Virtual Modules
SEA-EU Virtual Modules
The SEA-EU Virtual Modules promote virtual student mobility, international learning, and collaboration in interdisciplinary topics from the fields of:
1) Maritime and Marine Sciences in collaboration with the interdisciplinary Master School of Marine Sciences (iMSMS) at Kiel University,
2) Economics.
Virtual Modules bring together master students and teaching scientists at our SEA-EU partner universities to provide an easily accessible opportunity to connect and collaborate with others across Europe.
SEA-EU Virtual Modules add value to your study program by:
- Offering an international component to your studies accessible from your home university
- Expanding the diversity of topics you have access to, helping you identify your individual field of interest
- Helping you create a flexible and personalized curricula
- Offering an opportunity to foster your digital skills in an international setting
- Building your networks
Click here to read more about how the SEA-EU Virtual Modules work and conditions for participation.
Please contact your study programme coordinator for your individual recognition of the SEA-EU Virtual Module! You may have it recognized in the elective section of your curriculum or have it listed as an additional output to your transcript of records.
Upcoming Modules
SEA-EU Virtual Module: Strategic Management
Biogeography is the science of how the Earth’s history and present environment determines speciation, habitat diversity and biodiversity patterns. It provides both a theoretical basis for understanding how biodiversity evolved and has applications in deciding where to have nature reserves, the spread of invasive species, and predicting the effects of climate change.
Participants will learn how to use leading resources of biodiversity informatics for individually selected species of interest (e.g. threatened, charismatic, important ones for food, pest or keystone species)
- Application Deadline: 19th Feb 2026
- Partner/Lecturer: UPN/Prof. Ilaria Tutore
- ECTS: 6
- Mode: Hybrid
Course type: Semester module with 3 live sessions per week, spread over 8 weeks between 2nd March and 20th April 2026 including lectures, practical exercises, case studies, discussions and team-based project work.
More info
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SEA-EU Virtual Module: Introduction to Ocean Sustainability
The module will concentrate on integrated research areas that focus on the grand challenges faced in attaining ocean sustainability. Students will attend a lecture where lecturers of different SEA-EU universities will present current topics on ocean sustainability centring on Ocean Food, Ocean Floor Resources, Ocean Ethics, Ocean Disasters, The Law of the Seas, and “Blue Economy”.
- Application deadline: 10th Mar 2026
- ECTS: 5 ECTS
- Partner/Lecturer: CAU / Dr Nina Keul
- Mode: Hybrid
- Course type: Semester course with 15 live sessions
Schedule details/times: From 16th Apr to 26th Jul 2026, on Wednesdays, 16:00-18:00 and Fridays, 12:00-14:00 CEST, with the exact dates being 15.4., 17.4., 22.4., 29.4., 6.5., 8.5., 15.5., 20.5., 22.5., 3.6., 5.6., 10.6., 12.6., 19.6., 24.6. or 26.6.2026
More info
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SEA-EU Virtual Module: Biodiversity and Biogeography
Biogeography is the science of how the Earth’s history and present environment determines speciation, habitat diversity and biodiversity patterns. It provides both a theoretical basis for understanding how biodiversity evolved and has applications in deciding where to have nature reserves, the spread of invasive species, and predicting the effects of climate change.
Participants will learn how to use leading resources of biodiversity informatics for individually selected species of interest (e.g. threatened, charismatic, important ones for food, pest or keystone species).
- Application Deadline: 22nd Feb 2026
- Partner/Lecturer: NORD/Prof. Mark Costello
- ECTS: 7.5 / 180 hrs
- Mode: Hybrid
- Course type: Intensive module with 6 sessions spread over 2.5 weeks in April 2026 including lectures, practical exercises and self-study assignments.
Please note that, if the lecturer selects you for participation, you will need to register at NORD afterwards as well by 1st March!
You will receive confirmation of participation and further instructions on 23rd February.
Please check your e-mails and SPAM.
More info
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Understanding Climate Change: science, society, policy
Uncover the complex interplay between science, society and policy as you explore the human driven climate crisis and its impact on global inequality. Through interactive online sessions you will critically debate climate justice and empower yourself to promote evidence-based solutions for a sustainable future.
Application deadline: 2nd Feb 2026
- ECTS: 2 / 50 hrs
- UG / Dr. Maria Matusiewicz
- Mode: online
- Lectures with exercises, interactive discussion and individual project work
- Schedule: Wed, from 15:30-17:30 CET/CEST
More info
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Climate Change Economics
The course introduces students to the main concept of climate change economics. Student learn about the basics of climate physics and climate change impacts. The main part of the course teaches decision making in climate change with optimal mitigation, cost-effective mitigation, and international incentives to provide the public good of climate change mitigation. Students also learn about policy instruments to implement decisions.
Application Deadline: 8 March 2026
- Partner/Lecturer: CAU/Prof. Ulrike Kornek
- ECTS: 5
- Mode: Hybrid
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After completing this course, students can explain how climate change emerges from greenhouse gas emissions. They know climate change impacts and understand how these lead to benefits of abatement. Students understand technological options to abate and how they lead to abatement costs. Based on these functions they can derive optimal climate change mitigation, also in an intertemporal context. Students can further determine cost-effective implementation of temperature targets. For both conceps, they derive how the abatement levels are implemented with different policy instruments. Lastly, students know what Nash-equilibria are and can apply this concept to different games, to derive free-riding incentives in public-good-like games.
- Application Deadline: 8th March 2026
- Partner/Lecturer: CAU/Prof. Ulrike Kornek
- ECTS: 5
- Mode: Hybrid
Course type: Semester-long module with two live sessions per week, consisting of a lecture and a tutorial.
Dates:
13th Apr to 8th Jul 2026, with lectures on Mondays from 10:15-11:45 CEST and Tutorials on Wednesdays from 16:15-17:45 CEST
Download the complete course description here.
Marine Topics: In collaboration with the interdisciplinary Master School of Marine Sciences (iMSMS) at Kiel University.
