CVEK

In 2009 CVEK co-organized again V4 Summer School at the Willa Decius in Krakow. The 8th edition of the Visegrad Summer School brought a two-week educational program which provided an interdisciplinary learning space for 47 young Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak students, and for their peers from Ukraine, Romania, Russia, Kirgyzstan and Kosovo. The program consisted of lectures, panel debates and seminars on issues and challenges relevant to the Visegrad Group region, the European Union and beyond. School offered many opportunities to learn about each other and start an international co-operation between the people and the countries.

The program of the 8th edition of the Visegrad Summer School included debates on current political, cultural and social challenges in the global and European perspective, e.g. global economic crisis, Euro adoption, energy security, deficiencies of democracy, gender equality, gender sensitivity, or media development. Students applied the theoretical knowledge in practical activities. During workshops they developed political and social projects that aimed at establishing collaboration between them and their countries. Students took part in art projects as well – film and photo workshops. An important part of the cultural section were lectures on the culture – forming role of cities and a presentation of the cities competing for the title of the European Capital of Culture. On the weekend participants took part in study visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kazimierz, the former Jewish district in Krakow. They also attended artistic events to learn about the culture of Cracow and visited the ethnographical museum of the Małopolska region.

Dr. Michal Vašečka lectured on the Summer School again, in 2009 on “Europeisation of civil society“. 

Slovakia has been represented on the 8th edition of the Summer School by 10 participants:

Martina Horánska, ESF, Masaryk University, Brno
Nora Križanová, Central European University, Skalica 

Marta Latináková, Bates College, Lewiston ME 
Jarmila Mikušová,  BISLA, Bratislava
Zuzana Nemethová, FSES, Comenius University, Bratislava  
Zuzana Nováková, FSES, Comenius University, Bratislava

Ondrej Schütz, FSS, Masaryk University, Brno 

Viera Slováková, University of Economics, Bratislava 

Barbora Strapatá, University of Economics, Praha

Zuzana Tóthová, FSS, Masaryk Uversity, Brno