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Summer Schools 2025

Dresden hosts many excellent summer schools for undergraduates, postgraduates, PhD candidates and postdocs. They run from spring to winter, and offer a fascinating thematic breadth, interdisciplinarity and in-depth research .

Here you can gain an overview, please note that it presents an ongoing process and does not yet include all offers of Summer Schools at the DRESDEN-concept Science and Innovation Campus. The page is continuously updated by the Team Strategy and Internationalization of TUD and the DRESDEN-concept Head Office, so please check regularly for additional offers.

Last update: March 14, 2025

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March 2025

Global Health Initiative Spring School

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May 2025

Innovate-a-thon – the MedTech hackathon

  • Period of the event: May 17 to 18, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://digitalhealth.tu-dresden.de/innovate-a-thon/
  • Event location: premises of Telekom MMS Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Medicine, Psychology and Health; AI
  • Target group: students, international researcher
  • Participation costs: free of charge
  • Event language: English
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EFRC (European Forum for Reciprocating Compressors) Student Workshop

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DcGC and NGS-CN Summer School on Spatial Transcriptomics

  • Period of the event: May 19 to 21, 2025
  • Registration period: until March 3, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://ngs-kn.de/summerschool2025/
  • Event location: Dresden-concept Genome Center (DcGC), Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Natural Science
  • Target group: Life Sciences PhD students, Postdocs, and Master’s Students; Bioinformaticians
  • Event language: English
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June 2025

Summerschool IRCC 2025

„International Refrigeration and Compressor Course“ 2025

  • Period of the event: June 1 to 7, 2025
  • Registration period: until beginning of December of the previous year
  • Website of the event: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/iet/kkt/studium/internationale-angebote/summerschool
  • Event location: Dresden (and Karlsruhe and Rottenburg)
  • Topic cluster: Engineering, Environmental Energy, Sustainable Development
  • Target group: Students energy technology, mechanical engineering, RES, … Master level/ Diploma students (after “Vordiplom”)
  • Participation costs: full external funding
  • Event language: English
    Participating DRESDEN-concept partners:
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Ghost Mines–Sensing Pasts/Casting Futures

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Sommeruniversität – Studienorientierung in den MINT-Fachrichtungen

  • Period of the event:
    Period of the event for girls and for boys together: June 30 to July 4,
    Period of the event for girls: July 7 to 11
    Period of the event for girls and for boys together: July 14 to 18, 2025
  • Registration period: until June 15, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://tud.de/sommeruni
  • Event location: TU Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Natural Science; Engineering and Computer Sciences; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Transport and Traffic
  • Target group: Teenagers and young adults, minimum age: 16 years
  • Participation costs: 65 €
  • Event language: German
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International Networking Days

  • Period of the event: June 3 to 7, 2025
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38th ERSA Summer School “Sustainability, Innovation and Regional Development”

  • Period of the event: June 29 to July 4, 2025
  • Registration period: March 28, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://ersa.eventsair.com/2025-ersa-summer-school/
  • Event location: Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
  • Topic cluster: Sustainable Development; Economics and Law
  • Target group: PhD students (especially the ones who are in the second half of their studies), post-doctoral students, and young researchers with less than 10 years of experience
  • Participation costs: 250 €
  • Event language: English
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11th International Summer School on AI and Big Data

  • Period of the event: June 23 to 27, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://scads.ai/summer-school-2025/
  • Topic cluster: Engineering and Computer Sciences; Humanities, Social Sciences and Teacher Education
  • Target group: graduate students, Ph.D. students, researchers as well as practitioners in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning
  • Participation costs: varies depending on the selected ticket
  • Event language: English
  • Participating DRESDEN-concept partners:
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July 2025

Sommeruniversität – Studienorientierung in den MINT-Fachrichtungen

  • Period of the event:
    Period of the event for girls and for boys together: June 30 to July 4,
    Period of the event for girls: July 7 to 11
    Period of the event for girls and for boys together: July 14 to 18, 2025
  • Registration period: until June 15, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://tud.de/sommeruni
  • Event location: TU Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Natural Science; Engineering and Computer Sciences; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Transport and Traffic
  • Target group: Teenagers and young adults, minimum age: 16 years
  • Participation costs: 65 €
  • Event language: German
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38th ERSA Summer School “Sustainability, Innovation and Regional Development”

  • Period of the event: June 29 to July 4, 2025
  • Registration period: March 28, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://ersa.eventsair.com/2025-ersa-summer-school/
  • Event location: Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
  • Topic cluster: Sustainable Development; Economics and Law
  • Target group: PhD students (especially the ones who are in the second half of their studies), post-doctoral students, and young researchers with less than 10 years of experience
  • Participation costs: 250 €
  • Event language: English
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August 2025

Human Rights in Theory and Practice: Navigating Change – Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights

  • Period of the event: August 25 to 29, 2025
  • Registration period: February 15 to July 31, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/irget/jfoeffl9/studium/summer-school-2025
  • Event location: Dresden, Conference Room, Institut für Holztechnik, Zellescher Weg 24, 01217 Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Humanities, Social Sciences; Computer Sciences; Medicine, Psychology and Health; Economics and Law
  • Target group: All interested advanced students of international law, political science, international relations, and related fields, are welcome to participate
  • Participation costs: 200€ in-person, 50€ online
  • Event language: English
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DGN Summer School Dresden (Neurology)

  • Period of the event: August 4 to 8, 2025
  • Registration period: approx. until two weeks prior to the event
  • Website of the event: https://dgn.org/event/summer-school-dresden
  • Event location: University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Medicine, Psychology and Health
  • Target group: Advanced students and junior doctors
  • Participation costs: 150 – 250 € (depending on student status and need for accommodation)
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Sommerakademie Youth

  • Period of the event: August 3 to 9, 2025
  • Event location: Hochschule für Musik Dresden, Wettiner Platz 13, 01067 Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Art
  • Target group: young musicians, age 12-18 years
  • Participation costs: 150 €
  • Event language:
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European Course of Cryogenics

  • Period of the event: August 18 to 22, 2025 (followed by a program in Poland and Norway until September 5, 2025)
  • Registration period: until beginning of January/ February
  • Website of the event: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/iet/kkt/studium/internationale-angebote/european-course-of-cryogenics
  • Event location: TU Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Engineering; Environmental Energy; Sustainable Development
  • Target group: Students energy technology, mechanical engineering, RES, … Master level/ Diploma students (after “Vordiplom”)
  • Participation costs: none (outside of flights and personal expenses)
  • Event language: English
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14th International Summer School – Trends and New Developments in Laser Technology

  • Period of the event: August 25 to 29, 2025
  • Registration period: until June 30, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://www.iws.fraunhofer.de/en/events/summer-school.html
  • Event location: Fraunhofer IWS, Winterbergstraße 28, 01277 Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Natural Science; Engineering and Computer Sciences
  • Target group: Undergraduate and PhD students
  • Participation costs: Companies and non-students: 290 EUR; University students: 90 EUR
  • Event language: English
  • Participating DRESDEN-concept partners:
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Circular Design Challenge TU Dresden 2025

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September 2025

Dresden Microelectronics Academy (DMA)

  • Period of the event: September 15 to 19, 2025
  • Registration period: until August 2025
  • Website of the event: https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/dma
  • Topic cluster: Natural Science; Engineering and Computer Sciences
  • Target group: advanced students (Master/Diplom students) / PhD students / Postdocs of engineering with affinity to micro-/nanoelectronics, e.g., design, technology and test
    important: employees of companies may NOT apply – this event is a purely educational event for current students/PhDs/Postdoc
  • Event language: English
    Participating DRESDEN-concept partners:
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10th International Summer School on Technology Transfer in Life Sciences

  • Period of the event: September 22 to 26, 2025
  • Registration period: until April 14, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://summerschool-dresden.de/
  • Event location: MITS, Fiedlerstr. 40, 01307 Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Medicine, Psychology and Health; Economics and Law
  • Target group: (graduating) PhDs, research group leaders
  • Participation costs: free of charge for selected candidates
  • Event language: English
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Justice in an interlinked world: revisiting rural-urban and South-North relationships in sustainability transformations

  • Period of the event: September 9 to September 11, 2025
  • Registration period: until March 15, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://eu.jotform.com/250433252616046
  • Event location: Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Weberplatz 1, 01217 Dresden
  • Target group: mid-career scholars interested in the questions of justice at the intersection of rural-urban and Global South-Global North relationships
  • Participation costs: free of charge, accommodation and travel costs have to be covered by participants
    Participating DRESDEN-concept partners:
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Tranform liver/GENIAL

  • Period of the event: tba (September/October 2025)
  • Event location: TUD/University Hosptial Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Engineering and Computer Sciences; Medicine, Psychology and Health
  • Target group: students
  • Participation costs: none
  • Event language: English
  • Participating DRESDEN-concept partners:

10. Sächsische Summer School Allgemeinmedizin in Dresden 2025

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6th International School on Aperiodic Crystals

  • Period of the event: September 1 to 5, 2025
  • Registration period: until June 1st, 2025
  • Website of the event: https://www.cpfs.mpg.de/isac-6
  • Event location: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Natural Science
  • Target group: Master students, PhD Students, International Scientists
  • Participation costs: 350€ / 290€ for students
  • Event language: English
  • Participating DRESDEN-concept partners:
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October 2025

Tranform liver/GENIAL

  • Period of the event: tba (September/October 2025)
  • Event location: TUD/University Hosptial Dresden
  • Topic cluster: Engineering and Computer Sciences; Medicine, Psychology and Health
  • Target group: students
  • Participation costs: none
  • Event language: English
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More Summer Schools in Dresden?

You miss a summer school that is supposed to be carried out by a DRESDEN-concept partner in Dresden in 2025? Then please let us know. We are also happy to get information on your summer school plans for 2025 or 2026 to prepare our further campaign, so do not hesitate to contact us at any time!

Contact person in the Strategy and Internationaliza­tion Team of TU Dresden

Alexander Ling

Research Assistant Strategic Partnership Work

Phone: +49 351 463 39602
E-Mail: dresden-summer-schools@tu-dresden.de

Contact person in the DRESDEN-concept Head Office

Anne Michalk

DRESDEN-concept Public Relations and Monitoring Advisor

Phone: +49 351 463 40428
E-Mail: dresden-summer-schools@tu-dresden.de

Color Coding DRESDEN-concept Partner

TUD Dresden University of Technology & University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus

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