Global studies

The course Qualified Internship for Sustainable Development, 30 ETCS, is an opportunity for you to integrate internship in your education. The goal is that SLU's students learn first-hand how sustainability is addressed in workplaces of their interest. The course is offered as an independent course at Master’s level.

GCUA 2030 will offer four PhD courses running in 2023. The courses can be taken as a full package or as individual courses.

1. Working and communicating across cultures 
2. Agenda 2030: Synergies, conflicts, and assessment tools
3. Education for sustainable development: Teaching for sustainability 
4. Designing research with impact using the Theory of Change approach 

Do you want to work with forestry, agroforestry, and forest-related issues in the tropics? This is the course for you! This course will take you through the arc of understanding global issues and theoretical knowledge to the on-the-ground complexities, challenges, and strategies of tropical forest and landscape management activities. 

SLU offers many courses with an international orientation. Many of them are given in English and open for both Swedish and international students. 

As an SLU-student, you can also study abroad as an exchange student. Read more below. 

Erasmus+ is EU's programme for the promotion of international cooperation and exchange in education, youth and sport. Erasmus+ is meant to serve as a tool and part of the work to meet and address the major challenges facing Europe today and in the future.

More information about Erasmus+ at UHR website (Swe).

Travel Grants for Internationalisation are available to SLU students for participation in a study visit abroad, or a course, congress or equivalent activity. The scholarship can be used for travel costs, accommodation costs and conference fees. To be qualified to apply you must be admitted at SLU as a postgraduate student or have taken your doctor’s degree not more than two years prior to the closing date for this application. 

As an SLU-student, you can study abroad as an exchange student. Studying abroad is a good way for you to broaden your knowledge, develop your language skills and make new contacts in a totally different culture. SLU has partnerships with over 100 universities around the world.