Distance learning with real -time participation in online meetings. Lectures/online meeting will be held on Teams.
This course describes trauma in childhood and adulthood, including violence, accidents, disasters and life-threatening illness and their association with mental and physical health. Emphasis will be placed on introducing the scientific foundation of the trauma field and understanding scientific articles in this area. The main topics of the course include:
Prevalence of traumatic events and acute stress reactions.
Mental health problems following trauma, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, substance abuse and prolonged grief.
The disease burden of trauma, due to e.g., cardiovascular diseases, cancers, autoimmune diseases, and suicide.
The influence of environmental and genetic factors in the development of psychological and physical diseases following trauma.
Factors that promote recovery post-trauma and reduce the risk of long-term health problems.
Evidence-based treatment options for PTSD.
The course is intended for students who want to increase their scientific knowledge of the relationship between trauma and health. It is only intended for postgraduate students. The course consists of lectures by the main supervisor and selected guest speakers who are experts in the field of trauma. Emphasis will be placed on discussions and active participation of students.
Are you passionate about addressing real-world challenges in food systems, sustainability, and health? Join the Interdisciplinary CSL Course at VU Amsterdam, part of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP). Open to all Master’s students from Aurora Universities, this course brings together students from diverse disciplines to develop innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
This edition we have two main topics:
In collaboration with the European research projects CLEVERFOOD, FOSSNET, and FOSTER, focuses on health and sustainable food systems. You’ll work on practical cases, collaborating with researchers and non-academic stakeholders on food system transformation projects.
In collaboration with the Amsterdam-based Knowledge Alliance on Mental Strength, and European project – Re/Presenting Europe, focuses on mental health, resilience and healing. You’ll work on practical cases, collaborating with researchers and non-academic stakeholders on projects that focus on improving the mental wellbeing of the public.
Why join this course?
Gain a deep understanding of today’s critical food system challenges
Collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams
Contribute to innovative solutions for real-world problems
Course timeline:
Registration deadline: 2 December 2024
Acceptance notification: 07 December 2024
Virtual sessions (February – June 2025):
Participate in 8 to 10 online sessions on interdisciplinary collaboration, system innovation, and food systems sustainability or mental health and well-being, and resilience and healing.
Engage in self-study to explore theoretical and practical approaches.
On-site Learning Week (16 – 20 June 2025):
Join your peers in Amsterdam for hands-on work in real-world challenges to foster practical solutions for food system transformation.
Join multi-actor workshops designed to networking and soft-skills.
Who can apply? We encourage applications from students of any academic background. Whether you have experience in one of the topics or expertise in other areas, your unique perspective is valuable. In your motivation letter, please state which of the two topics you want to follow and how your studies can contribute to one or more of the associated sub-themes below:
Related to Healthy and Sustainable Food System:
Environment: Addressing climate change, enhancing circular economy principles in food systems, reversing biodiversity loss, and creating environmentally positive impacts.
Health: Exploring solutions to combat obesity, ensuring food security and nutrition, promoting public health, and providing access to safe, nutritious, and sustainable food.
Innovation & (Social) Entrepreneurship: Tackling issues such as circular economy, food affordability, promoting fair economic returns, and fostering (social) innovation.
Related to Mental Health and Resilience:
Mental health: Understanding and addressing the complexity surrounding the exponential increase in mental health issues around the world, and finding ways to make positive impacts.
Resilience and Healing: Exploring solutions and strategies to improve and foster mental health resilience and personal as well as communal healing.
Systems thinking: Co-ideating solutions and tackling mental health issues using a systems approach – that focus on different levels of society, systems and policies.
There’s room for a wide range of interests, including agricultural sciences, health science, sustainability, governance, technology, business, social sciences, and beyond. Show us how your field of study can contribute to transforming food systems.
Registration procedure and information sessions
Home university selects 5 students max (per course) that can apply and are eligible for Erasmus+ BIP funding.
Student sends motivation letter to Eduardo Uriaswith the preferred topic ‘healthy and sustainable food systems’ or ‘mental resilience’ in the subject before 2 December.
Student receives acceptance to the course before 6 December.
Student can start registration process with the deadline 19 December.
Are you interested in joining this course? In case you have additional questions about the course we offer two Q&A sessions. The sessions take place on 12 November afternoon at 16:00 (CES) and 27 November at 10:00 (CES). Please register for these sessions via this link.
Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) are short, intensive programs that use innovative pedagogical approaches, involving short periods of face-to-face activities combined with online learning and cooperation. This BIP will allow the recognition of 5 ECTS if allowed by your study program and according to institutional rules.
On site activities will be hosted November 25-29th, 2024 at IAE Paris-Est School of Management at UPEC (Université Paris- Est Créteil)
Online activities are scheduled from early November to early December (4 sessions of each 2h, after-class hours).
For more information, please contact Laurence Beierlein : beierlein@u-pec.fr
Virtual component program
14/11/2024 17:00 CET Design and sustainable food systems
Ramon Rispoli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
21/11/2024 17:00 CET
Issues and challenges of a sustainable food offering
Laurence Beierlein, IAE Management School, UPEC, France
05/12/2024 17:00 CET
Key learnings for a collective action towards responsible consumption and production
Laurence Beierlein, IAE Management School, UPEC, France
Migration in Today’s World is a one-semester course designed for students with an active interest in migration and asylum issues. The following issues are presented and analyzed in the course of each lecture: theories of international migration; the multifactorial nature of the migration process and the blurring of the boundaries between voluntary and forced displacement (with special reference to environmental migration); the changing profile of the migrant; refugeeism and asylum; the impediments to migrants’ entry into national territory; the consequences of migration for countries of origin, receiving countries and migrants themselves; and ethical dilemmas associated with migration and migration policy. The theoretical considerations are accompanied by examples or larger case studies from different parts of the world.
Short-term mobility will be required in April (the specific dates will be provided by the lecturer at the start of the course). Please, make sure to consult mobility coordinator at your institution to explore potential funding opportunities.
The aim of this course, taught in English, is to provide students with an introduction to comparative law using the example of comparative constitutional law. Students will learn the basics of the comparative legal method, the different types of government present in European countries and their typical features, and attention is also paid to the vertical separation of powers, fundamental rights, constitutional justice and the constitutional elements of European integration.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to conduct a comparative analysis of different legal systems or their individual elements and apply the results in practice. They will acquire basic knowledge about the constitutional systems of EU countries, their distinctive features, the most important institutes and bodies of constitutional law in a comparative perspective. Students will also be aware of the ideas and values protected by constitutional law.
Short-term mobility will be required in March (the specific dates will be provided by the lecturer at the start of the course). Please, make sure to consult mobility coordinator at your institution to explore potential funding opportunities.
Course content:
Frequent genres in reading for children and youth and their didactic potential in terms of the objectives of the RVP ZV. Current themes in contemporary literature for children and youth. The permeability of genre boundaries in contemporary literature for children and young people. Characteristics of artistic and educational literature for children and youth. Image and text in contemporary literature for children and young people. Theoretical reflection on contemporary literature for children and young people in professional journals and specialist literature.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
– evaluate current trends in the development of Czech and world literature for children and youth;
– assess the artistic qualities of contemporary domestic and translated productions for children and young people;
– assess the didactic potential of the most frequently read genres and works of Czech and world literature for children and youth;
– evaluate the current state of theoretical reflection on literature for children and youth.
Short-term mobility will be required in early June (the specific dates will be provided by the lecturer at the start of the course). Please, make sure to consult mobility coordinator at your institution to explore potential funding opportunities.
8ADD workshop (27.1.2025 – 31.1.2025) is focused on using in silico tools and approaches in drug design. We cover both structure-based drug design (molecular docking, molecular dynamics, structural bioinformatics tools) and ligand-based drug design (QSAR, pharmacophores, deep learning) with lectures and on-hand tutorials.
This course introduces students to organizational social entrepreneurship, a process by which opportunities to create public goods are identified and created. Being an “essentially contested concept” (Choi and Majumdar, 2014) social entrepreneurship is best understood as a cluster concept covering different applications ranging from the launching of social enterprise start-ups to the transformation of industry sectors towards sustainability. In the course we will analyze the antecedents of social entrepreneurship. An essential part of the course will be an introduction to core concepts of social entrepreneurship such as the theory of change, social impact measurement tools, and hybrid organizational form selection. To supplement academic learning with hands on project experience students will work in teams on a specific social entrepreneurship problem.
This intensive three-week course uses a mix of lecturing, firm visits with Copenhagen-based social enterprises and applied group work to maximize student learning. As part of this course you will work in diverse teams, allowing you to reflect critically on a social business model that you develop throughout the course. This experiential learning pedagogy culminates in the preparation of an investment ready social business model, which will be presented as part of a final pitch event, thus allowing you to acquire impact investing competencies – a skill set the Financial Times predicts is in increasing demand by employers causing “a real war on talent” (FT, 5 June 2021). The course is highly interactive with the corresponding expectation that students engage actively. Since this is an intensive 3-week course it is essential that you plan enough time every week both for class preparation (10-12 hours per week), attending lectures (12-14 hours per week) and group work after class (10-12 hours per week). An intensive 3-week ISUP course is thus not made for students who are working part or full-time while also attending the summer university.
Please note that due to its nature as a blended intensive programme (BIP) the course has several virtual components: Two “pre-assignment” online sessions will be held during the month of June in which you get introduced to the course and where group work begins. Finally, there are two online sessions at the end of the course in which we prepare for your exam project.
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