MCC Summer Academy is a great initiative of the students of Mathias Corvinus Collegium. It has been organising conferences for international students since 2011. We offer you a unique chance to deepen your knowledge through a 12-day course with top-tier lectures from the experts of the topics.This

Are you a technical Master student or young professional (within 10 years after graduation), with a special interest in Maintenance Management & Engineering, then apply to our WCM Summer School 2015 and challenge yourself in our exciting program! You will learn about the exciting world of

University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece) is offering an eleven-day summer school in designing and developing Serious Games. Serious games have mainly an educational/training character rather than a recreational one. Their theoretical background is based on modern learning theories such as game

In this course a basic knowledge of PIXE technique is expected, and this can be obtained from the course "Ion beam analysis for cultural heritage and environment studies". The course will include thorough introduction to high energy resolution PIXE instrumentation with transition edge sensor and

The %E2%80%9CPreparing Global Leaders Institute%E2%80%9D is a premiere two week program for the best students and young professionals in the world. Participants will take short courses on political economy, international relations, diplomacy, foreign policy, leadership and communication from a

This course is designed to provide an overview of the theory and practice of survey research methods with a focus on the unique challenges faced in the design and implementation of face-to-face surveys in developing and transitional countries. Issues related to sample design and sample management,

The course aims to offer participants general basic knowledge needed for implementation of high-quality web surveys. The course deals with the challenge of using the World Wide Web for survey data collection. Web surveys are technically easy to implement, however the understanding of underlying

In the social science questions, items or tests are used in order to measure social phenomena or concepts of interest, respectively. This course aims at encouraging participants regardless their discipline to learn about development and evaluation of high quality measurement instruments (i.e.,

This course provides an introduction to the statistical programming language R. Since R has gained a lot of attention among data analysts in general and social scientists in particular, we will emphasize the particularities of survey data analysis using R. The objective of the course is to enable

This course gives an overview of the design and implementation of surveys from the initial planning phase to the data preparation as a final step. Topics include survey mode assessment and selection, sampling frames and designs, nonresponse, interviewer effects, questionnaire design, cognitive