From the first week of October to the first week of November 2020, the second summer school is being held within the framework of the Erasmus + Strategic Partnership grant program. Among the partners and project participants are the world's leading universities and European schools of architecture in the field of architectural light design. Namely – Creative Lighting Department ITMO University (Russia), Thomas Jefferson University (USA), University of Wolverhampton (UK), Aalborg University (Denmark), Hochschule Wismar (Germany) and KTH Royal Institute (Sweden). The second summer school is being held online now and covers the topic "Lighting for educational and office spaces". Hochschule Wismar (Germany) is hosting the event.  
 
The second summer school Light4Health is dedicated to lighting for workspaces and educational environments. The peculiarities of the perception of lighting will be investigated under various scenarios (for example, at different times of day or during stressful situations) and for different groups of users (such as children, youth, the elderly, people with disabilities), taking into account national and cultural characteristics, geographic zones and climatic conditions. The program of the second summer school is designed for one month of online lectures and practical classes and includes five educational modules. Each module lasts one week. Students may attend lectures and perform practical tasks at any time convenient for them. Every Friday during the entire training period, online consultations and discussions with teachers will be held on the covered material. Also, student teams will present the results of completed practical tasks. Work on the project will be carried out in international groups, which are going to include participants from different universities of the consortium – one from each university. In total, four training groups of 6 people will be organized. 
 
During the first week (module 1), Light4Health Summer School participants were introduced to lighting standards (HSW, Daylight and WELL). They are also discovered flickers and glares (unified glare rating) for artificial lighting, as well as good and bad examples of lighting projects in workspace and learning environments (TBD). The second week’s (module 2) main focus was on visual and non-visual lighting metrics, using the spectrometer to measure spectral power distribution (SPD), data collection and the CIE Toolkit. During the third week (module 3), we are touching upon the subjects of the user-orient smart lighting design, dynamic lighting in classrooms and offices that creates a natural flow of light, as well as investigate a mixed method that explores the connection between light, behavior and sound. Weeks four and five (modules 4 and 5) are devoted to working on the final lighting design project. The fifth week will end with presentations of final lighting design group projects (Lightplan) of an office or study space. 
 
The coronavirus pandemic has slightly changed the timing of events within the Light4Health project, but the organizers hope that the third summer school in Copenhagen, Denmark will take place according to plan in the summer of 2021. It is going to top the cycle of meetings of the consortium partners and will be devoted to the impact of lighting on health and well-being in medical institutions. 
The international Light4Health project will conclude in 2021 with the development and launch of a unique web-platform, which will collect the best educational practices, teaching materials, video lectures, interactive exercises and research methods on the effect of lighting on human health through the prism of lighting design. Access to the platform will be open to all parties interested in the project: members of the consortium, professional lighting designers, researchers, as well as students and teachers of the associated partners of the project, including VIA-Verlag company (Germany), Università Iuav di Venezia (Italy), Vicenza Institute of Architecture (Italy), Roma Tre University (Italy), The School of Digital Technologies at Tallinn University (Estonia), Seoul Semiconductor company, USA, etc.
 
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