Certificates and ECTS Credits

Certificates of attendance

Short course participants will receive a certificate of attendance. There is no formal exam and we cannot give European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) points for short courses.

For the one- and two-week courses, each participant will receive a certificate of attendance before leaving the GESIS Summer School.

ECTS points

Participants completing a one- or two-week course have the opportunity to gain ECTS points from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim. When registering for the Summer School, you have three options to choose from:

• No ECTS points required (i.e. certificate of attendance is sufficient).
• 2 points can be obtained for regular attendance and satisfactory work on daily assignments in a one-week course (4 points in a two-week course).
• 2 further points can be gained by submitting a paper/report of about 5000 words to the instructors up to 4 weeks after the end of the summer school, after agreeing a topic with the instructors (submission deadline: September 27, 2013).

Applicants are advised to contact their home institution to enquire about the recognition of ECTS points from the University of Mannheim.