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.

The law school at the University of Warwick organises a summer school which will bring together doctoral students from Law, Women’s studies, politics, sociology and anthropology (or appropriate disciplinary backgrounds) working on interdisciplinary gender and law issues in relation to development. The nucleus of the Summer School is provided by MPhil/doctoral students at SEARCWL, UZ and Warwick University.

The SoDoc meeting at the Jacobs University of Bremen is an annual consultation possibility for PhD students in Social Psychology. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity to present your ongoing PhD project and preliminary data, and to receive feedback from fellow graduate students as well as from experienced teachers. Participants will work in small groups (up to 15 students) with one of the teachers. Each group will have a certain main theme, based on the teachers’ field of expertise. You can choose which group you would like to participate in. The groups: 1. Social cognitive / Cultural Psychology (Teacher: Ulrich Kühnen), 2. Organizational Social Psychology (Steffen Giessner), 3. Acculturation, Prejudice & Intergroup Attitudes (Andreas Zick), 4. Aggression / Applied Social Psychology (Barbara Krahé).

The South East European Research Centre (SEERC) announces the organisation of the fifth South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2010) which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Having identified academic isolation as a problem that many doctoral students face today, SEERC aims to bring researchers together with the purpose of establishing collaborative links between disciplines, for testing the ground with innovative ideas and for engaging the wider academic community. The conference is open to young researchers currently undertaking doctoral study, or in the early years of their research career (up to 2 years following the award of their PhD degree).

The Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) invites students of all fields of study in political science, psychology and sociology to apply for doctoral fellowhships at the University of Mannheim's Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS). The Graduate School's special emphasis is on empirical and quantitative methods. Students profit from and take part in a vibrant research community created by the interactions of the School of Social Sciences, the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the  Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA), the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) and the Collaborative Research Centre 884. The 2010 program starts in September.

The IWM invites forty graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences to take part in the Summer School within the Institute’s research focus on “Religion & Secularism”. It will provide a forum for study and discussion with leading scholars on major questions and challenges related to the topic.

The programme consists of 4 seminars:

• Religion and Multiple Modernities
• Religion and Democracy
• The Role of Faith in Public Discourse
• God in Contemporary Debates