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Climate Change and Sustainability in Practice
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,...
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...
Things That Matter
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. “Things that Matter” addresses the tension between the materiality of sources and their digitization....
Information and Knowledge Management in Digital Environment
The course focuses on the typology of information and knowledge, identification of information and knowledge needs, and the acquisition, discovery, storage, organization, sharing,...
LANDac Annual Summer School "Land Governance for Development"
top 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cybersecurity Risk Management
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...
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...
Contemporary Conflict Analysis: Actors, Issues & Technologies of 21st Century Warfare
top courseConflict management has become a prominent field of inquiry and practice in three main areas: scholarly, policy-oriented, and operational. In this setting, the course aims to enhan...
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...
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,...
EUtopia 2021-27? Visions and Missions of Europe
Our intensive but enjoyable 10-day long summer school will concentrate on discussing the different views of the place and role of the European Union both from internal and external...
Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
top course 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...
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...
Sustainable Health
top course online courseWhere does COVID-19 come from and was it avoidable in the first place? What are its connections with the Black Lives Matter movement, and why do minority groups experience worse ou...
Analyzing Neural Time Series Data
top courseRhythmic activity such as oscillations and synchronization are widespread in neural time series data, and are thought to have important roles in brain function, including providing...
Gender in Academia and the Professions
top course 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...
8th Rare Diseases Summer School
The 8th radiz 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,...
How the Brain Works and What Can Go Wrong
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....
Law, Society and Politics in Comparative Perspective
This course explores theoretical and historical perspectives on the intersection of law, society and politics, and aims to foster discussion of contemporary issues among students f...
Analyzing Classroom Interactions
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Building on a unique combination of different disciplinary perspectives, this summer school will appea...
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...
Global London: Contemporary Urbanism, Culture and Space
London 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...
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...
Computational Social Science
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The CSS summer school serves as a research incubator aiming at fostering the use of data-driven method...
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...
Youth, Drugs and Alcohol - Social Science Approaches
top course 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...
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...
Managing Language in International Organizations
top course 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...
Ethics and Politics of Care
top course 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...
Contemporary Issues in Mental Health
What are the contemporary issues in mental health and how do mental health services across the global community compare? On this course you will critically appraise different mo...
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...
Complexity Methods for Behavioural Science: A Toolbox for Studing Change
top course online courseComplexity research transcends the boundaries between the classical scientific disciplines and is a hot topic in physics, mathematics, biology, economy as well as psychology and th...
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...
Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective
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 element of migration. T...
Global and Multicultural Society
This 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...
Human Rights and Global Health Challenges
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. This summer school addresses three main global health challenges: non-communicable diseases (NCDs), me...
Creating a Climate for Change
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Welcome to a summer school for sustainability education in Groningen. At this summer school, we want t...
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...
Religion and the Urban, Natural and Virtual Environments
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. This summer school will discuss the relation between religion and the urban, the natural and the virtu...
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...
Gamification Workshop
Gamification 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...
Practising Human Rights in Urban Areas
In this practice oriented, Amsterdam-based summer course with an international perspective, you will learn strategies and skills to work with groups that are in a challenging human...
Mindfulness and Compassion-based Interventions
top 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...
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 Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem
top 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...
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...
Talk at Work
top course 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...
Epidemics and Social Science: a Holistic Approach
top course 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...
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...
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...
Global Challenges - Sustainable Futures
The course introduces students to the politics, governance and ethics of sustainability. It examines major current global challenges divided into economic, political and environme...
Gender & Diversity Studies: Core Concepts
top course blended courseThe 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...
Global Transformations
top 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...
Existential Questions Regarding Life Issues. An Intercultural and Integrated Approach
top course 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Disturbances and Interventions
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. This summer school takes its point of departure in Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Ki...
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...
Development Studies in Tanzania
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The current state of African societies demands a multidisciplinary approach to the very concept of dev...
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...
Discovering Holland
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Seen from outside, the Netherlands seems like a country that has its things in order: neat streets gui...
Applying Psychology to your Community
This course takes a new social psychological approach to understanding issues of diversity and marginalisation which is rarely represented in psychology programmes and so offers so...
Understanding and Countering Radicalisation and Terrorism
This module will provide an introduction to the phenomena of radicalisation and terrorism; including key definitions, causal accounts, empirical trends, past and present manifestat...
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...
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...
Urban Strategies for Health Promotion
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. A guided tour through Groningen – one of the Netherlands’ oldest cities and saturated with architectur...
Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills
top courseThis course provides you with a challenging introduction to conflict resolution and mediation skills. The focus of the course is to familiarize you with the backgrounds of human co...
Pre-university Honours Programme: Sustainable Cities
top course 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...
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...
Comprehensive Introduction to Research Methodology and Design
top courseThis 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...
Social Inequality
online courseJoin us at the University of Würzburg’s Institute of Political Science and Sociology to explore social inequalities. The English-speaking course is aimed at higher education studen...
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...
Constructing Human Rights Narratives
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. We are talking about human rights in so many voices, using so many intonations, and acting in so many...
Migration, Integration, and Social Networks
top courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The nexus between international migration and social networks is crucial in understanding different ph...
The Cultural Heritage of Hungary
The 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...
Racialized Othering
top courseWithin the past year, protest movements like BlackLivesMatter have made racial injustice and institutional racism focal points for broad societal discussions. But racialized otheri...
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...
Service Design for Innovation - IED Barcelona
top courseEveryday 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...
Understanding and Preventing Crime
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...
Social Enterprises: Using Your Creativity and Sensitivity
The 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 Science Behind Migrant Inclusion Policies
top courseTo create more inclusive societies for migrants we need relevant and effective policies. You will learn why scientific knowledge on migrant inclusion could play a pivotal role duri...
Intercultural Competence
top course“How can we develop in ourselves and others the necessary mastery and concomitant humility required to be effective across cultures?” In our rapidly globalizing world, with increas...
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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....
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...
Introduction to Mindfulness and Compassion
top course 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...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
top course 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...
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...
Politics, Identities, and Inequalities
top course 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...
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...
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,...
Courses 2020
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...
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...
ELGS Migration Summer School
blended courseMigration Summer School (MIGSS) on "Precarious integration? Migrants, Refugees, Rights & Policies"has been carefully designed and developed to provide participants with a comprehen...
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...
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...
Introduction to R
online courseThe course is designed for people with no or little knowledge of programming in R language. We will introduce basic programming concepts such as variables and functions, we will le...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Machine-Learning for the Social & Behavioural Sciences
top course[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...
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...
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...
Modern Statistical Computing in R
Over 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...
Social Sciences
Frankfurt Summer School 2020 offers the following academic modules in the Social Sciences (taught in the mornings): • Analysing the Unobservable: Structural Equation Modelling in...
Applied Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
online courseThe increasing amount of literature in many social science fields makes it difficult for researchers to assess and keep up with new evidence. As a result, systematic reviews and me...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to Conduct a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Psychological Interventions
The number of studies examining relevant research questions is staggering. Each year thousands of new randomized controlled trials are conducted, and endless numbers of epidemiolog...
Open and Closed Societies: The Example of Japan
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, this course has been cancelled for 2020. Japan is known for its unique culture and way of living. The recent FTA between Japan and the EU as well a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics
Sport 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...
Multidisciplinary Online Course
top 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Introduction to Stata for Data Analysis
online courseThis course will give a thorough introduction to the Statistics Software Stata. It is tailored to the needs of academics and other research practitioners who are new to Stata or wh...
Time: Perceptions and Illusions of the Progress of Existence
The 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Social Network Analysis with Digital Behavioral Data
Social Network Analysis with Digital Behavioral Data provides a broad approach to the quantitative analysis of social networks and social interaction through digital trace data. Th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Practical Introduction to Machine Learning in Python
The course will provide insights into the concepts, challenges and opportunities associated with data so large that traditional research methods (like manual coding) cannot be appl...
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...
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...
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...
Transsectoral Lab: (Post-)Migration. (Dis-)Integrative Encounters
blended 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...
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...
Theory and Practice of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing: A JASP Workshop
top courseThe 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...
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...
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...
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...
Survey Sampling and Weighting
online courseThis course will cover the process of survey sampling, weighting, and estimation. This includes a) methods of sample selection, b) methods of weighting including design weighting,...
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...
Fundamentals of Data Analysis with Python
This course is a hands-on introduction to data analysis in Python for social scientists. It is designed primarily for social scientists who have little to no previous experience wi...
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...
Gerontological Nursing
online courseGeneral course description: -gerontological nursing -interaction with an individual with memory disorders -geriatrics -special issues in nutrition -the contents involve fami...
Global Challenges in the Anthropocene: Health, Food Security and Climate Change
We have now entered a new geological epoch defined as the Anthropocene. During the 20th century, humanity has transformed the geology, biosphere and atmosphere of planet Earth. Giv...
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...
Courses 2019
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...
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...
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...
Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Data
This 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Risk Management
The objective of risk management is to identify those risks that can lead to business failure and to implement effective strategies to manage them. This holds for any business sect...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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.
The Politics of Ageing
top courseAgeing 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...
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...
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...
Economy & Society Summer School
Residential summer school, run by UCC, WIT, focusing on 'economic' questions in the broadest sense.
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.
Pretesting
This course provides researchers with the necessary methods and techniques to evaluate, test, and modify surveys to reduce measurement error. This is achieved through both lectures...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2018
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PhD course Generalized Linear Models
In this module we study how to analyse data that are not normally distributed. We look at fractions (logistic regression), counts (Poisson regression, log-linear models), ordinal d...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PhD course Meta-analysis
Researchers trying to summarize the constantly growing body of published research are increasingly using meta-analysis. The focus of this 2-day course will be on concepts of linear...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PhD course Mixed Linear Models
In this module we discuss how to analyse dependent data, that is, data for which the assumption of independence needed in Linear Models is violated. So: Do you have a nested experi...
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...
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...
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...
Gender and Space
Die Sommerschule vermittelt Studierenden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen feministische Theorien, Themen und Methoden an der Schnittstelle zwischen Geographie und Gender Studies....
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...
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
Latent Trait and L. Class Analysis for Cross-national Surveys
Latent variable models are a broad family of models that can be used to capture abstract concepts by means of multiple indicators. Social scientists know them best in the form of f...
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,...
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...
Practical Multilevel Modelling
The course focuses on the two-level linear model as a template to illustrate issues of specification, estimation and inference. The main ideas are illustrated through case studies....
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...
Humanitarian Action
The International Summer School will familiarize with the fascinating, but demanding field of international humanitarian action and the manifold problems associated with reducing h...
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...
Exile and Memory – Interdisciplinary Perspectives
In 2017 Marie Jahoda Summer School invites young scholars working on the issue of exile and memory. The aim of the summer school is to establish an environment for intellectually o...
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...
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,...
Structural Equation Modeling for Longitudinal and Panel Data
The course will expand on the course “Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling: Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Mplus” and show how to apply the SEM approach to longitudinal...
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...
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...
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...
Intercultural Competencies
Focusing on psychological aspects of intercultural competencies, this course fosters the understanding from both theoretical and practical perspectives. At first you will gain a ge...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nordic Welfare Model and Social Services in Transition
The course introduces the welfare state and especially the Nordic welfare state from historical and present day perspective.
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...
Social Justice and Political Thought
This course will cover issues such as structural inequality in economy, work and work relations, the relationship of Western to non-Western cultures, the interrelationship of racis...
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...
Assessing Measurement Quality
Measurement instruments-questions, items, or tests-have been used in the social sciences to measure concepts of interest. A sufficient quality of the measurement instruments is cru...
Arts & Science in Urban Context
The international Summer School’s goal is to develop and foster interdisciplinary exchange between students, researchers and teaching staff on the future of urbanity. With a focus...
Development Policy
The program offers: classes that cover the main areas of development policy guest lectures on selected issues of development policy excursions (for example to governmental ins...
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...
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,...
Social Media Research Big Data
Citizens across the globe spend an increasing proportion of their daily lives online. Their activities leave behind granular, time-stamped footprints of human behavior and personal...
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...
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...
What is the creative act? : The Sea, Retreat
Concept We dive into the main theme which holds it all together, just as it at the same time puts all in flux. The Sea: taciturn, surging, immanent, open, smooth, with different...
Experience Design
In the last part of our summer school programme we''ll give you unique insights in the world of Imagineering! In three days you'll learn about: How can an organisation turn ’cust...
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...
Correction for measurement error
This crash-course to correction for measurement error in survey data starts with defining measurement error and highlighting why it is important to take it into account in statist...
Item Nonresponse and Multiple Imputation
his 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 it...
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...
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...
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...
Effective Leadership & Communication Through Awareness of Body Language & Non-Verbal Communication
This workshop will improve your communication and relationships with others when leading, supported by more awarness of your nonverbal- communication behavior. You will learn to us...
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...
Energy Security Summer School
This years’ topic is Energy Infrastructure and Policy Repercussions. The summer school is open to undergraduate and graduate students of International Relations, Political Science,...
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...
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...
Attraction and Theme Park Management
During the second part of our summer school programme you'll learn what’s going on in the attraction theme park world! In two days you will learn to understand the market and d...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Human Evolution
This course looks at morality from the perspective of our minds. Are we born with some sort of moral compass, or is morality purely cultural and learnt? How do we judge what is goo...
Panel data modelling
This is an introduction to longitudinal data analysis on an applied level using Stata. The focus of the course is on data management and analyzing micro panel data.
Survey Experiments
This course will use published examples of experimental research to demonstrate a variety of ways to leverage survey experiments for testing social science theories. The course wil...
Dealing with missing data in regression models
Most researchers in the social and behavioural sciences have encountered the problem of missing data: It seriously complicates the statistical analysis of data, and simply ignoring...
A New Era for Greek Hospitality
Globalization and the current economic conditions have changed the international setting for the hospitality industry. This multidimensional programme guides participants through t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2016
International Studies
The goal of our Summer University is to train highly qualified experts in the social sciences who are able to think about the place and role of Hungary and the Central European reg...
Opening the Black Box of Quality
Reflecting on and assessing the quality of scientific work is part and parcel of scholarly practice – whether in various work situations or the different stages of an academic care...
Responsible Capitalism: Strategy, Governance and Finance
The school is organized by Venice International University with the participation of professors from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Columbia University, Henley Business School, IE...
Economy & Society Summer School
Week long residential summer school hosted at a medieval castle in a beautiful rural setting. Staff from Ireland and International Visitors deliver plenaries, focused reading grou...
Energy Systems in Transition: Economic, Policy and Social Challenges
Topics of the course will be among others • Introduction to energy economy and energy policy • Renewable energy management • Policy risks in financing renewable energy projects...
Chocolate, the sweet Belgian art
Chocolate is one of Belgian specialties amongst many others and also the most popular! Discover this yummy programme through various and different aspects – you will be also surpri...
Digital Traces I: Meta-Morphologies of St. Petersburg
This workshop explores the landscape of the invisible city, using digital traces to unveil, measure and study the meta-morphology of the city. Participants will learn the basics of...
Can you talk me into it?
**Ages 13 - 17** This workshop consists of different oral and written speech activities that involve “active construction of knowledge.” Students invent a product and then write a...
Transformation, Transgressions, and Trust in Europe and the Americas
The only consistency of today's world is change, often in many directions, unpredictable and triggered by self-determination on different levels, political and natural events, cult...
The Body: from the Head to the Toe
Body and Health will have no secret for you thanks to our programme. As a matter of fact, Vrije Universiteit Brussel has a strong expertise on research about health and body. - Ho...
Conceptions of Sustainability – and How They Shape Research
In science we encounter overwhelming diversity of sustainability conceptions. The international PhD Summer School ‘Research on Sustainable Development’ helps to find way through th...
Clash! Brussels between the IN and the OUT situation in Belgium and Europe
Even if this is a small territory, Belgium is rich in terms of culture, community, diversity and linguistics. Also, considered as a Capital of Europe, Brussels has a particular pos...
Cultural Heritage and the Way of Saint James: Protection and Maximasing Potential
The CGU International Summer School is an initiative of the Compostela Group of Universities with the main purpose of carrying out academic activities to make the most of the uniqu...
Exploring Who I am and How I can make a Difference
**Ages 13 - 17** Nobel Laureates of Peace - Change Starts with You! This workshop introduces youth to the lives and work of Nobel Peace Laureates in an interactive, hands-on form...
Social Protest and Social Movements in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Where do social movements come from? Who takes part in them? What are their aims? And what methods do historians and social scientist use for their scientific research? Under the s...
Courses 2015
Seventh call for visiting grants 12 InGRID data centres offer access to data and expertise within the field of inclusive growth, poverty, living conditions, working conditions, vulnerable groups, social policy, ...
Apply for research visits to the data expertise centers of FP7 project InGRID What is offered? InGRID offers free-of-charge access to research infrastructures with data sets...
Emotional Learning and Memory in Health and Psychopathology
Internationally renowned speakers will provide a number of state of the art lectures on the acquisition, extinction, reconsolidation, and generalization of emotional memory. In add...
Expert workshop 'Quality of working life and economic performance: results from linked employer/employee surveys'
General information This expert workshop aims at giving insights into how linked employer/employee surveys can be used to understand the relationships between quality of working...
From Uber to Amazon Mechanical Turk: nontraditional labour markets driven by technological and organisational change
General information Technology is a powerful driver for change in the world of labour. The objective of the third edition of the InGRID winter school is to aggregate scholars an...
The Global Digital Workplace - New Ways of Working, New Forms of Labour
Two interrelated processes have transformed work and labour on a global scale: The wider reach of multinational corporations forming global value chains and the digitisation of inf...
Methods for community research, action and change
The Italian Community Psychology Association (SIPCO) in collaboration with the European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) organizes the first edition of the International Sum...
Shifting Perspectives: Europe and the Americas
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,...