In this international and interdisciplinary summer school, we will bring participants including students, teachers, researchers, and educational practitioners together and present them with the opportunity to engage with various researchers and practitioners. Participants will learn about and engage with current debates and research insights addressing effective teaching, teaching for the future. They will work together in mixed and diverse groups discussing the state-of-the-art of effective teaching from research and practice perspectives.

Topics addressed in the summer school will include:

• Conceptualizing effective teaching.
• Identifying effective teaching, including characteristics, antecedents, and correlates.
• Measuring effective teaching, including common methods for assessing effective teaching such as value-added models, peer evaluation, student, teacher, and parent ratings. Attention will also be paid to quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods for assessing effective teaching
• Promoting effective teaching, including research and practice on teacher professional development.
• Digital technology and artificial intelligence for effective teaching
• Affordances and challenges related to conceptualizations, measurements, methodologies, and the integration of digital technology and artificial intelligence.

Date: 7 July – 11 July 2025

Application deadline: 18 April 2025

Application procedure:

• Updated Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages).
• Motivation letter, stating the reasons why you want to participate in the Summer School, your research and teaching experiences, and what you hope to learn (max. 1 page).

Cost:

• €150 for University of Groningen students and partner universities. Possibility of a waiver can be discussed between partner universities.
• €300 for students and participants from other, non-partner universities/institutions.

Travel and accommodation for participants’ own expenses.

Requirements: All applicants of the Summer School are required to have an academic Master’s degree, or at least in the process of obtaining it.

For more information about the summer school check the website HERE.

Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania) invites doctoral (PhD) students to participate in the 9th International PhD Summer School, that will take place on 2-6 June, 2025 in a seaside resort city Palanga, Lithuania. PhD Summer School focuses on development of key competences required for achieving best results in successful defense of the doctoral dissertation and identifying further research directions.

PhD Summer School:

• equips participants with essential skills that are necessary in all fields of science;
• provides participants valuable networking opportunity with participants from other countries;
• creates and shares friendly social environment;
• awards participants with certificate of attendance.

Date: 2 June - 6 June 2025

Application deadline: 30 April 2025

Cost: €450

Tuition fee includes:

• application fee for one-week courses and courses material;
• welcome package;
• coffee breaks and daily lunches;
• exiting social activities;
• certificate of attendance;
• support from the KTU Summer School team through all the week.

For more information about summer school check the website HERE.

Expand and improve your German language skills during a summer course at an internationally oriented university in one of the most beautiful regions of the European Union!

International summer course offers:

• professional German courses (a total of about 85 hours of 45-minute lessons, approx. 25 hrs./week)
• a graded certificate and 5 ECTS credits
• the opportunity to participate in a seminar on didactics and methodology for German as a foreign language
• academic lectures and seminars by professors of Trier University
• individual exchange and communication with students from Trier
• city tours through Trier and Luxembourg
• excursions to the Moselle, Luxembourg and France
• regional cuisine & cooking together
• music, dance, games & fun

Date: 4 August - 29 August 2025

Application deadline: 31 March 2025

Cost: 770 €

The program and fee include:

• German language courses (all levels) (approx. 80 hours of instruction) with a graded final test and 5 ECTS points
• a Europe-oriented academic lecture and seminar program (12 hours)
• a seminar on current didactic methods and pedagogical concepts in the field of German as a Foreign Language (optional for level C, 24 hours)
• excursions and leisure program with students (native speakers) from Trier University
• a Germany-wide public transport ticket for August

For more information about the summer school check the website HERE.

We invite participants from all over the world to join Turku Åbo Summer School in August 2025 in one of the most traditional and popular study cities in Finland.

Turku Åbo Summer School offers 15 topical, wide-ranging and fully accredited courses from the key areas of five higher education institutions in the Turku region. Get the latest insights on topics ranging from game design and social sustainability to well-being and urban planning and much more!

Most of the courses are taught on-site and require presence in Turku on 4-15 August. In addition, there are five self-paced online courses that you can take part in anywhere.

Date: on-site 4 August - 15 August 2025, online 1 June - 30 August 2025

Application deadline: 17 April 2025
Cost: 225€-1100€ (depending on the host institution of the course)

For more information about offered courses check the website HERE.

For more information about the summer school check the website HERE.

The Center for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki welcomes you to the 10th International Summer School: Medical Law and Bioethics “Beyond the human: environmental and animal health/Bioethical issues”, a 42-hours course which will take place in hybrid format (on-site and remotely via ZOOM platform).

The aim is to approach each issue in an interdisciplinary way, combining the findings of Law and Medical Science with Bioethics, so as to illuminate all aspects of crucial issues that concern not only the scientific community, but also everyday life. The program is conducted in English in order to enable the participation of stakeholders from abroad with the aim of discussing and analyzing these issues not only nationally but also internationally.

Date: 6 July - 11 July 2025

Application deadline: 30 June 2025

Cost: 100€ for students of all levels and EUR 150,00 for professionals for entries up to April 30st, 2025 and to EUR 130,00 and EUR 180,00 respectively for entries up to June 30th, 2025 (deadline)

For more information check the website HERE.

The University of Bielsko-Biala invites you for practical placement, which can be undertaken under Erasmus+ Mobility Programme during the summer 2025.

We invite students from the area of:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Management and Production Engineering
• Automatics and Robotics
• Mechatronics
• Computer Science

The internship programme covers:

• 30 hours of English specialist, technical course
• 30 hours of Polish language course
• 30 hours of Management and Interpersonal Module
• 120 hours of specialist module

The internship programme guarantees you 7 ECTS point.

Period: 16th June -16th September 2025 (3 months)
Deadline for applications: 6th of May 2025 – all documents should be sent for the mail address: international@ubb.edu.pl.

Where: the internship is run at the University of Bielsko-Biala in cooperation with local companies from the area of industry and technology (a part of excursion are organized in cooperation with companies).

Accommodation: all students might be accommodated at University’s dormitory (each student is obliged to pay for the accommodation by his own).

How to apply:

Please send:

• CV
• Learning Agreement Student Mobility for Traineeships signed by the Student and the coordinator from partner university as well as the – doc
• Nomination letter from partner University.

For more info check the website HERE.