We've organised courses in a variety of topics that will be offered online so you can study at the University of Amsterdam from the comfort of your own home. Online courses can be taken for credit, and offer a series of live and pre-recorded sessions. Join students and professional participants from across the world to learn about, debate, and ponder some of the key topics that help us make sense of the present. 

Our Acadamic Directors and guest lecturers invite you to join them on a tour of Amsterdam. Our city tours look at Amsterdam from a variety of perspectives. As a small and densely populated global city, and thanks to its winding canals, new things wait around every corner. 

Want to get to know more about the UvA and the topics we cover in our programmes? Watch our Ask UvA videos below to learn more about a variety of topics linked to our programmes as Academic Directors answer key questions about a variety of important contemporary topics. 

Our podcast 'Mokum' delves into the heart of important conversations around the world, introducing you to the material we would cover in a range of our summer programmes.

Last season, we covered topics as diverse as the growing politics of suspicion, unravelling the dynamics of a cycling city, tackling climate change, and the history and present of esotericism.

In a series of interviews with some of our usual academic experts, we bring education with a purpose to life, and welcome you into our community. You can find our podcast wherever you normally listen to podcasts (Spotify, Soundcloud, Google, Apple), or listen to it on Anchor.

In our series of interviews, we catch up with Academic Directors, frequent guest lecturers, and alumni on a variety of topics, as they share important udpates and reflections. 

• Catching up with alumna Farah Barakat | Introduction to Sexuality Studies & Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture annd Society 
• Catching up with alumna Bhavana Rao | Urban Studies: Sense, Space & Strategy
• Catching up with alumna Gargi Garima Kalita | Security Governance and Conflict Resolution 
• Catching up with alumnus Patrick Morgan | Planning the Cycling City
• Catching up with alumus Piotr Barczak | The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem 
• The distinct risks for refugees in the Covid-19 pandemic | Interview with Academic Director Evelien van Roemburg | Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights and Realities
• The social science of epidemics | Interview with Academic Diretors Danny de Vries and Aphaluck Bhatiasevi | Epidemics and the Social Sciences: A Holistic Approach
• Keti Koti, Black Lives Matter, and our Role as Educators

The University of Amsterdam is a globally renowned university. With just over forty thousand students and eight thousand employees, the UvA is a focal point within the fabric of Amsterdam. If you want to get a sense of our international education community, take a virtual tour of our Roeterseiland Campus, the home of our UvA summer programmes.

Curious about the role of the UvA in the fabric of Amsterdam? Visit openresearch.amsterdam, an online platform where researchers, policy makers, projects, and community members are brought together to help tackle the big problems of today. 

Looking to delve into Amsterdam's cultural scene? Many of our city's famous cultural venues have made exciting free online content and tours.

• The Rijksmuseum is home to a world-renowned collection of Dutch art and artefacts from all ages of Dutch history. Its Gallery of Honour holds some of the most important works of Dutch art. 
• The Van Gogh Museum is a must-visit in the city, with its famous permanent collection and new pavilion is one of Amsterdam's busiest. 
• The Stedelijk Museum is Amsterdam's museum for modern and contemporary art, and features works by some of the world's most renowned artists as well as local artists who pushed boundaries in art and design. 
• Allard Pierson Museum is the UvA's very own museum and special collection archives the city's history. 
• Artis Micropia is the world's only museum dedicated to the fascinating and unseen world of microbes, hosted in a pavilion of Artis, Amsterdam's zoo. 
• De Ceuvel is hub and urban laboratory for sustainable and circular development, De Ceuvel features (online) events on a variety of topics, and is home to many small businesses. 
• Mediamatic is a collective for art, nature, food and biology in the heart of Amsterdam. Mediamatic is an experimental playground for the senses, rethinking how we live our contemporary (urban) lives. 
• Pakhuis de Zwijger is one of Amsterdam's most famous cultural organizations. De Zwijger organizes online events and pannel discussions on today's most pressing topics in an old warehouse in the heart of the city. 

Summer School Online is brought to you by the Summer Programmes Office at the Graduate School of Social Sciences. If you have inquiries about one of our programmes, you can get in touch by mailing summer-info-gsss@uva.nl.