VisuALEU Summer School 2021

The VisuALEU Summer School “An.EU.Affair” will take place in Athens, Greece, between July 12 and July 16, 2021 in a hybrid format.

The Summer School is unique opportunity to develop academic skills in a great environment by connecting people from a wide range of backgrounds with the latest research, insights, and techniques from leading academics and practitioners, as well as colleagues in the field of EU studies from all over the world!

Open for Practitioners and Students of all disciplines (i.e. Sociology, Social Policy, International Relations, Human Rights, Economics, etc.), the school focuses on (a) EU Policy Analysis and (b) EU Social & Foreign Affairs.

EU Policy Analysis participants will have the opportunity to explore the prospects of policy content analysis and the use of analytics software and techniques to analyse policies with Eurostat data, while EU Social & Foreign Affairs participants will connect to the latest research and insights in EU’s policies, touching on security and strategy, social policies, local policies and governance, issues of trust and multicultural diversity.

The school’s working language is English and consists of lectures, workshops and seminars conducted by prestigious academics and practitioners aiming to bridge theory with practice and to nourish interactive dialogue.

Highlights

• Opening keynote by Maragaritis Schinas, European Commission Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life
• A session with a former MEP – name to be confirmed
• Two strands:
  • EU Policy analysis
  • EU Social & Foreign Affairs
• Hybrid format:
  • on site: 15 seats per strand (30 in total).
  • Online: 25 seats per strand (50 in total).

More information

Call for applications and preliminary programme

Application form

Apply online at https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/VisuALEU2021Summer

Contact

Preferably by email: academy@visualeu.org

Or, Ms Alki Tsakona, +30 27410 74997

Accommodation

A limited number of rooms has been reserved at the venue for summer school participants. Registered participants will be given a discount code to make their own booking. The discount code is available only for bookings made until June 12, 2021 July 5, 2021.

Venue

The school will be held at the Athens Riviera Hotel & Suites, Vouliagmeni, Attica, Greece. [website]