International Student Team

IARU Global Summer Programme

IARU GSP 2013 courses now closed

Applications for courses closed on 1 March 2013.

The International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) of which Cambridge is a member has been collaborating on many levels for several years now and has since 2008 offered a Global Summer Programme (GSP) - open to Cambridge undergraduate and graduate students. The IARU GSP will be offering over fifteen GSP courses to the ten IARU partners as part of the upcoming 2013 summer mobility programme. Some of the Institutions involved waive their tuition fees for incoming students, and some funding is available for Cambridge students going to other IARU GSP institutions; Santander scholarships of up to US$2,000 (c £1250) are available on a needs basis. Students are also encouraged to seek funding from other sources.

Poster

IARU Global Summer Programme 2013: 'Summer at the World's Top Universities'

Courses on offer in 2013

Institution Courses
Australian National University
 Long-term Biodiversity and Climate Change in Asia-Pacific
24 June-12 July

Indigenous Peoples and Development
8 July-27 July
UC Berkeley
 Summer Peace Institute
3 June-13 July

Media and Global Protest Movements
8 July-16 August
University of Cambridge
 Shaping the World: Understanding the Past, Predicting the Future
7 July-3 August
University of Copenhagen
 Kierkegaard: The Individual and the Global Society
3 July-26 July

Security: Theories, Practices and Dilemmas of Widening the Concept
5 August-22 August

Interdisciplinary Aspects of Healthy Ageing
3 July-22 July
ETH Zurich
 Future Cities: Networks and Grammars
24 June-12 July
University of Oxford
 Global Challenges of the 21st Century
24 June-12 July
Peking University, Beijing
 Population Ageing and Health
8 July-2 August

Communication, Culture and Society: The Chinese Way
8 July-2 August
National University of Singapore
 Southeast Asia in Context
17 June-19 July

Asia now - Southeast Asian Cosmopolitan Urbanism
1 July-19 July
Todai, Tokyo
 Sustainable Urban Management
1 July-12 July

Nanoscience
11 July-25 July

Japan in Today's World
11 July-26 July

Introduction to the Japanese Language
1 July-12 July
Yale
 Sustainability and Institutions: Enabling Innovation and transformation
30 June-9 August

GSP 2013 applications for the programmes are open on 7 January, and applications from Cambridge students for any of the 10 programmes should be sent between 7 January and 1 March to:

Barbara Stevens, International Student Team, University of Cambridge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.
Tel +44 (0)1223 764975
Email Barbara.Stevens@admin.cam.ac.uk

IARU - Santander Scholarships for the Global Summer Programme

As part of their social responsibility programme, Banco Santander is partnering IARU in awarding scholarships to students attending the IARU Global Summer Programme. The University is able to award USD 20,000 in scholarships from Santander annually from 2012-14. Please do not apply for the scholarships. They will be awarded to students based on the level of costs for their GSP course.

Details of scholarship

Updates

February 2013: Asia Pacific Week

See our Noticeboard page for details of this event at Australian National University, Canberra.

January 2013: IARU Global Internship Programme 2013

Opportunities are available for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students this summer. 'The IARU Global Internship Programme is a select programme for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students from Alliance institutions.' Since 2009, IARU has welcomed interns 'to conduct high-impact research and lead projects in university-level offices under the guidance of some of their best people.'
Deadline: 01 March 2013