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#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

In 2 relevant sites of Weimar, the students of the Spring School 2026 will generate systemic analysis to further develop ecofriendly and bioclimatic neighborhoods, slow mobilities, social approaches towards a

series of various urban interventions, addressing contemporary challenges related to current and future climate crises. In collaboration with the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU) at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Pauline Gaudry who has more than a decade of practice in Urban context in Paris/french cities and Rural context in Normandy, will follow these goals:

1. HISTORY AS IMPULSE. Work with the history of the place to identify existing ordinary buildings and structures. Rejuvenating and adapting
2. PEOPLE MAKE PLACES. Creating places with people & communities through inclusive proposals.
3. TEMPORALITIES TO TEST PROGRAMS. Meet the needs of local population and context to build a program using the concept of tactical urbanism
4. BIODIVERSITY SYSTEMS TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE and raise awareness.
5. UNDERSTAND AND FEEL THE CONTEXT TO DEVELOP A UNIQUE APPROACH. Each site has its own identity. Genius loci or “The Spirit of the Space” are following the sense of continuity and authenticity of a particular place.

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• Understand and apply design thinking principles, in a human-centric way, climate-resilient way, in a sensitive approach
• Effectively collect, organise, and analyse data required in the Design Thinking Process – not limiting to ideating, synthesising and formulating solutions
• Challenges tools and techniques at various stages of Design Thinking process (ie. Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test and Implement) in Urban Planning and Urban Design Projects. Soft skills relating to effective presentations for personable communication in an organised and structured manner
• Beyond that, the workshop aspires to equip every students with the importance of integrating empirical data collection. Additionally, emphasis on cross-disciplinary collaborations for a more humancentric approach in tackling complex urban.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/01991421-d4a0-772d-88dc-e386c0d90bed

Deadline: 02/11/25

#Critical thinking #Teamwork effectiveness #Planning and ways of working #Software use and development

Course Description

Developing the ability to identify the most important current and practical issues in global finance (including their connection to the real economy, socio-political problems, or climate concerns), analyze them, critically evaluate them, and formulate opinions.

Learning Outcomes

• The student identifies problems and processes in global finance and explains how finance, business, and social issues interact internationally.
• The student points out contemporary challenges and dilemmas related to global finance from an interdisciplinary view.
• The student can carry out a debate about the goals and assumptions of the prepared project, both within a team and in front of the entire group.
• The student uses the English language at the B2+ level for speaking, discussions, presentations, and writing.
• The student can work well in a group, plan and organize team tasks, take responsibility for their actions, and assume a leading role in the team.
• The student is ready to critically analyze their knowledge and information about global finance and socio-economic issues, both nationally and internationally.

Prerequisites

English B2

Specific Course Dates

Dates and times may change, except for the first
17/11/25 (08:00 - 10:25, incl. short break); 24/11/25 (08:00 - 09:30); 01/12/25 (08:55 - 11:20, incl. short break); 08/12/25 (08:00 - 09:30); 22/12/25 (08:00 - 09:30); 19/01/26 (08:00 - 09:30); 26/01/26 (08:00 - 08:45)

How to Apply

Please register using this form by 31/10/25. In case of any questions, please contact us at malgorzata.lyczek[at]ue.katowice.pl.

#Critical thinking #Mental flexibility #Planning and ways of working #Software use and development #Creativity and Innovation #Opportunity recognition 

Course Description

Presentation of knowledge about qualitative research methodology and its specificity. Developing skills of preparing and conducting qualitative research, together with analysing and interpreting qualitative data

Learning Outcomes

• The graduate of PhD studies knows and understands the determinants (e.g., economic, legal, ethical) and qualitative methodology of the scientific research in the management sciences discipline. 
• The graduate of PhD studies is able to apply knowledge from different fields, especially from social science, for creative identifying, formulating and solving complex problems and managing research tasks; in particular, correctly define the research problems, objectives and the scope of qualitative research, develop qualitative research methods, techniques and tools applying them creatively as well as conclude the research results.

Prerequisites

English B2

Specific Course Dates

Dates and times may change, except for the first
17/11/25 (15:20, 4 h); 18/11/25 (15:20, 4 h); 11/12/25 (14:25, 5 h); 16/12/25 (15:20, 4 h); 12/01/26 (15:20, 4 h); 13/01/26 (15:20, 4 h); 15/01/26 (14:25, 5 h)

How to Apply

Please register using this form by 31/10/25. In case of any questions, please contact us at malgorzata.lyczek[at]ue.katowice.pl.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

Objects are never just things. They carry stories, memories, and meanings. Sometimes hidden, sometimes questioned. This course explores how ordinary and overlooked objects can be archived and activated into powerful carriers for memory, identity and used as tools for storytelling and interaction. Through online seminars, students will be introduced to theories and practices around objects, collections, and archives, engaging readings like Dawn Raffel’s The Secret Life of Objects, Yanagi Sōetsu’s The Beauty of Everyday Things, and Craig Staff’s The Materiality of the Archive. We will discuss

how artists, museums, and archives work with material culture to provoke questions, preserve memory, and spark audience participation. In the on-site week, participants will visit archival and museum collections in Weimar (such as the Archiv der Moderne and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Bibliothek) to conduct hands-on research. Each student will select an object, ordinary or overlooked, and develop a creative archival project. These may take the form of interactive installations, conceptual collections, performative storytelling, or digital narratives. The week will conclude with a group-built “alternative museum,” where participants present their projects for the Bauhaus Spring School Open Studios. Together, we will reveal the surprising, layered lives of the objects around us.

Key Readings

Sue Breakell and Wendy Russell – The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context (2024)
András Szántó (ed.) – The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (2020)
Yanagi Sōetsu – The Beauty of Everyday Things (2019 translation by Brase, M.)
Dawn Raffel – The Secret Life of Objects (2012)
Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Things (2013 ed)

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• Critically examine how objects and collections communicate cultural and historical narratives.
• Develop creative strategies to “activate” ordinary objects through storytelling and interaction.
• Conduct practical archival and object-based research in online and on-site collections.
• Collaborate to curate and present their work to a public audience

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/0199141f-916a-7423-ac5a-3325eaa57884
Deadline: 02/11/25

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

In our day and age, which is at times labelled to be the ‘Anthropocene’, the traditional, Western distinction of natural and cultural spheres seems to blur. This affects a variety of spaces, including the Sea and thereby different maritime spaces. In recent decades, there has been a significant shift in media and cultural studies, in order to gain a further understanding into how those bodies of water have never been ‘natural’ (in the sense of ‘untouched’, ‘pure’, ‘original’, etc.) at all. Rather they have been the site or scene of various modes of structuring and thus have always been a space in-between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’.

Thus, the course will follow diverse phenomena to examine this intermingling. Three publications will be mandatory and crucial:

• Peters / Turner [Eds.]: Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders
• Deleuze/Guattari: Thousand Plateaus
• Starosielski: The Undersea Network

The online phase will give an introduction into the discourse and consist of joint discussions of the above mentioned texts. Subsequently, students will work in ‘focus groups’ on the three phenomena given in the title (Ships, Shores, Strata) and deliver a presentation during the week in Weimar.

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

The educational targets are threefold: I) highlighting the ongoing trend within Media and Cultural Studies (including art-related research) to focus on maritime spaces as a consequence of the ‘Anthropocene’. II) broadening the students view concerning the discrepancy regarding different notions of the sea (i.e. the notion of ‘freedom’ and ‘adventure’ versus the ‘stratification’ of the sea). III) enabling first steps towards an understanding how technical artefacts and matters of engineering are always linked to an affective dimension, setting up images, promises and expectations which go beyond the mere construction.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/0199141e-ccd4-70a2-8016-af11b679be27
Deadline: 02/11/25

#self-awareness and management #mental health #healthy living

Course Description

The online-event is aiming at strengthening mental health of students and doctoral candidates. People who experienced mentally challenging situations during their studies will speak about warning signals of psychological crises, coping strategies and support and counseling services.

Learning Outcomes

What awaits you:

• Getting to know the warning signs of psychological crises.
• Looking critically at anxieties and prejudices relating to psychological crises.
• Finding out who and what can help, what makes you strong, and what you need to master a crisis.
• Tips on dealing with stress and exam anxiety.
• Discussing how you can create an atmosphere in your university where it goes without saying that mental health issues are openly spoken about and solutions are looked for together. You will get to know people who have overcome psychological crises, who live successful and fulfilling lives and who want to share their life experiences with you, so that you are well-equipped to live your life!

Prerequisites

none

How to Apply

First-come, first-served. Register now: Link to Registration "Mental well-being in higher education"
Please also send us a short email in order to receive your certificate: b4eu-courses[at]uni-weimar.de

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

The participants are invited to explore drawing as both, an architectonic methodology and an inspirational narrative tool. From conceptual diagrams that initiate projects to sketches of specific places that later shape design character, we will investigate how graphical representation supports the storytelling of phenomena and ultimately evolves into complex ideas.

The course combines an online phase focused on brainstorming and conceptual development with an in-person phase in Weimar dedicated to intensive visual inquiry workshops, graphical storytelling, and collective critique sessions. The course will be conducted by Pappal Suneja (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) and Kashish Sachdeva (New Delhi, India), together with guest lecturer Dr. Endrit Marku (Bauhaus4EU Allianz partner, Polis University, Tirana). Pappal Suneja (PS) will lead both the online and in-person phases, guiding students through visual research methods, diagrammatic storytelling, and critical reflections on drawing as narrative. Kashish Sachdeva (KS) will contribute during the online teaching phase of the course, offering her insights and guidance remotely in support of the conceptual development and narrative framing sessions. Guest lecturer Endrit Marku (EM) will lead a two-day workshop on narrative ideas and storytelling strategies within architectural research, enriching the course with intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.

In a relatively short span of time, the participants’ projects will navigate the twofold concept of time — both chronological and experiential. They will be challenged to shape narratives, as storytelling is our only way to make time and space intelligible. In his essay Architecture and Narrativity, Ricoeur writes: "Architecture would be to space what narrative is to time.". This quote will be the foundation and starting point of the process. If architecture is considered - space configuration through narrative, then building form and drawing (the latter is the means through which architectural form is generated) can be seen as semiotic means through which meaning is expressed.

We will practically explore the potential of drawing as a visual representation of language, of narratives, and as an alternative to writing. The typical process of prefiguration, configuration, and refiguration — through which time becomes narrative — will be translated into a process that expresses architecture, places, and memory through drawing. Participants will learn to see graphical representation as a powerful research method that generates knowledge and communicates ideas effectively across diverse audiences.

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• Learn to use visual inquiry as a method for research, conceptual exploration, and narrative ideas.
• Develop skills in translating spatial ideas into compelling visual stories.
• Enhance their ability to connect diagrams and graphical notations with complex written arguments.
• Gain insights into interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to storytelling in design and media studies.
• Improve confidence in presenting visual research outcomes to diverse audiences

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/01991418-243d-76b3-9838-be53c8f545bf
Deadline: 02/11/25

Course Description

The course provides an introduction to financial accounting concepts. It describes the accounting system and accounting cycle, as well as, the use of accounting entries in order to recognize an economic event. Moreover, the course describes the preparation of financial statements and the qualitative characteristics of accounting information. Case studies will be used to support learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Use accounting entries to present economic events.
2. Use the ledger to examine the balances of each account.
3. Prepare financial statements.
4. Analyse and interpret financial statements.

How to Apply

Please send us until 29/09/25 a short email including the course you would like to participate in, your study program at your home university, and your matriculation number to: info.accfi[at]uom.edu.gr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #team-based learning

Course Description

Summer Schools as a Tool to Implement European Bauhaus Courses" explores how interdisciplinary European Bauhaus Courses can be effectively organized throughout an alliance of 10 universities.

Over the course of five days, we will explore the potential of Summer Schools (as well as Spring, Winter, or Autumn Schools) as creative laboratories where interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, and social inclusion are translated into practice.

Participants will exchange best practices, explore innovative formats, and discuss how these courses can be coordinated and marketed most effectively within the framework of the Bauhaus4EU Alliance.
In addition, participants will have the opportunity to experience the Christmas magic of Weimar during the social programme and networking events.

Learning Outcomes

The goal of the staff week is to develop a shared understanding of how to implement, promote, and manage European Bauhaus courses effectively. 

Prerequisites

This Staff Week is addressed to all colleagues from the administration who work with Summer Schools and/or Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs), as well as to faculty members who are interested in creating and organizing interdisciplinary European Bauhaus Courses.

How to Apply

Register now!
https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/01961f61-fd26-7ed1-814e-7f074f72d2f4/apply 

Course Description

Management Information Systems is a formal discipline within business education that bridges the gap between computer science and well-known business disciplines such as finance, marketing, and management. This course exposes the student to current theories and practices appropriate for understanding the role and application of information systems for individuals, organizations, and society within a globally competitive context. The course focuses on information technology and its uses in improving work practices, products, and tools for individuals and organizations. In this course, students will learn about the components of management information systems and how to leverage them in business. Case studies will be used to support learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the use and function of management information systems
2. Explain the strategic value of information systems in the organization
3. Store and retrieve data by using databases
4. Analyze and design the informational model of various information systems
5. Develop small-scale information systems using Microsoft Access
6. Identify trends in information systems that will impact the next generation of business

How to Apply

Please send us until 29/09/25 a short email including the course you would like to participate in, your study program at your home university, and your matriculation number to: info.accfin[at]uom.edu.gr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

How can industrial remnants be transformed through architecture? The Stelzenhaus Riesa serves as a starting point for conceptual design strategies. Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• a basic understanding of industrial building typologies and their structural, spatial, and historical characteristics,
• the ability to assess existing buildings in terms of structure, materiality, embodied energy, and cultural value,
• skills in developing architectural concepts within the existing built fabric,
• a sound understanding of sustainable and circular principles in adaptive reuse,
• interdisciplinary perspectives across architecture, engineering, heritage studies, and urban planning, hands-on experience through on-site analysis, design, and critical reflection.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/019913e2-3709-7a05-ac77-2b625b391b20
Deadline: 02/11/25

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

A hands-on, pan-European innovation bootcamp where students from EU universities collaborate to create startup ideas, design business models, and pitch to experts. 

Preliminary programme: 

Online Phase (Pre-Course Session):
A short virtual session introducing participants to the course objectives and one another. Students engage in icebreaker activities, share their backgrounds, and form project teams. The session also provides an overview of the startup challenge and initial learning on entrepreneurial thinking. As homework, participants research successful and failed startups from their regions and explore mind mapping as a tool for idea generation.

In-Person Phase (6 Days in Weimar):
An intensive, hands-on learning experience combining short lectures, workshops, and team-based project work. Each day focuses on a key stage of the startup journey - from problem identification and business modelling to market validation, funding, and pitching. Students learn from guest entrepreneurs, visit local innovation hubs, and develop their own startup concepts. The programme concludes with a pitch event, where teams present their ideas to a panel of experts, with opportunities for further mentorship and development.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• Understand entrepreneurship fundamentals
• Identify and validate real problems
• Develop sustainable business models
• Build teamwork and intercultural collaboration skills
• Gain exposure to startup ecosystems
• Present ideas to experts and potential investors

How to Apply

Please register here: Are you an Europreneur? Startup Challenge Weimar · Veranstaltungen · Veranstaltungs-Manager der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Congeno
Deadline: 14/11/25

#project-based learning #PCB Layout, Prototyping #Teamwork effectiveness #Systems and strategic thinking

Course Description

This micro-credential explores the end-to-end process of PCB design using industry tools. Through project-based learning, participants will define, design, simulate, and fabricate a functional PCB prototype.

Learning Outcomes

Understand PCB design principles
Apply CAD tools (e.g. KiCad)
Design for manufacturability and testing
Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams
Solve real-world hardware design challenges

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of electronics and circuit theory

How to Apply

Please send an email to b4eu@ipcb.pt until 31/12/25 with the following details: your full name, the name of your institution, and the course you are attending.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

We will visit collective farming projects in Thuringia that embody the vision of an ecological and solidarity-based society in times of climate crisis and rising right-wing extremism. We will discuss their experiences against the background of theories and debates on economic democracy. We will link abstract concepts such as socialization (of land) and democratic economic planning to the practical activities and challenges of agricultural cooperatives and community-supported agriculture that we will visit. The participants will use the acquired theoretical knowledge to present the visited projects within the context of key challenges of our time. We will present our results in an analogue low-tech exhibition. The exhibition aims to inspire through the combination of radical concepts and hands-on experiences.

The course is based on an internationalist perspective that places solidarity and democratic freedom at the centre. In this sense, it is about local democratization with an internationalist vision.

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• Exploring a new topic together in a group, in an international setting
• Thinking theory and practice together and developing an own position in an iterative process
• Understanding solidarity-based agriculture and critically reflecting on it
• Understanding potentials of solidarity-based agriculture for overcoming environmental and social challenges
• Working with abstract concepts such as socialization and democratic economic planning

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/0199140f-773a-7ec9-b588-1ec128b3a0ef
Deadline: 02/11/25

#Communication strategies #Language proficiency #Cognitive flexibility and code switching #Goals achievement

Course Description

The purpose of the course is to introduce the concept of negotiation as a means of resolving different types of conflicts in business relationships. Its main goal is to familiarize students with the basics of negotiation, its role and importance, as well as the different styles, strategies and techniques of negotiation. 
 Upon completion of the course, the students should:
 1. have knowledge of the essence and importance of negotiation,
 2. have the ability to analyse conflict situations and propose solutions to identified conflicts,
 3. know and be able to use basic negotiation techniques in a business context

Learning Outcomes

The student knows and understands the essence of relations between economic agents, a component of which is negotiation conducted in a multicultural environment; has advanced knowledge of the norms and principles of conducting negotiations.
The student demonstrates different positions, discusses specialized topics with diverse audiences, including international ones, classifies negotiations styles.
The student presents and evaluates different opinions; discusses them with the use of special terminology from the negotiation field.
The student follows the principles of ethics in communication and negotiation processes.

Prerequisites

English B2

Specific Course Dates

Dates and times may change, except for the first
24/11/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 27/11/20 (13:30 - 15:00), 08/12/25 (09:50 - 11:20), 11/12/25 (13:30 - 15:00); 22/12/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 08/01/26 (13:30 - 15:00); 19/01/26 (09:50 - 11:20);  22/01/26 (13:30 - 14:15)

How to Apply

Please register using this form by 31/10/25. In case of any questions, please contact us at malgorzata.lyczek[at]ue.katowice.pl.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #team-based learning #intercultural #innovative communication #languages skills

Course description

Intercomprehension is the practice of speaking or writing in one's mother tongue with a speaker of another language. The latter, without responding in the other's language, understands and responds in his other own language. This is not only a communicative and didactic approach, but also an ethical one, since it puts all the languages in the same family on an equal footing, while creating a genuine spirit of openness and linguistic parity and expression. From a European perspective, the possibility of understanding a large number of speakers without the need for translation and the opportunity to interact in one's own mother tongue encourages community spirit and interculturality.

Prerequisites

Participants should have at least a B2 level in one Romance language (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, etc.).
Organised for administrative staff and teachers interested in innovative communication strategies.

How to Apply

Send an e-mail to bip_pci[at]univ-lyon2.fr including your name, surname, e-mail, university of origin, current position

More info about the programme here.

Course Description

The course aims for students to develop an understanding of the basic principles of finance and the basic concepts needed to understand the financial manager’s decision-making process. In particular, students will learn about the objectives, the fundamentals of financial ratio analysis while they will examine how to best allocate capital in order to create value. Case studies will be used to support learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the basic concepts of financial system and financial institutions.
2. Acknowledge the role of financial manager in making investing and financing decisions.
3. Understand and apply the time value of money in order to make investment decisions.
4. Calculate a comprehensive set of financial ratios and use them to evaluate the financial health of a company.
5. Evaluate the relationship between risk and return in equity investments.
6. Apply critical thinking skills to attempt to apply lessons learned to financial situations that will be encountered.

How to Apply

Please send us until 29/09/25 a short email including the course you would like to participate in, your study program at your home university, and your matriculation number to: info.accfin[at]uom.edu.gr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

The course will provide a detailed overview of various aspects relevant to the management and promotion of rural tourism. Participants will delve into kitchen methodologies, encompassing facility management and specific operational procedures. Additionally, the course will address the significance of preserving and appreciating local culture and heritage as tourist attractions, emphasizing strategies for safeguarding and showcasing these assets. Throughout the curriculum, case studies, site visits, and hands-on exercises will be employed to impart a comprehensive grasp of sustainable and efficient approaches to enhance rural tourism.

Learning Outcomes

The expected learning outcomes focus on participants deepening their comprehension of the interrelation between heritage, particularly gastronomic heritage, and its significance in tourism development. They will refine their skills in presentation, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving, while also advancing their competencies in tourism. These abilities will not only benefit their research pursuits but also enhance their career progression.

How to Apply

Students should send an email to b4eu@ipcb.pt until 30/12/2025 with the following details: your full name, the name of your institution, and the course you wish to attend.
You might be eligible for an Erasmus scholarship for participating in a Blended Intensive Programme. Please check with your International Office whether they offer this opportunity. It is recommended that you do so as soon as possible.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

Discover the various aspects of the built environment and Urban Heat Islands and learn how to develop more resilient cities!

In this intensive course, participants get an insight into the subject of “urban heat” and are offered the opportunity to develop GIS skills. The course systematically leads participants to learn about the relation between human-made and natural factors on the built environment, and how responsive planning and design strategies serve heat mitigation. During the course, participants are also acquainted to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or professionalise existing GIS-skills to map heat islands and mitigation strategies for different case areas in Cairo. Participants will work with climate data, interpret and discuss them with expert input and leverage their own experience of perceiving urban heat into a scientific context, leading to practical design solutions that respond to urban heat in a spatial, cultural, and social context.

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will discover the various aspects of the built environment and Urban Heat Islands and learn how to develop more resilient cities. 
Acquire an interdisciplinary and transcultural perspective on the urban heat island effect and develop an integrated design approach to reduce urban heat.

Prerequisites

Students (Bachelor from the sixth semester onward and Master students) of disciplines related to spatial development like architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and spatial planning, geography, engineering, international development, and others.

How to Apply

Please register here: Anmeldung · Urban Heat Islands: Understanding the context of climatic, cultural and physical conditions in urban environments. · Veranstaltungen · Veranstaltungs-Manager der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Congeno
Deadline: 02/11/25

Course Description

This module provides students with an understanding of the principles and analytical methods of microeconomics to examine the behaviour of households and firms. It aims to provide the microeconomic theory necessary for intermediate and other economics and finance modules, as well as enable students to understand and apply economic theory to policy issues. Case studies will be used to support learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Recognise the nature of the basic economic problem of optimal resource allocation
2. Understand the behaviour of consumer and producer in the market economy
3. Understand the implications of different market structures for optimal resource allocation
4. Recognise the consequences of and potential constraints for the implementation of
government intervention

How to Apply

Please send us until 29/09/25 a short email including the course you would like to participate in, your study program at your home university, and your matriculation number to: info.accfin[at]uom.edu.gr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

Our screens have consumed our perceptions of reality, in which we can no longer distinguish between what is real and what is hyperreal. Splitting and merging our digital lives to remain fluxed and confused. This course seeks to know how we can better understand our present hyperreal reality, to ask how we arrived here, and what it means in our posthuman identity.

Find out more: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Throughout this course, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the intersection of technology, art, and posthuman concepts. Whilst understanding the ability to critically evaluate the effects of AR might have on our present. After the course, and practically speaking, participants will have learnt how to build and produce artistic augmented works with TikTok Effect House, with hands-on workshops. They will have acknowledged how to guide their individual viewpoints and the theoretical influences, that their works can raise critical questions and opinions on where and how our post-human present is radically/ethically changing our technological understanding of our future and past.

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/01991409-5b0f-703c-890f-6af462fba43e
Deadline: 02/11/25

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

Everyone agrees: in the face of the dramatic effects of the climate crisis, art should urgently act, filling the voids left by politics and governments. But what kind of responses are required from art? And through which strategies can we engage aesthetically with the climate crisis? Here, the answers vary widely. For some, aesthetics—as a form of sensory, embodied engagement—should foster a participatory experience that reconciles us with nature. It should enhance awareness of ecological values, allowing us to recognize the beauty of nature and, in turn, the need to preserve it. Others, however, warn against the risks of idealizing nature as pristine and pure, as a kind of salvific elsewhere.

They instead advocate for a more unsettling, disturbing, and aggressive aesthetic that resists romanticization. Some argue that the climate crisis is, in itself, an aesthetic problem: it transcends time and space— those categories that Kant, in his transcendental aesthetics, identified as the a priori conditions of sensibility. Climate change, in this view, is a “hyperobject”, eluding our perceptual and cognitive frameworks. The task of art, then, is to provide a sensitive and affective access to this elusive phenomenon. Other authors, following Donna Haraway, argue that what we need most is a speculative aesthetics—one that imagines alternative futures and creates new narrative tools to shape our world and our relationships with non-human beings. In the first, theoretical part of the seminar, we will engage with texts by a variety of authors (such as Berleant, Morton, Haraway, and Bennett), presenting and discussing key approaches within ecological aesthetics. The second part of the seminar, including student presentations and contributions, will connect these theoretical positions to artistic practices. We will explore how artists working across various media—literature, film, installation, AI—develop and embody ecological aesthetics. Finally, in the third part, the students will realize their own artistic project and present it during the final “Open Atelier” of the Spring School.

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• Gain an overview of the lively current debates in ecological aesthetics, becoming familiar with key theoretical positions and diverse methodological approaches.
• Evaluate the aesthetic strategies employed by contemporary artists in response to environmental challenges, recognizing both their potentials and limitations.
• Reflect on their own position within the climate discourse, and explore how aesthetic practices can imagine alternative futures and foster affective, embodied, and sensory engagements with the climate crisis.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/0199141a-02b1-7357-bb3d-65f0688dd5e3
Deadline: 02/11/25

#Civil and Environmental Engineering #Digital & smart technologies

Course Description

The course gives an overview on experiments and their evaluation regarding different tasks and scopes of structural engineering. Next to different testing techniques applied for diverse aims, the equipment and measuring devices employed for testing are treated as well.

Besides the experiment itself, it is an important question, how we can use the experimental data for the calibration and validation of models in engineering. In this course, we give insights to techniques called parameter and system identification.

As often signals are not useable directly, transforms are necessary, like filtering, Fourier Transform, Wavelet Transform and, in particular for signals with noise, averaging techniques. Having models at hand, the experiment can be designed virtually by means of nonlinear optimization.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be familiar with following: Design and setup as well as evaluation and interpretation of experimental testing in structural engineering. Provision of techniques linking experimental and mathematical / numerical modelling. Parallel assessment of steps being part of any verification and validation procedure. Discussion of common techniques of optimal experimental designs

How to Apply

Please send us a short email including the course you would like to participate in, your study program at your home university, and your matriculation number to: b4eu-courses[at]uni-weimar.de

#BIP #Blended Intensive Programme #hybrid #team-based learning

Course Description

This blended workshop introduces advanced engineering students to a powerful new paradigm in computational mechanics: scientific machine learning. Traditionally, the finite element method (FEM) has been the workhorse for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in physics and engineering. In this course, we contrast FEM with emerging deep learning-based methods - such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), neural operators, and AI-assisted tooling - to give participants a rich, comparative understanding of both frameworks.

The course begins with a self-paced online module with pre-recorded sessions that refreshes core FEM concepts, sets up coding environments (Matlab/PyTorch), and walks through baseline solver implementations. This will be supplemented by the on-site sessions to build foundational fluency. During the in-person phase, morning lectures will dive into the theoretical underpinnings of scientific machine learning for PDEs, while afternoon sessions will focus on hands-on projects. Participants will extend classical FEM solvers, benchmark them against machine learning surrogates, and explore how large language models can assist in code generation, documentation, and experimentation.

What makes this course exceptional is the emphasis on cross-pollination: using the familiarity of FEM to demystify the neural network-based solvers, and vice versa. The week concludes with short presentations where participants share insights from their experiments, fostering reflection and peer learning.

Find more information here: https://www.uni-weimar.de/springschool/en/

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire:

• Understand the foundational principles of both traditional finite element methods (FEM) and emerging scientific machine learning approaches for solving PDEs in computational mechanics.
• Gain fluency in modern AI-based solvers, including physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and neural operators, with an appreciation of their mathematical structure, capabilities, and limitations.
• Draw meaningful parallels between FEM and neural network-based solvers to better understand where machine learning augments, complements, or diverges from classical approaches.
• Develop hands-on coding expertise in Matlab and Python/PyTorch through guided exercises that range from FEM implementation to training and evaluating ML-based surrogates.
• Learn to benchmark and compare solver performance across accuracy, generalizability, and computational efficiency using structured case studies.
• Acquire skills in prompt engineering for large language models to support rapid prototyping, code explanation, and documentation workflows.
  
  Participants will leave the course with the theoretical understanding and practical experience needed to critically evaluate and implement solver strategies - both classical and machine-learned - for real-world problems in computational mechanics.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Study Grade: Bachelor/ Master

How to Apply

Please register here: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/de/events/0199141b-67ec-728b-bac2-069762935549
Deadline: 02/11/25

Course Description

This module provides an introduction to mathematics relevant for students in accounting and finance. On completion of the module students will have competence in linear equations, simultaneous equations, nonlinear equations, differentiation, optimization, vectors and matrices. Case studies will be used to support learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply concepts of linear algebra in a given case
2. Engage with concepts related to algebraic operations
3. Apply principles of mathematical optimization
4. Use quantitative skills to solve a given economic problem.

How to Apply

Please send us until 29/09/25 a short email including the course you would like to participate in, your study program at your home university, and your matriculation number to: info.accfin[at]uom.edu.gr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.

#Respect for diversity #Communication strategies #Adaptability #Critical thinking #Self-awareness and management #Goals achievement #Resilience and Persistence

Course Description

To familiarise students with the issues of building and managing a project team. To develop skills useful to a team leader at different stages of project management.

Learning Outcomes

• The student knows and understands to an in-depth degree the facts and phenomena of their theories, explaining the complex interrelationships between them, representing advanced and theoretically underpinned knowledge of project team management.
• The student knows and understands in depth the economic and social dilemmas of the modern economy undertaken by project teams in organizations.
• The student can independently plan and implement their own lifelong learning in the area of project team management competence development.
• The student has language skills in the selected foreign language in accordance with the requirements specified for level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• The student is ready to adequately and responsibly perform the role of a project team manager, including the development of his competencies and adherence to ethics and codes of good practice in the field of project management.

Prerequisites

English B2

Specific Course Dates

Dates and times may change, except for the first
18/11/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 25/11/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 02/12/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 09/12/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 16/12/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 23/12/25 (09:50 - 11:20); 13/01/26 (09:50 - 11:20); 27/01/26 (10:45 - 11:30)

How to Apply

Please register using this form by 31/10/25. In case of any questions, please contact us at malgorzata.lyczek[at]ue.katowice.pl.

#Respect for diversity #Critical thinking #Building relationships #Working with diversity #Self-awareness and management #Entrepreneurial attitude #Planning and ways of working 

Course Description

Leader’s Toolkit is a practical course designed to develop key leadership competencies needed in today’s dynamic work environment. Participants enhance their self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and communication skills while learning how to build and lead effective, diverse teams.

Learning Outcomes

• The student knows and understands the fundamental dilemmas of the civilization related to leading people, including the family and international context.
• The student knows and understands the implications of leadership for entrepreneurship and running a business.
• The student is able to manage teamwork.
• The student is able to communicate effectively with followers.
• The student is able to apply the leadership skills to make his/her unit/department/business more entrepreneurial and CSR-oriented.

Prerequisites

English B2

Specific Course Dates

Dates and times may change, except for the first
20/11/25 (13:30 - 15:00); 24/11/25 (08:00 - 09:30); 04/12/25 (13:30 - 15:00); 08/12/25 (08:00 - 09:30); 18/12/25 (13:30 - 15:00); 15/01/26 (13:30 - 15:00); 19/01/26 (08:00 - 09:30); 22/01/26 (14:25 - 15:10)

How to Apply

Please register using this form by 31/10/25. In case of any questions, please contact us at malgorzata.lyczek[at]ue.katowice.pl.

#Critical thinking #Working with diversity #Goals achievement #Planning and ways of working #Opportunity recognition

Course Description

Presenting to what extent dynamic changes in the firms’ social, economic, legal, and technological environment affect the current paradigms of their functioning on the market. Discussing factors influencing competitive advantage, competitiveness, and the ability to maintain a satisfactory competitive market position. Analyzing innovations’ taxonomy and their role in the process of creating value for customers, as well as the innovativeness and innovations’ research methodology.

Learning Outcomes

• The course graduates know and understand the fundamental dilemmas concerning firms’ innovativeness and innovation implementation, adoption, and dissemination.
• The course graduates know and understand the principles of dissemination of research results in the field of firm innovation.
• The graduates of the course are able to critically analyze and assess the research on innovativeness and innovations, their results and their contribution to knowledge development.
• The graduates of the course are ready for a critical assessment of the innovation science discipline and their contribution to the discipline.

Prerequisites

English B2

Specific Course Dates

Dates and times may change, except for the first
27/11/25 (16:15, 4 h); 04/12/25 (16:15, 4 h); 08/01/26 (16:15, 4 h); 22/01/26 (17:10, 3 h)

How to Apply

Please register using this form by 31/10/25. In case of any questions, please contact us at malgorzata.lyczek[at]ue.katowice.pl.