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Summer schools are courses organized during the summer break from academic activities, usually intented to explore and deepen the knowledge of a specific theme related to one's field of study. PECOB collects information of upcoming summer schools taking place in Central Eastern and Balkan Europe or dealing with this region.
Forthcoming summer schools will address post-enlargement EU policies, Ukraine since 1991 and its relations to the European Union and anthropology and folklore of the Balkans. Other courses will focus on global governance and international institutions and violence in soviet and post-soviet contexts.
MGIMO Summer School offers two three-week English-language modules on Russian foreign policy and International relations in June and July.
The European Centre for Minority Issues organises the Summer School "National Minorities and Border Regions" that will take place on August 21-29, 2014.
The Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina organises in collaboration with the “Border Crossings Network” and the Municipality of Konitsa, the 9th “International Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans” in the town of Konitsa from 23 July to 8 August 2014.
The University of Surrey organises the Summer School "Resistance, protest and social change in the EU", that aims to foster a dialogue on the present and future state of European Integration and to enhance the quality of teaching on this particular issue by focusing on the social and political implications of the current euro-crisis.
The Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology provides an academic frame for a deeper and interdisciplinary understanding of these complex processes.