PROLEARN Academy announces the 6th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning. The summer school aims to encourage participants to adopt a critical stance in thinking about the role of technologies in providing opportunities for learners and the potential of these opportunities in terms of learning. Work will centre on three research “Grand Challenges”:
- Connecting learners
- Orchestrating learning
- Contextualising learning environments.

Organizers offer 40 PhD scholarships to cover summer school accommodation, catering and events.

The 5th edition of the Barcelona Summer School in International Politics will take place at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). The objective is to offer different short courses on significant topics in international relations and international political economy, taught by experts of international prestige. The school is aimed at graduate students, professors and researchers in the areas of political science, economics, and international relations and international studies who are interested in learning first-hand about the latest advances in research.

COURSES:

* Development and Democracy in Today's World
* The World Economy and International Politics
* Globalization and Society
* The Political Economy of Development
* Explaining Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars

The European Science Foundation (ESF) TransEurope Programme organizes the summer workshop aimet at bring together young European researchers to share and discuss research results together with experienced researchers. The workshop welcomes all contributions that empirically deal with Social Sciences News March 2010 5 different aspects in the development of life course patterns in a globalizing Europe. Contributions to the workshop may be either country-specific or comparative in focus. Papers should primarily be based on quantitative data analyses of most recent available data sets, but qualitative studies of relevant target groups may be also welcome.

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European University invites young scholars from wide variety of disciplines to present in one of three panels: “Space for Time/Time for Space”; “The State, Citizenship, and Transnational Flows”; “Measure for Measure: Knowledge, Culture, and the Third Wave Marketization.” The organizers welcome both empirical and theoretical papers dealing with these topics. Given the theme of the conference, papers demonstrating epistemological awareness and transparency are especially encouraged.

The International Research Center "Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History" at the Humboldt-University Berlin invites scholars to apply for 10 International Research Fellowships (5 stipends for senior scholars and 5 stipends for postdoctoral candidates) for the 2010–2011 academic year as well as for future academic years. The candidates especially from the disciplines of history, anthropology, law, sociology, political science, and area studies are welcome. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level or senior scholars. Postdoctoral candidates should have received their doctorate within the last five years. Proposed projects should employ a historical and transregional perspective. The project should focus not only on work/ labor, but on life-cycle as well. We particularly welcome proposals with an emphasis placed on Europe, Africa, and Asia and those that look at the entanglements between these regions.

The Faculty of Political Sciences in Cluj-Napoca is inviting, academics, PhD students, professionals and researchers to submit research papers and studies as well as book reviews to its journal Studia Politica. The forthcoming issue welcomes papers on all topics that include: democratization, voting behavior, urban studies, migration, youth studies, political parties, comparative politics, European studies, international relations, cultural studies. Comparative papers are especially encouraged.

The Center for Public Policy (CPVP) in cooperation with the Institute for European and National Strategies (InStrategy) invites applications for the Summer School “Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe”, a one week program for undergraduate and postgraduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds (political science, sociology, media studies, anthropology and cultural studies, behavioural sciences, gender studies) from all parts of the world. The Summer School 2010 aims at drawing closer attention to the cultural dimensions of political institutions and processes in Europe (e.g. policy making, political communication, migration and citizenship in the EU). It is aimed at providing students with the knowledge and analytical skills in the area of cultural analysis of political events, processes and institutions.

The Aleksanteri Institute in cooperation with the Södertörn University/BEEGS, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)/ Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies announces the summer school aimed at doctoral students researching topics related to civil society, with a focus on post-socialist states and/or the Baltic Sea area. Twenty-five students will be selected to participate. The course focuses on the civil societies around the Baltic Sea, paying particular attention to the post-socialist states, especially Russia. The constitution of the course is multidisciplinary, incorporating political science, sociology, history and gender studies to illuminate the complexities of the subject.

Čeští studenti/ky zajímající se o studium ve Spojených státech budou mít jedinečnou příležitost konzultovat své plány s více než padesáti zástupci/kyněmi amerických vysokých škol a dalších vzdělávacích organizací na největším Veletrhu studia v Americe v historii České republiky. U.S. Higher Education Fair se koná v úterý 22. března od 17:00 do 19:30 v hotelu Marriott v Praze při příležitosti evropské konference oficiální informační sítě EducationUSA.
Kontaktní osoba: Jakub Tesař, telefon: 222 718 452, 774 404 081, e-mail: tesar@fulbright.cz

The Vienna University of Technology offers a three year programme for up to 15 national and international students interested in taking part in one of the five main research areas of the Faculty of Informatics:
- Business Informatics
- Computational Intelligence
- Computer Engineering
- Distributed and Parallel Systems
- Media Informatics and Visual Computing

Scholarship amounts to EUR 1.000 per month, to cover the cost of living.