Una Europa summer schools
Una Europa hosts summer schools for doctoral researchers at our partner universities, as well as researchers from selected associated partners. Rooted in our alliance Focus Areas and co-organised by academics from across all 11 Una Europa universities, these joint intensive courses provide you with an interdisciplinary perspective on your research area, strengthen your core research skills, and build your professional network across Europe.
Are you a doctoral researcher at an Una Europa university and interested in participating in a summer school? Browse our 2025 offering below.
Why participate in an Una Europa summer school?
Una Europa summer schools offer you an opportunity to:
- Gain international educational experience.
- Learn from expert academics from across our 11 partner universities, encompassing a wide range of disciplines and perspectives.
- Develop more international and interdisciplinary approaches to your research.
- Build your professional network by connecting with fellow doctoral researchers as well as established academics.
- Discover a new university, city and culture through the complementary social and cultural programme organised by the host institution.
Una Europa summer schools 2025
- Summer School on Sustainable Food Systems, 2–6 June at Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet.
- One Health Summer School, 16–20 June at Freie Universität Berlin.
- Future Materials and Technologies Summer School, 23–27 June at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Summer School, 7–11 July at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
More details will be made available here once the summer schools open for applications.
What does an Una Europa summer school look like?
Una Europa summer schools are jointly developed and delivered by researchers and academics from across all 11 partner universities driven by our Self-Steering Committees – the alliance’s academic bodies aligned with our six Focus Areas. The academic programme is complemented by social and cultural activities that enable participants to delve into the world of the host university and build closer connections with one another.
Our summer schools typically take the form of an Eramus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP), combining a short in-person programme with online components before and after to connect participants and facilitate collaborative working beyond the summer school itself. This flexible, innovative summer school format aims to make the programmes more accessible to doctoral researchers from a wide range of backgrounds, contexts and disciplines.
Upon completion of the summer school programme, including online components, the doctoral researchers will receive a certificate of participation credited with ECTS which they can put towards their doctoral programme.
