You want to get a taste of living abroad during the semester break and broaden your academic horizon? Then the numerous short-term programs offered by many institutions worldwide during the spring or summer breaks might just be right for you. They are short, intensive courses on a specific topic or subject which take place over four weeks, for example. You will often be able to obtain ECTS credits that can possibly be recognized for your program of study at the University of Mannheim.
The DAAD offers considerable funding for summer schools in Middle or Eastern European countries as part of the GO-EAST Summer School program. Funding is available for the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine and Hungary.
Funding includes a partial scholarship and a grant for travel expenses (depending on the country) as well as a grant for the summer school fee of up to EUR 650.
More information on the application process can be found on the DAAD Go-East website (only available in German).
We are not aware of any other scholarships.
Applications have to submitted directly to the respective institution. There is no nomination or registration carried out by the International Office of the University of Mannheim. This is especially important to keep in mind if the partner institution offers free participation in the summer school via exchange study places. Participating in this way is generally not possible, since the study places including an exemption from tuition fees are only used for the regular exchange programs at the University of Mannheim.
In exceptional cases, individual Mannheim schools (e.g. SOWI) actively inform their students about Summer School offers from partner universities for which a reduction in fees has been agreed and a nomination is made by the Mannheim faculty. Further information can be obtained from the contact persons of your school.
ENGAGE.EU is an alliance of leading European universities in business, economics, and social sciences with rich experience in analyzing societal change. The alliance's ambition is to enable its learners to act as socially engaged European citizens and to have impact on society at large.
The ENGAGE.EU Summer School is an intensive, two-week summer program taught by ENGAGE.EU professors and lecturers. The program aims to provide a forum for interdisciplinary academic exchange and learning, preparing students with hard and soft skills they can use as they pursue graduate studies and future careers. The theme of the ENGAGE.EU Summer School 2023 is 'Transformation to sustainability in Europe: challenges and solutions'. It will be hosted at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Wien).
It is possible to receive an Erasmus Scholarship for the ENGAGE Summer School from the Universität Mannheim: Support of 70€ per day plus travel allowance for 'Green Mobility' if appliccable (50€ plus up to 4 additional paid travel days). For further questions please contact Ms. Wittenberg.
Duration of the Summer School: 7 June 2023 (online) and 17–28 July 2023 (on campus at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, in Vienna, Austria)
Target Group: only Bachelor's students
Application opens on 15 February 2023 and closes on 15 March 2023.
Further information on the application procedure and the Summer School can be found on the ENGAGE.EU Website.
Many partner universities of the University of Mannheim offer short-term programs and send us the respective information so that we can pass it on. The following table contains these program offers, without any rating of their contents.
We continuously add offers to the table. Links that are not activated at the moment will be activated as soon as the information on new courses is available to us. We recommend researching the programs on the websites of the universities that are of interest to you.
You can also look for programs at other universities all around the world.
Europe | University | Title/ | |
Austria | University of Graz | on site | |
Vienna University of Economics & Business | on site | ||
University of Vienna | on site/ on site | ||
Belgium | University of Antwerp | Summer & Winter University | on site |
Université Libre de Bruxelles | on site | ||
KU Leuven | KU LEUVEN Summer & Winter Schools | on site/ online on site | |
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management | Solvay Summer School | on site | |
Czech Republic | Masaryk University, Brno | on site/ | |
Charles University Prague | on site | ||
University of Economics, Prague | on site | ||
Croatia | Zagreb School of Economics and Management | on site | |
Denmark | Aarhus University | on site | |
Copenhagen Business School | on site | ||
University of Copenhagen | on site | ||
Estonia | University of Tartu | online | |
Finland | Aalto University, School of Business | Information Technology Program | on site on site on site |
Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki | on site on site | ||
University of Jyväskylä | on site | ||
Lappeenranta Univ. of Technology | on site | ||
University of Turku | on site | ||
France | Université d'Angers | on site | |
Kedge Business School, Bordeaux/ | on site/ | ||
Sciences Po, Lille | on site | ||
EM Lyon Business School | Summer School | on site | |
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 | French Summer School | on site | |
Montpellier Business School | on site | ||
ICN Business School Nancy-Metz | Summer Program French Language Summer School | on site | |
Université Côte d’Azur, Nice | Summer School Economics and Management | on site on site | |
HEC Paris | on site on site | ||
Sciences Po, Paris | on site/ | ||
Kedge Business School, Paris | on site | ||
Université Paris-Sorbonne | on site | ||
ESC Rennes School of Business | on site | ||
EM Strasbourg | Summer School | on site | |
Université de Strasbourg | EpiCur Summer Camp in Entrepreneurship | on site | |
Université de Toulouse | International Short Programmes | on site | |
Toulouse Business School | Barcelona On Campus Summer School(Barcelona) TBS International Summer School (Toulouse + Barcelona) TBS Joint Summer School(Toulouse + Ljubljana) Winter School 2024(Toulouse + Paris) | on site on site on site on site | |
Toulouse School of Economics | on site | ||
Germany | Univ. Mannheim, School of Humanities | on site | |
Hungary | Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest | on site | |
Pazmany Peter Catholic University; Budapest | on site | ||
Ireland | University of Limerick | on site | |
National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth | on site | ||
Italy | Libera Università degli studi di Bergamo | on site/ online | |
Università Bocconi, Milan | on site/ online | ||
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano | Summer Programs (Milan or Rome) | on site on site | |
Università degli Studi di Padova | on site/ online | ||
Università degli Studi di Palermo | on site | ||
Università degli Studi di Pisa | Summer snd Winter Schools | on site/ | |
LUISS University, Rome | on site on site/ | ||
Università degli Studi di Torino | on site | ||
Università degli Studi di Trento | on site | ||
Università per Stranieri di Siena | Italian Language Courses for ERASMUS+ students in Italy | on site/ | |
Latvia | University of Latvia, Riga | Summer School of Latvian Language and Culture | on site |
Lithunia | Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas | on site/ on site/ | |
Klaipeda University | on site/ | ||
ISM Univ. of Management and Economics, Vilnius | online | ||
Netherlands | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | online | |
University of Antwerp | on site on site | ||
University of Groningen | on site/ on site/ | ||
Maastricht University | on site | ||
Radboud University Nijmegen | on site/ | ||
Tilburg University | on site online | ||
Utrecht University | on site/ | ||
Norway | University of Agder, Kristiansand | on site | |
University of Oslo | on site | ||
BI Oslo | on site | ||
Poland | Adam Mickiewicz University, Posen | on site | |
Warsaw School of Economics SGH | Summer Schools | on site | |
Kozminski University, Warsaw | on site | ||
Portugal | Católica Lisbon, School of Business & Economics | Summer Academy | on site |
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Porto | New Marketing Trends Summer School | on site online | |
Romania | Babes-Bloyai University, Cluj-Napoca | on site | |
Slovenia | University of Ljubljana | on site on site on site | |
Spain | University of Alicante | on site | |
Universidad de Alcalá | International School | on site/ | |
Universitat de Barcelona, School of Economics | Summer School | on site | |
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona | on site/ | ||
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona | on site | ||
Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao and San Sebastián | on site | ||
Universidad de Burgos | Spanish Course | on site | |
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Summer School of Economics and Business Summer School 'A Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change' | on site on site | |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid | on site | ||
IE Business School, Madrid | on site | ||
Universidad de Malaga | Spanish Courses for Erasmus and Exchange students | on site | |
University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca | Summer Courses | on site | |
Sweden | Jönköping Internat. Business School | on site | |
Lund University – School of Economics and Management | Hanken and LUSEM Nordic Winter School | on site | |
Stockholm University – Department of Law | Summer Programme | on site | |
University of Gothenburg | Summer School for Sustainability | on site | |
Switzerland | University of Bern | on site | |
University of St. Gallen | on site | ||
University of Zurich | on site | ||
Université de Lausanne | Summer School | on site | |
EHL Hospitality Business School, Lausanne | Luxury Hospitality Management Joint Summer Program(Paris + Lausanne) | on site | |
Turkey | Istanbul University, Istanbul | Law on the Bosphorus, International Summer School | online |
Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul | Summer School | on site | |
Koç University, Istanbul | on site | ||
United Kingdom | The University of Bath | online | |
The University of Edinburgh | on site | ||
University of Exeter | on site | ||
University of Essex | International Summer School | on site | |
University of Glasgow | Summer School 2023 | on site | |
Hull University – Business School | |||
University of Lancaster | |||
University of Leeds | on site | ||
University of Liverpool | on site on site | ||
Bayes Business School, London | |||
Queen Mary University of London | on site | ||
University College London (UCL) | |||
University of Manchester | |||
Newcastle University | |||
The University of Nottingham | |||
University of the West of Scotland, Paisley | |||
University of Surrey | Surrey Business School Summer School 2023 | on site | |
University ofSussex, Brighton | Summer Schools | on site | |
Swansea University | |||
University of Warwick | on site | ||
North America | University | Title/ | |
Canada | HEC Montréal | on site online on site | |
McGill University, Montréal | |||
The University of British Colombia, Vancouver | on site on site | ||
Université Laval, Québec | |||
University of Victoria | |||
York University, Toronto | MBA Short Program 2023: Intelligent Innovation Ecosystem Design | on site | |
USA | Bentley University, Waltham | ||
Pace University, New York | |||
George Mason University, Washington | Washington Summer Institute | on site | |
Latin America | University | Title/ | |
Argentina | Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires | Summer School | on site |
Chile | Universidad de Chile, Santiago | ||
Pontifica Universidad Católica De Chile, Santiago | Spanish Summer/ | online | |
Colombia | Universidad de los Andes/ | ||
Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá | Summer School: Negociación en entornos globales PROPTECH: Innovación Tecnológica en Real Estate | . . . online online | |
Mexico | Tecnológico de Monterrey | on site on site | |
Peru | Universidad del Pacífico, Lima | ||
Asia | University | Title/ | |
China | Beijing Institute of Technology | Summer & Winter Programs | on site/ |
UIBE Beijing | Summer Sessions | ||
Hong Kong Baptist University | on site | ||
The Chinese University of Hong Kong | International Summer School (July or August session) | on site on site | |
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | International Summer School 2023 | on site on site | |
The University of Hong Kong | on site | ||
Lingnan University, Hong Kong | Liberal Arts Summer Institue 2023 | on site | |
Guanghua School of Management/ | on site | ||
Tsinghua SEM, Beijing | |||
School of Management, Fudan University (FDSM), Shanghai | |||
Jiao Tong University, Shanghai | |||
Japan | Nagasaki University | ||
Waseda University, Tokyo | on site | ||
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies | Kyoto Intensive Japanese Program Summer 2023 | on site | |
NUCB Undergraduate School | NUCB Virtual Winter Program | online | |
South Korea | Pusan National University, Busan | on site online | |
Kyungpook National University, Daegu | online | ||
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul | |||
Korea University, Seoul | International Winter Campus | ||
Seoul National University | on site | ||
Sogang University, Seoul | International Summer Program | on site | |
University of Seoul | Korean Language & Culture Program | on site | |
Singapore | Nanyang Technological University | Summer Programme | on site |
Singapore Management University | Global Summer Programme | on site | |
National University of Singapore | Summer Programmes | on site/ | |
Pantheon-Assas Universite International, Singapore | Summer School | on site | |
Taiwan | National Chengchi University, Taipei | on site | |
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | |||
National Taiwan University, Taipei | 2023 NTU Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Summer Program | . on site | |
Thailand | Mahidol University, Bangkok | on site | |
Thammasat Business School, Bangkok | |||
Vietnam | Foreign Trade University, Hanoi | International Summer Program 2023 | on site |
Australia | University | Title/ | |
The University of Queensland | |||
Australian Catholic University, Sydney | |||
Africa | University | Title/ | |
Marocco | ESSEC Business School, Campus de Rabat | Summer School | on site |
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Rabat | Summer School in Quantitative Economics | on site on site | |
South Africa | Stellenbosch University | online |
During my master's degree, I spent one month in Singapore to visit a summer university on “Entrepreneurial Accounting & Finance“ at Nanyang Technological University. I could not only expand my knowledge on topics relating to incorporating start-up companies, but also had the chance to learn a lot about cultural differences in incorporating and managing start-ups in Southeast Asia and China. Besides, it was impressive to get to know the city state of Singapore with its political and cultural particularities.
If you have any questions regarding your stay abroad, here you can find the respective competent contact person at your school. They will advise you on any study-related aspects of your stay abroad, including the question of when a stay abroad can be best integrated in your degree program.