As global dynamics shift and new challenges emerge, understanding human rights has never been more important—or more complex. This summer, FAU invits students from different backgrounds to take part in an intensice one-week sumer school designed to showcase the foundations and future of human rigths.

With a mic of lectures, workshops and collaborative wor, this summer school offers participants the opporunity to take part in interdisciplinary learning experience that blends both theoretical and practical approaches. After this summer schol, students will have gained a deeper understanding of how human rights opperate across different contexts and disciplines.

Topics

Throughout the week, the Summer School will address a wide range of timely and thought-provoking topics. These include:

– Universal human rights in a changing, post-Western world

– Open-source data and human rights, including hands-on methodological insights

– Economic, social and cultural rights

– Discrimination and inequality, with a focus on contemporary global challenges

– Migration and human rights

– Human rights education: principles, methods, and practical approaches

– Human rights in and through the media

Eleigibility

The course is open to bachelor, master and PhD students from all disciplines, with an English level of B2 or above.

Application and travel costs

Application Applications for grants covering participation, breakfast, lunch and accommodation for 6 nights (July 19 – 25) are being accepted from now till April 28. Travel costs and personal expenses must be covered by the participants.

WHEN

July 20 to 24, 2026

WHERE

Onsite at Erlangen-Nüremberg

APPLICATION DEADLINE

April 28