41 Short courses offered by the university

The Summer School will be an opportunity to deepen the understanding of the Grounded Theory’s contribution to the development of qualitative methods, and its coherence with the theoretical and methodological heritage of Symbolic Interactionism will be highlighted.

The Archaeological Field School of Etruscology offers a 12-day academic programme including various archaeological hands-on activities to be carried out at some Etruscan sites in Volterra, a charming town in northern Tuscany.

The Gallicano Field School in Medieval Archaeology and Bioarchaeology offers students a unique opportunity to engage in archaeological and bioarchaeological fieldwork. The program is centered around excavations at the Pieve di San Cassiano site in Gallicano, a municipality located approximately 20 miles north of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

The Summer School intends to present some selected tools that can help humanists in their researches and activities, taking advantage of the digital turn and the new technologies. Particular attention is given this year to NLP, Digital Philology, GIS & AI.

The Winter School is dedicated to PhD students who perform their research activities in the field of fluid machinery and energy systems engineering, including turbomachinery, internal combustion engines, energy conversion systems, power plants, renewable energy systems and innovative energy systems. 

This Theory and practice in transmission and scanning electron microscopy Certificate from University of Pisa is a practical, full-immersion course covering ultrastructural techniques that can be applied to the study of several biological subjects (cells, tissues, organisms).

The Winter School offers a one-week full-time multidisciplinary program. It is devoted to training students with a technical-scientific background on the advances of analysing materials of interest in environmental and green chemistry. Note that, even if the focus of this year is biopolymers, the knowledge acquired during the school may be applied to several other materials. 

The Summer School offers a multidisciplinary program of studies over the course of one week.Hosted by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pisa, it is designed for postgraduate students (Master’s degree holders), particularly PhD candidates, who have an interest in Heritage Science.

The Summer School is organized to provide 6 ECTS in the fields of Electronics, RFID, Sensors, Networking, Web of Things, SW for IoT, Computer Engineering, targeting on one side an audience of Bachelor (last year), Master and PhD students, and on the other side early stage researchers & practitioners from Academia/Industry.Both HW and SW aspects of IoT will be presented and discussed.

This is an introductory-level course of Machine Learning. The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the main machine learning methods and their application to geophysical, geochemical, geological and environmental data.

The Summer Student at Fermilab and Other US Laboratories Certificate from University of Pisa physics students will be trained in the research groups working on the new Fermilab initiatives, or in the Fermilab group which collaborates with the CMS experiment at CERN, or in the theory group. 

This Computer-Aided Drug Design programme from University of Pisa will cover all the main computational techniques used in drug discovery, supplying a basic level of knowledge of this research field.

The International Summer School “The City and the Water”, since 2014, is a Design Full-Time Workshop, aimed at investigating the complex relationships between the built environment and the water, in its broadest meaning of environmental resource, and therefore including seaside, rivers, lakes and water resources.

Fiber-optic sensing has rapidly emerged as a transformative tech for monitoring/understanding many geological, geophysical & environmental processes. By exploiting existing TC infrastructure or purpose-built cables, it enables high-resolution measurements across large spatial/temporal scales, opening new perspectives in environmental monitoring, natural hazard assessment & geophysical exploration.

The Summer School "Beyond 5G: Enabling Technologies, Opportunities and Research Challenges Ahead" is organized to offer 6 ECTS (48 hours of front lessons) in the broad field of 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks, targeting an audience of Bachelor (last year), Master and PhD students, early stage researchers and practitioners from Academia or Industry.

The Consciousness and Cognition Certificate from University of Pisa will be organized in order to explore the enigma of Consciousness from different points of view, with the participation of teachers who are experts in all these disciplines.

This Local Flaps in Facial Reconstruction after Skin Cancer Surgery Certificate from University of Pisa is organized by the Plastic Surgery Unit

The Summer School will illustrate the relationship between law and geopolitics in the following areas: new technologies (with a focus on artificial intelligence), climate change, circular economy, sustainable development, food sovereignty, migration, war, security, and sports.

Our summer school is a practical, full-immersion course covering biotechniques that can be applied to the study of several biological subjects related to cell biology, gene expression and ultrastructural observations.

The 2026 edition of the Summer School will focus on playwriting and the rewriting and adaptation of literary texts for theater and stage performance.