The University of Groningen (1614) is hosting a wide range of summer schools. Summer schools are a wonderful way to bring bright students and inspired researchers together to work intensively on important topics. Groningen summer schools are research-driven, and many of them are multidisciplinary, offering you a varied range of perspectives. The University’s priority research themes: Energy, Healthy Ageing and Sustainable Society will especially be highlighted.

Registration is now open. The current offer includes

• Diversity & Divergence: The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Canada
• Beyond Horizons. Transmitting and Writing New Identities. Strategies and Empowerment of Minorities and Migrants in Europe
• Things that Matter. Material Culture in Historical Studies
• Solidarity and Togetherness. Concepts and Practices of Sustainable Citizenship
• Mysticism and Esotericism in Pluralistic Perspective: Conflicting Claims of Knowledge and the Power of Individualism
• Transformations of Religion and Culture in Contemporary India
• Epistemology and Cognition. Historical and Contemporary Approaches
• Design Dialogues for Bridging Controversies: Contested Projects
• Society, Environment, Transportation and Space
• Groningen Energy Summer School – Smart Grids from a global perspective: bridging old and new energy systems
• Political Economics
• Microfinance Experiments: Methods and Applications
• Transitional Justice and the Politics of Memory
• Medical Sciences Summer School Transplantation Medicine
• Medical Sciences Summer School Healthy Ageing
• Medical Sciences Summer School Global Health
• Medical Sciences Summer School Ageing Brain
• Medical Sciences Summer School Translational Pediatrics
• Medical Sciences Summer School Oncology
• Medical Sciences Summer School Biobanking

Please see Downloads for more details

Application deadline: between 15 March and 1 June 2014

Contact details: summerschools@rug.nl
Website: www.rug.nl/summerschools