ENLIGHT joint courses

Are you ready to embark on a transformative educational journey across boundaries? Join us as we redefine education and empower you to shape your future! Check out the student video about ENLIGHT's challenge-based courses. 

This page displays the ENLIGHT joint learning opportunities. Check out the Course Catalogue for the full offer of all ENLIGHT universities. There you can also find information on the application process.  

Please note that the application deadlines mentioned below can be different in your home institution.

Glossary:

  • Blended intensive programme: consists of an online component and a short on-site component hosted by the organizing university.
  • Virtual course: all lessons and assessments are carried out online.
  • Entry requirements: B2 level in English
  • Courses – Focus area: Global Engagement
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Type: virtual course
  • Host: University of Bordeaux
  • Course dates: 4 March - 8 April 2025
  • Apply by: 19 February 2025
  • ECTS: 3

AI systems need careful regulations due to their deep potential impact in every aspect of our lives. AI professionals and legal practitioners will need to work hand-in-hand; this course will enable both profiles to understand each other´s works.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: 6 January - 11 April 2025

Apply by: 15 November 2024

  • Entry requirements: Bachelor´s Degree level (3rd or 4th year), Master or PhD students with an AI or law profile
  • Courses – Focus area: Digitalisation, Equity
  • Study Field: Science and Technology, Economics and Law
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: University of the Basque Country
  • Course dates: 6 January - 11 April 2025
  • Apply by: 15 November 2024
  • ECTS: 6
  • Number of places available: Students per partner university : 3 with a technical profile (AI related, computer science, maths, etc.) and 3 with a laws profile.
  • Level: Master, PhD

This course is intended as a broad introduction to the topic of Artificial Intelligence and its significance to a broad range of global challenges, and related areas of study.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: 13 January - 11 April 2025

Apply by: 15 November 2024

  • Entry requirements: B2 level in English
  • Courses – Focus area: Digitalisation
  • Study Field: Science and Technology
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: University of Galway
  • Course dates: 13 January - 11 April 2025
  • Apply by: 15 November 2024
  • ECTS: 5 - 6 (depending on your institution)
  • Number of places available: 5 per partner university
  • Level: Bachelor, Master 1

Cultures interact, influence and transform one another. By examining the processes of travel, translation, and migration, students will gain insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by cultural exchanges.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: March - 19 May 2025

Apply by: 15 November 2024

  • Entry requirements: Master or PhD students
  • Courses – Focus area: Climate Change
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: University of the Basque Country
  • Course dates: March - 19 May 2025
  • Apply by: 15 November 2024
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: 3 per ENLIGHT university (waiting lists are welcome, in case any applicants drop out)
  • Level: Master, PhD

In this course, students acquire qualifications for the use of Deep Learning algorithms for forestry applications.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: 13 January - 21 March 2025

Apply by: 15 November 2024

  • Courses – Focus area: Digitalisation
  • Study Field: Science and Technology
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: University of Bordeaux
  • Course dates: 13 January - 21 March 2025
  • Apply by: 15 November 2024
  • ECTS: 6
  • Number of places available: For University of Göttingen, Groningen & Bordeaux: 10 per partner. Other universities: can place students on the waiting list.
  • Level: Bachelor 3, Master 1, Master 2
  • Entry requirements: 120 credits with min. 30 credits in medical science, biology, agricultural science, environmental science or social science. Proficiency in English.
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Climate Change
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Course dates: 12 May - 30 May 2025
  • Apply by: 15 November 2024
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: 3 per ENLIGHT university
  • Level: Master

This course introduces students to theoretical and methodological tools from the research fields of justice, urban studies, and sustainable development, in order to teach synergetic approaches to the study of just sustainable cities.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: 20 January - 8 June 2025

Apply by: 15 November 2024

  • Entry requirements: Bachelor's degree. Proficiency in English.
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Climate Change, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities, Social Sciences
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Course dates: 20 January - 8 June 2025
  • Additional course dates: On-site period: 18-27 February 2025
  • Apply by: 15 November 2024
  • ECTS: 7,5
  • Number of places available: 3 per ENLIGHT university
  • Level: Master

This course aims to prepare student teachers to address challenges related to global citizenship in their future classroom. It discusses two challenges: dealing with diversity in education and inclusive education.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: 12 March - 26 May 2025

Apply by: 15 November 2024

  • Courses – Focus area: Equity
  • Study Field: Social Sciences
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: University of Groningen
  • Course dates: 12 March - 26 May 2025
  • Apply by: 15 November 2024
  • ECTS: 3
  • Number of places available: 5 per partner university
  • Level: Master

Planetary Health is a solutions-oriented, transdisciplinary field and social movement focused on analyzing and addressing the impacts of human disruptions to Earth’s natural systems on human health and all life on Earth.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 30 October - 27 November 2024

Registration closed

  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Digitalisation, Climate Change, Energy and Circular Economy, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Type: virtual course
  • Host: University of Groningen
  • Course dates: 30 October - 27 November 2024
  • Apply by: 1 October 2024
  • ECTS: 2
  • Number of places available: 30-40 in total
  • Level: Bachelor, Master

Agriculture is the most important way of food production, but how did it emerge and become so successful? This course will lead the students through the early stages of agriculture. Besides an overview over its emergence and spread, the course will provide solid insights into the important methods and current debates.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 8 October - 10 December 2024

Registration closed

  • Courses – Focus area: Climate Change
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Type: virtual course
  • Host: University of Bern
  • Course dates: 8 October - 10 December 2024
  • Apply by: 30 September 2024
  • ECTS: 3
  • Level: Bachelor, Master

How can you use your language skills in the global conversation about climate change? This course brings together students and scholars with interests in multilingualism, translation, globalisation and the environmental humanities, to reflect on how to build a more equitable and respectful conversation on climate change.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: September 2024

Registration closed

  • Courses – Focus area: Climate Change, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities, Social Sciences
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: University of Galway
  • Course dates: September 2024
  • Apply by: Registration closed
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: Galway: 6 students, other partners: 3 per university, subject to availability
  • Level: Master, PhD

University education aims to introduce critical thinking by dissecting complex ideas and questioning assumptions. This course focuses on developing critical thinking skills and fostering effective online and in-person communication through a Ted-Talk style presentation.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)

Course dates: 21 October - 6 December 2024

Registration closed

  • Courses – Focus area: Equity
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ funding)
  • Host: Comenius University Bratislava
  • Course dates: 21 October - 6 December 2024
  • Apply by: Registration closed
  • ECTS: 3
  • Number of places available: 10 from the organizing universities (CU, UGOE, UBx). Students from other partners are invited to apply, max 2 students per university (total 10p)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
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