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. 

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

  • 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: Open
  • 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

Apply by: 18 August 2025

  • 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: Open
  • Number of places available: 20 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

Apply by: 18 August 2025

  • 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: Open
  • Number of places available: unlimited

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: 120 credits. Proficiency in English.
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Digitalisation, Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 28 July - 15 Aug 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 5 per ENLIGHT university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

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

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: Proficiency in English
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Focus area: Digitalisation, Climate Change, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 11 Sep - 31 Oct 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 7,5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 2 per ENLIGHT university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

This interdisciplinary course will give you an increased understanding of the complex relationship between migration and health and the ethical principles connected to it. You will also gain knowledge about how different definitions and the migratory process impacts the health of migrants and how health outcomes will vary for different groups of migrants.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 3 Sep - 5 Dec 2025

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: General entry requirements (all ENLIGHT students are welcome)
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Equity
  • Study Field: Humanities, Medicine and Pharmacy, Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 3 Sep - 5 Dec 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 5 places per ENLIGHT university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

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

  • Entry requirements: 120 credits in medicine, caring science, psychology or other health-related science
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master, PhD, Lifelong Learners
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy, Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 29 Sep – 5 Dec 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 7,5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 5 per ENLIGHT university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

The course deals with the effects of environmental problems on health from a neurological perspective. The aim is to provide an overview of the mechanisms behind the environmental risks and, at the same time, provide instruments to analyze the issues and develop strategies to solve them.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 6 Oct - 7 Nov 2025

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: 120 ECTS from a medical, nursing, physiotherapist, biomedicine, pharmacy, biology or psychology programme or equivalent
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Global Engagement
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy
  • Course dates: 6 Oct - 7 Nov 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 7,5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 2 per ENLIGHT partner university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

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

  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Focus area: Climate Change, Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 6 Oct 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 5 from the organizing universities (UG, UBx, Besancon) Students from other partners are invited to apply, max. 2 students per university.

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

  • Entry requirements: B2 level English
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master, PhD
  • Host: University of Bordeaux
  • Focus area: other area
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 13 October - 19 December 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 10 students per partner for CU, UGOE, UBx. 1 student per partner for the other universities.

This interdisciplinary course will give you an increased understanding of the complex relationships between health, environment, and climate change, particularly regarding sustainable cities and wellbeing.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 6 - 26 Oct 2025

Registration closed

  • Entry requirements: General entry requirements (open for all ENLIGHT students)
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Focus area: Health and Well-being, Climate Change, Equity
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy
  • Course dates: 6 - 26 Oct 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Registration status: Closed
  • Number of places available: 3 per ENLIGHT partner university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

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

  • 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: Open
  • Number of places available: 25 in total