LERU Doctoral Summer School 2026 in Leuven
06 11 2025
The 15th edition of the LERU Doctoral Summer School, hosted by KU Leuven from 6 – 11 September 2026.
The Doctoral Summer School is an annual event aiming to provide doctoral candidates with unique professional and personal development opportunities beyond what they are generally exposed to during their PhD training. By creating an exceptional and truly international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary meeting of bright young minds, the Doctoral Summer School creates a highly stimulating learning experience which is of long-lasting value to the participants’ future career. The theme for this Doctoral Summer School will be Inter-, Multi- and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Health.
We are pleased that KU Leuven is supporting the CE7 partnership by reserving spots for doctoral students at CE7 universities, kindly waiving the tuition fee (€ 600) for CE7 students (*).
(*) The waived tuition fee includes course materials, ‘university dorms’ accommodations, meals at social occasions and a social programme. Participants will have to cover travel to and from Leuven, as well as any additional social activities undertaken.
Everyone interested to apply to the LERU Summer School is invited to submit the documents (in English), including:
- First name
- Last name
- Gender
- Affiliation
- Faculty/Department
- Title of PhD project
- CV
- Motivation letter
Documents should be submitted electronically by January 14, 2026 (included) to the address: szkola.m@uw.edu.pl, necessarily with the annotation LERU.
From the registered candidates, one will then be selected to participate on behalf of the University of Warsaw. Applications will be evaluated by a three-person committee composed of members of the Scientific Council of the Inerdyscyplinary Doctoral School, the name of the winner will be announced on January 27, 2026.
Programme draft with more information about the 2026 Doctoral Summer School – Download file with programme draft .pdf file