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Adapting to Climate Change: Ecosystem Services of Urban Green Zones

This interdisciplinary course aims to explore the complexity of ecosystem services provided by urban green areas in relation to the well-being of citizens under climate change threats. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 12 May - 30 May 2025 Apply by: 15 November 2024

AI and Law

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+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 6 January - 11 April 2025 Registration closed

AI and Law: Technical and Legal Challenges

This course explores the intersection of AI and law, equipping professionals from both fields to collaborate effectively across the AI system life cycle. Type: virtual course Course dates: 12 Jan - 24 Apr 2026 Apply by: 15 November 2025

AI for everyone 2025

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+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 13 January - 11 April 2025 Registration closed

Applied Cryptography

The course introduces cryptographic concepts and their use in real-world applications without delving into formal definitions and math. Type: virtual course Course dates: 1 Sep - 16 Dec 2025 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Applied Cryptography Spring 2026

This course introduces cryptographic concepts and their use in real-world applications without delving into formal definitions and math. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 26 May 2026 Apply by: 26 January 2026

Behavioural Approaches to Sustainability Challenges

This course focuses on the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development through the lens of experimental game theory/behavioral economics. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 6 Oct 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Registration closed

Bionanotechnology

This course highlights the importance and unique possibilities of nanotechnology in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. Type: virtual course Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Cardiovascular Psychology 2025

The course aims at increasing knowledge about the psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease. The course content will cover causes of mental illness in cardiovascular disease and psychological treatments in this setting. Risk factor management is a major challenge for both primary and secondary prevention and it is, to a large extent, behavioural. Type: virtual course Course dates: 29 Sep – 5 Dec 2025 Registration closed

Challenging Disability Barriers: Encountering and overcoming limitations

In this project course students analyse the situation of people with impairments, collaborate with support groups and identify and carry out projects to address the challenges they identify. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 9 Feb - 17 Apr 2026 Apply by: 15 November 2025

Climate Histories: Science and Art in the Public Space

This course coincides with the conference "Climate Histories", focusing on how we can understand and re-evaluate established interpretations of how societies can adapt and transform in an era of accelerating climate change. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 7 - 31 Aug 2025 Registration closed

Collaborating in Planetary Health

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: 26 March - 16 April 2025 Registration closed

Communication Skills: Successful Online Interaction in Pluricultural Contexts

This course develops students’ skills for effective communication in online and pluricultural environments, with a focus on intercultural competence, digital etiquette, and adapting communication styles across platforms. Type: virtual course Course dates: 29 Oct 2025 - 11 Feb 2026 Apply by: 30 September 2025

Complex Solutions to Environmental Problems

Interested in how to comprehensively address global and local environmental problems related to specific sources of pollution? Join us for this blended intensive programme. Type: virtual course Course dates: 19 February - 24 May 2024 (Onsite week: 13-17 May) Registration closed

Computational Materials Physics

In this course, you will learn to compute various properties of crystalline solids at the atomic scale using hands-on computer exercises. Type: virtual course Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Connecting Cultures: Sustainability, Travel, Translation & Migration 2025

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+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 7 March - 19 May 2025 Registration closed

Corporate Valuation without and with Personal Taxes

This course gives participants a deep understanding of valuation with discounted cash flow methods without and with personal taxes under different financing strategies. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 24 - 26 Nov 2025 Apply by: Registration closed

Corporate Valuation without and with Personal Taxes

This course gives participants a deep understanding of valuation with discounted cash flow methods without and with personal taxes under different financing strategies. Type: virtual course Course dates: 24 - 26 Nov 2025 Apply by: 31 October 2025

Culture in Perspective: South and East Asia

Based on several topics of the South and East Asian cultural traditions provided by internal and external expertise, insight is gained in the cultural, philosophical, social, and historical context of South and East Asia. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026 Apply by: 19 December 2025

Data Carpentry for ENLIGHT Social Sciences

The workshop teaches foundational data skills needed to conduct research in social sciences. The course is mainly aimed at graduate students and young career researchers. Type: virtual course Course dates: 06 - 10 December 2021 Registration closed

Dealing with Climate Change: From Global to Local Perspectives

Climate change requires urgent action at different levels of implementation. As a global phenomenon it has different impacts in different parts of the world and is understood and experienced differently from place to place. Type: virtual course Course dates: 18 April - 15 July 2023 (incl. assignment period) Registration closed

Deep Learning in Forestry 2025

In this course, students acquire qualifications for the use of Deep Learning algorithms for forestry applications. Type: virtual course Course dates: 13 January - 21 March 2025 Registration closed

Digital Water for Sustainable Cities 2024

The course presents water resource management in sustainable cities. Introduction to challenges and sustainable adaptation measures for drinking water supply and wastewater as well as stormwater management, with focus on treatment, distribution and collection systems. Type: virtual course Course dates: 4 Nov 2024 – 19 Jan 2025 (On-site in Uppsala: 11-15 Nov 2024) Registration closed

Engaging with Climate Change: Local Views of Challenges

This class will prepare you with social science theories on climate change, key concepts of climate science and policy as well as qualitative methodological training for data collection and analysis. Type: virtual course Course dates: 19 April - 17 June 2022 Registration closed

ENLIGHT Equity and Sustainability Transitions, Summer School

Fairness is important! When things seem unfair to us, we are often outraged and complain loudly. join us in this postgraduate interdisciplinary summer school, where we will unpack equity and sustainability transitions. Type: blended programme (no Erasmus+ funding) Course dates: Online: 9-24 May 2024 (Onsite week 20-24 May) Registration closed

Equity and Equality in Education and Medicine

The interactive online 5-day winter school will focus on human rights, equity and equal treatment through case studies, practitioners’ experiences, and researchers’ studies. Type: virtual course Course dates: 15-19 November 2021 Registration closed

European and Comparative Company Law and Corporate Governance

The course aims to familiarise students with organisational structures of companies in different European countries and provides a legal and economic analysis of different topics of the governance of companies. Type: virtual course Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Evolution of Video Games

This course is an introduction to video game evolution, where the students will get insight into different aspects of video game growth and changes throughout history. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 5 May 2026 Apply by: 26 January 2026

Fake News Winter School

Students will gain an understanding of fake news in 6 ENLIGHT flagship areas, primarily in terms of their recognition, definition, comparison and evaluation of common features. Type: virtual course Course dates: Online 1 February - 8 February, 2024 (Onsite week: 12-16 February) Registration closed

Fostering Critical Thinking via Global Collaboration and Presentation

In this project course students develop such strategies for critical thinking with the main objective of enhancing their ability to strategically and rationally evaluate the information they are consuming. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 13 October - 19 December 2025 Registration closed

Gender and Identity in African Literatures

African literary texts are rarely created as art for art’s sake; instead, their artistic and creative values are deeply intertwined with socio-political contexts, where questions of identity—concerning Africa, race, nation, ethnicity, language, and at times gender—play a central and contested role. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026 Apply by: 19 December 2025

German Geistesgeschichte

The course not only focusses on scholarly specialisation, but also on broadening our perspective. One means to that end is to study intensively important texts from the German intellectual history. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026 Apply by: 19 December 2025

Global Engagement Module 2024

Do you have a pioneering spirit? Then embark on one of the new Global Engagement modules developed by ENLIGHT. Take part in this pioneering adventure, coming up in Spring 2024! Type: virtual course Course dates: Online: 18 March - 17 May 2024 (Onsite: 15-19 April 2024) Registration closed

Inclusive Education

Inclusive education is a course designed for pre-service teachers, with the aim of equipping participants to respond effectively to the diverse needs of participants’ future students. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 12 Jan - 15 Feb 2026 Apply by: 15 November 2025

Intercultural Communication

The course supports the development of communicative competence, especially intercultural communication competence, and leads students towards a broader, context-aware understanding of texts written in foreign languages. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 11 June 2026 Apply by: 26 January 2026

Interdisciplinary Study of the Climate Neutral City

In this course we want to hand the building blocks necessary to consider a complex problem, such as a climate neutral city, and to provide a defined contribution. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: Start on 17 Feb 2022 Registration closed

International and European Procedure

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the general principles of international and European civil procedure. First, analyses procedural rules coming from the European Union law, as well as the influence of the European Convention on Human Rights on civil procedure. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026 Apply by: 19 December 2025

Just Sustainable Cities: Perspective from Post-Socialist Eurasia

This course introduces students to theoretical and methodological tools from the fields of justice, urban studies, and sustainable development, providing synergistic approaches to the study of equality in sustainable cities. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 20 January - 8 June 2025 Apply by: 15 November 2025

Language for Environmental Futures (LEAF)

How can you use your language skills in the global conversation about climate change? This course brings together people with interests in multilingualism, translation, globalization, art, and the environment, to reflect on how to build a more equitable and respectful conversation on climate change. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: September 2024 Apply by: Registration closed

Logic: Capita Selecta

To familiarize the students with the contemporary logical literature and with techniques that are used in contemporary philosophical logic Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026 Apply by: 19 December 2025

Media in the Era of Disinformation

This course is dedicated to developing students' digital and media agency so as to be able to make use of the various affordances of the digital mediatized life as well as to mitigate potential risks technology saturated societies uphold. Type: virtual course Course dates: Sep 2025 - 30 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Neurobiology of Affective Disorders

This course gives an extensive introduction of the most prevalent affective disorders, their genetic or environmental causes, the underlying brain mechanisms as well as new clinical methods to treat them. Type: virtual course Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Nuclear Culture and Nuclear Presence: What Happens after Nuclear Explosions

This workshop will investigate academic concepts and artistic perspectives centred on nuclear energy. It is an opportunity for students & researchers of humanities and natural sciences to come together and discuss how nuclear presence transforms human lives. Type: physical course Course dates: 22 to 26 August 2022 (workshop) - 22 to 28 August 2022 (art exhibition) Registration closed

Nuclear Methods in Material Research

The term 'nuclear methods' refers here to experimental tools in materials physics in which stable or radioactive atomic nuclei play a key role. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026 Apply by: 19 December 2025

Oceans and Human Health

This course explores the complex interactions between the marine environment and human health, examining both the benefits—such as food, air quality, and well-being—and the risks posed by natural disasters, pollution, and pathogens, while highlighting the need for interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable management and policy development. Type: virtual course Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Online Language Courses

Take a virtual language course together with ENLIGHT students and colleagues. Consult information per course regarding the workload, cost, application, certification and contact details. Several ENLIGHT institutions are opening up virtual language courses for students and staff of different ENLIGHT universities. Course dates: See PDF per course

Philosophical Disagreements

This course is designed for postgraduate students (MA and PhD) who seek to strengthen their critical thinking skills and engage with fundamental philosophical concepts from an interdisciplinary perspective. Type: virtual course Course dates: 8 Sep 2025 - 30 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Practical Internet Marketing

Students will gain knowledge about the main internet marketing concepts and tools. Type: virtual course Course dates: 1 Mar - 30 Apr 2026 Apply by: 26 January 2026

Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) for sustainable development

The course will provide an analysis of the challenges associated with the sustainable transition of innovation processes and their regulatory and institutional framework in a regional innovation system. Type: virtual course Course dates: Online classes: Jan 26 – Mar 16, Thursdays, 6pm – 7.30pm via ZOOM, immersive week in Göttingen Mar 20 – Mar 24 with a “break-week” from 13.-19.02.23 Registration closed

Remote Sensing Image Processing with Open Source Software

Students will acquire theoretical knowledge and practical competencies in fundamental principles, techniques, and applications of remote sensing. Type: virtual course Course dates: 27 Oct 2025 - 13 Feb 2026 Apply by: 17 October 2025

Researching Equity

The course will provide an analysis of the challenges associated with equity, diversity and inclusion in the regional contexts of the ENLIGHT partners from various disciplinary angles, including psychology, educational sciences, economics, political science and medicine. Type: virtual course Course dates: Onsite week: 25 - 29 September 2023 (followed by virtual phase) Registration closed

Russia between East and West

This course zooms in on an issue which has induced many heated discussions in Russia in the past and which continues to (co)determine Russia’s (cultural) politics until today: is Russia a Western, Eastern or a self-contained culture / civilization? Type: virtual course Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Study Skills: Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills

In an era of information overload, political polarization, and global challenges from conflicts to climate change, it’s vital to learn how to evaluate information critically. Type: virtual course Course dates: 30 Oct 2025 - 12 Feb 2026 Apply by: 30 September 2025

Study Skills: Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills Spring 2026

In an era of information overload, political polarization, and global challenges from conflicts to climate change, it’s vital to learn how to evaluate information critically. Type: virtual course Course dates: 16 April - 16 July 2026 Apply by: 15 March 2026

Sustainable and Experimental Student Housing Living Lab

Student housing is at the heart of present and future societal issues. It must meet the generic requirements of sustainable building standards (energy performance, space evolutivity, life cycle, building and maintenance decarbonization, water and energy management, … Course dates: Autumn 2022 Registration closed

Sustainable Cities: Visions and challenges 2024

The course provides a basic understanding of the city's development and sustainability with perspectives from technology, ecology and art science, including architecture and with a specific focus on technical and green infrastructure. Type: virtual course Course dates: 2 Sep 2024 – 6 Dec 2024 (On site in Uppsala: 14-18 Oct 2024) Registration closed

Sustainable Development, Trade and Environmental Economics

The seminar focuses on environmental economics in a globalized context within the framework of sustainable development. For this purpose, the seminar will cover different topics, starting from the sustainable development concept. Type: physical course Course dates: 28 October 2022 (14h-15h) Registration closed

Teacher Education Plus 2024

Meet future teachers from different countries online, experience a week of on campus program together and create a project in international teams! Type: virtual course Course dates: Online May/April (Onsite: 27 May -1 June 2024) Registration closed

The deep History of Food - Putting Sustainability into Context

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

Theory of Literary Translation

This course aims at the acquisition of advanced, theory-based scientific insights in literary translation. Type: virtual course Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Tinkering with Educational Technology

The main goal of this course is to provide an overview and a first-hand experience concerning an alternative approach to technology use that is based on the notion of tinkering. Type: virtual course Course dates: 16 Sep 2025 - 30 Jan 2026 Apply by: 18 August 2025

Urban Mining

The EU increasingly works with missions for the large societal goals we want to achieve. The Circular Economy Package consists of an EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy that establishes a concrete and ambitious programme of action, … Type: virtual course Course dates: Autumn 2022 Registration closed

Using AI Tools in Academic Contexts

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of everyday academic life and raises questions about both its scientifically correct use and its potential for changing academic careers. Type: virtual course Course dates: 30 Oct 2025 - 12 Feb 2026 Apply by: 30 September 2025

Using AI Tools in Academic Contexts Spring 2026

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of everyday academic life and raises questions about both its scientifically correct use and its potential for changing academic careers. Type: virtual course Course dates: 16 April - 16 July 2026 Apply by: 15 March 2026

Waste Semiotics: Language, Materiality, Space

Waste Semiotics offers a transdisciplinary, action-oriented space for bachelor students wanting to investigate the powerful connections between everyday language and communication and one of the most pressing ecological and cultural concerns of our time: waste. Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding) Course dates: 13 Oct - 28 Nov 2025 Registration closed

Web Security

This is a hands-on course that covers the most common web application vulnerabilities, their exploitation and mitigation techniques. Type: virtual course Course dates: 9 Feb - 26 May 2026 Apply by: 26 January 2026

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