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Courses 2021
Educational Change in Times of Rapid Technological Innovation
online courseEducational Change in Times of Rapid Technological Innovation is an intensive online course designed to provide an opportunity for learners to examine the development of technology...
International Electoral Observers
online courseOpen and legitimate elections are the indispensable foundation for sustainable development and an effective democracy. Actions supporting the right to participate in genuine electi...
Chemistry in Forensic Science
online courseLet’s connect to a streaming service and check what new uploads have been made. I can guarantee you in the last month, at least one of them related to true crime – either a documen...
Russian Language and Culture
online courseThe school provides a total feeling of presence in Russia. Unlike other platforms, we present the program that will give not only studies. We will take you to the beach, walk with...
Automating Your Research in Stata
online courseThis course aims to provide participants with the fundamental Stata programming toolkit in order to facilitate, automate, replicate and personalize both data analysis, management a...
Human Rights Defenders
The Global Campus of Human Rights is now accepting applications for the Venice School for Human Rights Defenders 2021. The School, organised in cooperation with the European Parlia...
Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Social Sustainability
top courseThis two-week practical training course, which is delivered in English, promotes understanding about and develops skills in managing the social risks and impacts associated with th...
Divided in Diversity - The European Union still in Crisis?
online courseIn the aftermath of the Second World War, for the first time in European history, former enemies created a political union in order to coordinate their economic and political activ...
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Infinity - How Big is Infinity?
online courseThis workshop uses a variety of intuitive visual proofs, interspersed with a tantalising sprinkling of mathematical analysis and technology to examine the beautiful and contradicto...
Translational School on Neuromuscular Diseases
online courseOur annual winter school, which in association with TREAT-NMD, is especially developed for researchers and clinicians interested in translational research. The following topics...
Hate speech, Discriminations and Inequality
top courseThe Summer School Hate speech, Discriminations and Inequality will be held in collaboration with the Université Grenobles-Alpes (Draine - Haine et rupture sociale : discours et per...
Artificial Intelligence for All
blended courseArtificial Intelligence (AI) became one of the most popular and influential area of technologies in the beginning of the XXI century. It passed a long way from the first steps (bac...
Social Science Switch
top course online courseThis online course enables students trained in the natural or medical sciences to switch to a social science mode of thinking, theorizing, reading and writing. Due to a number of i...
The IoT Physical Layer: Design and Implementation
online courseThe course is suitable as the first nanoelectronics course or an add-on course for senior undergraduate students and graduate students. The course program is focused on modern eng...
Sustainable Sustainable Architecture
blended courseSustainable-Sustainable Architecture is an English-taught postgraduate programme structured into online courses and practical workshops. The program focuses on architecture practic...
Analysing Micro Data In Stata
online courseTStat’s Analysing Micro Data in Stata course offers participants a comprehensive introduction to the principle methodologies used in the analysis of micro data. Micro data, which c...
Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative Medicine is revolutionizing healthcare. This interdisciplinary field draws upon the body’s own healing processes in order to repair, restore or regenerate tissues and...
Refrigeration and Cryogenics
online courseThe Refrigeration and Cryogenics winter school deals with the methods and technologies of obtaining below ambient temperatures. Refrigeration includes technologies used in such pop...
Next Mobility - Smart Data Sharing to Move Goods and People
Making a reality of data sharing based European values implies to deal with a variety of topics from architecture to certification, from interoperability to governance. All the su...
Beauty of Mathematical Proof
online courseThis Workshop addresses the foundations of mathematics – and indeed the nature of the construct of mathematics itself. Perspectives that are not normally covered in the taught comp...
Fashion Studies
online courseThe School is focused on recent developments in the field of International Law, and guides students through the central debates within the sphere. In real- time mode you will t...
Courses 2022
Europe at a Glance
online courseDuring this 14-day course you will participate in lectures concentrating on Doing Business with Europe(ans); Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe and Cultural Interactions wit...
Relativity and Beyond
online courseThe aim of this Enrichment Workshop is to, as much as possible, follow the approach and arguments used by Albert Einstein in his ground-breaking 1905 Paper: On the Electrodynamics...
Academic Writing Skills - From PhD Paper to Publication for Business School Students
top course online courseThe goal of this course is to help Business School students improve their academic writing skills. This course will provide you with the information and tools you need to brush up...
Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities
top course online courseThis two-week online winter course will look at legal, political and human ramifications of displacement around the world. In our online international classroom, we will discuss th...
Academic Writing in English
online courseThis course is ideal for anyone looking to improve their writing skills in English and is the perfect preparation for written component of IELTS, Cambridge English and TOEFL exams,...
Qualitative Analysis: from Interviews to Results
top course online courseThis course will help students hone their analysis skills and teach them how to take their own qualitative data and condense it into an overview of clear and expressible findings....
The Art and Science of Connecting: Interpersonal Neuroscience in Dance, Music, and Cinema
top course online courseThis online course aims to provide students with knowledge into the state-of-the-art in interpersonal neuroscience, basic research skills and tools for developing applications of i...
Meta-analysis: Know-how and Beyond
top course online courseMeta-analysis is essential for developing theories. This course helps students get to grips with the basic and advanced skills required for analysing data in open-science software....
German Language and Culture - Semi-Intensive German Language (A1-C1)
online courseSemi-intensive (3 times a week) German language classes on five different proficiency levels: from A1 to C1.
Image analysis for plant phenotyping
blended courseAre you looking for a complete overview of image analysis techniques for automatic plant phenotyping? The Winter School will provide a mixture of underlying theory and practical ha...
Foundations of Design Thinking
online courseDesign thinking is a powerful holistic process that focuses on people and their needs and experiences. The process is iterative and flexible, emphasizing the collaboration between...
The Anthropocene: Ecologies, Tensions, Futures
top course online courseThe Anthropocene - or Human Age - is a proposed geological and cultural epoch, marked by wide scale human intervention on our planet. But what are the costs of such 'dominance' for...
Unravelling Sociological Theory
online course»Discourse«, »network«, »co-operative action« or »post-ideology« are terms students of sociology and social sciences frequently find themselves confronted with nowadays. Terms that...
Machine Learning Theory and Application
blended courseThe course introduces students to the theoretical foundations of machine learning and data science, as well as to the solution of real business problems with the help of computer v...
Introduction to Western Esotericism
top course online courseThe goal of this course is to offer an introductory overview of the study of Western esotericism. In this two-week online winter course, we will investigate the key thematic aspect...
Qualitative Research into Health Professions Education
online courseIf you’re interested in the qualitative research process and how to go through it from start to finish, you’ll get a lot out of this course. On the way, we’ll consider all the esse...
IoT & AI + Croatian Language and Culture
The concept of Internet of Things has been around for a while. Now, thanks to advancements in AI, it is stepping up to a whole new level – bringing us truly smart IoT devices capab...
Our connection with a fast-changing Arctic
top courseThe Arctic Centre will host a Winter School, aimed at (inter-) national civil servants and policy makers, politicians, managers, financial experts, (young) academics and PhD studen...
Gestures: How to Analyse Forms, Functions, and Meanings
top course online courseIn this course, students will learn how to analyse gestures and incorporate this into the study of language, communication, and interaction. Research has shown that a person’s han...
Data Science with Python
online courseThis course will focus on Data Science with Python, starting with the basic of Python programming and machine learning algorithms to solving arbitrary complex models using graphica...
Space Technologies: Fundamentals
blended courseThe Winter School course "Space Technologies: fundamentals" is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students as the first space technology course or an add-on course. The...
Intercultural Philosophy in Global Times
top course online courseDiscover more about the origins of Intercultural Philosophy. New approaches are on the rise in Philosophy, and this course will help you reflect on which approach may be best suite...
German Politics
online courseGermany is the most populous democracy in the EU and one of the major players in European politics. Nevertheless, German politics with its specific features and complex structures...
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...
Cross Cultural Communication and Negotiation
online courseThis programme is designed to introduce the participants to the management of cross-cultural differences and leadership in the globalized world by being effective in communication...
Introduction to Estonia and Finno-Ugric Cultures and Nations
online courseAs Estonia is one of the Uralic nations, it is the best place to get to know Finno-Ugric cultures! A 6-lecture series on Finno-Ugric Studies provides an overview of the Finno-Ugric...
Estonian Language
online courseAcross the globe there are millions of people who can speak English, but only one million speak Estonian. The language is part of the Finno-Ugric group, related to Finnish and Hung...
German Language and Culture - Semi-Intensive German Language (A1-C1)
Semi-intensive (3 times a week) German language classes on five different proficiency levels: from A1 to C1.
Big Data: Theory and Application
blended courseWould you like to go deeper into big data processing and get acquainted with the students from all over the world staying home? This course was launched specially for you! Cours...
German Philosophy: From Kant to Habermas
online courseThe course will be based upon contemporary attempts at rethinking a global philosophical perspective. The focus is on the tension between the Enlightenment heritage of a universali...
Bootcamp: Ethnography and Design
top course online courseAre you familiar with ethnographic research and curious about how you can turn your insights into action and pitch your research to an interested organisation? Are you interested i...
Introduction to Python Programming
online courseThis python programming course provides participants with a solid understanding of basic python programming and some useful python modules, used mainly for data processing. The...
Designing Web Landing-Page for Entrepreneurship
online courseIn this course, the students will learn how to design a web landing-page that can be used for entrepreneurship. We will go over the whole design process, starting by identifying th...
Software and Sustainability: Towards an Ethical Digital Society
top course online courseThis course views sustainability as an integral part of software and aims to define a method that helps inform sustainability-driven design decisions. The future is digital, and...
Russian via Movies
online courseDuring the classes, we will watch movies, do some tasks based on the watched movie, analyze and discuss our impressions as well as do some writing exercises. We will have online se...
The Law, Economics and Engineering of Advanced Medical Technologies
top course online course'The Law, Economics and Engineering of Advanced Medical Technologies' is an international Winter School addressed to graduate students, young researchers and professionals, part of...
Introduction to Ethics
online courseHow do we justify our actions? How do we know whether we did the right thing? In this short course on ethics, we will critically examine the three major approaches to ethics that p...
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...
English Course for International University Students
online courseUCL (University College London) is a world-leading university (ranked 8th globally by QS in 2022), with an international reputation for high-quality research and teaching. The U...
Intensive Russian Language and Culture
blended courseCourses description: -Russian language (intensive) The course is open for the students with the levels A0-B2 (including absolute beginners). The course is aimed at obtaining a...
EU Policy Making
online courseFrom 7 to 18 February 2022, the Brussels School of Governance will organise its online Jean Monnet Winter School on EU Policy-Making, in collaboration with its partners the Univers...
Civil Engineering
blended courseThe outstanding winter school “Civil Engineering” is entirely carried out in English and is cut out for those who are keen on BIM technologies and energy-efficient buildings. C...
Entrepreneurship Tech
blended courseWinter School on Technology Entrepreneurship will show participants the way how to commercialize their ideas by guiding them through the processes of ideation, investigating the ma...
Cross-cultural School on Marketing and Entrepreneurship
blended courseBrief description: The program takes focus on the aspects of the global entrepreneurship involving cross-cultural marketing tools. Team up with students who joined the Summer Sc...
Econometrics of Networks
top course online courseThis course offers a concise introduction to the most recent econometric methods for processing, visualising, and learning from network data. Networks play an increasingly dominan...
Gender Studies Winter School
online courseStudy in London this winter! Spend an amazing week learning about gender across different disciplines – literature and culture, philosophy and sociology, media and communication...
Quantitative Finance: Financial markets
blended courseBecome an expert in the economics of quantitative finance with an emphasis on financial markets and asset pricing models. This course is designed to introduce you to the key princi...
Luxury Marketing Strategy
online courseDiscover and learn about luxury marketing strategy and brand management with a focus on French luxury brands. You will acquire a better understanding of what it means to create...
The European Union still in Crisis? Politics and Economics in Europe Today
online courseIn the aftermath of the Second World War, for the first time in European history, former enemies created a political union in order to coordinate their economic and political activ...
Bioengineering
blended courseThe course is suitable as the first bioengineering course or an add-on course for senior undergraduate students and graduate students. The primary objective of the course is to...
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...
Narrative Studies Winter School
online courseThe winter school will cover the key concepts and ideas of narrative theory and will offer an opportunity of creative engagement in storytelling and narrative interpretation. While...
Digital Marketing + Croatian Language and Culture
The course will introduce students to digital marketing strategies and user behaviour, from content marketing, search, social to analytical tools used to track the success of digit...
Project Management for Sustainable Development
blended courseTWe invite you to get acquainted with the fascinating world of project management, where you will learn the methods of project planning and implementation, the features of project...
Digital Engineering in Micro- and Nanoelectronics
blended courseBrief description: The course is more suitable for senior undergraduate students and graduate students. This is a program developed in cooperation with industrial partners. S...
Russian for Beginners
online courseDuring the classes, we will cover such topics as introducing yourself, hobbies, time and season of the year, weather, school life, visiting shops and cafes. There will be online se...
Programming in Java
online courseJava's unique architecture enables programmers to develop a single application that can run across multiple platforms seamlessly and reliably. In this course, students gain extensi...
Design of Digital Services for Health Behaviour Change
online courseDigital solutions can prevent and manage healthcare issues faster and more effectively both at the personal and societal levels. E-health innovations are proved to promoting health...
Introduction to Sub-Molecular Medical Sciences
online courseThe aim of this course is to take a single concept in quantum mechanics and demonstrate it with practical application. The course shall apply the same teaching methodology employed...
Research-creation: merging the critical and the creative
online courseThis course invites students to rethink and re-evaluate the standard methods of thinking, knowing, and doing within academia. We will highlight artistic practise as a path to resea...
Supply Chain Strategy Development and Deployment
blended courseWinter School of Supply Chain Strategy Development and Deployment will show participants the way how to create a competitive Supply Chain Strategy based on Competitive Strategy and...
Space Mission Design
online courseParticipants of this course will design a space mission in an interdisciplinary group. The group will choose their own mission idea to conduct a feasibility study. Each participant...
HR Analytics and Human Capital Development
blended courseBrief description: The program provides a unique chance to study in Saint-Petersburg. The purpose of the program is to provide students with knowledge on aspects of human capit...
Gamification/Design of Serious Games
online courseSerious games and gamification are different things – serious games are designed to achieve some serious goal, gamification is the use of game elements in a non-game context and no...
The European Union in the 21st Century: Internal and External Challenges
The course will introduce the basics of the European Union and describe and explain the processes of widening and deepening of this unique political entity. This will cover an over...
Experimental Interaction Design
This is a two-week extensive hands-on course in interaction design. The main goal of the course is to empower people to shape their digital environment thus providing a new level o...
Smart Manufacturing and Digital Future
blended courseBrief description: The program provides students fundamental and applied research activities in the field of intelligent robotics and control systems; practicing innovative tech...
The Cold War
Over the course of the Cold War, the city of Berlin was frequently at the centre of global tensions and a potential front line should the superpower rivalry descend into actual war...
Economic Ethics: Can the Market be Moral?
Modern capitalist market economy is an extremely powerful instrument to create wealth and to satisfy human demands – and to exploit, alienate and destroy the very societies it is s...
Digital Transformation Series: Your Disruptive Advantage in the Digital Economy
top course online courseDigital technologies have taken on a significant role with regards to many aspects of businesses. The introduction of new digital functionalities can drive competitive industries f...
International Communication
online courseDiscover and learn how to apply tools and methods to communicate effectively in an International context in various situations. Based on a workshop approach, students will learn...
Programming in Python (beginners)
top course online courseIn this course you will learn how to solve problems using structured programming. We will use the Python language, but the skills and principles taught in this course apply to any...
Imagining the City's Post-Covid Public Realm
The current pandemic has stressed urban environments, accelerating and augmenting pre-existing challenges to cities and urban population centers. For example, increased availabilit...
The German Winter Summit
Frankfurt School is excited to offer, in January 2022, its first ever edition of the Winter School! During the two-week programme, students will stay in three of Germany's most imp...
Economic Evaluation in Health Care
top course online courseThis course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the design and conduct of cost-effectiveness studies. Cost-effectiveness is becoming essential in decision-making processes...
The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
top course online courseThroughout this course, we will explore modern-day terrorism from a theoretical angle and from an empirical perspective. After defining and delineating particular types of terroris...
Intercultural Competence
top courseDo you want to help others develop their intercultural competence? “How can we develop in ourselves and others the necessary mastery and concomitant humility required to be effe...
Doing Business in Russia
blended courseWithin this winter course you will gain knowledge about Russian business, culture, identity, national history, government, customs and traditions. Course description: 1) Doin...
Kick Start Your Career: Academic Skills During and After University
top course online courseThe goal of this online course is to identify your transferable skills, and how to put them into practice in order to gain the most out of your degree. Understanding your options,...
Cross Cultural Communication and Negotiation
This programme is designed to introduce the participants to the management of cross-cultural differences and leadership in the globalized world by being effective in communication...
Political Economy
top course online courseTo what extent does the economy determine the type of policies a government pursues? And how much sway over the economy does a government have? The fields of politics and economics...
Research Integrity: How to Conduct Responsible Research
top course online courseThis course reviews research integrity in academia in both the conduct of science, the evaluation of science, the peer review system and in the academic community at large. This...
Introduction to Sub-Molecular Agricultural Sciences
online courseThe aim of this course is to teach students how to take a single idea in quantum mechanics and demonstrate it through practical application. The course shall apply the same teachin...
Cyber Security + Croatian Language and Culture
online courseGet to know the “dark side“ of security and how to use “the force“ the right way. In this course, the students will learn how to use their computer without exposing it to most of t...
Russian Language
online courseIt is a well-established fact that the best way to learn a foreign language is to connect with a country where it is spoken. Estonia is on the threshold of the Russian Federation a...
Careers in (Post-) COVID times: Successful but not alone?!
online courseThis course introduces students to a variety of crucial discussion points surrounding sustainable career theory. Take this course if you’re interested in learning more about the...
Flow for Scientists and Innovators
online courseThe course will prepare you to enter the world of entrepreneurship by taking advantage of accelerating trends in technology, social organisation & culture. Learn how to make a wide...
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
online courseArtificial Intelligence has made its way into our everyday language and news cycles. Yet, it is still hard to define what exactly an AI is. In this course you will learn why. We wi...
Croatian Language & Culture
The Croatian Language and Culture course will help students learn the very basics of Croatian and offer an excellent insight into the Croatian culture. Students will learn to read...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
top course online courseThis online winter course can be completed at your own pace, and will introduce you to the field of Urban Studies through a series of pre-recorded lectures by our team of experts....
Data Analysis in R
top course online courseWith the increasing use of statistical languages like R in data analysis, now is the time to get to grips with them! In this course, we’ll start out with the data structures pre...
Sustainable Business: Strategy & Innovation
online courseOur global challenges like climate change, social inequality and economic development mean that sustainability is more than a buzzword: The concept is being operationalized by comp...
Winter School in Medical Engineering
Join us for a five-day event filled with lectures, workshops and lab work with the focus on "Prosthetics, Materials and Medical Simulations", rounded up by cultural activities and...
ImprovEnglish
The ImprovEnglish course is designed to give students with an existing knowledge of English a deep grounding in practical speaking that can be used in social and professional situa...
Mining industry, CSR and Local Development
top coursePreliminary findings show that the main use of gypsum in Tanzania is for the road construction and cement production. The gypsum produced in Makanya Ward has been transported to ce...