A week-long Summer School takes place at the end of students’ first year of GLOCAL. It is organised by a different partner university each year and includes visiting professors from associate partners from around the world. The 2018 Summer School took place in Göttingen and 2019 in Rotterdam. The 2022 Summer School took place Prague. The 2020 Summer School in Gdansk was cancelled due to COVID-19.

The topic is decided on an annual basis and relates to trends and issues of the moment.

Please note that all enrolled students finishing their first year of the programme are expected to attend the Summer School. The cost is embedded in the total programme fees whether students decide to attend the summer school or not. However, travel costs and living costs incurred during the Summer School are not included in these fees and must be covered by the student. A small travel subsidy, as well as accommodation for students is available.

“The GLOCAL Summer School was not only a moment to reunite with the people who have become my family for the past year, but also an opportunity to meet new people, hear different perspectives regarding family owned businesses around the world, and to connect those perspectives in order to form a more accurate and global opinion on family firms. Additionally, it has been a glimpse of what GLOCAL life in Göttingen will be, an introduction to the city, the professors and the university.”

Diego Méndez Quiroz, GLOCAL 2017-19 cohort

2022, Prague - Twelve Centuries of Creativity: Arts, Business and Civil Society in Prague

You can view the full programme here. Click these links to read about the students’ experiences of both the practical and cultural aspects of the programme.

2019, Rotterdam - Tastes of the Global City

You can view the full programme here and read about the students’ experience of the Summer School here.

2018, Göttingen - The Mittelstand goes Global

You can view the full programme here and read about the students’ experience of the Summer School here.

The 2020 Summer School in Gdansk, Poland, was cancelled due to COVID-19. The provisional programme is available here.

The 2019 GLOCAL Summer School in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, took place from August 25th to 29th, at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The topic was “Tastes of the Global City”. The full programme is available here: Summer School 2019 Programme.

Incoming students wrote about their experiences on the GLOCAL Experience Blog, which is available here: Catching up with GLOCAL III (Summer School 2019).

The 2018 GLOCAL Summer School in Göttingen, Germany, took place from 27th August to the 1st September at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The topic was “The Mittelstand goes Global: Local Roots and Internationalization Pathways of SMEs”. The full programme is available here: Summer School 2018 Programme.

An incoming student wrote about their experience at the Summer School on the GLOCAL Experience Blog, which is available here: GLOCAL Summer School, perspectives from the new cohort.