05 July 2008 10:09 -
15 July 2008 10:09
Prague, July 5 -15, 2008
EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Prague, Czech Republic
European Summer School 2008 - Prague
http://www.europeum.org/ess2008/
Radomír Špok
+420 221610210
The European Summer School 2008 (ESS 2008) "TransAtlantic Relations from the Perspective of Central Europe" focuses on similarities and differencies in policies and approaches of the European Union and its member states and the United States of America. The courses will emphasize the particular situations of Central European countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) and try to answer the question to which extent the division of Old Europe and New Europe remains. Participants of the ESS 2008 will learn and discuss the different issues of individual policies.
Contact: ess2008@europeum.org
European Summer School "TransAtlantic Relations from the Perspective of Central Europe" is a short-term educational project for students launched by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy. The main objective of the programme is to enable its participants to improve their knowledge of the Central European EU member states, of their views on different policies and their perception of transatlantic relations. Specific objective of this summer school is to examine whether and to which extent the stances of Central European countries differ from those of Western European ones. ESS 2008 also as every year, provides the participants with a floor for discussions of the topic and for sharing their opinions and ideas.
The specificity of the school is to bring together students from diverse national and educational backgrounds to interact and exchange experience, which together with the knowledge acquired during the workshops should generate new ideas and thoughts. It should enable to answer a number of questions about the future of integrated Europe and especially the EU - US relations in many areas.
Students from a wide range of nationalities have a great opportunity of cross-cultural communication and learning from each other's experiences in ways that can benefit their educational and professional development. American and other non-European students are provided with a chance to discover different cultures and get the first-hand information about Central Europe in the context of the EU integration process, whereas students from Western Europe have a possibility to encounter and better understand new EU partners from Central Europe. School participants will come together in the classroom to contemplate how the new EU member states can become more active in respect to the challenges they are facing.
Students will leave the School as members of an emerging network of alumni living throughout the world. The summer school will serve as a networking event for young leaders who share their relationships and intellectual resources that will prove beneficial throughout their careers.
