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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.
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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
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
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
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
This course delves into pressing issues surrounding sustainability in the the Middle East, gaining a comprehensive and nuanced perspective from professionals and scholars from different fields.
Type: physical course
Course dates: 1 - 5 Sep 2025
Apply by: 15 April 2025
The course explores the relevance of size in shaping historical experience. Using the examples of Belgium, Estonia, Ireland and Slovakia, it traces the history of these small nations from their emergence out of larger unions or empires to their experiences as small independent states.
Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
Course dates: 1 Sep - 15 Nov 2025
Apply by: 15 April 2025
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
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
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
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
The course provides knowledge on innovative processes and innovative thinking as a tool to solve need-based problems in interdisciplinary teams. With the application of game design, the task for the student groups is to create solutions promoting changes in health behaviours and in health care.
Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
Course dates: 28 July - 15 Aug 2025
Apply by: 15 April 2025
This course draws on literature from for example musicology, cultural studies, music education, gender studies and media studies in examining popular music’s role in activism and social change.
Type: virtual course
Course dates: 11 Sep - 31 Oct 2025
Apply by: 15 April 2025
