Language courses and Spring/Summer/Winter Schools are well established at UNIVERSEH. Employees can also benefit from Staff Weeks – for example, an exchange on administrative topics was held at the partner site in Luleå (Sweden) in March. Rome will be one of the next locations.
New from the summer semester 2026 is that students can find many of the university alliance events in the HIS-LIF online course catalogue. The UNIVERSEH courses can be credited to study programmes as electives via the Student Academy. New topics include e.g. courses on space ethics and social inequality in the representation of space research in film and TV.
“UNIVERSEH is a collaborative space for pan-European experimentation and sharing our findings,” says Dr Arne Leopold, who manages the EU-funded project together with his team. The humanities represent a key contribution from our University. “We want to explain what space means to people and are examining communication, literature and depiction in media,” explains Project Lead and Vice President, Professor Dr Heidrun Dorgeloh. The focus lies on further deepening an interdisciplinary understanding.
Background: As a “European Space University for Earth and Humanity”, UNIVERSEH brings together almost 204,000 students, more than 25,000 employees and 96 partners. With its focus on “space”, the alliance is working toward the following goals:
- To enhance inclusion, mobility and multilingualism
- To develop joint interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial curricula
- To overcome barriers to accessing higher education in general and studying abroad in particular
