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This page of PECOBcontains information on academic courses related to political, social, economic and cultural issues of Central Eastern and Balkan Europe. PECOB provides information on the academic program, eligibility requirements, costs and scholarships of Ph.Ds, Masters, Summer Schools, Winter Schools, Workshops and Language courses that take place in Central Eastern and Balkan Europe or deal with these regions.
Many academic courses on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe are about to start in the next months. The Universities of Bologna and Sarajevo announced the 2012-2013 edition of the European Regional Master's Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Europe, to be held in the Bosnian capital. The Master of Arts Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES) will begin in September at the Faculty of Political Sciences "R. Ruffilli", University of Bologna.
The links below also highlitght the upcoming summer schools, such as the CEI summer course on EU enlargement and the new neighbourhood, organized by the Institute for Central Eastern and Balkan Europe (IECOB). Among the other schools, you can find summer courses to be held in Ukraine(on post-1991 Ukrainian politics and EU-Ukraine relations) and in Serbia(conflict studies and language courses).
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.