Virtual Studies Course Catalogue
Registration opens 15.8.2025
24.9.2025 – 19.11.2025
Food Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Innovation Practices: a Comparison between Africa and the Nordic Countries
This course introduces notions and practices on food system transition and food entrepreneurship with specific reference to sustainability and innovation practices, with a focus on the Nordic Countries and the African continent.
Registration opens 1.8.2025
25.9.2025 – 13.11.2025
Migrant Pedagogy in the Era of Global Displacement
The primary aim of this course is to explore how schools, particularly teachers, can provide culturally and
linguistically responsive teaching for students with a migration background.
Registration opens 1.9.2025
1.11.2025 – 31.1.2026
Climate Change and Trade in the Global South
This course provides a framework for thinking about climate change and its consequences for international trade, addressing how we can better reconcile the competing objectives of international trade, measures on adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and poverty alleviation.
Registration opens 25.8.2025
25.8.2025 – 11.12.2025
MOOC "Essentials in Development Studies" Autumn 2025
This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Essentials in Development Studies aims to provide students with fundamentals to the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discipline of development studies and motivate students to further their knowledge in the field.
Registration opens 20.11.2025
20.1.2026 – 12.5.2026
Curriculum Development for Climate Change Education in Global South
The course aims at enhancing curriculum design capacity for curriculum designers and teachers in different levels from basic education to secondary and vocational education in climate change education.
Registration opens 11.12.2025
25.2.2026 – 9.4.2026
Indigenous peoples, beliefs, and rights in the Arctic – in comparison to the Global South
The course focuses on the status of indigenous peoples, their beliefs and rights in both the Arctic and the Global South from an interdisciplinary (law, political science, anthropology, sociology, economy, history) perspective.
Registration opens 4.12.2025
3.3.2026 – 21.4.2026
Climate and Food Security in the Arctic with Global Consequences
This course takes a critical look at the impacts of climate change on the food system in the Arctic and how this is reflected in other parts of the globe. The aims of the course are linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1, 2 and 3 in the Global South.
Registration Closed
2.4.2025 – 28.5.2025
Gender, Conflict, and Development in the Global South
This course examines the relationship among gender, conflict and development and introduces theories related to them. Thoughts, approaches, and practices related to conflict transformation are also issues the course addresses.
Registration Closed
18.3.2025 – 30.6.2025
Globalisation and Corporate Responsibility
After the course students will be familiar with globalization and corporate (social) responsibility, as well as the Millennium and the Sustainable Development Goals (MDGs and SDGs) of UN. Students will understand their contents and the kind of possibilities and challenges they set for companies.
Registration Closed
13.1.2025 – 28.2.2025
MOOC "Essentials in Development Studies" Spring 2025
This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Essentials in Development Studies aims to provide students with fundamentals to the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discipline of development studies and motivate students to further their knowledge in the field.
Registration Closed
10.9.2024 – 3.12.2024
Global Policies and Local Challenges: Perspectives from the South
This course provides a guided reflection and learning about the global-local nexus in public policies from an international comparative perspective. It explores sustainable development issues that lie at the intersection of global and local governance such as food justice, education quality and...