's answer can only be as good as the question being asked. Thus, an effective questionnaire is a key component of a survey contributing to overall dat...
Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
online courseChatbots, robots, smart agents in virtual reality – social computers are popping up everywhere. With the commercialization of chatbots and virtual reality, our society is becoming...
The Anthropocene in the Humanities
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The notion that the current geological epoch should be...
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
The primary objective of this course is to provide participants with a proper understanding and the practical skills necessary for applying advanced techniques in structural equati...
Survey Sampling and Weighting
online courseThis practical course will cover the process of probability sampling, weighting and estimation. This includes a) methods of sample selection, b) methods of weighting including desi...
Data Science: Applied Text Mining
top course online courseThis course introduces the basic and advanced concepts and ideas in text mining and natural language processing. In this course, students will learn how to apply text mining method...
Ethics of Safety and Well-Being in Nordic Society
The course provides students with focused expert presentations on some ethical issues in Nordic society. The topics covered in the course include military ethics, ethics of educati...
Social Media Theory and Research
Understanding social media in everyday life in political communication on social media, the news on social media to entertainment of social media. Social media (such as Twitter...
Migration Summer School
online courseMigration Summer School (MIGSS) on "Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic" has been carefully designed and developed to provide participants w...
Social Enterprises: Using Your Creativity and Sensitivity
online courseThe course is intended to contribute to the students’ systematic understanding of social enterprises in order to promote social inclusion of vulnerable people in the community in a...
The Sustainable City: An Integrated Perspective
online courseThis summer school aims to address the sustainable city from an interdisciplinary perspective. We assess how the introduction of technology can transform contemporary cities toward...
Panel Data and Non-linear Models
The workshop is in jointly held with the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Summer School. Workshop contents and objectives This course introduces participants to methodolog...
Collecting and Analyzing Longitudinal Social Network Data
online courseSocial scientists often are interested in understanding how social networks emerge and/or how they shape individual behavior. These questions of network formation (“selection”) and...
Introduction to R for Data Analysis
online courseThe open source software package R is free of charge and offers standard data analysis procedures as well as a comprehensive repertoire of highly specialized processes and procedur...
Survey Research: Design, Implementation and Data Processing
top course blended courseChanges in technology and society strongly influence modern survey research. This course covers the essentials of modern survey methodology, organised by the Department of Methodol...
(Short) Scale Development
online courseAdequate measurement of its key concepts is a prerequisite for any successful science. Survey-based research in the social and behavioural sciences is no exception. Especially when...
Sea, Nature and Finnish Culture
The student will get the basic knowledge of the long-term relationship between human and non-human nature in Finnish society and culture. Thus, the course will grant knowledge o...
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
online courseThis course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing w...
Latent Class & Factor Analysis
This course contains an introduction to factor analysis and latent class analysis. Both analytical techniques allow detecting concepts or groups in your data that are not directly...
Global and Multicultural Society
online courseThis course will present the basic framework of the multicultural society and the global phenomena around it. It also describes the methods how to understand global and multicultur...
Introduction to R/RStudio for Social Scientist
online courseAs quantitative data becomes more accessible, researchers are turning to software that can do more and is free to access. The first part of the course will walk you through the...
Survey Analysis and Missing data in R
online courseRepresentative sample surveys are key to social science whether for employment numbers or studying attitudes towards the environment. To achieve representativeness we need to con...
De/Postcolonial Feminist Theory and Activism
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The political debate about the restitution of objects r...
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys
online courseThe course will provide an overview of those aspects of survey design, implementation, and analysis that are unique to longitudinal surveys or that have distinct features in the lo...
Global Trends in Demographics and Migration
top course online courseGlobal trends in Demographics and Migration is a two-week summer course that examines developments in global and regional changes in the population composition (declining birth rat...
Data Management for Sensitive Data in the Era of Open Science
In the era of Open Science, researchers are increasingly required to share their research data. Not only do funders require data management plans (DMPs) to be submitted along with...
Courses 2022
Creative Psychotherapy
The course introduces Creative Psychotherapy to those seeking a deeper understanding of the dynamics of creativity, psyche and human behaviour. During this course students will lea...
Rare Diseases
The 8th Rare Diseases Summer School will focus on a wide variety of subjects in the arena of rare diseases, from disease mechanisms and animal models, to improving diagnoses, to no...
Gamification Workshop
online courseGamification is a process that helps you create interesting, interactive and fun content from the mundane by adding game-inspired elements. The best part about gamification is that...
Intercultural Competence
top courseDo you want to help others develop their intercultural competence? “How can we develop in ourselves and others the necessary mastery and concomitant humility required to be effe...
Past courses
Courses 2021
Feminist Peace and Security Studies: The Gendered Continuum of Peace-War
online courseThis course focuses on the adjacent fields of Feminist Peace Studies and Feminist Security Studies, which explore issues of peace/ war/ conflict/ security from a variety of feminis...
The Norwegian Welfare State
online courseThis course presents the historical background, development and present-day challenges of the Norwegian welfare state. It examines the role of values and norms in shaping the servi...
Futuring for Sustainability
top courseWhat we do in the present is profoundly influenced by our expectations of our futures. The annual 'Futuring for Sustainability Summer School' is an interactive course, held from 13...
Bootcamp: Ethnography and Design
online courseAre you familiar with ethnographic research and curious about how you can turn your insights into action and pitch your research to an interested organisation? Are you interested i...
Ethics and Politics of Care
online courseThis course will examine the ethics and politics of care. We will not begin with the presumption that care is a self-evident good. Nor is our goal to posit a definitive theory of c...
National and European Surveys on Working Conditions: Explore the potential of data harmonisation and integration
online courseThe data forum on National and European surveys on working conditions aims to bring together experts either of data production or data use in the field of working conditions. The o...
Introduction to Mindfulness and Compassion
online courseThis two-week online winter course will introduce participants to the science of contemplative practices including mindfulness and compassion within emotion regulation framework. I...
Social Science Education in Globalization
online courseThis unique summer school in France and the French-speaking world explores epistemological, historical and educational reflections that integrate the consequences of postcolonial a...
Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective
Postponed until 2022 The summer school course on Migration and Gender offers a legal-literary approach to the ways in which migration influences gender. Gender is a constitutive...
Gender in Academia and the Professions
online courseThis is a theoretically and empirically based lecture course on the social construction of gender within the labor markets of academia and other professions. We start out study wit...
Difficult Settings, Preparing for Fieldwork
online courseIn this winter course, the lecturers speak about the difficulties and concerns that they have encountered in their various fields of research. By openly discussing specific issues,...
First steps in the elaboration of a dynamic microsimulation model
online courseThe ONLINE Summer School on the 'Elaboration of a dynamic microsimulation model' aims at offering young researchers (MSc, PhD) or more advanced scientists yet beginners in dynamic...
The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem
online courseDue to their environmental impact, cities play a crucial role in the transition towards sustainable societies. Despite the fact that they occupy only 3% of the global terrestrial s...
EUtopia 2021-27? Visions and Missions of Europe
online courseThis intensive but enjoyable online summer program will focus on the forthcoming 2021-27 period of the European Union and will discuss hot topics such as the global pandemic and th...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
online courseThis two-week online course will introduce participants to the field of Urban Studies through a series of lectures from a team of experts on key topics in the multidisciplinary stu...
The Fundamentals of Human Rights
online courseThis digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first three weeks of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week.The course offers an introduction...
Data Science: Introduction to Text Mining with R
top course online courseApplications of text mining are everywhere: social media, web search, advertising, emails, customer service, healthcare, marketing, etc. In this course, students will learn how to...
Global Transformations
top course online courseHow can systemic drivers of global challenges be identified? What are transformations and how do they come about? How can different forms of experimentation and adaptive learning b...
Social Sciences
online courseJoin a global learning community of like-minded people on the Virtual Winter Festival of Learning, from 18-29 January 2021. Discover a wide range of over 50 week-long courses....
Developing Research Skills Workshop
online courseThe workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers who would like to improve their academic research skills in order to succeed in studies and in car...
Comprehensive Introduction to Research Methodology and Design
This course aims to lay a solid, diverse and integrated foundation for conducting first-rate qualitative and quantitative research, and for embedding it in effective and feasible m...
How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis Using Open-Science Software
online courseWith the increasing use of alternative software packages like R in data analysis, now is the time to learn their ins and outs. The large number of active programmers creating R pac...
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using Mplus
top courseWe offer a 5-day course on how to perform basic SEM analyses using Mplus. The main objective of this course is to learn how to analyse several models with Mplus (e.g. path models,...
The Science of Sexology
If something has changed in the digital and pandemic era, it is undoubtedly the way we experience sex. Our summer course given by the Unidad de Estudios Sexológicos of the Universi...
Arts, Activism and Social Justice
Are you a future community leader with a passion for social justice and activism? Do you want to learn from activists and change-makers working in the UK’s thriving arts and volunt...
Multimodal Interaction in Professional Contexts
online courseThe course is directed towards people whose profession entails encountering people from varied backgrounds, and who, therefore, need wide-ranging interaction skills. During the...
Innovative strategies to study education and care in a European perspective
online coursePublic services, including education and care, account for a very large share of social expenditure throughout Europe, and have an important impact on inequality, poverty and the q...
Service Design for Innovation - IED Barcelona
Everyday we are active users of different kinds of services from the very second we wake up to the second we fall asleep: when we go to the office, to school, to the supermarket or...
Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries
online courseThe course gives an introduction to the Nordic context and an overview of how the concept and implementation of gender equality has developed and is currently practiced in the Nord...
Expert meeting on nowcasting and mid-term projections through microsimulation models
online courseThe Expert meeting on nowcasting and mid-term projections through microsimulation models will explore best practices to update the input data of microsimulation models, with the ai...
Advanced Course on Using Mplus
top course online courseThis is a five-day course on structural equation modeling (SEM) using Mplus. If you already know how to analyse your data in Mplus but want to learn more about what you are actuall...
Birth and Death of Democracy?
online courseHistory has taught us that governments are fluid, able to move between dictatorships, autocracies, democracies and monarchies. This course uses the Central-European path to democra...
Children at the Heart of Human Rights
online courseGeneva has long been one of the world’s capitals of international law and the headquarters of international institutions dedicated to human rights. This inspiring context naturally...
Population Health and Well-Being Consequences of Demographic Changes
online courseHealth and well-being consequences of demographic change are key challenges for research and innovation as they concern citizens’ health and have enormous economic implications and...
The Cultural Heritage of Hungary
online courseThe objective of the online summer program is to introduce the Hungarian cultural heritage from many different perspectives. Students learn about the history of Hungary, as well as...
Birth and Death of Democracy?
The program provides a broad understanding of state transformation issues in general and from the practical experience of the Czech Republic and its Central European neighbours dra...
Urbanism on Screen Workshop
online courseCinema has had its focus set on the city ever since the former's inception. Twentieth century witnessed probably the most radical transformation of urban form, and it was film that...
Advanced uses
online courseThe course will cover recent extensions of the EUROMOD model to include wealth-related policies and indirect taxes, different options for nowcasting the effects of the COVID-19 pan...
Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
online courseThe study of human sexuality involves understanding its complexity and how it represents changing interactions over time involving the self, the body, culture, and power -- and as...
Peace Research
online courseThe course provides a general introduction to this interdisciplinary field with an empirical focus. This is combined with more detailed study of selected areas and themes. Major to...
Understanding and Countering Radicalisation and Terrorism
top courseThis module will provide an introduction to the phenomena of radicalisation and terrorism; including key definitions, causal accounts, empirical trends, past and present manifestat...
Climate Change and Sustainability in Practice
top course online courseThere are more than 750 million people living on islands, from the densely populated urban centres of the Philippines and Hawaii’s to the atolls and archipelagos of the Caribbean,...
Managing Language in International Organizations
online courseThe specific aim of this course is to enable students acquire knowledge of the role of language in various management activities in international organizations. This is achieved in...
Mindfulness and Compassion-based Interventions
online courseAs our world becomes busier and more interconnected, people's lives take different trajectories towards new futures. This socio-cultural shift also affects our well being. But has...
Youth, Drugs and Alcohol - Social Science Approaches
online courseIn many countries, alcohol and other drug use is widespread, particularly among young people. These substances are used as part of various social activities, on weekends in bars, n...
Digital Innovation for Civic Engagement Projects
online courseDigital Innovation for Civic Engagement Projects is a programme for digital transformation in communities and civic initiatives in order to involve more people into the discussion...
How to Evaluate Psychological Interventions Through Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
online courseThe number of studies examining relevant research questions is staggering. Each year thousands of new randomized controlled trials are conducted, and endless numbers of epidemiolog...
Global Health, Drugs, Policy and Power
The Summer School “Drugs, Drug Use, Drug Policy and Health” will be organised by the Institute of Global Health and partners (Graduate Institute of International and Development St...
The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics
online courseSport has acquired an extraordinary importance in the last decades of the last century and the early years of XXI. It can be said that sport has suffered a deep transformation, fro...
Life course analysis: data and methodological challenges
online courseThe data forum on Life course analysis: data and methodological challenges aims to bring together experts in life course analysis to discuss data and methodological issues. The dat...
Ethics in a Global Context
The Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE under the patronage of UNESCO, 10 - 15 June 2021 The application periode is between 21.09.2020-30.11.2020. Topi...
Advanced Multilevel Analysis
top course online courseThis three day course will teach you advanced topics in multilevel modelling. The three-day course builds upon the contents of the other summer school course “Introduction to multi...
Epidemics and Social Science: a Holistic Approach
online courseThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014-2016) was a turning point for the role of the social sciences in disease outbreak control. The emergency response was led by a biomedical ap...
LANDac Annual Summer School "Land Governance for Development"
top course online courseWelcome to the LANDac (the Netherlands Land Academy) Annual Summer School “Land Governance for Development”. Large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South has received a grea...
Data Science: Data Analysis
top course online courseThe course Data science: Data Analysis offers a range of techniques and algorithms from statistics, machine learning and data mining to make predictions about future events and to...
Mplus: How to get started?
top course online courseIf you expect to work with the software Mplus, this course can help you to get started! This course is a compact 1-day workshop on using Mplus to get you started. We will focus on...
Psychodiagnostics: Theory and Skills Training
top course online courseThis summer, Utrecht University offers you an online 'bridging' course in psychodiagnostics, in order to overcome deficiencies in psychodiagnostics and assessment for entering the...
Gender & Diversity Studies: Core Concepts
The interdisciplinary Summer School course Gender & Diversity Studies: Core concepts is based in the academic work that is being done at Radboud University Nijmegen and will be tau...
Reducing risk of poverty in the EU: Data and policies
online courseThis online summer school, organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), will give the opportunity to the participants to delve on data availability to study social p...
How Democracies Emerge and Survive
online courseThis course introduces the academic study of how democracies emerge, sustain, and break down. Following the optimism of the so-called third wave in the 1980s and 1990s, democracy i...
Politics, Identities, and Inequalities
online courseRecently, matters of identity and politics have become more and more entangled: when the personal and the political intertwine, inequalities emerge that point precisely to the ways...
Cybersecurity Risk Management
top course online courseThis module introduces the students to the aspects of how risk management methods are applied to improve cyber security. Firstly, it provides an overview of threats from cybercrime...
Gamification Workshop
online courseGamification is a process that helps you create interesting, interactive and fun content from the mundane by adding game-inspired elements. The best part about gamification is that...
Modern Statistical Computing in R
online courseOver the recent years, R has become the leading software tool for statistical computing and graphics. The software is greatly enhanced by numerous contributed packages submitted by...
Global London: Contemporary Urbanism, Culture and Space
top course online courseLondon is truly a global city. An international centre of culture and art, business and finance, education and research and tourism: the city is also home to people from all over t...
Causal Inference and Experiments
online courseThis course examines lab, survey, and field experimental methods for causal inference. After providing an overview of the essential aspects of experiments, the course focuses prima...
Cultures of Dissent in Eastern Europe (1945-1989): Research Approaches in the Digital Humanities
online courseThis 6-week online course in digital humanities research methods from early January through mid-February 2021 aims to develop a strong cohort of scholars of East European cultures...
Time: Human Views on the Progress of Existence
online courseThe goal of this course is to introduce biology students to the mathematical modeling of living processes from a systems perspective. According to this perspective, biological proc...
Oral History Workshop
online courseThe workshop is designed for students, young scholars independent researchers and history, culture and tradition enthusiasts who would like to improve their academic skills, introd...
Experimental Methods & Simulations in Social and Cognitive Sciences
blended courseThe Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics housed at the St. Petersburg campus of the Higher School of Economics will host an international summer school in experimental m...
An Introduction to Environmental and Wildlife Crime
online courseThis course provides an introduction to environmental crime and wildlife crime and how justice systems deal with, and respond to, current threats to the environment and non-human n...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
online courseThis two-week online course will introduce participants to the field of Urban Studies through a series of 6 lectures on key topics in the multidisciplinary study of cities, combine...
Everyday Life and Criminal Justice in the UK
How does society shape our lives and how do we shape society? Explore the routines and practices in UK society and how the state punishes certain deviations from these routines...
International Development Studies
online courseThe course provides a multidisciplinary analysis of global poverty and of development on global, national and local levels. A thematic approach is applied. Country comparisons are...
Introduction to Multilevel Analysis
top courseThis course will teach you the theoretical basics of multilevel modelling and some important methodological and statistical issues. You will also learn how to analyse multilevel da...
Latin America in the New Global Resource Politics
online courseThis digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first week of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week. In this course you will learn about Lat...
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Summer School of Sport and Exercise Sciences provides a cross-cultural learning experience in the area...
Ecofeminist Readings of Life on Earth: Lecture and Workshop
online courseWhat is ecological discourse? How do feminist principles inform one’s environmental awareness? The session commences with a lecture that revolves around some of the tenets of ecoc...
Data Science: Multiple Imputation in Practice
top course online courseThis 4-day course teaches you the basics in solving your own missing data problems appropriately. Participants will learn how to form imputation models, how to combine data sets, h...
Gender Studies Winter School
blended courseStudy in London this winter! Spend an amazing week learning about gender across different disciplines – literature and culture, philosophy and sociology, media and communication...
Data Driven Decision Making and Change Management in Organisations
online courseThis course is designed to introduce knowledge management and strategic planning concepts into an organizational change context and to provide an in-depth focus on data-driven deci...
The Identification and Monitoring of Vulnerable Groups in the Labour Market
online courseThe European Union describes vulnerable groups as those that experience a higher risk of poverty and social exclusion than the general population. These groups include, for instanc...
Contemporary Conflict Analysis: Actors, Issues & Technologies of 21st Century Warfare
top course blended courseOwing to the ever-changing nature of warfare, the field of conflict studies requires an informed approach towards answering the question of why various actors resort to violent con...
Causal Inference in Observational Studies
online courseThere is a growing expectation from governmental, and non-governmental organisations for social scientists to produce research which are capable of assessing the impact of certain...
Data Science: Statistical Programming with R
top course online courseR is rapidly becoming the standard platform for data analysis. This course offers an elaborate introduction into statistical programming in R. Students learn to operate R, form pip...
Causal Machine Learning
online courseParticipants of this course will learn and apply recent Causal Machine Learning methods to analyse effects of either experimental or observational interventions. Causal Machine Lea...
How the Brain Works and What Can Go Wrong
top course online courseThe brain is an amazing object which controls human lives – it is a complex inter- connection of neurons which store our memories and knowledge and has a complex brain chemistry....
Courses 2020
University of Liverpool International Summer School Week 1-6
The University of Liverpool International Summer School webpages will tell you more about how you can enhance your CV by studying for internationally recognised credits at a top, g...
Expert workshop ‘Non-take-up and coverage’ of social benefits
The non-take-up of social benefits has an important impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of social benefits in general and social assistance benefits in particular. In spite...
Big Data in Society
More and more data is being collected about us and our activities. Our social media interactions, online search and shopping behaviour, but also offline location tracking and senso...
Advanced Communication Skills: Between Persuasion and Empathy
top courseEffective communication is key for high performing professionals. If you want to bring your communication skills to the next level and work on your personal development, then this...
Environmental Justice
Across the Globe, people rise up and protest against social inequities and environmental threats. They protest when confronted with environmental ‘bads’ such as polluted or degrade...
Project, Programme and Policy Evaluation
online courseEvaluations play an increasingly important role in the policy process. Stakeholders, including the public in general, hold expectations that governments demonstrate the results and...
Brain Stimulation
This summer school is an intensive four-day course on non-invasive brain stimulation. Mornings are filled with lectures by international experts, starting from the basics of brain...
Theory and Practice of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing: A JASP Workshop
The main purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with key Bayesian concepts in hypothesis testing. Concrete examples illustrate how to compute, report, and interpre...
Italian Cooking and Winery Summer Course
The course fee includes: lessons, didactic materials, accommodation, guided tours Italian cooking and winery summer course addressed to students and amateurs wishing to further the...
Human and Animal Relationships and Interactions (HARI)
Though we live with them, eat them, love them, and wear them, we give very little academic attention to the roles of animals in society. In this course, we will examine the most in...
Humanitarian Action
online courseThis course seeks to provide its participants with general knowledge about action in situations of humanitarian support, with special focus on the capacity for reflection and ident...
Research Designs and Causal Inference
online courseSocial scientists are frequently interested in drawing causal inferences. Typical research interests refer to the analysis of the causes of social phenomena and the mechanisms cons...
Experimental Designs in Social Policy Research: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Experimental and quasi-experimental research designs have become more popular in social policy research, following the general trend in micro-economics and sociology of advocating...
Amsterdam in Global Capitalism: 1500-Present
online courseCapitalism from its origins operated on a global scale, but it has also always produced dynamic centres of wealth and power. From 1600 onwards, for a long time Amsterdam was at the...
Smart Cities and Beyond
THE ISSUE In recent years, “smart cities” has become a hegemonic concept in urban discourses, referring either to the broad set of technologies introduced towards steering infrast...
Gender Studies
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The school will be rescheduled in 2021. Organized jointly by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)...
Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists: A Refresher Course with R
online courseThis course aims to refresh mathematical concepts which are required for the understanding and the application of recent developments in empirical research methodology. The course...
Applied Multiple Imputation
online courseMissing data are a pervasive problem in the social sciences. Data for a given unit may be missing entirely, for example, because a sampled respondent refused to participate in a su...
Migration Studies
online courseNowadays we live in a society which is completely different from that of the past decades. In fact, multiculturalism has become one of the most characteristic aspects of the curren...
Psychedelic Medicine 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of Mind-altering Substances in Therapy
Long before Western people in the sixties and seventies tried out psychedelics for recreational and therapeutic purposes, other cultures had already been using them for ages becaus...
University of Liverpool International Summer School Week 1-3
The University of Liverpool International Summer School webpages will tell you more about how you can enhance your CV by studying for internationally recognised credits at a top, g...
Global and Multicultural Society
online courseThis course will present the basic framework of the multicultural society and the global phenomenons around it. It also describes the methods how to understand global and multicult...
Intercultural Management: A Scandinavian Perspective
The course focuses on comparing Scandinavian and Norwegian cultures with other cultures in the international business arena. This context will provide the backdrop for understandin...
Occupational Safety and Health Policy Indicators
In a changing world of work, questions about the scope of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) monitoring and the most reliable OSH policy indicators are becoming increasingly impo...
Ethics in Dementia Care
The number of persons with dementia will rise considerably in the years to come. The increasing prevalence of dementia and the treatment and care for people with dementia present a...
Specialized Course on Food Security at the time of COVID-19
online course“It is highly likely that the COVID-19 pandemic will result in increased hunger and poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.” (Food security under the COVID-19 pandemic Report,...
Acquisition of Intercultural Skills in and through dance/movement
In the course of increasing migration movements, the importance of intercultural competence acquisition is increasingly coming to the fore. It is therefore all the more important t...
Humanitarian Action
This course seeks to provide its participants with general knowledge about action in situations of humanitarian support, with special focus on the capacity for reflection and ident...
PERSON CENTERED CARE
This module is created for students of Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Biomedical Diagnostics study programmes. The module consists of theoretical lectures, ind...
Media and Gender: Representations, Subjectivities and Power
online courseThis two-week interdisciplinary online course addresses the intersection of gender and media through developing a critical understanding of how ‘gender’ helps shape media texts and...
Winter school ‘Causal mediation analysis and machine learning'
The winter school on ‘Causal mediation analysis and machine learning’ aims at advancing the knowledge and expertise of PhD students as well as junior researchers in the field of ca...
Machine-Learning for the Social & Behavioural Sciences
[Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this programme has been cancelled for summer 2020. If you are interested, please visit the programme website and send us an email. We will keep you p...
Introduction to Social Data Science
The objective of this course is to learn how to analyze, gather and work with modern quantitative social science data. Increasingly, social data that capture how people behave and...
Global CoffeeScapes. Understanding the Coffee Commodity Chain: Land, Labour, and Environment
Why Coffee? With an estimated market value of 83 billion USD and 2.25 billion cups of consumed every day, coffee is one of the most important agricultural commodities, employing...
Global and Regional Migration Governance
Learn about migration governance from leading international organizations and experts Gain an interdisciplinary perspective Network with experts working in the field...
Global Gender Relations
The module intends to enable students to critically understand and analyse the relation between gender and globalisation processes in relation to the ever-changing global policies...
SRH Summer School in Music Therapy
Our SRH Summer School for Music Therapy 2020 is an introduction to music therapy practices in Germany, with an emphasis on music therapy in psychosomatic care. Students experience...
Social City Design
Get to know everything about social innovation and human centered design in the city context! We will be thinking and doing on superdiversity, creative storytelling, citizen driven...
Understanding Research Methods
online courseUnderstanding Research Methods is a unique offering to the summer school environment. The online course is designed for a wide-ranging number of participants whether preparing for...
Multidisciplinary Online Course
online courseThis summer programme can be customized to fit your needs. Built of modules that can be combined to create the credit value and schedule of your choosing, you can join us in Amster...
The Psychology of Communication
The module will examine theory and research related to the psychology of communication. A range of communication types will be considered; these include intentional and unintention...
Gerontological Nursing
online courseGeneral course description: -gerontological nursing -interaction with an individual with memory disorders -geriatrics -special issues in nutrition -the contents involve fami...
South Asia: Diversity, Democracy and Discord
online courseHow should we go about studying the political aspirations and agency of almost two billion people in South Asia, governed by contradictory and unstable regimes, where religion, lan...
Economy & Society Summer School
A week-long residential summer school, combining lectures, masterclasses, panel discussions : drawing from a broad range of social science, from anthropology through economics to p...
University of Liverpool International Summer School Week 4-6
The University of Liverpool International Summer School webpages will tell you more about how you can enhance your CV by studying for internationally recognised credits at a top, g...
CityLAB VIII: Sex, Gender, and the City
How do the various branches of contemporary urban studies engage with theories and cases developed in gender and sexuality studies or queer studies? All of these fields are by defi...
Summer Intership Programme
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes will take place in 2021. We will announce new dates once they are available. It is a four-week internship programme with an innovati...
Countering Organized Crime
This week-long course on Countering Organized Crime seeks to present a tentative account of organized crime in the Baltic region and beyond as well as providing some recommendation...
Your International Student Experience: Reflection & Publication
This module allows students to explore their own international student journey from the perspective of culture, language, educational background and psychological and affective fac...
The Taste of Istanbul and Anatolian Food Culture
This course provides an introduction to the rich Turkish Culinary Culture by way of theoretical information, practical lessons in the state-of-the art kitchens of Istanbul Aydin Un...
Survey Methodology
The Barcelona Summer School in Survey Methodology is a two-week intensive program covering diverse topics on survey methodology and advanced statistical analysis of survey data. Pa...
Consumer Neuroscience and Neurobusiness
This summer course will give you an overview of the crescent field of consumer neuroscience. Moreover, we will explore the applications of neurosciences in different fields such as...
Managing and Analyzing Data in Social Science
You will be introduced to concepts, terminology and methods relevant to handling data and spatial information in R and QGIS. At course end, you will have a toolbox of scripts enabl...
Occupational Safety and Health Policy Indicators
online courseIn a changing world of work, questions about the scope of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) monitoring and the most reliable OSH policy indicators are becoming increasingly impo...
Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution
online courseThe summer school course seeks to further our understanding of environmental conflicts and the possibilities of resolving them through collaborative management and participatory in...
Bangor University School of Health Sciences
Due to the current uncertainties surrounding the longer-term effects of the coronavirus, we have decided to cancel the Summer School for 2020. We look forward to welcoming you i...
Stability, Security, and Happiness: State - Society - Religion
GUSEGG 2020 will offer a broad discussion of our understanding of security, stability, and happiness. Defined quality assurance mechanisms and product and service safety measures a...
International Migration Studies in Child, Youth and Family Welfare
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Topics covered include: • International and internal migration tends and demographics • The rights...
Product Management for Digital Business
Product Manager is besides modern software engineering and sales one of the most sought after positions by digital businesses such as Swisscom, Google, Avrios and Leonteq. This...
Winter school ‘Four dimensions of the future of work’
The world of work looks different every day with unprecedented changes in their scale, speed, and depth. Not only have professions and labour markets changed, the very nature of wo...
Prejudice, Discrimination and the Diversity Challenge
Prejudice and discrimination are often causes of individuals’ suffering, social inequalities, and human conflicts in contemporary societies. Prejudice and discrimination are pervas...
Digital Methods and Transformation: Applied Social Network Analysis
Digital technologies are increasingly permeating the way we work, live, and think. A crucial aspect of the digital transformation lies in the ever increasing amount of data that is...
An Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
In this course, students will be introduced to the innovative and ’mind-blowing’ field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions wi...
Innovative e-governance in local democracy
Electronic governance (e-governance), generally understood as the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in various spheres of political life, plays a significant ro...
Courses 2019
An Introduction to Latent Variable Modelling using Mplus
This short-course provides an introduction to latent variable modelling – an ever increasingly used approach in the behavioural and social sciences.
Music Therapy in Germany
Our SRH Summer School for Music Therapy 2019 is an introduction to music therapy practices in Germany, with an emphasis on music therapy in psychosomatic care. Students experience...
Doing, Writing, Thinking Sport History
Organized in collaboration with the International Center for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University (ICSHC), this course aims to provide a unique environment for PhD s...
Summer School on Academic Integrity
In recent years, breaches of academic integrity have attracted the attention of a large number of involved stakeholders: Academics, PhD students, Researchers, HEI administrators,...
Behavioral Economics and Psychology
The Summer School on Behavioral Economics and Psychology brings to students of various backgrounds the state-of-art research on behavioral aspects of decision-making and experiment...
Open Access to Research Data. Facing Funder´s Requirements on Making Research Data FAIR
Nowadays, more and more funders, like the European Commission, require Open Data of high quality that can be re-used by researchers for replication as well as for new (research) pu...
Music as Support to Train Language Skills
As you already know, music therapy is a clinically and scientifically proven application of musical interventions with the aim of achieving individualised and clearly defined goals...
Utopia Europe I
The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece. On the...
Barcelona Social Summer 2019
BARCELONA SOCIAL SUMMER SCHOOL The Faculty of Social Education and Social Work Pere Tarrés (Ramón Llull University) offers an international summer course directed to university...
General Linear Model with Applications in ANOVA, Regression Analysis and Factor Analysis
This three day short course provides participants with a firm working knowledge of a wide range of statistical models – many of which are the most commonly used statistical models...
Expert workshop 'Measuring job quality: new data and methods'
The ‘expert network programme’ of the InGRID-2 project targets senior researchers and others expert of the InGRID-related scientific community.
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
This is an introductory course, covering the concepts, methods and data analysis techniques of social network analysis. The course is based on the book "Analyzing Social Networks"...
European welfare state: current challenges and perspectives
This course deals with the social policy characteristics of the European welfare state. The recent economic crisis and developments in the EU have led to a rise in poverty and unem...
Factorial Survey Designs
The factorial survey (“vignette analysis”) is a method that integrates multi-factorial experimental set-ups into surveys. Respondents are asked to evaluate hypothetical situations,...
Descriptive & Inferential Statistics in SPSS
This two-day short-course is designed for researchers who have little or no experience using statistical software such as SPSS or who may need a refresher course in this area.
Questionnaires for Cross-Cultural Surveys
Cross-cultural surveys are increasingly being set up in numerous disciplines and around the globe. They allow testing for the generality of hypotheses across cultures and systemati...
Petnica International
Petnica International is a science camp for undergraduate university students and senior high school students interested in science, which takes place every summer at Petnica Scien...
European Public Policy (introduction)
Public policy is the language through which governments across the world communicate with their administrations and societies. This course will focus on public policy practices, sp...
An introduction to Latent Class Analysis Using Mplus
This workshop will involve a mixture of interactive lecture-type sessions and practical examples using real-life epidemiological datasets in Mplus.
Perspectives on Psychology: From Molecules to Behavior
This is the 2nd edition of our summer school with the theme ‘Perspectives on Psychology: From Molecules to Behavior’, inthe interface between Psychology and Biology. Attendants wil...
Human Mind and Society
In the Human Mind and Society course, you will explore fundamental concepts of psychology, sociology and criminology. It covers the relationship between psychological processes and...
Managing and Analysing Cross Sectional and Spatial Data in Social Science
The amount of data publically available from online sources is increasing dramatically. It is crucial that aspiring researchers and natural resource managers know how to handle the...
Innovation in Social Design
We offer a 5-day practical, inspiring and engaging summer school in the context of Social Design. Product, service and system designers (from local and international agencies), soc...
Utopia Europe II
The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece. On the...
PSYCHOALAYSIS, ART AND CULTURE
The lectures of the Summer University focus on the most fundamental psychoanalytic concepts and current theoretical constructs. The courses will cover various topics, such as the B...
Paris Summer School | Urban Ethnography
The annual SSPSSR UG Summer School in Urban Ethnography provides participants with direct experience of urban ethnography and equips them with skills for future research. The Summe...
Speculative and Critical Design – Special Programs Think Tank
We invite you to take part in a rare opportunity to serve in the Special Programs Think Tank to envision and create hypothetical “special programs” that Estonia’s government might...
GDM - GLOBAL DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT Manage and Value Diversity in the Workplace
The School is based on an intense academic program, as well as several visits to local corporate organizations, and is strongly committed to an applied approach in order to match t...
Summer Schools for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics 2019
The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics is permanent project, originally initiated by the Department for Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and H...
How Switzerland got rich
This Summer School looks at the development of Switzerland into one of the richest and most globalized countries in the world. The course director Prof. Dr. Patrick Ziltener wil...
Race, Sovereignties and South-Eastern Thought
This year’s Summer School engages with the entanglements of race and sovereignty from both the Global South and the European East perspectives, in an effort to explore the potentia...
Utopia Europe III
The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece. On the...
Ecole Doctorale Francophone d'Été en Études Genre Brulau
Le BRULAU est l’école doctorale internationale francophone d’été en études genre, organisée par le Centre d’Études Genre (CEG) de l’UNIL et la Structure de recherche interdisciplin...
Attractive Cities: Successes and Conflicts
Key issues that will be examined are location theories, cultural capitals, mobility, housing, night time economy, tourism and citizenship. Internationally well-known experts will...
Economy & Society Summer School
Residential summer school, run by UCC, WIT, focusing on 'economic' questions in the broadest sense.
Dealing with Uncertainty: Decision-Making and Memory Processes
We have invited four internationally recognized experts in the field of Cognition, Learning, Memory, and Metacognition to be our keynote speakers. They will present their research...
Countering Organized Crime
Organized crime represents one of the most pressing national and international security threats. It is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centraliz...
Europe and its Regions
In the 1990s, researchers commonly asserted a declining significance of the nation state (“hollowing out the nation state”) and of the local level, which was paralleled by a rise i...
Think Camp – Rural Development: Future-oriented Approaches Bringing Economics, Management and Social Sciences into Practice
This Think Camp is an international cooperation within the scope of the Euroleague for Life Sciences and is organised by faculties and departments that focus on economics, manageme...
Radical (Dis)Engagement: State - Society - Religion
Radical (Dis)Engagement: State – Society – Religion Constant political uncertainties. Climate change. Demographic transformation. Continual re-thinking of societal coherence in...
Pristina International Summer University 2019
OPEN CALL FOR STUDENTS - PISU 2019 Date/Venue: 8-19 July 2019, Prishtina, Kosovo Fee for International students: 100€ (including accommodation, meals) Deadline: 6th of May...
Quantitative Research Summer School
Core elements of statistical analysis covering a range of quantitative skill areas including regression, contingency tables and continuous data in a problem-based learning environm...
Chinese-Austrian-EU Summer School
Lectures are held at the University of Salzburg, the University of Vienna, Paris Descartes Universite and the University of Heidelberg. The students have also the opportunity to v...
Social Policy
Part of the public policy family, social policy is the discipline concerned with the governmental action aimed at insuring individuals in situations when these fail or face difficu...
Winter School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM)
BI Norwegian Business School offers in co-operation with the University of St. Gallen the fourth Winter School in Empirical Research Methods in Oslo from 7-18 January 2019 as part...
Intensive course on anti-corruption
Transparency International School on Integrity is an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders. The upcoming School will take place dur...
An Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
In this course, students will be introduced to the innovative and ’mind- blowing’ field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions will...
Expert workshop 'Comparative analysis of longitudinal data on educational outcomes’
Educational outcomes are crucial for social participation and labor market opportunities. To develop strategies to improve people’s social and economic prospects, governments are i...
School Education in the UK
This exciting module explores a range of aspects and perspectives of childhood and UK culture. It aims to give you an overview of the differing perceptions related to children and...
Intercultural Competence - Drawing on the Swiss Experience
Intercultural communicative competence has become an increasingly important skill and a valuable asset in today’s world characterized by mobility, super-diversity and the global fl...
Data Forum on Data Pooling: Opportunities and Challenges
CELSI has accumulated more than ten years of experience with the collection, processing and analysis of the WageIndicator data on wages, cost of living, minimum wages and collectiv...
Smart Cities
What is a smart city? We hear all the time that technology changes our lives, including our environment. The developments not only improve the life of individuals, but benefit...
Youth Leadership Initiative
The HEC Paris Youth Leadership Initiative is an intensive, residential program for high school students who are eager to develop their potential. They will learn to lead by example...
City development in the 21st Century
This course is entitled to engage students with the challenge of creating 21th century cities based on knowledge and innovation. Principles as technological enhancement (smart city...
Safety and Security
The aim of the summer academy is to increase the operational capacity of young people studying in more specific fields of internal security to cope and help fellow citizens in dail...
The Politics of Ageing
Ageing is a global topic of urgent importance: The United Nations estimates that by 2050, over 1.2 billion older people will be wihtout a secure income, unless drastic actions are...
Advanced Tools for Psychology and Social Science
PROGRAM AND OBJECTIVES Measurement in psychology and social science always has been a significant challenge. Research in quantitative science has developed several methods and tec...
Analysing Longitudinal Data: Using Latent Variable Models to Assess Change
The analysis of change is central to much psychological and social research. Latent Growth Models (LGM) are an important class of models for the assessment of change. In essence t...
Courses 2018
Pre IB Diploma Programme for 15 - 17 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 1, 2 or 3 term programmes offer students aged 15-17 the opportunity to live and study in Oxford Royale's own International Study Centre, based in the beauti...
Gender, Power and Violence
Around the world, no place is less safe for women than their own home – almost one in three women have suffered physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner and one in fo...
Gap Year Courses for 17-19 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 10 week gap year programmes offer the opportunity to live and study in Oxford Royale's own International Study Centre, based in Yarnton Manor, Oxford. Stude...
Adult Summer School for 19-25 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 2 and 4 week programmes offer adult students aged 19-25 the opportunity to live and study in a college of the University of Oxford. Students may choose from...
Academic Courses in Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of how arguments are put together and taken apart, you will see how arguments are constructed using premises that move to conclusions; and how such argument...
Cybercrime: The Human Factor
As society has gone digital, so has crime. Not only have new offences appeared, like hacking and attacks designed to take down websites or networks, but IT has begun to play an inc...
Gender and Space
Die Sommerschule vermittelt Studierenden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen feministische Theorien, Themen und Methoden an der Schnittstelle zwischen Geographie und Gender Studies....
Exercising modernity
The program is aimed at Polish and German final and pre-final year students of art and the humanities and young creators, scholars and culture animators (up to 35 years of age). Fo...
Meditating and Mediating Change: State - Society - Religion
In our interpretation, meditating and mediating change is the taking on of the responsibility of intellectuals to offer critical in-depth discussion in a world of babble. This is a...
Research and critical perspectives on children`s health literacy
The 3rd International Health Literacy Summer School organised by the German Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence (HLCA) Consortium focusses on health literacy research, inc...
Intercultural Communication in Health Care and Social Work
Intercultural understanding and communication plays a major role in providing health care and social work. Intercultural competence, especially in person related professions, inclu...
International School on Energy Systems - ISES 2018
The energy infrastructure of a country provides a fundamental means for societal development and economic growth. Energy systems comprise the technologies required for the conversi...
Contemporary Society and Religion: Conversion of Multiple Religions
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, would like to invite you to its international summer school, titled: “Contemporary Society...
Personality Disorders: Psychoanalytic and other treatment modalities
Personality Disorders: Psychoanalytic and Other Treatment Modalities is an academic program organized by Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Education and Psychology aiming to unit...
University Foundation Course for 17-25 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 6 or 9 month accredited programmes offer students aged 17 to 25 the opportunity to live and study in Oxford Royale's own International Study Centre, based i...
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON GROUNDED THEORY
International Summer School on Grounded Theory (ISSGT 2018) focuses on improving your skills in using Grounded Theory strategies to help you increase the incisiveness, clarity, and...
Labor Dystopias and Redundant Humans: Slaveries, Serfdoms, Precariousness
The 2018 edition of the Telciu Summer School is dedicated to forms of unfree, precarious, or unremunerated labor across the global capitalist system, the structural changes they ha...
Global Trends
The world is getting more and more connected, not only consumers but also organizations are increasingly interlinked. The public and private sector, once clearly separated, are mov...
Human Rights, Gender and Alterity
Joint Summer School between the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies – Geneva. In 2018 the second edition of the Summer Schoo...
Quantitative Research Summer School
Core elements of statistical analysis covering a range of quantitative skill areas including regression, contingency tables and continuous data in a problem-based learning environm...
Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics 2018
The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics is permanent project, originally initiated by the Department for Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and H...
Paris Summer School | Urban Ethnography
The annual SSPSSR UG Summer School in Urban Ethnography provides participants with direct experience of urban ethnography and equips them with skills for future research. The Summe...
Economy & Society Summer School
Week long residential summer school in a castle in rural Ireland, with core staff and visiting speakers leading an intensive interdisciplinary discussion on Economy + Society.
Summer Courses for 13 - 15 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 2 week programmes offer students aged 13 to 15 the opportunity to live and study in a college of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. Students may choos...
Multidisciplinary Research in Archaeology
This course has been developed to provide students with the skills and abilities needed to thrive in the increasingly multidisciplinary research environment of archaeology, where t...
The Power of Algorithms
Shopping on Amazon, searching with Google, communicating on Facebook – in all these cases algorithms are at work. They organize and rule the attention economy of the media. The...
Junior Summer Courses for 8-12 year old students
For each week-long session, students aged 8-12 can choose from a variety of subjects, including the Junior English Programme, Business Discovery, Coding with Scratch, Game Creation...
Summer Courses for 16 - 18 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 2 and 4 week programmes offer the opportunity to live and study in a college of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London or St Andrews. Students may ch...
Leading health care by Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Innovations in Service Delivery
In this course, participants will be introduced to the full cycle of developing, implementing and evaluating innovations in service delivery, using an implementation science framew...
Crime in Numbers: From Correlation to Causation
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for causal inference. Using an experimental and a control group, double-blind and with a placebo, the effect of an intervention c...
Courses 2017
ActionxChange
Action x Change is part of the Short Programs Area, which aims to spread the values and mission of UWC through enriching and transformative experiences of short duration. Action...
Politics and Aesthetics of the Common: cultural performances and public sphere
The proposed international interdisciplinary workshop is organized by the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in partnership with the Palacký Univers...
Model-based Neuroscience
Tthe fourth Model-Based Neuroscience Summer School will be hosted at the University of Amsterdam. The summer school will provide students with hands-on experience in both cognit...
Psychological Competency
The School consists of theoretical and practical classes. It will help the Attendees to reveal all strong, weak and positive parts of their characters. It will teach how beneficial...
World in Transition and Central European Transformation: Lessons Learnt
The program provides a broad understanding of state transformation issues in general and from the practical experience of the Czech Republic and its Central European neighbours dra...
International School on Energy Systems (ISES) 2017
The energy infrastructure of a country provides a fundamental means for societal development and economic growth. At the same time, resource depletion, environmental pollution and...
Radical Definitions: State-Society-Religion
Students will deal with the relevance and effect on global affairs of Europe/EU (emphasis on South Eastern Europe) and beyond by attending the offered morning and evening lectures,...
Placemaking and Experience Design
Do you want to know more about destination marketing, learn what’s going on in the attraction theme park world and have unique insights in how to create experiences? This is your c...
Analysing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Data Using Multilevel Models
We will begin by considering the structure of CLSD, and then what fixed effects and random effects (multilevel) models each reveal about the variation between and within groups in...
Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism
Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism is a 3 days High Level event, co-organized by the Foundation for European Sustainable Tourism (FEST) and the European Travel Commi...
Bayesian Modelling
The purpose of the course is to provide the participant with the tools to be able to do data analysis through Bayesian inference. At the end of the course, the participant must be...
The Political Anthropology of Subversion: On a secret technique of transformation
IPA SUMMER SCHOOL 2017 The Political Anthropology of Subversion: On a secret technique of transformation The 2017 IPASS Summer School on “Subversion” will examine ancient,...
Questionnaire Design
The design of a questionnaire does not start with questions. It starts with the definition of the concepts of interest. From the concepts, assertions can be made, and then requests...
Preparing Data for Re-use: A Practical Guide to Processing and Documenting your Data for Sharing
Re-use of research data becomes increasingly important in social science research. Not only is replicability of research data and research findings considered an integral part of g...
Migration and Europe: borders, mobility and the future of the EU
This Summer Course is a joint effort of Middlesex University, the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is planned to take place in London from the...
URBAN POVERTY. The praxis of planning in unequal cities
This summer school is an opportunity for opening research to issues of poverty and inequality in our cities. It will take advantage from the collaboration of experts in different...
Probability Sampling Methods
This is an applied statistical methods course that focuses on the design of probability samples to be used for data collection. Sample designs are driven by analytic goals of an in...
Critical Thinking
"In every social system, there is a specific set of rules and possible actions. A constant exception from them is a mysterious variable scientists haven’t fully understood yet: hum...
Theodor Herzl Joint Summer Seminar
Masaryk University will organize a seminar for the selection of Israeli and Central European doctorate students (10 in total) in Telč in July 2017 (TBC). More information on offic...
Annual anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders
Applications are now accepted for the 8th Transparency International School on Integrity , an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders...
Propagandas: How Human Beliefs Are Controlled
Summary More and more present in our daily lives, propaganda has been shaping societies and controlling people's behaviors for centuries. This course intends to explain how propag...
Emotional Intelligence under Stress: Useful, Unnecessary, or Irrelevant?
Emotional intelligence is potentially helpful in reducing stress for some individuals, but unnecessary or irrelevant for others. This training course is based on the Mayer and Salo...
Work Smart, Win Time: study skills HBO
The contents of this course focus on cognitive skills that make and keep studying challenging and appealing. The contents of this course: In this course the following points wi...
Economy & Society Summer School
A week-long doctoral symposium bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to discuss fresh perspectives on ‘economic’ themes; the market, the state, production, consumptio...
Behavioral Public Policy
Behavioral sciences encompass aspects of many disciplines such as economics, psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology, and those aspects of biology that deal with hum...
Summer School on Forced Migration and Asylum
The Summer School, organised by two organisations active on the frontline of reception and integration of asylum seekers and supported by several public and private partners workin...
Implementing high-quality web surveys
The course deals with the challenge of using the World Wide Web for survey data collection. Web surveys are technically easy to implement; however, the understanding of underlying...
Migration in Europe
The main focus of this section is migration within the European community, a topic that has been deemphasized by the refugee crisis. We would like to analyze the problem from the v...
An interdisciplinary approach of transport, climate change and wellbeing
In the context of the recent multidimensional crisis that has affected most of the countries in the world, the current challenge consists in making economic growth and development...
Preparing Global Leaders Institute
Preparing Global Leaders Institute is one of the four international leadership schools of the Washington-based Preparing Global Leaders Foundation. For six years, we have trained d...
Knowledge-based Society
In this section we will to discover how technological development influences our society. During the four days we will to learn about the effects that technology has on our lives w...
Placemaking and Destination Shaping
This course is the first part of the NHTV summer school programme which we organise with our Chinese partner IFT, Macao. During these three days you'll learn everything about dest...
Biopower and Semiotics of the Body
The University of Tartu and the Higher School of Economics, Moscow invite graduate, post-graduate and PhD students to apply for the winter school “Biopower and Semiotics of the Bod...
Creative and Innovative Thinking through Body Movement, Creativity and Arts
For Creativity and Innovative thinking our mind and body need to work together closely. In 5 days, participants will experience how this synthesis can influence and develop creati...
Art and Society
This module is an introduction to the visual culture of London, including painting, architecture, photography and contemporary media. Students will visit the major art galleries to...
The Challenge of Diversity: The Jewish Experience in Central Europe and Israel
This five week course will trace the 1000-year historical trajectory of European Jewry in Central and Eastern Europe – the core being the current Czech Republic (Bohemia, Moravia,...
European Integration and Energy Security
Yerevan State University as a part of the Jean Monnet Network "Developing European Studies in the Caucasus" (DESCnet) invites graduate (BA level) and post-graduate (MA level: stude...