About the project
The Centre for European Studies (CES) at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in collaboration with ARENA, offers a new graduate research track within the MA in European Studies programme: Central and Eastern European Studies: Research Track.
ARENA researchers contribute to teaching in the regular courses in Kraków as well as the winter school for graduate students and PhD candidates in February 2015 and a summer school in June/July 2015.
Objectives
Analyses of educational needs and the labor market situation shows an increasing demand for degree programmes combining research and didactics as well as offering a cooperation between science and business. In response to these needs, the project is aimed at improving the educational potential of the partners' institutes through the creation of the graduate research track within an MA programme in European Studies in Kraków: Central and Eastern European Studies: Research Track.
The specialization is a response to the need for professionals who will use the knowledge acquired during their studies in the most efficient way. The specialization is a innovative combination of theory and practical set of skills. Courses will be lead by academic specialists as well as experts from the private and public sectors. It will allow the students to learn about the mechanism of how the scientific research can be transferred into actions conducive to the development of economy, society and democracy which they will then be able to implement during their internship in NGOs, public or private institutions and companies. The result will be to educate top experts in the field, conscious of their role and responsibilities of researchers, who will strengthen the future, public-private partnership.
Previous events
Summer School: Democracy, expertise and power
Time and place: June 15, 2015 – June 24, 2015, Kraków, Poland
How can democracy be built and sustained in Europe? How do we exert power in a global context? What is the role of Europe in new power relations? A Summer School on these topics will be organised in Kraków in June 2015.
Student at the 2015 Winter School in Krakow (photo: Robert Nartowski/Jagiellonian University)
The Summer School 'Democracy, expertise and power: making a new Europe in the era of globalisation' will be held for postgraduate students in Kraków in June 2015 as part of the project Research and Expertise in Society.
Across Europe, the economic, political, social and cultural spheres are undergoing unrestrained globalisation, and within each of these spheres it leads to varied consequences. Developing economies, circulation of goods, services, information and knowledge, diversity, transnational political networks, global social movements, and global civil society – these are only a few examples of the positive effects of globalisation brought by its supporters. On the other hand, globalisation presents a number of challenges such as fiscal austerity, liberalizing capital markets, increasing social inequalities both between the global North and global South and within countries, loss of cultural uniqueness, and human rights violations.
The composite reality of a globalised economy, politics, and culture also has effects on the democracy and the concept of power although there is little consensus what these effects are. This complex relation between globalisation, democracy and power will be discussed during the summer school. These key concepts will be analysed through the prism of politics, economy and culture:
- How can "democracy" be built and sustained in Europe?
- Are we witnessing the rise of newly emerging powers?
- How do we join the global power structures?
- How do we exert power in a global context?
- What is the role of Europe in new power relations?
- Students will be entitled to 5 ECTS credits upon successful completion of the programme.
Winter School: Democracy, expertise and power
Time and place: Feb. 7, 2015 – Feb. 15, 2015, Kraków, Poland
Who is an expert? What is knowledge? How can we reconcile expertise with various types of democracy? A Winter School on these topics for postgraduate students will be organised in Kraków in February 2015.
The historic royal Wawel castle in Kraków, where the 2015 Winter School will take place (photo: Colourbox.com)
The Winter School 'Democracy, expertise and power: the role of experts in modern European societies' takes as its point of departure the increasing role of experts and expertise in democracies.
Who is an expert? What is knowledge? How can we reconcile expertise with various types of democracy? What is the role of academia in contemporary society and what are the implications of public-private partnership? What is the role of mass/social media in developing social movements and democracy?
Students will be entitled to 5 ECTS credits upon successful completion of the programme.
ARENA contributors to the Winter School are Hans-Jörg Trenz, Åse Gornitzka and Cathrine Holst.
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