Monday 8 January 2018

Summer school in Estonia as an alternative to conferencing?

The Tallinn University summer or winter school is a great alternative for a traditional conference. 
Yes, we are used to attend conferences, but don't you think we also sometimes need to step out of this routine and do something else like learning a new skill or completing a course which can add points towards another qualification? 

Tallinn, the beautiful old capital city of Estonia is offering both summer schools and winter schools with very interesting programmes, not so expensive registration fees (about 250 Euros) and even affordable student accommodation (188 Euros for 3 weeks) and optional excursions over weekends between classes.  The courses and classes are scheduled from Monday to Friday, over a period of three weeks, starting on 9 July 2018 until 27 July 2018. 

You can choose from the following main streams: Language courses, Creative courses, Educational Sciences, Humanities and Social sciences and interdisciplinary courses. The creative courses had me nailed: Creative Psychotherapy, Creative writing, Design of serious games and a gamification workshop, short film, storytelling, comics and illustrations, Photo story, animation and tv news! How about one of these? 
The Educational Sciences stream include a course on education through place and space: recreational activities as experiential learning. 
The Humanities and social sciences stream includes courses on Estonian food, self knowledge, social enterprises:  Using your creativity and sensitivity as well as an information and knowledge management in the digital environment. 

Tallinn is a fairy tale town with friendly people, within easy travel distance to other Baltic countries, including also visits to St Petersburg in Russia. The first weekend trip includes a visit to the Estonian Mining museum in Kohtla-Nomme, the Narva Castle, the Lasemaa National park. The second weekend trip includes a visit to the second largest city in Estonia called Tartu and the Setomaa settlement as well as the Piusa caves.  


 

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