Economics and Business

AI in Higher Education

Explore how AI tools can reshape education! Our program examines AI's impact on learning outcomes, activities, and assessments, ensuring effective integration at all levels of learning.

Dates: 7 - 11 July 2025

Corporate Governance and the Effectiveness of Boards

What do boards do? How do they perform and contribute to the performance of the company they represent? In this summer school we answer these questions taking a multi-disciplinary approach.

Dates: 7 - 11 July 2025

Energy Challenge – an interdisciplinary approach

Do you want to tackle the climate crisis with innovative ideas surrounding energy transition? Then our focus on the interdisciplinary challenges and solutions of this transition is perfect for you!

Dates: 25 - 29 August 2025

Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Growth

This Summer School, presented by Stellenbosch Business School, Laval University and the University of Groningen, will discuss the major developments regarding research on financial inclusion, including microfinance. It will provide insight into how financial inclusion can induce sustainable growth in low-income economies, with explicit attention paid to African countries.

Dates: 6 – 11 July 2025

SuRe - Sustainable and Resilient societies

Polycrisis and disruptive transformations happen at different levels, but their common denominator is the insight that understanding resilience problems analytically and societally requires transcending disciplinary silos, monocausal explanations and single-issue policies and interventions.

Dates: 23 - 28 June 2025

Sustainable local development and the mining industry

Are you interested in the impact of businesses on local development in developing countries? Join us for this one-week, completely organized program that offers a unique blend of theoretical knowledge about local development, field-work, cross-cultural competence development, networking and a safari.

Dates: 17 - 23 August 2025

The Future of Climate Adaptation

Do you want to know how we can better adapt to climate change? This summer school addresses the future of climate adaptation by focusing on interdisciplinary research and innovation.

Dates: 7 – 11 July 2025