Looking for EUPeace Lecturers and Course Leaders for the “Deutsche Schüler Akademie”

EUPeace is looking for people from it’s member universities interested in teaching courses at a 2026 summer science camp for high school students in Germany

Our goal is to collect enough teachers/lectures at one academy from EUPeace universities, to re-frame as an EUPeace Academy!

What is the academy?

Each summer, young, talented high school students come together to work on questions of science and their own future. In 2025, over 1.200 young people attended the Academy offers, deciphering Bitcoin, conducting a study on personal development, examining heat in physics and medicine – to just name a few of the numerous topics that summer had in store for students. In various academy formats at almost 20 locations throughout Germany and abroad, young people from all types of schools dealt with current questions from science and research, were artistically and creatively active and got to know different professional fields. The spectrum of academies ranges from orientation offers to courses at university level.

• Academies have been organised by “Bildung & Begabung” (Education and Talent) for over 30 years now. Financial support comes from different sources, including the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
• The academy is the oldest of numerous academy formats they offer. In 2025 there were five Academies in the classical format at five different locations in Germany.
• Students are around 17 years old and mostly in the last two years of high school in Germany.
• Usually, German of at least B2-level is required for students and teachers/lecturers to participate, however, for the future there might be an Academy with English as the common language.
• Usually, students are from a school in Germany, or a German school outside of Germany.
• Academies usually take place in a boarding school rented for the duration of the academy (2,5 weeks in July-August).
• Each academy usually offers six different courses, together covering a broad range of subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Social Studies, Literature, Philosophy, and so on.
• Each course has two teachers/lecturers, designing and running the course. Additionally, there is a three-person team managing the Academy on site, and one person specifically responsible for musical or theater activities. So, typically there is a team of 16 grown-ups running one Academy on site.
• Each course has about 15-16 students, so around 96 students per Academy.
• Teachers/Lecturers and Academy-Management are mostly PhD-students or PostDocs, but sometimes they are university students or Professors, or even from outside academia. Long term participants include many Professors form Germany. Among others, one Leibniz-price recipient: Sociologist Hartmut Rosa, University of Jena.
• Courses are supposed to go beyond what students would normally learn at school.
• Students are selected by “Bildung & Begabung”, and usually highly motivated and capable.
• Students pick only one course and work within that course for 2,5 weeks. https://www.schuelerakademien.de/deutsche-schuelerakademie
• Aside from course work, roughly half the time during the 2,5 weeks is dedicated to mostly self-organized activities where students from different courses can interact: sports, games, language-courses, creative writing, music, and anything else the students or the team might want to do.