Summer school “Democratic innovations in Europe and in the European Union”
Université Catholique de Louvain
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Deadline: 1 April 2017
Open to: advanced Master students and PhD students from all across Europe and the world
Venue: 21 – 25 August 2017, Brussels, Belgium
The summer school on democratic innovations addresses this problem and seeks to provide students with a fuller understanding of democratic innovations. The courses will discuss in detail their effects on communities, structures, systems, policies and citizens’ participation. The summer school aims to identify and assess the benefits, disadvantages, functioning and challenges of democratic innovations in contemporary representative democracies. To achieve these objectives, the summer school will combine a broad array of theoretical approaches (made available to students in the reading package of every course) with methodological and empirical perspectives in every course (i.e. a hands-on approach). The sessions are divided in five days of teaching that alternate between the three major types of innovations: direct democracy, dialogue oriented, and mixed. Students will be encouraged to actively participate in a series of applied exercises that will reveal the complexities of democratic innovations. The lecturers are experienced researchers in the fields of political representation and democratic innovations and all course of the summer school follow a student-centred approach.
Advanced Master students and PhD students from all across Europe and the world.
The registration fee only amounts to EUR 50 and covers accommodation, meals, coffee breaks, and all teaching activities in Brussels from Monday (21 August) till Friday (25 August).
Applicants should send a letter of motivation and their CV to min.reuchamps@uclouvain.be no later than 1 April 2017.
For more information please read the official call.
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