Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law: Human Rights and Beyond
This summer school focuses on the emergence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and intersex issues in different areas of international law, such as human rights law,...
International Successions in Europe
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes - Benjamin Franklin. The course is devoted to private international law with particular focus on successi...
Citizenship and Migration: Europe's 21st Century Challenges
Citizens and/or migrants? Citizenship and migration are highly contested and politicized topics in today's Europe. Brexit, the 'migration crisis' or people dying in the Mediterra...
The Vampire in Folklore, Literature, and Film
This course identifies iconic vampire motifs and determines where they originated. Particular attention is placed on vampire motifs in folklore and which were adapted into literatu...
Sustainability Science: A System Dynamics Perspective
Societies aspire to transition towards more sustainable modes of consumption and production. In this course, you will learn modelling and simulation techniques to acquire a compreh...
FLUID MACHINERY AND ENERGY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
The winter school is dedicated to phd students who perform their research activities in the field of fluid machinery and energy systems engineering, including turbomachinery, inter...
Towards Intelligent & Sustainable Optimisation of Transport Systems (Transport 2019)
TRANSPORT 2019: THE SMART MOVE! Co-organised by the Hauts-de-France Polytechnic University (UPHF, Valenciennes) and the Lille Northern France Higher Education & Research Inst...
Impact of Food Processing on Human Health (Food & Health 2019)
FOOD & HEALTH 2019: THE SMART CHOICE! Co-organised by the University of Lille (in the top 100 European most innovative universities of the Times Higher Education ranking), the...
Sustainable and smart urban growth
This program is set up around multiple visits to the Randstad Megapolis. The 'Randstad' is not a one city; it is a dynamic metropolitan region characterizing the presence of the...
Cognition, communication, and the brain
This course is a continuation of Helsinki Summer School in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience. HSS course Cognition, Communication, and the Brain focuses on interdisciplinary appro...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: a Human Rights Perspective
“Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” This course explores the legal framework underpinning this slogan, analysing laws, policies and human rights jurispr...
The Finance Boot Camp 2019
The Finance Boot Camp attracts highly motivated students from around the world. Spending a fortnight abroad will give you additional international exposure. And last but not least,...
Health and Human Rights
Most deaths that currently occur globally are the result of chronic or ‘non-communicable’ diseases, in particular cardiovascular diseases, most cancers, chronic respiratory disease...
Brexit: The Legal Process and its Implications for the UK and the EU
The decision of the UK electorate, by a narrow majority, to vote to leave the EU has had great and as yet unresolved political consequences. It may well also have major economic co...
What About the Family?
Recent developments in healthcare and social care policy are challenging the scope of and theoretical justification for claims based on notions of family responsibility. The consid...
AURA Summer Academy: 'Istanbul-Past, Present, Future'
The Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy (AURA) Istanbul invite you to its inspiring summer program, “Istanbul: Past, Present and Future” The melting pot of the East and t...
Practical Mixed Effect Regression Modelling for Psychology and Language Science
The course covers mixed effect modelling; a cutting-edge regression method for cognitive and social scientists. In lectures and hands-on tutorials using real data sets, students wi...
Trends and Topics in Neurolinguistics
How do you produce and understand language? How can you learn new different languages? In this course you will explore the key processes and functions of the human brain, which ena...
Urban Strategies for Health Promotion
This Summer School confronts its participants with the need to develop multi- and transdisciplinary ways of working that combine the expertise of spatial designers, governance expe...
Sustainable Business and Economy for Smart Cities
This summer school will focus on building capabilities and business strategies for Smart Cities. In 2050 the largest cities in the world are expected to be in Africa. Luanda, th...
Pediatrics
During this Summer School you are offered a varied educational program. The Summer School combines clinic and research in many different fields of pediatrics. This is presented in...
Innovation in Cardiology
Each year the Summer School Committee of RAMS (Radboud Annals of Medical Students) organizes a Summer School for (bio)medical students. The theme of this year’s Summer School is In...
Animal Navigation
Have you wondered how we navigate? How does the brain orchestrate computations that enable the wanderer in us? If so, join us to learn from world-leading experts about the neural b...
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...
Quantum in the Summer: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Quantum Technologies
One of today’s most fascinating fields of research and innovation involves applying quantum phenomena to the development of a new type in computing called quantum computing. Increa...
Architecture Summer School
The School of Architecture Summer School offers a challenging and fun programme of design studio experience, visits, lectures and skills training. The five-day, intense programm...
Contemporary Art
Gain practical skills in the heart of the art world The course explores contemporary art scene in Italy. We visit studios, galleries in Venice and have private tours in the mos...
Bible and Video Games
Have you played video games like The Talos Principle, Bioshock, Zombi, or the Prince of Persia? Do you know the difference between ludology (the critical study of gaming) and narra...
Complexity Methods for Behavioural Science: A Toolbox for Studying Change
A unique introduction to research methods developed to study complex adaptive dynamical systems and networks. Get hands-on experience applying a new, powerful analytic toolbox to t...
International Arbitration Training Course
The International Arbitration Training Course, offered by Leiden Law School in cooperation with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, focuses on the theory and practice of internatio...
Summer School on Social Banking & Sustainable Finance
12th International Summer School on Social Banking & Sustainable Finance Transforming finance. New roles for banks. 23rd to 28th June 2019 in Basel / Switzerland partnered...
Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
The 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...
Environmental Ethics: From Philosophical Texts to Real Case Studies
This course proposes an overview on environmental ethics as a philosophical discipline, progressing from the philosophical texts to the analysis of environmental case studies. It a...
Migrant Inclusion in Policy and Practice
This interdisciplinary course will equip you with expert knowledge and critical thinking skills relating to the ways in which social and economic dimensions shape one of today’s mo...
Understanding Data with R: a hands-on workshop towards becoming a data-analyst
Which companies are committing fraud? Which scientific hypothesis is correct? Do movie critics differ from regular consumers in their ratings? Whether it’s a fun or serious questio...
Machine Learning and Data Mining with Python
This 6-day course will familiarize participants with Machine Learning and Data Mining algorithms using the Python programming language. You will learn to recognize the correct mach...
Persistent Physical Symptoms
Patients with Persistent Somatic Symptoms (PSS) are functionally impaired, have lower quality of life so pose a substantial challenge to the population, healthcare and health polic...
Inter-organizational Networks: Managing Organizational Success in an Inter-connected
In today’s economy no organization is an island. Many resources that are critical for the performance of organizations are controlled by others. As a result, organizations are conn...
Rituals in Life
All cultures and religions have rituals to mark particular moments in life. In (semi-)public organizations such as education, justice, defense and care, professionals are challenge...
International Criminal Law: From Theory To Practice
This summer school enables students and professionals from all over the world to engage in discussions on the prospects and challenges of international criminal justice. It combine...
20th Century Mass-Housing RE3
This course gives a wide overview of the architectural solution of the residential development in Moscow of the 20th century. Following an introduction to the history of architectu...
Travelling Through the World of Pension Systems
Pensions are hot. All developed countries have pension systems. Nevertheless, many pensioners faced dramatic pension drops in recent years. And young people doubt whether they will...
Sustainable and Social Entrepreneurship: Triple Business Models
Can entrepreneurs save the world? In this 1-week summer intensive you will discover hands-on how the entrepreneurial mindset - backed up by entrepreneurial knowledge and skills - c...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
Whether you are a social scientist, a business analysist or a data journalist, analysing data is key to greater understanding of the world around us. Whether it’s understanding pol...
Discovering Holland
Seen from outside, the Netherlands seems like a country that has its things in order: neat streets guide you through our cities, straight canals transport our water and orderly pol...
Spanish for Beginners Summer Course
Are you planning on studying, doing an exchange program, or working in a Spanish-speaking country? Kickstart your Spanish skills in two short weeks in this small-scale Spanish inte...
Things That Matter
This fifth edition of the highly successful summer school Things That Matter addresses the tension between the materiality of sources and their digitization. The recent advances of...
Cultural Diversity: Theory and Practice
What can cross-cultural psychology tell you about your own cultural assumptions? Are you able to understand the unique challenges and benefits of living in a multicultural society?...
Current Issues in Environmental Science
This course will explore several current issues in environmental science. These may include air and water pollution, depletion of soil, overpopulation, and global climate change. T...
Applied Bayesian Statistics
This 5-day course zooms in on the key concepts of Bayesian Statistics and advanced techniques for data-analysis. Topics that are covered include: Bayes’ theorem, Gibbs sampling, th...
Human-Computer Interaction Studies: Methods and Application
Using computers to replace partners in interaction research is a fast growing new methodology. This course will provide background, tips and tricks, as well as brainstorm the ethic...
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Self-Control
This course will delve into the positive effects of self-control on academic and emotional development, and negative effects of its absence in disorders such as ADHD, substance abu...
Data-Driven Prevention Policy in Public Health
Ready for the public health challenges of the future? Do you want to learn the value of observational data for public health policy during hands on research sessions? Interested to...
Excellence beyond Borders: Breaking down Barriers in Gifted Education
For a long time we believed that smart students would make it on their own. That, however, is a misconception. Smart students can rapidly adapt to expectations and their peers thus...
Quantitative Data Analysis with R
This is an essential crash course for those who need to perform quantitative data analysis, from descriptive statistics up to regressions, and want to do it in open-source R softwa...
Personalized Medicine 101
Personalized medicine 101 covers the fundamentals of this challenging medical subject including the static and dynamic genomic analysis, rational drug design and their applications...
Imagining Southern Europe: Culture and Populism
Southern European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece face common social, cultural and economic challenges. These challenges require profound analysis and evaluatio...
Healthy Ageing
Ageing is related to problems both at societal as well as at individual level. Healthy ageing is part of the solution, and various disciplines are engaging in healthy ageing resear...
Experiments in Behavioural Economics: Methodology and Applications
The suggested course is a combination of lectures regarding the main insights from behavioral economics and the methodology of the both lab experiments and network analysis on peop...
Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
This Institute provides a strong foundation in international and comparative law. It offers a wide range of courses on, inter alia, human rights, trade law and criminal justice....
Research Summer School
The Core Research Methods for Business and Economics offers three intense courses, where researchers and practitioners from around the world can come together to learn and build re...
Ageing Brain
Are you fascinated by neurology and translational neurosciences? Are you interested in research as well as the clinical side? Do you enjoy working together with students from all o...
Religious Heritage in a Diverse Europe
The Centre for Religion and Heritage at the University of Groningen invites advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students to explore a new domain of inquiry in the study of reli...
Cultural Objects, Human Rights and International Law
The Summer School on Cultural Objects, Human Rights and International Law is a collaboration between the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus...
A Peaceful Mind: Mindfulness and Compassion-based Interventions
As 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...
Populism on the Loose in Europe and Beyond
While much of the study of present-day populism has focused on identifying features shared by populist movements or on populism as a social logic, this course looks at the variabil...
Justice for victims of conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking?
Thousands of men, women and children are forced into sexual slavery or raped during conflict-situations, and/or, when fleeing conflict, are forced by human traffickers into exploit...
Rhetoric-performative, Post-foundational Analysis in Social Sciences and Humanities
This course will familiarise the students with a distinct framework to study the relational nature of political meaning-making: rhetoric-performative analysis based on post-foundat...
Law, Literature, and Human Rights
Contemporary constant circulation and reshaping of human rights in the social imagination make it more and more difficult to grasp all their manifestations and all the echoes they...
Cooperative Law for Sustainable Development
If sustainable development is to be pursued seriously, enterprises need to take on an active role. They do so already by abiding by the slowly juridising Corporate Social Responsib...
Private International Law within the European Union
This course is an introduction to general principles of private international law with the emphasis on the unification of the conflict of law rules as the part of the integration p...
European Banking: Regulations, Strategies and Performance
The objective of this course is to introduce students to post crisis regulatory and strategic development in the EU banking. The financial crisis of 2007-09 stressed the need for a...
Electrical Engineering
The School provides the opportunity to attend intensive academic program, which is composed of different lectures in electrical engineering with experience from professors and expe...
Data Science
We offer 60 hour course that includes lectures and hands-on tutorials/laboratory sessions. This years’ edition will concentrate on Data Science and advanced analytics, similarly to...
Public Philosophy and Social Ontology
How do people live together? And how should they live together? Answering these questions requires a conception of society, and of the role that social practices, institutions and...
Starting Your Own Business
Do you want to know what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Or do you have a business idea, but don’t know how to take it forward? Join the Startup Summer School. During this one week...
Innovative Methods for Understanding Consumers and Political Orientation
The way we learn about consumers is evolving. This course examines the importance of consumer behavior, how we research consumers in both academic and applied contexts, and explore...
Winter School Enabling Technologies for Industrial Internet of Things (ET-I2oT 2018) 4th edition
The 4th Edition of the School “Enabling Technologies for Industrial Internet of Things” is organized to offer 48 hours of front lessons in the field of electronics, electromagnetic...
DISRUPTING RETAIL - DIGITALIZATION, GROWTH, AND USER ENGAGEMENT
The retail sector is facing fundamental change and disruption with the emergence of e-commerce, consumer access to information and comparable offers in an increasingly digitalised...
Managing Sustainable Forest Landscapes
This course seeks to enhance our understanding of forest ecosystem services, not least as the future of global forest resources is a daily concern in international policy debate an...
Spanish Intermediate Summer Course
Are you planning on studying, doing an exchange program, or working in a Spanish-speaking country? Do you have your A2 Level certification (Common European Framework) in Spanish? L...
Lecturing in the International Classroom
Do you find it difficult to teach to an international student audience? Are you able to you to get your message across? Can you facilitate and manage student discussions? Lectur...
Zebrafish in Biomedicine and Toxicology
Zebrafish are being used increasingly as animal models in neuro-behavioural and neuro-endocrine research. Reasons for this are the low costs, easy maintenance and a well-defined ge...
Transplantation Medicine
At the 2019 Transplantation Medicine Summer School, participants can expect to learn about the latest and greatest innovations in the field of transplantation medicine. This summer...
Supply Chain Management in Global Business: Making an Impact
How to keep supply chains running smoothly in a ‘bumpy’ global environment? If you live in Northern Europe and have eaten an avocado recently, you have benefited from a supply cha...
Religion, Peace & Non-Violence: Catholicism as a case
Learn firsthand how religion contributes equally to peace and war. In this 1-week summer intensive you will learn to distinguish between several levels of non-violence, receive tra...
Early Programming: How Early Life Shapes Human Development
This highly interactive course looks into a broad range of exciting and recently discovered environmental factors and mechanisms that shape early and long-term human development, u...
Dutch History, Politics and Culture
The Netherlands is a small country with a big history, whose legacy is global in impact. In the 17th century, The Netherlands was home to the first multinational and first stock-ex...
Beyond Horizons - Transmitting and Writing New Identities of Minorities and Migrants in Europe
This summer school will examine the function and meaning of cultural transfer of new narratives written by minorities and migrants. We will also study their works as important tool...
Buddhism and Psychology
Since the late nineteenth century, various forms of Buddhism have emerged from modernizing Asia and, with apparent ease, have penetrated new cognitive, spiritual and cultural domai...
How to Perform High Quality Preclinical Research Through Systematic Reviews
Animal experiments are only justified if they are designed, conducted and analysed in such a way that they produce the most reliable and relevant information. In this course, you w...
English for Academic Purposes Summer Course
Are you entering an English-language Bachelor's or Master's program and want to quickly take your academic English skills up to an appropriate starting level? This three-week inten...
Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
This 6-day course will familiarize participants with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and how to use SEM in testing theories that contain multiple equations involving dependence...
Illicit Trade
Money laundering. Terrorist finance. Drug trafficking. Arms smuggling. Illicit trafficking of wildlife, human body parts, and ancient historical artifacts. Tax havens. Proliferatio...
Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
Organised in cooperation with Duke University School of Law, ranked 1st in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, The Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnation...
International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice
This summer the Grotius Centre will host the fourth edition of the International Humanitarian Law Summer School. The course is designed by the Grotius Centre Kalshoven-Gieskes Foru...
Humor and Satire in Contemporary Europe
What is the role of humor and satire in contemporary democracies? Is the ‘right not to be offended’ more important than the ‘right to offend’? Questions such as these have become m...
Innovation in Medicine
After a highly successful run in 2018, the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of the University Medical Center Groningen is delighted to be organising the fourth Industry Perspect...
Dutch Intensive Summer Course
Are you entering a Dutch university for your BA or MA program or an exchange? Or are you an expat who has little or no knowledge of the Dutch language? DISC, Tilburg University’s i...
Providing Support to University Teachers in Internationalized Programmes
This summer school provides comprehensive support for the educational professionals who coach or train university teachers and lecturers in internationalized programmes. Interna...
Tradumatica Summer School: Translation Technologies
The Tradumàtica Summer School: Translation Technologies is an intensive course for people interested in automatised translation processes (Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Tr...
Reading Mystical Texts
The course offers a close-reading of a number of key mystical texts from the Christian tradition, from the early Middle Ages up to the 20th century. It introduces students into the...
Bone, Joint & Tendon Care
The goal of this second edition of our summer school in Bone, Joint & Tendon Care (BJTC) is to teach a yearly, English taught, a 7-day programme using a multidisciplinary approach...
State of the Art Radionuclide Imaging and Therapy in Oncology
This course will update you on the latest developments on the use of radionuclides for diagnosis, treatment monitoring and therapy in oncology, covering the range from basic radioc...
English as a Lingua Franca and Multilingualism
English has become a global language of intercultural communication and is used worldwide as a contact language between people who do not share a common native language. At the sam...
Addictive Behaviours: from the Bar to the Brain!
Addiction is among the leading causes of disability with an enormous societal impact. Radboud University offers a unique, interdisciplinary and innovative environment to learn abou...
Clinical Skills in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression: Hands-on Practice and Heads-on Theory
Considering a future in clinical psychology? In this unique course you will gain hands-on experience with evidence-based clinical interventions and innovative techniques in the tre...
European Human Rights Protection
The Council of Europe’s work in the field of human rights are now of significance across the globe. This course explores particular aspects of these innovative judicial and non-jud...
How to Become an Excellent Lecturer
Learn about learning and teaching in higher education and master teaching techniques by practicing them with your fellow participants. By adopting the perspective of both the stude...
The Curse of Natural Gas Resources
Energy is vital to every society and moreover, importantly we see in the world significant changes in the use of energy. As the Energy Academy Europe brings together relevant activ...
Data Analysis using STATA
The 6-day course is a practical introduction to statistic and econometric methods using STATA. You will improve your data handling, analysis and interpretation skills needed to car...
Search for New Physics with Low-Energy Precision Tests
The unexplained nature of dark matter and energy and the relative abundance of matter and antimatter are just two out of many reasons to expect physics beyond the Standard Model. I...
Heavy Metal Music in Contemporary History and Society
This course explores the development of the popular music style of Heavy Metal. The primary focus will be on the musical elements of the genre, then on its historical features and...
The Ins and Outs of Kidneys: from Physiomics to Transplantation
This intensive one-week course is directed at inter/national (graduate) students (master , PhD, early postdoc level) who wish to develop their knowledge and skills on state‐of‐the‐...
An Introduction to Data Visualisation and Cluster Analysis (using R)
Assume that you are responsible for the data analytics department of a small start-up company. This company has an online-only store where customers can buy different products. One...
Global Health
The 14th Summer School on Global Health will be organized this summer in collaboration with IFMSA-Groningen! The program consists of 8 full days with educational activities, wor...
Discover the Netherlands: Field trips to Amsterdam, Utrecht and Nijmegen
Do you want to get to know what Dutch culture entails? Then this is the right course for you! In these five days, you will get to know the Netherlands well. Not only will we tell y...
Cognitive Neuroscience of Sleep
Sleep is an enigma: why do we spend a third of our lives shut off from the world? We will explore the cognitive functions of sleep, including memory consolidation, emotional proces...
Challenges for the XXI Century: Data, Information and Communication
The summer school is devoted to modern developments in managing data from different disciplines: engineering, economics, social sciences, journalism, science, mathematics, medicine...
Creative Cross Cultural Communication
Course Creative Cross Cultural Communication is structured around attractive online activities, individual and collaborative. Course activities are supported by a course turor thro...
Blockchain Tech
Blockchain and distributed ledger technology have the potential to disruptively change and further automate the way we do (financial) transactions, supply-chain flows, and even gov...