The East European Summer School is organized and annually conducted by the Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. It is devoted to the study of the history and contemporary politics of the countries of the region. The School's aim is not to promote independent research but rather to prepare participants for longer scholarship in Poland.
The East European Summer School seeks to allow young scholars, especially from Central and Eastern Europe to become acquainted with the latest research, new schools of thought and research methodologies; complement and systematize their own knowledge; and interact with new people and a new scholarly milieu.
The school assembles annually 30 students, who undertake research into the history and contemporary affairs of the region in a variety of disciplines (history, art history, literature, sociology, geography, demography, ethnology, political science, economics, and sovietology).
Lectures are given each year by a different group of experts, hailing from various institutions chiefly in Poland, Western Europe, and North America.
The Summer School's program consists of a series of lectures (with specialized sessions in Vilnius, Minsk and Lviv - 1997, in Vilnius and Toruń - 1998, and Wroc³aw - 1999), field trips, visits to institutes, libraries, and archives, as well as independent research work performed by participants.
The languages of instruction of the East European Summer School are both Polish and English.
Seven sessions have been held so far. Lectures were given by 80 professors. 196 participants from 12 East Central European and 5 Western countries received East European Summer School diplomas.
Graduates have gone on to careers in diplomacy (Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania), politics (Ukraine, Belarus), public administration (Ukraine, Lithuania), non-governmental organization (Belarus), archival administration (Lithuania), academia (Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine) and media (Ukraine, Bulgaria).
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