Summer school of European studies focused on discriminated Belarusian students

Details

Created on Monday, 04 September 2006 13:48

Project Manager: Vladimír Bartovic

Timeframe: completed (May-September 2006)

Executive Summary:

The project European Summer School – Summer School of European Studies for Discriminated Belorussian Students was held from 18th to 27th August 2006. Eighteen students coming from different Belorussian regions participated. The main aims of this project were to enable the persecuted Belorussian students to gain independent and unbiased information about aims, values and principles of functioning of the EU and at the same time to inform them independently and without bias about the outer view on issue of the Belorussian dictatorship, provide them with a platform for sharing and exchanging ideas with Czech political scholars focused on process of European integration, European policy making focused on Eastern policy of the EU and specially relations with Belorussia, enable the students from different opposition groups and Belorussian regions to get to know each other and together discuss the Belorussian democracy issues. Possibilities of education in the Czech Republic were presented to the students. Students took part in more than 30 hours of lectures, during which they met former dissidents and senators from the Committee on Foreign Affairs and visited Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Partners:

Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

The Czech Council on Foreign Relations

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Charles University in Prague

Donors:

 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

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