Spend time during summer together with colleagues from all around the world in an international and intercultural environment. Get to know leading scientists in your field of study and benefit from their knowledge to enhance your own research and methodological skills. Explore Switzerland and its capital Bern for a unique summer experience.
Are you interested? Please contact the organizing institute directly in case you have any questions.
Due to COVID-19, some summer schools have been cancelled, others are taking place online. Please consult the website of each Summer School.
Current program
Choose a field of study to learn more about each Summer / Winter School. The program is continuously updated.
Biology and Chemistry
| Topic | Summer School | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biology | Middle Eastern Biology of Parasitism | To be announced | Postponed to summer 2022 due to COVID-19 |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | Hidden players in the food chain. Improving health at the interfaces between environment, plants, animals and humans. Virtual One Health International Bachelor and Master Summer School |
16 - 20 August 2021 | More information |
Humanities and Social Sciences
| Topic | Summer School |
Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | Causation and Responsibility |
26 - 30 July 2021 | More information |
| Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences | Materialities & Subjectivities. Accounting for Complicated and Complicating Entanglements in the Humanities | 31 August - 4 September 2021 | More information |
Climate and Environment
| Topic | Summer School |
Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Development | Land Resources, Conflict Transformation, Urban and Environmental Governance | 9 - 18 June 2021 |
More information |
| Sustainable Development and Environment | Confronting Climate Change – from Science to Policy. International Bachelor Summer School for Climate Change Research |
2 - 13 August 2021 |
Presumably postponed to summer 2022 due to COVID-19 |
| Sustainable Development and Environment | Hidden players in the food chain. Improving health at the interfaces between environment, plants, animals and humans. Virtual One Health International Bachelor and Master Summer School |
16 - 20 August 2021 |
More information |
| Sustainable Development | The future is sustainable – It’s in our hands! Sustainable Development – International Bachelor and Master Summer School |
23 - 27 August 2021 | More information |
| Sustainable Development and Environment |
Extreme weather and climate: from atmospheric processes to impacts on ecosystems and society |
August 2022 |
Postponed to summer 2022 due to COVID-19 |
Medicine
| Topic | Summer School |
Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | Middle Eastern Biology of Parasitism | To be announced | Postponed to summer 2021 due to COVID-19 |
| Epidemiology | Casual inference in observational epidemiology |
18 - 20 January 2021 |
More information |
| Epidemiology | Assessing Bias in Randomized and Non-Randomized Studies: Cochrane RoB 2 ROBINS-I |
18 - 20 January 2021 | More information |
| Epidemiology | Infectious disease models and their use in the Covid-19 Pandemic |
18 - 20 January 2021 | More information |
| Epidemiology | Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Using Multiple Imputation and Iverse Probability Weighting |
21 - 23 January 2021 |
More information |
| Epidemiology | Parametric Competing Risks and Multi-state models |
21 - 23 January 2021 | More information |
| Epidemiology | Advanced Clinical Trial Design |
21 - 23 January 2021 | More information |
Psychology
| Topic | Summer School |
Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognition, Learning and Memory | Working Memory: Contemporary Perspectives | 20 - 24 June 2021 | More information |
Business, Economics and Law
| Topic | Summer School |
Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Law and Economics | WTO Law on TBT and SPS Measures (online) | 21 - 25 June 2021 |
More information |
| International Law and Economics | Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection: Foundations and Challenges (hybrid) | 21 - 25 June 2021 | More information |
| International Law and Economics | Trade and Agriculture: New Challenges (online) | 28 June - 2 July 2021 | More information |
| International Law and Economics |
Applied General Equilibrium Modelling on Trade Policy and Development (online) |
28 June - 2 July 2021 | More information |
| International Law and Economics |
Trade and Gender (online) | 5 - 9 July 2021 | More information |
| International Law and Economics | International Investment Law and Dispute Settlement: Current Developments (online) | 5 - 9 July 2021 | More information |
| International Law and Economics | Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy (hybrid) | 12 - 16 July 2021 | More information |
| International Law and Economics | Trade and Sustainable Development (online) | 12 - 16 July 2021 | More information |
| International Law and Economics | WTO Law on Border Measures and Trade Facilitation | winter 2022 |
More information |
| International Law and Economics | WTO Law on Anti-Dumping and Safeguard Measures | winter 2022 | More information |
| International Law and Economics | WTO Law on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures | winter 2022 | More information |
| International Law and Economics | The Law and Policy of Trade in Services | winter 2022 | More information |
Why Bern? – Find more reasons
The Summer School programs reflect the spirit of the University of Bern; interdisciplinary courses in small groups at top level. Our Summer School brochure provides you with additional information about the University of Bern, and life in the Swiss capital.
Brochure Summer Schools University of Bern (PDF, 6.1 MB)