Philosophical Lessons from and for The 'Post-Truth Era'
In the aftermath of the Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, both Oxford English Dictionaries and the Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache declared 'post-truth' or 'postfaktisch'...
Personalized Medicine 101
Personalized or precision medicine relies on tailor-made diagnosis and treatments for patients, based on the differences among the molecular background of individuals. This challen...
Clinical Skills in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression: Hands-on Practice and Heads-on Theory
This unique Radboud Summer School course will provide you with hands-on knowledge and experience with evidence-based techniques as well as experimental innovative interventions for...
Current Issues in Environmental Science
This course will explore various issues in environmental science, including air and water pollution, biodiversity, and global climate change, from various perspectives including sc...
Pre-University Honours Programme: Journalis,
2020: the threshold of a new decade. The 2020’s are poised to be challenging years that will grapple with massive topics that touch the lives of people across the globe. The role o...
Food from Field to Fork
Recent discussions about health, food safety and an awareness of vanishing traditions have resulted in an increasing interest in traditional foods and food heritage. The summer sch...
The Ins & Outs of Kidneys - from Physiomics to Transplantation
In the 1960s, people with kidney failure had little hope of survival. Dialysis was considered an extraordinary treatment and restricted to very few. Transplantation was still exper...
Marketing and Consumer Behaviour - An Applied Learning Experience
Fundamental and Applied Knowledge This course immerses you in innovative marketing applications where you experience first-hand how consumer preferences, needs and behaviors affec...
Serious Gaming for Supporting and Analyzing Decision-Making Processes in Urban Regions
Nowadays, urban and regional planning is about connecting action agendas and shared motivations, building alliances and partnerships to orchestrate collaborative action. ‘Collabora...
Gender & Diversity Studies: Core Concepts
The interdisciplinary Summer School course Gender & Diversity Studies: Core concepts is based in the academic work that is being done at Radboud University Nijmegen and will be tau...
Contemporary Art - Strategies to Develop and Refine Your Ideas
The goal of the course is to transform you from a consumer to a maker in the cultural field. Q&A sessions, lectures and dinners with the makers of the Biennale and its satellite...
Introduction to Methods of Social Network Analysis with R
After the success of three Editions of the Workshop "Introduction to Social Network Analysis", the Department of Political Science of the University of Pisa is now organizing an In...
Experiments in Behavioral Economics - Methodology and Applications
A usual complaint about economic theory courses we hear from students sounds like "but it does not work like this in real life!" Unfortunately, studying general cases takes too mu...
Radboud in'to Languages English Boost Camp Workshops
During the week we will be offering the following five workshops: • Grammar • Emailing • Presenting with Impact • the Power of Words and Pronunciation The aim of each work...
Brexit-The Legal and Constitutional Implication for the UK and 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...
European Banking - Strategic and Regulatory Issues
The objective of this course is to introduce you to the post crisis regulatory and strategic development in the EU banking. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 have illustrated th...
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...
Brain, Bacteria and Behaviour: Understanding the Gut-Brain Axis
To understand behaviour, we often think only of studying the brain. However, there is another key system, almost always overlooked, involved in the normal functioning of the brain:...
Practical Mixed Effect Regression Modelling for Psychology and Language Science
This course is a practical guide to mixed effect modelling, a cutting-edge regression method important for cognitive and social science. It is structured as 50% lecture and 50%...
EU International Succession Law
The course EU International Succession Law consists of the detailed overview of the EU Succession Regulation on jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition and enforcement of fore...
Making [Systematic] Literature Reviews Work for You
This course about [systematic] literature reviews is based on the methods for systematic reviews across all disciplines. It is necessary to know about these methods because the vas...
An Introduction to Visualisation and Modelling of Spatial data (in R)
Suppose you are a public health consultant and you have recently implemented a national policy with the aim to reduce health inequalities across your country. You are of course als...
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 course. During this one week...
Advanced Life Cycle Impact Assessment Modelling
Focused on understanding the strengths and limitations of determining environmental impacts of a product with Life Cycle Assessment methods, this course will provide you state-of-...
Complexity Methods for Behavioural Science: A Toolbox for Studing Change
Complexity 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...
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...
English Boost Camp Workshops
During the week we will be offering the following five workshops: • Grammar • Emailing • Presenting with Impact • the Power of Words and Pronunciation The aim of each work...
Acting in the Anthropocene: Rethinking a Planet in Crisis
The Anthropocene is a proposed term for the current geological earth era, in which humans are having a defining and irreversible impact on the planet’s biosphere, atmosphere and na...
Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Chatbots, robots, smart agents in virtual reality – social computers are popping up everywhere. With the commercialization of chatbots and virtual reality, our society is becoming...
A New View on Vessels: State-of-the-art Tools for Comprehensive Insight into Vascular Function
This unique course, building on the world-leading expertise within the Radboudumc, aims to expand knowledge and skills on state-of-the-art (imaging) technology and developments in...
Multilateralism, Globalization & Corporate Diplomacy
Does climate crisis spell the end of human civilization or a chance for a major breakthrough in global cooperation and multilateralism? Is the resurgence of nativist attitudes a tr...
Analizing Sign Language Data
Taught by a deaf signing teacher, this course teaches you methods in data handling and analysis – specifically ELAN, Python, and R – which can be applied to a wide range of researc...
Lecturing in the International Classroom (Aug)
Start the new academic year with an in-depth look at everything it takes to give great lectures, engage with your audience and work with an international classroom. This 5-day inte...
Building World's Most Trusted Robot
New technologies can be either blessings or devils in device. In the traditional view on the social sciences and humanities in relation to technology, these disciplines are believe...
Peer relations and interactions in childhood and adolescence
Children and adolescents spend a significant amount of time each day in the company of peers. Together with their peers, children acquire a wide range of skills, attitudes and expe...
Citizenship and Migration: Europe's 21st century Challenges
In this course we will explore the interconnected fields of citizenship and migration in the European Union with a view to understand relevant policies and laws affecting migrants...
Social Media Theory and Research
Understanding social media in everyday life in political communication on social media, the news on social media to entertainment of social media. Social media (such as Twitter...
Discover the Netherlands: field trips to Amsterdam, Utrecht & 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...
Sometimes Crime IS the Rational Choice
This course offers an advanced introduction to the various theoretical explanations that criminological and criminal justice researchers use to explain deviant, criminal, and/or cr...
Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications
Introduction to state of the art developments in the theory of Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications with emphasis on harmonic and numerical analysis, nu...
Brain Imaging Genetics: Genetics for Imagers
The course is directed at national and international researchers with a neuroimaging background, who wish to develop their knowledge and skills on state‐of‐the‐art developments in...
Introduction to Design Thinking and Service Design
Companies around the world are realizing that good design is good business. The increasing awareness of how design can help create value for companies is definitely leading more an...
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...
A Human Rights Perspective on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
This summer school course aims to create insight into human rights law as it applies to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) iss...
Migrant Inclusion in Policy and Practice
With increasing migration to Western Europe, inclusion and integration have become buzz words in politics, media and private and public organizations. When following the public deb...
Stress & Cognition - From Basic Mechanisms to Psychopathology
Stress research: an interdisciplinary approach Stress has a major impact on brain function. This effect is mediated by a host of neurochemical changes that act at time-scales rang...
Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Global Business: Making an Impact
How to keep supply chains running smoothly in a ‘bumpy’ global environment? How to integrate social and ecological aspects across supply chains while creating economic value? If yo...
International Business Law
In today's globalized world, international business and the laws regulating it are no longer distinct disciplines. Whether you are just entering the working world or are still a st...
Perfecting your Academic Writing Skills (July)
Although writing is one of the most essential skills for a PhD student, many are not the productive super writers they would like to be. During this one week course, experienced wr...
Alternative Walks of the Talk? Designing Diversity Trainings
Induced by frequent criticism of many common diversity management trainings as ineffective, this course explores underlying reasons of ineffectiveness and developing alternative tr...
PhD's Adventures in Wonderland - Exploring Resilience in Academia
Research shows that numbers of Ph.D.-students who experience stress, depression, burn-out etc. are alarming and a lot higher than in other professions, such as health care and acco...
Legal Technology and Operations
Can we use algorithms to predict court decisions? Can we design routine contracts in a way that parties understand them without a lawyer? Can we teach machines to exercise due dili...
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
• How do you perceive and act? • How do you speak and listen? • How do you remember? • What goes wrong when a person suffers from aphasia, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease?...
Pre-university Honours Programme: Sustainable Cities
This 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...
Licensing Transactions in Intellectual Property
This program is organized jointly by the Center for Transnational IP, Media and Technology Law and Policy of Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany and UC Hastings College of the La...
Machine-Learning for the Social & Behavioural Sciences
How can we understand how societies become polarized using Twitter data? How might we extract emotion dynamics from individual time series data? In order to answer research questio...
Private International Law within the European Union - Contractual and Non-Contractual Obligations
Nowadays it is more and more common that legal relationships have cross-border character. We sign contracts with people who reside in another country, we work in international comp...
The Politics of Suspicion
Fake news, post truth, and the normalization of conspiracy theory: the world today is rife with suspicion. But what circumstances allow for a global culture of suspicion to flouris...
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 who want to do it in the open-source...
Travel, Tombs and Troy: Wandering around the Roman and Byzantine World
Rocky roads, unpredictable rivers and rugged mountain ranges. Travelers in the Roman and Byzantine Empire experienced lots of challenges in reaching their destinations. However, th...
Governing Climate Resilient Cities. Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices
This Course is the result of a partnership of UN Habitat and the University of Pisa. It tackles the complex issue of governing climate resilient cities, assessing in a comparative...
Struggles for Citizenship at Work-Contemporary Perspectives
This course has three main objectives: 1) to introduce students to the classic theories and models of citizenship at work (also called industrial citizenship) and worker collective...
Europe's Unity in Value Diversity
Europe is changing fast. Confronted with challenges like Artificial Intelligence and a continuing influx of refugees, public opinion is argued to become increasingly polarized, and...
Migration, Integration, and Social Networks
The nexus between international migration and social networks is crucial in understanding different phases of migration experience. It is well-established that personal links to pr...
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 t...
Italian Language and Culture
The intensive courses of Italian of the Summer School are planned according to the aims and objectives of the Common European Framework and are therefore divided into A1, A2, B1,...
Perfecting your Academic Writing Skills (Aug)
Although writing is one of the most essential skills for a PhD student, many are not the productive super writers they would like to be. During this one week course, experienced wr...
Slavery, Forced Migration and Indentured Labour: New Approaches
The growing stream of data available in our era means that history, arts and humanities students need extra skills to make the most of the historical ‘Big Data’ available. This...
Chemometrics: Introduction to Advanced Data Analysis
During your chemical career, you will generate lots of data. Only with advanced data analysis methods, this data ‘tsunami’ can be made insightful and interpreted further. During th...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
Understanding patterns in data is crucial for understanding human societies and making sound decisions. Learn R and Rstudio to become a modern data scientist in the social sciences...
Integrative X-omics Analyses Empowering Personalized Healthcare
Molecular indicators for health, disease and response to treatment are increasingly guiding personalized healthcare. At the same time, single biomarkers will never fully reflect th...
The Marshmallow Test: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Self-Control
The springboard for the course is the “marshmallow test” (Walter Mischel, Ph.D.) in which preschoolers were given a choice between one marshmallow available immediately or two mars...
Molecules, Mice and Math - A Statistical Toolbox for the Lab
• Why do I always have to repeat my experiments 3 times? • How should I analyse qPCR data? • I always see clearly the effect of the treatment on cells, however due to large varia...
Emergence in Physics
This is the first Summer School course organized by DIEP, The Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena. Intended for advanced Master’s students, PhDs, postdocs, and beyond, the gener...
An Introduction to Data Visualisation and Cluster Analysis (Using R)
The problem with too much data We’re currently living in the most data rich period of human history (to date). Which seems like it should be a good thing but data does not neces...
Collecties in beweging. Op zoek naar de dynamiek van erfgoedcollecties
Erfgoedcollecties zijn rijk aan objecten: boeken, documenten en voorwerpen. Vaak worden deze geraadpleegd of onderzocht als op zichzelf staande bronnen: een bibliotheek wordt bezoc...
Sign Language Documentation
This course is aimed at students who are in the beginning phases of working with sign language data. In the past fifteen years, there have been many new technological developmen...
Venice Biennale Revealed - Behind the Scenes Experience
The Venice Biennale is the oldest and most prestigious art and architecture show in the world. The Venice Biennale Revealed course allows you to explore this large and complex even...
Activism and Social Change
Student protests, climate strikes, anti-racism rallies and women’s marches are just a few examples of activism today. Large groups of people are finding their way from social media...
Addictive Behaviours, on the Bar, the Brain and Civilization
Addiction is among the most prevalent psychiatric conditions worldwide, with a huge impact on the individual and the society as a whole. At the same time, addiction is a concept wh...
Quantum in the Summer
One of today’s most fascinating fields of research and innovation involves applying quantum phenomena to new technology called quantum computers. The belief is that these technolog...
Venetian Architecture and the Heritage of Carlo Scarpa
The studio will explore the architecture and the art of display of Carlo Scarpa, and their relationship to his native city. How did the palimpsest-like space of Venice inspire Carl...
Existential Questions Regarding Life Issues. An Intercultural and Integrated Approach
On 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...
How Health Systems Work
Health care is among the most regulated sectors, involving myriad of institutions, legislation and governing bodies, which are all concerned in providing the best care for the pati...
Lecturing in the International Classroom (July)
Start the new academic year with an in-depth look at everything it takes to give great lectures, engage with your audience and work with an international classroom. This 5-day inte...