This area offers a wide range of continuously updated news regarding both academic and cultural events together with academic calls and study programs
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).
A community of foreign schoolars and university students, coming mainly from the Balkan and Eastern Europe are the protagonists of the 22nd edition of the Central European Initiative Summer School, to be held from September 12th to 17th, at the premises of the University Residential Center of Bertinoro
The MOOC is an online and free course, open to participants (students, practitioners, social workers…) who are actively interested and engaged in disability work at different levels and wish to deepen their knowledge about a rights-based approach to disability. Drawing from expertise and examples at the global and national level, this course offers a multidisciplinary and multifaceted overview of historical developments, main standards, key issues, and current challenges in this area of human rights protection.