The VU Graduate Winter School offers a focused, high-quality academic experience designed for Master's or PhD candidates who want to strengthen their research and professional skills. All courses are small-scale and intensive, taught in English by experienced VU Amsterdam lecturers. The courses are tailored to meet the advanced needs of researchers and early-career specialists.
Further details can be found on the flyer.
For students at Aurora universities, are selected three interesting courses that will take place in January 2026. All courses are available in the Aurora Course Catalogue:
1. The Changing Landscape of Food Consumption (physical)
Explore the animal, dairy, and protein transition through culture, science and policy in this interactive, hands-on course.
2. Use of Generative AI in Academia (physical)
Explore generative AI tools to enhance your research, from data analysis to ethics, for all disciplines and academic levels.
3. Climate Change, Migration and Social Control (online)
Theoretically, we draw on literature about slow violence, including human and non-human (forced) mobility due to ecological change and the power and knowledge dynamics underlying multi-layered injustices in the Anthropocene.
Selection Procedure
Only two spots are available for the mobility funding. Students must be nominated by their home university to apply. Universität Innsbruck students should submit a one-page motivation letter (A4) via aurora-mobility@uibk.ac.at.
The deadline for UIBK student applications is 3 December 2025.