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+ 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. 

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

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

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: bachelor's degree relevant to the topic (history, literature, cultural history, economics, law, political sciences…)
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 10 in total

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

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

Registration closed

  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: University of Tartu
  • Study Field: Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 16 Sep 2025 - 30 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 15

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: basic programming skills
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master, PhD
  • Host: University of Tartu
  • Study Field: Science and Technology
  • Course dates: 1 Sep - 16 Dec 2025
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: unlimited

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: basics of condensed matter physics and/or materials science, basics of quantum physics, basics of numerical methods
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master, Bachelor 3
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Digitalisation
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy, Science and Technology
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: unlimited

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of biology, ecology, physics and chemistry
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Climate Change
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy, Science and Technology
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 50 in total