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AI in Higher Education

Explore how AI tools can reshape your education! Our program designed for teachers examines AI's impact on learning outcomes, activities, and assessments, ensuring effective integration at all levels of learning.

Arts in Health

Participants will be introduced to the emerging, transdisciplinary field of arts in health. They will get familiar with how the arts can support well-being, prevent compassion fatigue, and encourage healthy living.

Corporate Governance and the Effectiveness of Boards

What do boards do? How do they contribute to the performance of the company they represent? In this summer school we answer these questions using research insights from a variety of disciplines.

Developing Across Differences

Enhance your skills, expand your network and be inspired at the European Developing Across Differences (DAD) Learning Lab & Community Week. 9 unique programmes to choose from during one week!

Discourses of Sustainability Transitions

Learn what the impact of discourse is on climate change, social and environmental justice. Then, work with societal stakeholders to develop powerful communicative platforms using effective rethoric.

Effective Teaching for the Future (SumSET)

Participants will learn about the state-of-the-art of effective teaching and will work together in mixed and diverse groups to put theory into practice.

Empowering Educational Developers to Train University Teachers

A summer school for those who support or train university teachers so they can design new, or re-design existing, teacher training programmes in their own institutions.

Energy Challenge – an interdisciplinary approach

This summer school is an exploration into the complexities of energy transition through an interdisciplinary lense. It provides an opportunity to engage with real-time energy challenges and work on solutions for them.

Fate and Impact of (Micro- and Nano-) Plastics on Health

Are you interested in global challenges? Join our interdisciplinary summer school on microplastics! You will learn from experts from different fields, design solutions, (net)work with peers and go on excursions!

Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Growth

The financial inclusion summer school will provide insight into how financial inclusion can induce sustainable growth in low-income economies, with explicit attention paid to African countries.

Islands as Lighthouses for Sustainability (ISLAS)

Explore key topics around marine and land planning on islands, use spatial data and perform spatial analyses for different aspects of planning in selected island settings and develop your research and analysis skills. All in Mytilini, on Lesvos Island, in Greece.

Religion, Equity and Environmental Justice

Explore how religion, equity, and environmental justice intersect through interdisciplinary debate, hands-on workshops, and academic skills training in an international summer school setting.

Sustainable local development and the mining industry

Designed for those interested in the impact of businesses on local development in developing countries, this summer school offers a unique blend of theory, field-work, cross-cultural competence development, networking and excursions.

Things That Matter

Curate a virtual exhibition, engage in critical debates on Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage and learn the latest technical tools through hands-on sessions in an international team of students and practitioners.

Understanding and Preventing Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

Throughout this summer school, students and researchers will take a dive into the field of suicide prevention, to better understand this tragedy in relation to challenges that the field of suicide prevention currently faces.

Women and Girls, Education and Work in Uganda's Complex Context

Empower communities, tackle climate challenges, and spark change! Join us in Uganda to explore rural entrepreneurship, women-led innovation, and action research through workshops, field practice, and community engagement.