Baza natječaja

Scholarship / Financial aid: A limited number of scholarships is available
Date: 20 – 26 August 2007
Deadline: 14 July 2007
Open to: students, young researchers and professionals

The Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies is a forum of intellectual discussions and research, as well as a platform of training and upgrading for undergraduates and young professionals from both western and eastern countries.

One of the Institute’s constant themes of research and debate has been the European integration viewed as a particularly dynamic and challenging process. The topic has been explored for the last 13 years under the form of summer schools organized by the Institute in cooperation with the Black Sea University Foundation, and, later on, with the European Cultural Centre, Bucharest, at Mangalia and Vama Veche, in Romania.

The 2007 seminar will focus on the desirability and feasibility of a common telos, demos and ethos for the upcoming European Union.

• Telos: Should the finality of the European integration process be determined expressis verbis ? If so, what should be the ultimate aim: a full-fledged political community or above all an economic union ? Might the search for a common telos prove divisive and thus counterproductive ?
• Ethos: Is the EU bound to be a community of values ? Does it make sense to put forward a catalogue of common values going beyond those that have been agreed upon in the constitutional text ?
• Demos: How important is the emergence of a European people for the success of the European endeavour ? How to bring about a common European awareness and we-feeling? How to involve European citizens and nations more directly and more strongly into the European political process ?

Who should attend ?

• students, young researchers and professionals interested in the topic
• representatives of higher education, of specialized institutions, of political parties, of NGO’s, of the mass-media

Venue

The course will be held at Vama Veche, a youth holiday village, which is situated at about 50 km south of Constantza, the main Romanian port on the Black Sea coast. The cost of 365 Euro includes participation fee, accommodation in double rooms with own bathroom and all meals. A limited number of scholarships is available. The conference wil be held from August 20th to August 26th.

 All candidates are kindly requested to send the filled in Application Form together with:

• Curriculum Vitae 
• Letter of Intention
• Two Letters of Recommendation
• Two page Essay (on a topic of the seminar) 

EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE, BUCHAREST
Centrul European de Culturã, Bucuresti
49-51, Sfintii Voievozi St., 4th floor, apt. 16 Bucharest-1, Romania

The working language is English.

Application deadline: 14 July 2007

For more information on the programme, you may like to contact:

Mrs. Maria Burº-Popescu, Executive Director
European Cultural Centre, Bucharest
49-51, Sf. Voievozi St., apt. 16
Bucharest-1, Romania
Tel./fax:+4021-6503280;tel.:+4021-6508145
E-mail: cti@clicknet.ro