ENLIGHT 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 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+ 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. 

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: 6 Feb 2026 - 30 Apr 2026

Apply by: 15 November 2025

  • Entry requirements: Being enrolled in postgraduate study in a relevant field (i.e. modern languages, comparative literature, sociology, international relations).
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Master, PhD
  • Host: University of Galway
  • Focus area: Climate Change, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities, Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 6 Feb 2026 - 30 Apr 2026
  • Apply by: 15 November 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: University of Galway: 6, other universities: 3 per university

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

  • 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: 30 Oct 2025 - 12 Feb 2026
  • Apply by: 30 September 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 8 in total

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

  • Entry requirements: basic skills in valuation with discounted cash flow methods and determining the cost of equity with the CAPM, knowledge in the use of excel
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master, PhD
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Study Field: Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 24 - 26 Nov 2025
  • Apply by: 31 October 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 30 in total
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Study Field: Science and Technology
  • Course dates: 27 Oct 2025 - 13 Feb 2026
  • Apply by: 17 October 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 10 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: 30 Oct 2025 - 12 Feb 2026

Apply by: 30 September 2025

  • Entry requirements: good level of English
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 30 Oct 2025 - 12 Feb 2026
  • Apply by: 30 September 2025
  • 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: 29 Oct 2025 - 11 Feb 2026
  • Apply by: 30 September 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Open
  • Number of places available: 8 in total

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: bachelor in linguistics and literature, applied language studies, language and cultures or equivalent
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 5 in total

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of biochemistry, biotechnology and cell biology
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 5 in total

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of cognitive psychology and research methods in psychology
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor 3, Master 1
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy, Social Sciences, Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 4
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 25 in total

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

Registration closed

  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Tartu
  • Study Field: Social Sciences
  • Course dates: Sep 2025 - 30 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: unlimited

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

Registration closed

  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master, PhD
  • Host: University of Tartu
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 8 Sep 2025 - 30 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 20

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: knowledge of company law and EU law
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: other area
  • Study Field: Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 4
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 20 in total