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**Exam**

Group work and indivdual essays 

**Form of assessment                Weight         Marks**

Group work                               1/2                  Passed / Not Passed

Indivdual essays                        1/2                  Passed / Not Passed

Mock grant application text and 5-minute bid pitch as well as submission of group review of a chosen set of mandatory and recommended course texts (50%; group work);

and individual reflective essays of 1,500 words each both pre- and post-course set to different templates (50%).

Both elements will be marked as Pass/Fail.

**Coursework requirements**

Corresponding to the methods of work above, each candidate will allocate the following time towards these mandatory course activities and deliverables for credits:

- 37 hours - pre-course time allocation for mandatory readings (1,095 pages)
- 20 hours - pre-course preparation of 1,500 word description of own PhD project using a template adapted to the double diamong and design thinking
- 37 hours - participation in week-long course (5 full working days)
- 25 hours - group work to write a 3,000 word joint review essay engaging with 6-8 of the mandatory and recommended course texts **due two weeks after the course**
- 25 hours - post-course submission of a critically reflective 1,500 word essay on the concept of design thinking based on the course literature in relation to own PhD project, **due one month after course** conclusion to earn the credits.

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Professor Rune Todnem By : rune.t.by@uis.no

University of Stavanger

Design thinking for transdisciplinary research

Enabling silo busters to make a difference through working together with other PhD candidates across subject areas.

Critical and innovative thinking

This course is a continuation course after the basic course Finnish 1. The target level of the course is A1.3, functional elementary proficiency (CEFR application by Finnish National Agency for Education). The course consists of self-study modules in Moodle. In addition to that, there are optional online meetings to practise interaction. By the end of the course the student will have tools for simple interaction using basic phrases to following topics: running errands, family, hobbies, studying.  
  
There are no prerequisites to this course, but please notice that having completed the "Finnish 1" course is strongly encouraged in order to get the best out of this course, especially since teaching language of this course is both English and Finnish.

Tampere University

Finnish 2

Finnish up online (Spring 24 implementation)

Language learning

This course is an introduction to the Finnish language. The target level of the course is A1.2, developing elementary proficiency (CEFR application by Finnish National Agency for Education). The course consists of self-study modules in Moodle. In addition to that, there are optional online meetings to practise interaction. By the end of the course the student will have tools for simple interaction using basic phrases to following topics: greetings, meeting people, introductions, food and drink, expressions of time.  
  
No previous knowledge of the Finnish language is needed. This course is an online implementation consisting of different materials and activities. The teaching language is English.

Finnish 1

Inter-personal skills

Nanotechnology has a vital role to play in current sustainable development. Nanotechnology can accelerate progress through technological solutions, including clean water/soil/air and sanitation, to affordable and clean energy solutions and products that fulfil the united nations' sustainable development goals. Multidisciplinary is a key factor, a toolset that contains skills that will allow students to provide solutions to our current society's problems. This is a significant challenge that citizens of the entire world must face and join forces working together within a multidisciplinary context toward developing sustainable solutions and products.  

In this collaborative online international learning (COIL) course, international teams will join forces to create green and eco-friendly nanotechnological solutions. In this case, the development of a sustainable product will be based on four critical pillars:

1. Water purification, remediation, and reuse;
2. Air purification;
3. Soil remediation, and;
4. Energy.

The acquired knowledge is practised using the learned concepts while developing sustainable solutions and products. During product development, life cycle analysis and recyclability aspects will be applied. The course uses a challenge-based approach, requiring students to work together to solve problems and learn how to collaborate with individuals from different cultural backgrounds.

University of Twente

Sustainable Nanotechnology

Help co-create sustainable solutions by developing a product using nanotechnology tools.

Energy and sustainability

Circular economy

Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

Global citizenship

Elements of AI is an online course that you can do at any time and in any pace at [https://www.elementsofai.com/.](https://www.elementsofai.com/.) The course is a self study course of the online material and is examined through self correcting and peer reviewed exercises. When you have completed Elements of AI (either the Swedish or the English version of the course) you can register to this course to get your results validated. To verify that you have really taken the online course, you have to upload your certificate from Elements of AI and do a validation test with questions similar to the ones in the online course. For more information see [https://www.ida.liu.se/~ETE318/info/courseinfo.en.shtml.](https://www.ida.liu.se/~ETE318/info/courseinfo.en.shtml.)

Transcript of Records is an official document issued by your home university. It specifies the name of the institution, the academic programme you are enrolled in, the list of courses taken up until the current period, the exams or tests you passed, the grades and the credits you earned. 

Transcript of Records

Linköping University

Elements of AI

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES

Media and information literacy

The UN's eleventh sustainable development goal (SDG-11) aims at creating sustainable cities and communities. Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and University of Twente (UT) alongside ECIU University support this goal and, wants to contribute to a more sustainable future. Climate change is one of the major challenges facing global society. Extreme weather, such as droughts and heavy rain, are expected to increase with climate change, and as recent events show, expose unforeseen vulnerabilities. ECIU University can contribute in (at least two) ways to realizing the SDG by firstly reducing its carbon footprint, and secondly by providing technological solutions that help increase resilience to climate and weather extremes.  
  
Reducing the impact of climate change is a very important issue and one of the most discussed questions in politics and society. While climate change outpaces the current scientific understanding, new technology can offer opportunities to face the impact of climate change as well as contributing to making a more climate neutral world. ECIU University seeks for learners who take responsibility and shape a sustainable future with new mindsets, behaviours, ways of learning, thinking and working in support of new solutions, technologies and innovations. The big idea is to develop a climate neutral campus with innovative ideas and bold solutions and thereby, advance climate protection and reduce CO2 production. Develop a concept that enables your home university or any other university to have a climate neutral campus in the future. Get ready to make a start now. You can be a pioneer and help make a climate neutral campus.

CV (Curriculum Vitae) is a document that summarizes your educational and professional history. It must provide a detailed overview of your academic and work experience, skills, achievements, and qualifications.

Motivation letter is a personal statement and it might include a brief introduction of yourself, explanation why are you interested in the learning opportunity you are applying to, any relevant experience or skills that you have, your goals and how this opportunity will help you achieve them, This document should not be more than 400 words.

Motivation Letter

Hamburg University of Technology

Climate neutral Campus in Europe

The ECIU University’s Strategic Challenge

Transport and Mobility

Intra-personal skills

The UAB Language Service organizes courses in Catalan language to develop **foreign students’ linguistic and intercultural skills** with the aim of helping them to integrate into the Catalan social and academic context.

These **online courses** are carried out in Parla.cat. Each level consists in **135 hours**and students have **2 hours of online support from a professor of the UAB Language Service**, including the **correction of 2 activities**.

All offered levels are based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Language Studies - Catalan

ONLINE COURSE

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**Package 1 : Philosophy and Law**

Conceptual introduction to the ways in which knowledge is produced and disseminated without paying attention to gender, age, race, and class differences and sexual difference as regards relations among subjects and among bodies, and, thereby, becoming what might be understood as rigid, immaterial, and disaffected knowledge. The impact of producing and disseminating knowledge in these terms will be made clear by analyzing the so-called neutrality of the Law and its effects in gender equality policy making.

**Package 2 : Psychology and Literature**

(1) Applied critical consideration of epistemic violence, that is, of how gender differences have an effect on subjects and bodies and how they have an effect in their well being depending on the role that gender is given in Psi Disciplines.

(2) Applied critical deconstruction of gender stereotypes and of prejudices that symbolically limit the imaginary field of subjects and bodies and tie them to the immateriality of heteronormativity. 

**Package 3: Anthropology and Pedagogy**

Attention will be payed to a specific challenge in order to (1) make clear how to take into account diversity, difference, and inequality by means of situating knowledge and of feminist methodologies and feminist data analysis and how to (2) validate and make epistemically relevant different kinds of agency by gendering it (including age, class, and race differences).

Gender as a cross-cutting tool for understanding, diagnosing, and solving challenges

SELF-PACED OPEN MOOC (4TH EDITION)

This thematic module covers the main principles of speech-based human-technology interaction, focusing on spoken interfaces which facilitate accessibility. Agent design for spoken interfaces. This includes both speech output (e.g., spoken prompts for people with visual disabilities) and speech input (e.g., speech control for physically disabled personnel). The students will also be introduced to different Voice Assistants and how they are being used in facilitating accessibility in the real-world.

Spoken Interfaces

Nonstop MOOC on methods and technologies for accessibility

Resilient communities

This thematic modules Web accessibility I and II introduces guidelines and other standards related to web accessibility, such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The second module explains the web accessibility principles (POUR), but focuses on the content to make it readable and understandable, including requirements that address cognitive accessibility.

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