15 Courses and Certifications

KU Leuven Leuven Courses & Certifications 2024

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Beer: the science of brewing

The Beer: The Science of Brewing certificate course by Edx ensures that candidates who want to learn the process of making beer will get to know every aspect of it like the brewing process, biochemical reactions, ingredients of beer, filtration, packaging, fermentation, and so on. 

The duration of the course is 13 weeks which is divided into 4-6 hours per week which lets the students have a flexible schedule. Candidates will learn the concepts at a brisk pace without any rush. It is instructor-led training which means that candidates will have a great interaction with professors and acquire deep learning. It also comes with an English video transcript such that candidates will not miss out on anything and follow everything said by the instructors. 

Candidates will be also assigned various project works and assignments regularly. It is a great opportunity for those people who are into food and nutrition and want to learn the science of brewing. This course is self-paced but is available for only a limited period within which the learning must be completed during the audit track. The time constraint is not there when the candidates have selected the verified track.

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13 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Microbiology

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Enhancing Catholic School Identity

Due to the increase in secularisation, detraditionalization, and pluralization, people are losing interest in the Catholic faith tradition. Realizing the fact, edX provides the Enhancing Catholic School Identity in association with KU Leuven which is one of the oldest universities in Europe. It is known for its high-quality, interactive, and innovative learning experience which is backed by deep research.

The course curriculum is developed by experts who provide the Catholic Dialogue School. It lets the students pay attention to the Catholic faith tradition and welcome different religions and cultures at the same time. It helps them to enhance theoretical and practical knowledge as well. This is a self-paced course where students can spend a quality amount of time on each topic and learn at their comfortable pace. This is a 13-week long course which is further divided into 8-10 hours per week. Learners can take the programme either in paid or free mode. In the free audit mode, they will be provided access to the course only for a limited duration. 

Based on the fact that edX is the most trusted source for learning courses, the Enhancing Catholic School Identity course is a rare course that teaches the students to not forget their roots and improve their Catholic Identity.

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13 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of religion

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Existential Well-being Counseling: A Person-centered Experiential Approach

The KU Leuven designed Existential Well-being Counseling: A Person-centered Experiential Approach certification course is offered with a Humanities approach for the candidate to explore and learn about how to nurture personal well-being for oneself and others.  The course will be focusing on designing and deciding what matters in life for them. 

The course will address both professional and personal themes for counselling at many stages. The course will pay attention to the talents possessed by the individual and address the constraints and difficulties in life processes. The course is person-centric by nature and uses several role-play examples and videos to illustrate the well-being approach to life through various contexts. The course is offered with a high level of flexibility and requires the student to take part in the course of the entire length for 12 weeks. The student needs to only give his or her dedication every week for 6 to 8 hours.

Candidates can enrol in the programme in the paid and free modes. In the paid mode, the learners will be given a certificate of completion and unlimited access whereas in the free audit mode, they will be provided access for only a limited period. 

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12 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Psychology

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Rule of Law and Democracy in Europe

The Rule of Law and Democracy in Europe programme is an interdisciplinary MOOC that discusses the European Union's fundamental principles, shortcomings of the rule of law, and what democracy means in the EU. The course will introduce you to the European Union (EU) and explain its evolution. It attempts to shed light on the values of democracy and the challenges related to it. 

The Rule of Law and Democracy in Europe online course will run for an estimated eight weeks. It is designed as a self-paced learning programme. The curriculum consists of videos that test your understanding and knowledge of the topics. You will also learn through testimonials, reflection questions, discussions, and assignments for maximum comprehension.

Additionally, you can choose the verified certificate track to obtain the Rule of Law and Democracy in Europe certificate. Along with the certificate that can be shared on digital platforms, you will also get access to graded assignments, feedback, and instructor support in this mode. Except for the unlimited access and certification of completion, the candidates can even opt for the audit track that is completely free of cost.

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8 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of law

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Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community

This course, that is, the course of Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community by edX is going to provide the candidates participating in the programme with in-depth knowledge about how to create a digital community for engaging more users. Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community Course welcomes not only students acquiring education at the moment but also for volunteers and professionals in institutions of cultural heritage, along with teachers, amateurs and students. The students, through Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community Course will learn to make use of cutting-edge tools, online repositories and digital strategies for facilitating true dialogue and interaction. This course consists of 8 modules that will be stretched over a time period of 8 weeks. The students can choose to put in a minimum effort of 2 to 5 hours and complete the programme. 

Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community Course will be provided in English language, including the facilities of video transcripts (or subtitles). Students can master the concepts taught in the course with the help of the efficient teaching tools and apply for higher programmes. 

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8 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Cultural sensitivity Knowledge of photography

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Europeana Space: Creative with Digital Heritage

The aim of the course is to provide and share the various creative ways to people by which they can reuse and use the European digital content regarding culture. The essential elements and concepts related to culture and learning community will be shared during the course with which they can also get engaged. The Europeana Space: Creative with Digital Heritage program will help to become more creative and preserve digital cultural heritage and the various tools related to APIs that can be used in the online platform.

The Certification Course in Europeana Space: Creative with Digital Heritage by edX will be allowed to effectively and judiciously use the Intellectual Property Rights to preserve the heritage surrounding the digital culture. The 8-week course will be led by an instructor giving more insight on topics that include- museum, TV, dance, photography, digital marketing, and others. Students will learn to develop creative ideas that will help them to create cultural contents that will engage more audiences that will combine the format of storytelling and social media.

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8 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of photography

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How to Analyze a Microbiome

The How to Analyze a Microbiome Programme provided by edX imparts knowledge to its participants in numerous concepts like sequencing techniques, taxonomic assignment, data types, functional assignment, functional richness, dimension reduction, ordination, network construction,  microbiome data, sequencing, trees, taxa, diversity, evenness, biplots, benefit and richness.

This course will analyse the tasks with the help of real-time examples. The candidate will understand the need for microbiome data collected through this programme. The candidate will also understand the definitions of diversity, richness and evenness. Through this course, the participants will learn to interpret and compute different taxons. This programme also covers basic concepts in R and programming.

The certificate is provided to each and every candidate who joins the verified track of the course and passes the exam. The certificate has the logo of the institution and the sign of the mentor. It can be shared with a resume or CV. It can be shared on the LinkedIn profile too. The programme can be pursued free of cost and by paying the fee. While taking the course free of cost, the learners will have access to the programme only for a limited time duration. 

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7 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of genetics

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As above so below An introduction to Soils, Ecosystems and Livelihoods in the Tropics

KU Leuven has developed this certificate programme on As above, so below: An introduction to soils, ecosystems and livelihoods in the Tropics. This course will explore the variability of nature in soil properties for the sustainable form of management in farms and ecosystems. This course will help in understanding the soil properties that vary in different tropical landscapes and ecosystems. This will help the candidate understand the properties are affecting both livelihood and biodiversity. 

The candidate will be exposed to learn how to use the soils in a healthier way with basic knowledge of Lifesciences. The virtual form of excursions exposes the soils in five types and uses real-life examples using videos and appropriate case studies. As above, so below: An introduction to soils, ecosystems and livelihoods in the Tropics certification course spans a duration of 7 weeks with inputs from 3 instructors. With a required student dedication of just 4 to 6 weeks, the candidate will be able to complete the coursework with an intermediate difficulty level.  This self-paced course offers two options for learners to enrol in the course, paid with certificate and free without the certificate. In the free mode, the learners will have access only for a limited period. 

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7 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of ecosystem

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The EU and Human Rights

The EU and Human Rights certification course by edX discusses the EU’s potential to impact human rights, not just for its citizens, but also for people everywhere. Both positive and negative impacts have been discussed. You will also learn about the businesses, NGOs, or other international organisations (UN, Council of Europe, etc.) that the EU could engage with to promote human rights all over the world.

The EU and Human Rights certification syllabus will cover the policy sectors impacted by the EU. These sectors include development, social policy, migration, trade, and international crisis management. The objective is to help you understand how the EU, by itself, or in partnership with other local or global, state or non-state bodies, can uphold, protect, and promote human rights globally.

The EU and Human Rights programme, developed by KU Leuven, contains interviews with experts and exercises to test what you have learned. The instructors are all leading academics from renowned institutions all over the world. If you study four to six hours a week, you can comfortably complete the human rights course within seven weeks. By enrolling in any one of the tracks namely verified or the audit track, the students may learn the programme. During the audit track, learning is free for a limited time period whereas during the verified track learning is unlimited but paid.

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7 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of law

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Mentoring engineers with impact

In the Mentoring engineers with impact training online course by edX, the candidate will be focused on the individuals who are managing and driving experts towards accomplishing their professional objectives. The course offers the candidate a bunch of apparatuses and standards with objectives and reasonable strategies to effectively begin and execute to finish a coaching cycle. As a coach, the candidate will focus on building up those abilities which will help the mentees to fabricate and support their upper hands.

The duration of the course is 6 weeks. Mentoring engineers with an impact certification syllabus is a short-term online course. An intermediate level of teaching will be there. It is a self-paced course that candidates can access according to their own comfortable timings. The candidate is requested to give their efforts of 1-2 hours weekly.

The candidate will be getting a verified course certificate of Mentoring engineers with an impacted program by the end of the course from edX. The certificate will be a shareable certificate that candidates can add to their LinkedIn account. The candidate can access the course for free or can take the upgraded course to get the certificate by the end of the course.

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6 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of engineering

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Vaccines: from Smallpox to Technologies of the Future

This Course vaccine: From Small Pox to Technologies of the Future Will surely help you to broaden your knowledge on vaccinology, it will also help you to gain a balanced introduction to the varied aspects of the vaccine field.

Apart from Providing the history of vaccines and its  impact on mankind, a module will be provided about vaccine immunology that will help you to gain sufficient knowledge about vaccine immunology

You will also get the opportunity to learn more about different stages in vaccine development, you will learn to handle the troublesome obstacles, this course will also help you to tackle the challenges including the recent vaccine hesitancy that might lead to a worrisome reduction in vaccine rates.

A novel vaccine platform technology namely PLLAV will also be highlighted in this course.

This Course aims at all stakeholders including parents, students, scientists, NGOs, politicians and many more in the vaccine field.

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6 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Microbiology

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Irrigation Efficiency More Food with Less Water

Due to the shortage of fresh water, the Irrigation Efficiency: More Food with Less Water program by edX provides a great opportunity for students to learn about the irrigation supply chain, calculate the right amount of water required for plants, water losses, water applications, water flows, water savings, different types of components in the irrigation system like the sprinkler, drip, surface, and so on.

This course is powered by KU Leuven University which is one of the best and largest universities in Belgium. It is recognized for its innovative learning, high-quality teaching, and rigorous research. The course curriculum is 6 weeks long and is specially designed by professionals. The instructors are highly qualified, well-versed, and vastly experienced in teaching the subject of irrigation and water resources. The lectures also come with video transcripts that help students to have a clear understanding and quick grasp. This course is ideal for students who want to study irrigation efficiency and its applications in-depth. The learners can join the course in two tracks; paid and free audit mode. In the free audit mode, the learner will have access to the course only for a limited course.

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6 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Environmental Science

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Energy Systems Integration A Trend or a Revolution

5 Weeks
Expert
Free

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Data Analytics in Health – From Basics to Business

4 Weeks
Intermediate
Free

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UML Class Diagrams for Software Engineering

3 Weeks
Beginner
Free

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