As the school year is coming to an end, we want to encourage you to look into academic trips for summer and fall season. ATHENA European University offers plenty of interesting events, summer schools and blended intensive programs all over Europe!
Join us at our events:
July
For Students:
- SUMMER SCHOOL: Getting Started with Technical Communicationin Porto, Portugal, 03/07-07/07. Technical communication is focused on the user of services or products and is an essential and transversal competence. Moreover, it is a professional area that is booming globally, most notably because of the digital and technological context of today’s world, and the need to inform the users in a clear way in order to create more value in products/services. Registration deadline 30/06. More information
- SUMMER SCHOOL: ATHENA Doctoral Summer school in Vilnius, Lithuania, 17/07-21/07. VILNIUS TECH PhD Summer School is an annual event that aims to provide doctoral candidates with unique professional and personal development opportunities. It focuses on the key competencies required to achieve the best results beyond general doctoral students’ training. Registration deadline 23/06. More information here.
August
For students:
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Solution Design in Maribor, Slovenia, physical mobility 27/08 – 08/09, virtual mobility dates to be confirmed. Are you ready to face a real-life problem in an international team of students of different professions and with experienced professors and experts? If YES, don’t hesitate to register for the 2023 Solution Design Summer school! Registration deadline 30/06. More information here.
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME:10th International Logistics Summer School – Sustainable Travel: Re-Defining the World of Travel in Maribor, Slovenia, physical mobility 28/08 – 05/09, virtual mobility 22/08. This year’s summer school will provide you with an in-depth look at the logistics aspect of sustainable travel. You will learn about the challenges and opportunities that arise in transporting travelers, goods, and services sustainably and will include resource management, waste reduction, and improving transportation efficiency. Registration deadline 11/08. More information here.
September
For students:
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching in Porto, Portugal, physical mobility 11/09 – 15/09, virtual mobility 04/09 – 06/09. On this course teachers will be able to learn more about the issues surrounding the concept of dyslexia, but mainly gain practical teaching tools and insights to help diverse students with difficulties associated to dyslexia features to learn foreign languages. More information soon here.
- ATHENA Erasmus Student Network Meeting in Heraklion, Greece, end of September. More information soon on ATHENA website.
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Renewable energy sources in Maribor, Slovenia, physical mobility 04/09 – 08/09, virtual mobility 31/08 – 01/09. During the summer school, students will learn about different types of renewable energy sources, such as hydrogen technologies, solar energy, wind energy, hydro energy and geothermal energy. Registration deadline 25/06. More information is available here.
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Sustainability in International Business in Maribor, Slovenia, physical mobility 11/09 – 16/09, virtual mobility 05/09. Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important direction in business operations. It is rooted in the negative consequences of the neoliberal development paradigm in the world and the calls for sustainable development by international organisations and national governments. Apply for the International Summer School and gain insights into the sustainability aspects of international business! Registration deadline 25/06. More information here.
For students and staff:
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Open Science Summer School in Maribor, Slovenia, physical mobility 11/09 – 15/09, virtual mobility 05/09. The University of Maribor Summer School offers PhD students and young researchers an opportunity to learn and develop skills in the fields of research data management, open access to research results, the use of open research infrastructure, supercomputing resources and the European Open Science Cloud. Registration deadline 25/06. More information here.
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Sustainability summer school in Vilnius, Lithuania, physical mobility 25/09 – 29/09, virtual mobility 18/09 – 22/09. Teachers, students and practitioners are invited to participate in this summer school. Teachers are invited to deliver sustainability related courses in online sessions and to supervise group works during on-site session. Practitioners and business partners are invited to provide problem-based cases to be solved during the summer school. Scholarships are available for students and teachers from ATHENA partner universities. Registration deadline 23/06. More information here.
For staff:
- Networking event focusing on cybersecurity, space technologies, and financial technologies in Vilnius, Lithuania, 05/09 – 06/09. More information soon here.
- ATHENA Technology Forum in Sitia, Crete, 25/09 – 29/09. More information soon on ATHENA website.
October
For students:
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Klagenfurt, Austria, physical mobility 16/10 – 21/10, virtual mobility 05/10 – 12/10 and 31/10. Teams of students from Austria and from all over the Alps-Adriatic region, as well as from Barcelona and ATHENA countries, will develop business ideas embedding sustainability and the SDGs. This cross-border collaboration does not only contribute to the entrepreneurial mindset of the students, but also strengthens their consciousness about sustainability and helps them develop intercultural and language skills. Registration deadline 30/06. More information here. Registration here. 10 places have been reserved for participants from ATHENA.
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME: Diversity in the Digitized World – Challenges and Opportunities for (Re)establishing Social Justice in Carinthia, Austria, October. More information soon here.
- BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME – WINTER SCHOOL: DEVOS – DEVeloping Outstanding Sustainable Entrepreneurship Competencies in Carinthia, Austria, 16/10–31/10. The purpose of this course is to develop exceptional and sustainable business competencies based on the “Global case study challenge” programme. More information soon here.
For students and staff:
- Global Case Study Challenge. This is an innovative, high-impact career-oriented teaching and learning virtual exchange (VE) project, providing educators and students with invaluable experience in intercultural, international and virtual interaction. Focusing on intercultural, digital communication and sustainability competencies, this virtual exchange programme showcases how new virtual models of teaching and learning within real-world contexts can support the development of new global and future-oriented work competencies. Educators are the ones who sign up and then join with their The educators will then have an onboarding meeting with the GCSC organisation team. The program spans over an 8-week period, between October and early December. Registration deadline 30/06. More information here, here and here. Interested educators can register here.
All year long
For students and staff:
- “ATHENA Talks”– regular online scientific conversations with leading scientists from around the world. Wide range of topics from physics, semiconductors, biomaterials to policy making & internationalization. A new topic & speaker is announced each week on ATHENA website & Facebook page. For more information on upcoming participants in advance, press here. Register here.
For funding opportunities, please contact the International Relations Office at your home university.
ATHENA European University offers ongoing mobility and development opportunities for every member of the community – from students to employees! To learn more about the possibilities offered by ATHENA, subscribe to the newsletter, follow ATHENA on social networks and visit the ATHENA website regularly.
