1 week, 30 international students and several experts on sustainability

Come to learn, experience, share, and implement sustainability concepts! Besides working on real-life projects with an international partner organization and profiting from input sessions, students learn to cooperate in teams and create goal-driven solutions. We encourage ‘thinking outside the box’, and looking for realistic, application-oriented results.

This year's topic: Learnings from the past. Building technologies rediscovered

Who? 30 international students, 2 professors, our partner organization Bärnau-Tachov History Park, several experts on sustainability, and a multitude of advisors and helpers

Where? Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH – Technical University of Applied Sciences)
Weiden i. d. OPf., Bavaria, Germany

Bärnau-Tachov History Park
Bärnau, Bavaria, Germany 

When? June 23 – 27, 2025
(Arrival on June 22, departure on June 27 in the afternoon)

Requirements:

• Language: English (min. level B2 in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
• Successful participation in a pre-test

Costs covered by organisers:

• Accommodation (for non-OTH AW students)
• All breakfasts and lunches, a joint dinner
• Cultural event(s)
• Additional funding for travel costs may be available via your home university

Application

To apply for the International Summer School on Sustainability, please follow these two steps:

1. Fill in the online application form (see below).
2. Send the required documents (letter of motivation, CV, transcript of records) via e-mail to isss@oth-aw.de 

Deadline for the application is  April 11, 2025!

Required components of the application:

• Letter of motivation (English, topic “What sustainable practices have you integrated in your daily life? Why? What has been easy, what has been hard?”)
• Curriculum vitae
• Transcript of records

Concept and academic management
OTH Amberg-Weiden (OTH – Technical University of Applied Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Julia Heigl
MA, MBA Laura Stoussavljewitsch

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
doc. Ing. Dita Hommerová, Ph.D., MBA

Prague University of Economics and Business
Ing. Veronika Vašíčková

Organization
Institute for Sustainability and Ethics, Laura Völkl, isss@oth-aw.de

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