EPICUR Course Directory
Fancy studying for a week with a view of the sea, enjoying a Wiener Schnitzel at the Prater during your lunch break or experiencing the midnight sun in Denmark? Then the EPICUR course directory is just the thing for you.
In the EPICUR course directory of the University of Basel you will find an overview of all courses that the University of Basel has developed in cooperation with universities of the European University Alliance EPICUR and/or that are open to students of the University of Basel and the EPICUR universities.
Travel free of charge, acquire intercultural skills and collect credit points
The curated selection of courses always have an international character and are usually interdisciplinary and practice-oriented (real-world problem approach). They often take place in the most beautiful locations in Europe or enable students to work virtually from home in intercultural teams on socially relevant issues. The travel and accommodation costs of Basel students are covered by the University of Basel up to certain maximum amounts. The credit points can be granted after consultation with the degree subject coordinators in the student's own department. The participation requirements of the current course directory or the factsheets apply.
EPICUR Course Directory Fall Semester 2025
Fall Semester 2025 & Spring Semester 2026
Excursion
Neighbors
10 ECTS
17. + 19.11.2025 | online
Transferable Skills Kurs
How to Survive Your First International Conference
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Fall Semester 2025 I Hybrid
Seminar
Diverse and Decentralized Processes of Change Instead of One ‘Great Transformation’? Theories, Ideas and Initiatives for Future-Fit Societies
3 ECTS + 5 ECTS
Fall Semester 2025 I Online
Lecture Series
Sustainability Assessment
3 ECTS
Fall Semester 2025 I On Site Block Session and Online
Transferable Skills Kurs
Teaching Transformational Sustainability Science
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EPICUR Course Directory: Courses from previous semesters
June 2025 | Poznań
Excursion
Jewish History between Germany and Poland. In Search of Traces
2 ECTS
24.03.–28.03.2025 | Basel
Conference
Let’s think beyond the Bin: Reimagening consumption for a sustainable future
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25.02.–19.03.2025 | Basel
Seminar
Cross-border risk and penal responsibility. Trinational comparative law with a view to the EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg
10 ECTS
20.02.–29.05.2025 | Basel and online
Seminar
Sustainable Action in Society and Economy: Orientation for Change
3 ECTS + 5 ECTS (Seminar Paper)
17.02.–26.05.2025 | Basel and online
Seminar
Positive Energy Districts: A New Way to Realize a just Energy Transition?
3 ECTS
17.09.2024-13.01.2025 | Basel
Lecture and practical courses
Ecosystems - Concepts, Principles and Processes
3 ECTS
18.09.-18.12.2024 | Basel
Seminar
Sustainability in China
3 ECTS
18.9. - 18.12.2024 | Basel
Hybrid seminar
European Values in Times of Crisis: A Comparison of Polish and Swiss Perspectives
3 ECTS
07.-11.10.2024 | Strasbourg
Fall School
Transdisciplinary approaches to the sustainability of water use: case studies from the Upper Rhine
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HS 24 | Online
Virtual Lecture Series
Sustainability Assessment
3 ECTS
08.-19.07.2024 | Island Giglio
Field Trip
Marine Biogeochemistry and Biology
4 ECTS
02.-06.07.2024 | Karlsruhe
Hybrid bloc seminar
Developing real-world experiments to foster sustainability transformations in cities – exploration, analysis and design
3 - 5 ECTS
10.6.-16.06.2024 | Netherlands
Excursion
7 Day Netherland: Land use, land-use conflicts and land «creation» in the Netherlands.
4 ECTS
04.-13.06.2024 | Thessaloniki
Excursion
Thessaloniki/Saloniki/Selanik. Northern Greece between Empire and Nation-States
3 ECTS
02.-06.04.2024 | Vienna
Spring School
Sustainable Entrepreneurship
3 ECTS
19.-23.02.2024 | Karlsruhe
Winter School
Digital Healthcare Entrepreneurship
3 ECTS
12.-16.02.2024 | Basel
Hybrid Block Course
Sustainable Cities? Exploring Your City Through the Lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mapping – Analysis – Action
3 ECTS
Funding Information
These courses take place within the framework of the European university networks Eucor and EPICUR and are financially supported by Movetia, the Swiss Agency for Exchange and Mobility. Movetia is funded by the Swiss Confederation.
