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Civis offers for students and doctoral candidates

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CIVIS enables students and doctoral candidates to gain international experience. To this end, the alliance partners offer various course and mobility formats: from short-term stays to entire semesters abroad, from seminars face-to-face in the classroom to hybrid and online events. All offers open up new perspectives.

Current offers and news

Scholarships for an AI Research Camp at UNIL

The TRAIL Research Camp is a hands-on program dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary AI research. PhD students and postdocs work in teams on concrete AI projects to produce reusable research outputs, prototypes, or co-publications and build new networks. The Research Camp will take place at the University of Lausanne from 24 August to 4 September 2026. CIVIS PhD students are eligible for an accomodation scholarship. Find out more on the TRAIL website and apply by 15 July!

Courses within the “Equitable and Just Digital Society” micro-programme

The postgraduate micro-programme “Equitable and Just Digital Society: Developing Interdisciplinary Skills and Knowledge” focuses on the social challenges of digital and technological transformations. In different modules, students will develop critical knowledge and practical skills to become interactional experts in research for an equitable and just digital society. Two online courses are currently open for application:

Future Digital Society

The course "Future Digital Society" introduces students to the question of how computing affects contemporary society (and vice versa), and how the development and use of digital technology raises social, economic and ethical issues in society. Sessions will start in September – find out more and apply by 16 July!

Ethics of Innovations for the Digital Welfare State

The course “Ethics of Innovations for the Digital Welfare State”, starting in mid-October, investigates the ethical aspects of digital innovation in the public welfare sector. Students will learn how ethics helps to see that digital innovation is not objective and neutral and how ethical reflection can contribute to responsible innovation. Find out more and apply by 15 July!

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Studying abroad

The CIVIS alliance allows Bachelor and Master students additional places for Erasmus exchange for one or two semesters. The application for an Erasmus exchange in the framework of CIVIS is the same as for the regular Erasmus exchange.

List of CIVIS places in the Erasmus exchange (intranet login required)

CIVIS courses

Whether online only or with short joint stays at one of the partner universities, students and doctoral candidates of the CIVIS alliance have access to a wide range of courses. Further information on content and application procedures can be found in the CIVIS course catalogue.

  • Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs) consist of a series of online classes combined with a one-week attendance phase at a CIVIS university. They are offered in different subjects. More information about the financial support of the stay abroad through the Erasmus+ program in Tübingen on the webpage on short-term programs
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CIVIS master's programs

CIVIS offers several master's programs, which have been jointly designed by at least three CIVIS members and are taught at different universities. All programs are typically interdisciplinary and enable students to experience diverse academic cultures and build international networks. Further information on the CIVIS master's programs website

Micro-programmes

In a micro-programme, you can take courses from different CIVIS partners and combine them to create a certificate. Students and doctoral candidates of the University of Tübingen can currently take the following CIVIS micro-programmes:

Language courses

To enable joint learning and teaching within the CIVIS Alliance, the Foreign Language Center offers courses in languages of the CIVIS universities for students and doctoral candidates. An overview of the language courses, from Modern Greek to Swedish, can be found on the website of the Foreign Language Center.

Contact and advice at the Foreign Language Center

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Student-led projects

CIVIS supports extra-curricular activities and initiatives by CIVIS students. These student-led projects can focus on topics related to civic engagement, student academic and cultural events or the promotion of the European identity and values. They should aim to create a way through which students, academics and local actors can cooperate and follow a transdisciplinary approach for developing innovative and inclusive initiatives to drive societal change. More information on opportunities and calls for student-led projects

CIVIS Ambassadors

The CIVIS Ambassadors are student ambassadors at the university and contact persons at peer level for incoming and outgoing students.

Further information on the CIVIS Ambassadors

CIVIS Student Council

The Student Coucil represents all students in the CIVIS alliance and is committed to their interests.

Further information on the Student Council

Collaboration in practice