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School of Advanced Diplomatic Skills

The School of Advanced Diplomatic Skills is a weeklong course designed for young and mid-career professionals from the international business, diplomatic and third sector. The Advanced School builds on previously acquired soft skills and presents an expanded set of topics that are designed to

Athletic Footwear Innovation with Mike Friton

Mike Friton is one of Nike%E2%80%99s most legendary designers, responsible for iconic styles such as the Presto and the Nike Woven. He also worked on the new self-lacing Back to the Future shoes. He recently started his own company, specializing in innovative footwear prototyping.In this unique

Ent-Ex Summer School in Barcelona

Ent-Ex is a four-day workshop-style programme which helps you to develop essential entrepreneurial (and intrapreneurial) skills. We don%E2%80%99t promise a magic formula to develop your business idea, to build a successful business, to access the market, or get finance from the investor of your

Fashion & Luxury Sustainability Summer School 2015

The Fashion & Luxury Summer School, Lugano (Switzerland) offers studies in Business Management and Innovative Technologies for the fashion and luxury industry, with a focus on current industry topics. The 2015 Summer School modular offering includes:- a three-day intensive programme for

Energy Transitions in Contemporary and Emerging Societies

This short course offers an in-depth overview of the interconnections between energy and society. By attending you will gain a unique interdisciplinary understanding of how energy is shaped by, and gives rise to, issues associated with development, politics, climate change and sustainability,

Ethnographic Field School

This course will provide hands-on empirical training in ethnographic fieldwork through immersion into the field and engagement in qualitative as well as quantitative field studies involving a variety of methods such as participant-observation, interviews, surveys, and behavioural and biometric

Changemakers - Imagining Futures

%E2%80%9CCHANGEMAKERS %E2%80" imagining futures%E2%80%9D is a transdisciplinary and process based summer school course, which highlights how processes and products can enable societal change and impart real impact in relation to actual challenges within contemporary culture and society. In this

Deaf Studies (sign language and English)

The summer school in Deaf Studies is in many ways a unique event. It is, as far as we know, the first course in Europe taught by an all-Deaf crew, and taught in sign language. It is taught in International Sign, with simultaneous interpretation to English. Thus, both Deaf and hearing students are

Environmental Management in a Changing World: Coping with Sea Level Rise

The Nicholas School of the Environment (Duke University) and Venice International University offer the second edition of a Summer Program that provides training in key topics about the impact of sea level rise on coastal areas and cities, and about adaptation and mitigation strategies.The course

Building Istanbul - then and now

Istanbul is a unique case with its fragmented and complex layers in regard to its culture, architecture and geography. Working within the sensitive historic contexts of %C4%B0stanbul requires far more than the specialist skills of an architect, conservator and/or city planner. In this regard, this

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Intensive German Language Beginner 1

Within four weeks, this course will help you to develop basic competences in listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as a basic knowledge of the German culture. By the end of the course you will be able to deal with everyday situations in a German-speaking environment and to conduct simple

Europe in the Global Context

This course takes an in-depth look at how Europe has reached the current critical juncture in its history, how it functions today and where it is headed. In particular, we examine the Continent%E2%80%99s continued quest for a peaceful and hence stable order and its ongoing attempts to unite the

The Cold War

Over the course of the Cold War, the city of Berlin was frequently at the centre of global tensions and a potential front line should the superpower rivalry descend into actual war. This course utilizes the city of Berlin as a laboratory in which to examine the origins, nature, and conclusion of

Urban Places and Spaces: Analyzing and Exploring Berlin

Urban studies and its discourse on the city combine scholarship in fields as diverse as human geography, history, and the arts. Berlin, with its seemingly infinite possibilities for creative societal- and self-fashioning, provides an excellent socio-cultural analytical model. It is at once a fixed

Global Politics: How to Cope with a World in Disarray?

This course addresses the new global environment which has been evolving since the end of the East-West conflict. The key features of the emerging context of global politics are: multipolar constellation; decreasing governance capabilities on the side of national governments; fragile structure of

Architecture in Berlin. A Walk through History

This course gives a wide overview of the development of public and private architecture in Berlin during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Following an introduction to the urban development and architectural history of the Modern era, the Neo-Classical period will be surveyed with special

European Business Management

Europe encompasses the world%E2%80%99s largest and most complicated market. Recent events, particularly those following the ongoing economic crisis on the continent, raise profound questions about the future of Europe. This course will focus on present and future business issues facing the entire

Islam and the West: The Pitfalls of Mapping the World

Almost fourteen years after the September 11 attacks, the issue whether there is or in fact has ever been a %E2%80%9Cclash of civilisations%E2%80%9D is still being highly debated among both scholars and politicians. In the meantime, a series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and