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CIVIS micro-programmes allow students to combine multiple CIVIS courses or modules into one coherent learning pathway which reinforces or complements their main study programme. By choosing a micro-programme, you can build your own curriculum and follow your own interests, deepening your knowledge in one of the five CIVIS areas or going broader with transdisciplinary options. The programmes are organized for students at all levels (Bachelor, Master, or Doctoral), so you are sure to find the opportunity that fits!

This approach is a viable way to give students access to:

  • collaborative monodisciplinary modules in one subject
  • extra-curricular topics and transferable skills
  • transdisciplinary coursework on a challenge-oriented theme (for example in the CIVIS Hubs)

Thanks to the use of virtual, blended and physical mobility, students can construct their own flexible micro-programme without the barriers that often limit participation in traditional courses, especially those at European level. Moreover, considering that a micro-programme is designed and delivered jointly by different universities from the CIVIS Alliance, these mobility options will open up new learning experiences, innovative pedagogies, cultural exchanges, multilingualism, and connections with other students across the CIVIS Alliance.

Micro-programme: Global Awareness

Meeting global challenges - such as issues concerning energy, the climate and the environment - is a core aspiration of the CIVIS Alliance. With this in mind, CIVIS member universities the University of Bucharest, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the University of Tübingen have launched a joint micro-programme on Global Awareness.

Read more about the micro-programme Global Awareness.

Micro-programme Future Digital Society

Future Digital Society (ECTS 3) - is a postgraduate-level course, part of an unfolding CIVIS postgraduate micro-programme focused on the social challenges of digital and technological transformations. 

Taught by Airi Lampinen from Stockholm University (Sweden), and other international guest lecturers, the course helps learners will develop critical knowledge and practical skills to consider how computing is affecting contemporary society, and how the development and use of digital technologies intersect with social, economic, and ethical issues in societies. 

Learn more about the course content, requirements and deadlines by visiting the course catalog. 

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Micro-programme: Equitable and Just Digital Society: Developing Interdisciplinary Skills and Knowledge

Equitable and Just Digital Society: Developing Interdisciplinary Skills and Knowledge - is a CIVIS postgraduate micro-programme focused on the social challenges of digital and technological transformations. In taking modules in the micro-programme you will develop critical knowledge and practical skills to become interactional experts in research for an equitable and just digital society. The micro-programme is interdisciplinary and open to students from all disciplines. You may enrol on specific modules or complete the micro-programme course of study. Currently the two modules that are running are Sociology of Digital Society and Human-Computer Interaction, Design and Information Society. The other modules will start to run in the academic year 2026 to 2027.

Micro-Programme: Civic Engagement

In this innovative new micro-progamme, students apply academic theory into practice in a community context, exchange perspectives on current societal issues with fellow students across Europe and expand their personal network. Seize this fantastic opportunity now and add a multi-facetted international dimension to your study profile by receiving an official certificate!

Read more about the micro-programme Civic Engagement.

Digital Transformations in Oncology

This micro-programme provides undergraduate students advanced intellectual and practical tools to navigate the challenges connected to how a wide array of complex digital technologies mediate how health services are provided and how digital technologies can impact self monitoring of health and wellbeing. The implications of these transformations are multi-dimensional, involving legal and ethical aspects, an understanding of changing technologies and a critical perspective on the societal aspects of these transformations.
This undergraduate micro-program will provide future professionals across a variety of sectors the necessary skills to tackle these issues and provide a foundation for life-learning experiences connected to digital and technological transformation in health. Moreover, courses proposed in this micro-program will ensure interdisciplinarity by targeting students with different backgrounds. The micro-program is open to students pursuing a wide range of undergraduate degrees in the biomedical sciences (medical school students, biologists, chemists, pharmacists, etc) and engineering (in field such as nanotechnologies, sensors, material sciences, microfluidics, biomaterials, etc).

The micro-programme consists of a set of 5 courses as follows:

C1: Digital and Technological Transformation: Social Challenges Across Domains offered by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

C2: EU Law and the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Health and Wellbeing offered by Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

C3: Artificial Intelligence Tools in Health and Wellbeing offered by Aix-Marseille Université

C4: Digital Transformations in Oncology offered by University of Bucharest

C5: New Technologies in the Diagnostic and Treatment of Cancer offered by Aix-Marseille Université

Read more about the module Digital Transformations in Oncology.