Hundreds of summer schools are organized around the globe every year. After COVID 19 many summer schools were canceled in 2020. Academic communities worldwide, both summer school organziers and those who are searching for opportunities to participate in a summer school are now preparing for the summer schools 2021.

You may also check the full list of 2021 summer schools.

Summer Schools in Europe

4th International School on Deep Learning, Spain

Deadline: July 23, 2021
Disciplines: Computer EngineeringComputer SciencesData Sciences
Event Date: July 26, 2021 - July 30, 2021

DeepLearn 2021 Winter will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast-developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw.

Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2021 Summer is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends.

Literary Translation Summer School, UK

Deadline: March 31, 2021
Disciplines: HumanitiesLanguagesLiterature
Event Date: June 05, 2021 - June 08, 2021

There will be three full days of translation workshops, and day four will be devoted to professional and networking sessions and includes discussion panels with editors and publishers and a practical talk on how to write a reader’s report. A highlight will be a presentation of Comma Press’s translation book list and business model, together with a translation competition offer. The winning entrant(s) will be offered a publication opportunity with Comma. 

Two full scholarships are available for the Bristol Translates Summer School, which will cover the full cost of fees on the programme.

7th International School on Big Data, Israel

Deadline: April 15, 2021
Disciplines: Computer SciencesData Sciences
Event Date: April 18, 2021 - April 22, 2021

BigDat 2021 Spring will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast-developing area of big data. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timișoara, Cambridge and Ancona.

Summer School FORMON - Long-term Forest Monitoring, Switzerland

Deadline: March 01, 2021
Disciplines: BiologyEnvironmental Studies
Event Date: August 22, 2021 - August 28, 2021

The Summer School aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the concepts, approaches, and available data infrastructure of forest long-term monitoring. Novel modelling and assessment approaches will be discussed considering the expectations to future forests from a scientific, forest management, and socio-economic perspective. Experienced researchers in forest science will discuss the potential limitation of disciplinary and interdisciplinary concepts.

EAERE Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics, Austria

Deadline: February 21, 2021
Disciplines: Environmental Studies
Event Date: June 27, 2021 - July 03, 2021

The summer school discusses the current state of economic modeling to support the design of the respective instruments and their timing, as well as the (in)effectiveness of policy packages in place. Issues addressed concern how to address multidimensional societal targets (e.g., as represented by the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs), how to build upon the IPCC long term scenario framework in path design (SSPs and SPAs), how to incorporate uncertainties in social and technological innovation, how to account for preferences changing over time, how to design the sequencing of instrument packages over time, and how to account for interdependencies across instruments.

Summer School - Witchcraft Across Classical, Medieval, and Early-Modern Cultures in Europe, Hungary

Deadline: February 14, 2021
Disciplines: AnthropologyArt HistoryArtsCultureHistoryReligious Studies
Event Date: July 20, 2021 - July 25, 2021

This course aims to lay out the rise and downturn of witch-beliefs in medieval and early modern Europe, tracing the multifaceted roots leading to their construction, from the Classical Greek and Roman literary traditions, to medieval lore and popular beliefs, up to the outburst of the “witch-craze” in early modern Europe. Particular emphasis will be given to the analysis of primary sources, the discussion of modern methodological approaches, and the instruments and places for research. Issues such as the gendering of witchcraft and male domination, along with the consideration of the various social, cultural, literary, legal, religious, economic, climatic aspects involved in determining the outbreak of the witch-craze, will contribute to foster reflection and discussion on topics that are relevant in the historical debate as well as in social practice.

Summer School - The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance 2021, Netherlands

Deadline: April 16, 2021
Disciplines: Governance, International Relations, Policy, Political Sciences

The Summer School ‘The European Union, the United Nations, and Global Governance’ will focus on a range of topics relevant to interactions between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) and the EU’s role within current patterns of global governance.

Summer School on Philosophy and Society - Arts, Ontology and Politics, 25 -31 August 2021, Belgium

Deadline: May 25, 2021
Disciplines: Arts, International Relations, Philosophy, Policy, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Sociology
Event Date: August 25, 2021 - August 31, 2021

The Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society seeks to address philosophical issues and problems pertaining to recent developments in Western societies. Its specific aim is to reflect on some of the major themes and debates that have recently emerged in the public sphere. 

Summer School - Digital Humanities: Making a Digital Edition – Basic Skills and Technologies, 28 June - 2 July 2021, Belgium

Deadline: March 20, 2021
Disciplines: Digital Humanities, Humanities
Event Date: June 28, 2021 - July 02, 2021

Intensive 5-day entry-level hands-on course on making digital editions and managing digital collections. In this course, participants will acquire a set of basic computer skills to share and reuse images through IIIF (using Raspberry Pis); transcribe the texts on these images in TEI-XML, and prepare their transcriptions for the web.

Summer School - Decision Management and Business Rules Management, 16-20 August 2021

Deadline: June 01, 2021
Disciplines: Business, Entrepreneurship, Management

This course will provide fundamental knowledge about Decision Management and Business Rules Management. Organizations execute numerous decisions each day, based on an increasing amount of data. Technology offers increasing possibilities for automating or supporting such decision-making. Decision Management and Business Rules Management enables organisations to progress from relatively simple task automation beyond workflow and process automation, into decision-centric automation. This course provides students with the theoretical background and hands-on experience regarding the capabilities required to innovate using Decision Management and Business Rules Management.

Oxford Summer School - Power of Storytelling and the World of New Media, 7-14 August 2021, UK

Deadline: February 28, 2021
Disciplines: Communication Studies, Journalism, Media, Social Media
Event Date: August 07, 2021 - August 14, 2021

In this course, participants will learn both the history and the fundamentals of storytelling, from Exodus to Star Wars. They will then learn to use their own phones to create, edit, produce and share powerful stories on their own.


Published on Jan 10, 2021