SCTA opens every year a short course to the Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis to promote the knowledge of the Calorimetry and Thermal analysis. The subjects of a short course are selected to comply various demands from the fundamental fields of calorimetry and thermal analysis to its application to various materials. Therefore, the contents which beginners can understand well and the specialist for thermal analysis can anticipate to be useful are incorporated into the subjects in a short course. The question and answer corner is also prepared for every attendant to closely contact with the lecturers. During a short course, the apparatus of thermal analysis in Japan and foreign counties are displayed and demonstrated. Every members of JSCTA can attend this short course by the reduced price.