Does VUB offer any short courses?
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Yes, Vrije University Brussels offers five short courses alongside their bachelor's, master's, advanced master courses, postgraduate certificate courses, preparatory programmes, micro-credential courses as well as trainings. These courses are:
- First Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments: DARE 2023 is aimed at researchers, master’s and Ph.D. students working in the field of distributed systems and programming languages.
- Training on the use of ‘Implicit Measures’ in social sciences: This training is organized as an inter-university initiative, funded by VUB Doctoral School of Human Sciences (DSh), Hasse
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