ENLIGHT Courses

 

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This page displays the ENLIGHT Courses accessible for students from all ENLIGHT universities. Check out the Course Catalogue for the full offer of all ENLIGHT universities. There you can also find information on the application process.  

Glossary:

  • Blended intensive programme: consists of an online component and a short on-site component hosted by the organizing university. This format can be Erasmus+ or SEMP funded.
  • Virtual course: all lessons and assessments are carried out online.
  • Physical course: all lessons are carried out physically (on-site), hosted by the organizing university. 
  • Entry requirements: B2 level in English
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master, PhD
  • Host: University of Bordeaux
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Digitalisation, Climate Change, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity, other area
  • Study Field: Humanities, Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 4 Nov - 9 Dec 2025
  • Apply by: 3 November 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 10 in total

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: 2 Feb - 31 March 2026

Apply by: 12 January 2026

  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Groningen
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Digitalisation, Climate Change, Energy and Circular Economy, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 2 Feb - 31 March 2026
  • Apply by: 12 January 2026
  • ECTS: 2
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 50 in total

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: 13 April - 17 July 2026

Apply by: 15 March 2026

  • Entry requirements: good level of English, some experience in writing term papers
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 13 April - 17 July 2026
  • Apply by: 15 March 2026
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 8 in total

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: 13 April - 17 July 2026

Apply by: 15 March 2026

  • Entry requirements: good level of English
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 13 April - 17 July 2026
  • Apply by: 15 March 2026
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 8 in total
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 13 April - 17 July 2026
  • Apply by: 15 March 2026
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 8 in total
  • Entry requirements: knowledge of criminology, criminal law, European and international institutional and policy developments & scientific research methods
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Global Engagement
  • Study Field: Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026
  • Apply by: 19 December 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 20 in total (only students from Tartu)

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

  • Entry requirements: bachelor of arts, passive knowledge of German
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026
  • Apply by: 19 December 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: unlimited

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

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of the history of South and East Asia
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026
  • Apply by: 19 December 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 20 in total
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Focus area: Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 4 - 25 March 2026
  • Apply by: 26 January 2026
  • ECTS: 4
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 10 in total

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

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of African Literature and Post-Colonial Theory
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026
  • Apply by: 19 December 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 7 in total

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

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of logic
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: other area
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026
  • Apply by: 19 December 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: unlimited

This course deals with a selection of India’s religious traditions. It envisions the knowledge of and insight into central concepts of these traditions, their rise and their development up to the present day.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026

Apply by: 19 December 2025

  • Entry requirements: interest in Indian culture, knowledge of academic English
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 9 Feb - 4 July 2026
  • Apply by: 19 December 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: unlimited