ENLIGHT Courses

Are you ready to embark on a transformative educational journey across boundaries? Join us as we redefine education and empower you to shape your future! Check out the student video about ENLIGHT's challenge-based courses. 

This page displays the ENLIGHT Courses accessible for students from all ENLIGHT universities. Check out the Course Catalogue for the full offer of all ENLIGHT universities. There you can also find information on the application process.  

Glossary:

  • Blended intensive programme: consists of an online component and a short on-site component hosted by the organizing university. This format can be Erasmus+ funded.
  • Virtual course: all lessons and assessments are carried out online.
  • Physical course: all lessons are carried out physically (on-site), hosted by the organizing university. 

  • Registration status: Open

This interdisciplinary course will give you an increased understanding of the complex relationship between migration and health and the ethical principles connected to it. You will also gain knowledge about how different definitions and the migratory process impacts the health of migrants and how health outcomes will vary for different groups of migrants.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 3 Sep - 5 Dec 2025

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Entry requirements: General entry requirements (all ENLIGHT students are welcome)
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Equity
  • Study Field: Humanities, Medicine and Pharmacy, Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 3 Sep - 5 Dec 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: 5 places per ENLIGHT university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

  • Registration status: Open

The course aims at increasing knowledge about the psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease. The course content will cover causes of mental illness in cardiovascular disease and psychological treatments in this setting. Risk factor management is a major challenge for both primary and secondary prevention and it is, to a large extent, behavioural.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 29 Sep – 5 Dec 2025

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Entry requirements: 120 credits in medicine, caring science, psychology or other health-related science
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master, PhD, Lifelong Learners
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy, Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 29 Sep – 5 Dec 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 7,5
  • Number of places available: 5 per ENLIGHT university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

  • Registration status: Open

The course deals with the effects of environmental problems on health from a neurological perspective. The aim is to provide an overview of the mechanisms behind the environmental risks and, at the same time, provide instruments to analyze the issues and develop strategies to solve them.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 6 Oct - 7 Nov 2025

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Entry requirements: 120 ECTS from a medical, nursing, physiotherapist, biomedicine, pharmacy, biology or psychology programme or equivalent
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Global Engagement
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy
  • Course dates: 6 Oct - 7 Nov 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 7,5
  • Number of places available: 2 per ENLIGHT partner university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

  • Registration status: Open

This course focuses on the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development through the lens of experimental game theory/behavioral economics.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 6 Oct 2025 - 31 Jan 2026

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Göttingen
  • Courses – Focus area: Climate Change, Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 6 Oct 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 6
  • Number of places available: 5 from the organizing universities (UG, UBx, Besancon) Students from other partners are invited to apply, max. 2 students per university.

  • Registration status: Open

In this project course students develop such strategies for critical thinking with the main objective of enhancing their ability to strategically and rationally evaluate the information they are consuming.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 13 October - 19 December 2025

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Entry requirements: B2 level English
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master, PhD
  • Host: University of Bordeaux
  • Courses – Focus area: other area
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 13 October - 19 December 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Number of places available: 10 students per partner for CU, UGOE, UBx. 1 student per partner for the other universities.

  • Registration status: Open

This interdisciplinary course will give you an increased understanding of the complex relationships between health, environment, and climate change, particularly regarding sustainable cities and wellbeing.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 6 - 26 Oct 2025

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Entry requirements: General entry requirements (open for all ENLIGHT students)
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Climate Change, Equity
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy
  • Course dates: 6 - 26 Oct 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: 3 per ENLIGHT partner university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

  • Registration status: Open

This course gives an extensive introduction of the most prevalent affective disorders, their genetic or environmental causes, the underlying brain mechanisms as well as new clinical methods to treat them.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026

Apply by: 18 August 2025

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of cognitive psychology and research methods in psychology
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor 3, Master 1
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy, Social Sciences, Economics and Law
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 4
  • Number of places available: 25 in total. Number of places per university will be confirmed.

  • Registration status: Open

This course highlights the importance and unique possibilities of nanotechnology in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026

Apply by: 18 August 2025

  • Entry requirements: basic knowledge of biochemistry, biotechnology and cell biology
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being
  • Study Field: Medicine and Pharmacy
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 3
  • Number of places available: 5 in total. Number of places per university will be confirmed.

  • Registration status: Open

This course aims at the acquisition of advanced, theory-based scientific insights in literary translation.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026

Apply by: 18 August 2025

  • Entry requirements: bachelor in linguistics and literature, applied language studies, language and cultures or equivalent
  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Master
  • Host: Ghent University
  • Courses – Focus area: Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities
  • Course dates: 22 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
  • Apply by: 18 August 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: 5 in total. Number of places per university will be confirmed.

  • Registration status: Open

This course coincides with the conference "Climate Histories", focusing on how we can understand and re-evaluate established interpretations of how societies can adapt and transform in an era of accelerating climate change.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 7 - 31 Aug 2025

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Entry requirements: having obtained 60 ECTS credits
  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Master, Bachelor 2, Bachelor 3
  • Host: Uppsala University
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Climate Change, Energy and Circular Economy, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity, other area
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 7 - 31 Aug 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: 2 per partner university. Waiting lists are encouraged.

  • Registration status: Open

Waste Semiotics offers a transdisciplinary, action-oriented space for bachelor students wanting to investigate the powerful connections between everyday language and communication and one of the most pressing ecological and cultural concerns of our time: waste.

Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)

Course dates: 13 Oct - 28 Nov 2025

Apply by: 15 April 2025

  • Type: blended intensive programme (Erasmus+ or SEMP funding)
  • Level: Bachelor 2, Bachelor 3
  • Host: University of Bern
  • Courses – Focus area: Climate Change, Energy and Circular Economy, Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: Humanities, Social Sciences
  • Course dates: 13 Oct - 28 Nov 2025
  • Apply by: 15 April 2025
  • ECTS: 5
  • Number of places available: 5 per partner university for UniBE, UGent, UG, UT and UU

  • Registration status: Open

Planetary Health is a solutions-oriented, transdisciplinary field and social movement focused on analyzing and addressing the impacts of human disruptions to Earth’s natural systems on human health and all life on Earth.

Type: virtual course

Course dates: 26 March - 16 April 2025

Apply by: 15 March 2025

  • Type: virtual course
  • Level: Bachelor, Master
  • Host: University of Groningen
  • Courses – Focus area: Health and Well-being, Digitalisation, Climate Change, Energy and Circular Economy, Equity, Global Engagement , Culture and Creativity
  • Study Field: All fields
  • Course dates: 26 March - 16 April 2025
  • Apply by: 15 March 2025
  • ECTS: 2
  • Number of places available: 30-40 in total
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