#Critical thinking #Self-awareness and management #Creativity and Innovation

Course Description

The purpose of educating students in behaviour change for sustainability is to provide organisations and communities with knowledge and skills that are useful for promoting sustainable development. Transitioning towards sustainability is a complex challenge, and considering human behaviour is important for succeeding with the transition. The knowledge and skills are applicable in many contexts, such as in commercial or public sector sustainability work, in grass-roots action, or in other work seeking to contribute to sustainable development.
Content

• Why is behaviour change important for sustainable development
• The human behavioural system and theories of behaviour change
• The self-determination theory of motivation
• Psychological barriers to sustainable development
• Criticisms and ethics of using behaviour change approaches
• How to apply various behaviour change approaches for sustainability, including nudging

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Use established models and theories to describe the behavioural system.
• Explain various behaviour change approaches for sustainability.
• Apply various behaviour change approaches in a project to address a sustainability issue.

Judgment and approach

On completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Describe criticisms of and ethical considerations when taking a behaviour change approach.
• Describe how to implement behaviour change techniques ethically.

Prerequisites

General entry requirements

How to Apply

Please send us an email by 25/11/25 including the course you would like to participate in, your study program at your home university, your name and date of birth, your phone number, and your transcript of records to: in.exchange[at]bth.se. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration if there are available seats.

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

Course Description

Develop an innovative fictional project for an existing city located in a European country, based on preliminary research (online) into eco-friendly projects already implemented in other cities around the world.

Learning Outcomes

Prerequisites

How to Apply

Send an email to bip_pci[at]univ-lyon2.fr including your name, surname, e-mail, the course you would like to participate in, and your study program at your home university.
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 provides a general introduction to the field of Economics and Management of Natural Resources. Following a brief introduction on the relationship between Sustainable Development and Economics and the main issues in environmental protection, the course focuses on the management of natural resources. In the introductory lectures the economic approach towards environmental issues is presented. The notions of Property Rights, Externalities, Public Goods, and Common Property Resources are examined and a brief description of Benefit–Cost Analysis and valuation methods is presented. Then we shift into dynamic efficiency and sustainable development. We develop fully a two period depleatable resource management model on which we base the presentation, generalizing to different types of costs, many periods and the presence of a renewable alternative. We then examine in some detail the energy sector (demand supply and market analysis). We continue with replenishable but depletable resources with emphasis on water management. We also examine the economics of land use and forestry economics. Finally we examine common-pool resources with emphasis on fisheries management.
The objective of the course is to introduce students to the main natural resource management issues, and provide them with the necessary tools to improve their management. The course uses mainly diagrammatical analysis and puts less emphasis on quantitative analysis (which though at some points is unavoidable), since the course is also attended by Erasmus students with diverse background.

Learning Outcomes

Students completing the course will be able to understand the main problems of natural resource management, dinstinghuish between depleatable and renewable resources and realise that the overconsumption of renewable resources could lead to their extinction. Students will also understand the main problems of collective decisions making and the important input Cost-Benefit Analysis can provide in collective decision making. Also students will acquire a basic understanding of problems and techniques of managing water resourcses, land, forests and fisheries.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Economics and Regional Studies
Study Grade: Bachelor

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: info.accfin@uom.edu.gr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.
Registration deadline: until 15/2/2026

Course description

We warmly invite you to join us in Bergamo, from October 27 to 31, 2025, for a unique Staff Week hosted in an extraordinary setting: the monumental Sant’Agostino complex in the heart of Città Alta.

A center of knowledge since the late 13th century, Sant’Agostino has long been a place where intellectual, artistic, and architectural traditions meet. Today, it houses the Humanities Campus of the University of Bergamo, where ancient monastic cloisters have been reimagined as spaces for research, learning, and cultural exchange.

In this inspiring location, we will reflect together on a central question: How can library services be promoted as a strategic and cultural asset for the university?

How to Apply

Write an e-mail to bip[at]unibg.it

More info about the programme and registration here.

#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.

#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 #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 · Events · Veranstaltungs-Manager der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Congeno
Deadline: 14/11/25

#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

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

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#online #Societal challenges and development #business ethics

Course Description

This course is both practical and theoretical. It will enable students to analyze businesses by considering ethics as a key element of the decision-making process. The focus is on creating value simultaneously for all stakeholders, the environment, and companies.The course explores new trends in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It will include the discussion of business cases, as well as the development of CSR strategies, metrics, and monitoring systems. We will also examine the evolution of CSR governance initiatives and assess their potential benefits and limitations.

Learning Outcomes

Increase awareness of the ethical dimension of business and decision-making across all functions.
Discuss social norms, values, ethical principles, and moral philosophy that provide criteria for decision-making.
Discuss organizational initiatives aimed at sustainable development.
Understand the role of business ethics in the business environment and recognize the challenges of corporate social responsibility.
Develop critical thinking skills through the application of concepts and theories to business cases.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Business, cross-cultural

Study Grade: Master's

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 : bauhaus4eu@u-picardie.fr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.
Registration deadline: until 02/02/2026

#Business #online #Social Development

Course Description

Cross-Cultural Business explores how cultural differences shape business practices, communication, management, and negotiation in a globalized environment. Through theory, case studies, and practical exercises, students learn to navigate cultural diversity, adapt strategies to international contexts, and build effective cross-cultural collaboration. The course equips future managers with the intercultural competence needed to lead and succeed in multicultural organizations.

Learning Outcomes

The objective of this course is to enhance understanding of how cultural differences influence global business practices. Through the exploration of key theories and models, students will gain insight into the complexities of cross-cultural communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution. The course aims to develop practical skills for effectively navigating and managing cultural diversity, enhancing both individual and organizational performance in a global context. By engaging in discussion questions and scenario-based questions, students will learn to adapt business strategies and communication styles to foster successful international partnerships and operations.

Prerequisites

Study Subject: Business, cross-cultural

Study Grade: Master's

How to Apply

Starting date: 13/04/2026
Registration procedure: 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 : bauhaus4eu[at]u-picardie.fr. We will contact you with further details regarding your registration in the case of free seats.
Registration deadline: 30/03/2026