Short Intensive Courses (SICs) are initiated, developed and organised by PhDs themselves. The aim of a SIC’s is to bring PhDs from various programme groups together to jointly discuss key methodological, theoretical or other academic related work. There are a few requirements for SICs when applying for AISSR funding:

• There needs to be a minimal amount of people participating, at least 8 from at least three programme groups, preferably from different disciplines. The commitment of these people needs to be clearly stated
• Non-AISSR participants are only allowed when the minimum requirement of 8 AISSR participants is reached. Please note that this is and should be an AISSR activity, so the majority of participants should always be from the AISSR. Costs for non-AISSR PhDs are usually around € 250 depending on SIC and budget;
• If fulfilled, one can get ECTS points for the course. The points will depend on the duration and reading requirements of the SIC. Literature: 10 pages per hour;
• Twice a year the AISSR circulates a call to submit a proposal for a SIC in the next semester. The proposal should include: structured proposal with education targets, educational tools, methodology, content, participants, budget indication. Proposal may not exceed 2 pages and can be send to AISSR secretariat (aissr@uva.nl). 

Examples of previous SICs include:

• Globalisation, Crisis and Insecurity
• Rethinking Norbert Elias
• Migration, Medicine and Reproductive Insecurity
• Visual Methods
• Decision-making under Information Uncertainty, from Perception to Action
• The Body and Technology
• Human Rights: Activism and Site-Specific Research
• The coexistence of the living and the non-living in the city

For more information on these SICs, contact the AISSR secretariat.