I applied for my Summer School placement at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, to study on the ‘Multidisciplinary Approach to Climate Change’ course. After applying and having been accepted, I next began to prepare everything I needed to take along with me. Being a student with a long-term physical disability, I had never travelled abroad … More Discovering Madrid: My Summer School Experience
I got accepted to the Fudan University International Summer Session 2019 in Shanghai, which seemed both scary and exciting at the same time. The course lasted for four weeks, and the campus was located in the downtown part of the city. The campus, green and calm, is completely different in comparison to the rest of … More Four Weeks in Shanghai: My Summer School Experience
I had the pleasure of being selected for the Summer School program run by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). This program was based around ‘Recent developments on financial crime, corruption and money laundering: [from the] European and international perspectives’. Throughout the week I, alongside my international peers, was taught by various scholars, some of whom … More My Online Summer School Experience
I have always wanted to try living in Japan, my favourite country. Though often presented to be a country of courtesy and creativity, Japan has so much more to offer beneath its international image. I was very lucky to be chosen as one of the candidates to study in Sophia University in Tokyo during summer … More Beyond imagination: Sophia University, Japan
When I got accepted into Fudan University Summer School back in February, I didn’t have any idea what I had signed up for. I knew I wanted to go away for summer, somewhere I had never been before, and Asia seemed the perfect place to explore to push me out of my comfort zone. I … More Summer School: Fudan University, Shanghai
I got the chance to spend a summer in Salamanca, Spain this year and it was without a doubt one of the best months of my life. The summer school programme gave me the chance to get a taste of studying abroad that I might not have necessarily been able to afford or been too … More The Magic of Salamanca
The ‘Antai Global Summer Programme’ at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Eating chicken feet, photos with locals, temples surrounded by skyscrapers and marriage markets: It would be fair to say my experience in China was one of a kind. Studying at one of China’s top 10 universities whilst exploring an incredible country was an experience I … More The Dynamic Vibrance of Shanghai
My experience in Shanghai turned out to be one of the most exciting and vibrant trips of my whole life. I have visited countries all over the Globe, including places like Botswana, Zambia and Japan, but China was a trip like no other before. I discovered places, foods, people traditions and lifestyles, not only of … More My Summer School at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Last year I was accepted for my year abroad at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Whilst this was an incredible opportunity I was worried about one thing: I couldn’t speak a single word of German. The summer university language courses are honestly a life-saver, with the tuition fees for the entire course being subsidised by … More Bayreuth Sommeruni
This summer I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to spend a month on a funded summer school studying at the University of Bayreuth, located in north Bavaria Germany. The first thing someone told me when I said I was going on a summer school was “a month won’t be enough time”. How right … More 26 Days in Germany
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