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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).
The Institute for Social and European Studies (ISES) Foundation in Kőszeg and the Corvinus University of Budapest invite students to apply for the Cultural Heritage Management & Sustainable Development (CHMSD) Postgraduate Program of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainability at ISES in Kőszeg. The title of the two-year course starting on September 30, 2013 is Best practices of cultural heritage management in the Visegrad countries.
The European Regional Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democracy in South East Europe (ERMA) is an intensive one-year Master programme established through the joint efforts of the participating universities and coordinated by the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna. In the a.y 2012/2013 ERMA shall be implemented as a double degree programme: one diploma will be issued by the University of Sarajevo and one by the University of Bologna.
The 2013 Europaeum Summer School will bring together experts from law and justice, think tanks, NGOs and universities, to discuss key questions over five days of talks, panels, working groups, debates role-playing and discussions.
The Visegrád School of Political Studies is a joint project of the Council of Europe and the European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw that will bring together young politicians, civil society activists, journalists and civil servants from the countries of the Visegrád Group – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – for three multi-day seminars to help increase involvement in the democratic processes, foster exchange of know-how and strengthen regional cooperation among a new generation of Central European “movers and shakers”.
The National University of Public Service (NUPS) in co-operation with the Tom Lantos Institute is organizing its first international Summer School on Minority Rights with a special focus on the implementation of norms in Central and Southeast Europe.