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The Visegrad Summer School is a two-week educational programme organised by The Villa Decius Association, which provides an interdisciplinary learning space for young Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak students, and for their peers from other Central and Eastern European countries.

The programme consists of lectures, panel debates and seminars on issues and challenges relevant to the Visegrad Group region, the European Union and the CEE countries. The topics cover current social, economic, political and cultural issues, such as global poverty, financial crisis, energy security, social responsibility of the media sector as well as European and national cultural identity and heritage.

As former editions have shown the Visegrad Summer School is an unique forum to build relations of acceptance, friendship and cooperation between young people, who will form political, cultural and economic elites of their countries in the near future.

Organisers provide educational programme and materials, special events, accommodation and board and local transportation in Cracow. Participants cover only travel costs to and from Cracow, their own insurance and the registration fee of 50 Euro.

The deadline for submitting applications is March 31st, 2009.

For detailed information please visit the Villa Decius website: www.villadecius.eu

This post is also available on the Warsaw blog.

Written by Tamás Kéry

One of my friends told me to go. „Okay than we should go” – I said. On the homepage of the collage an EU negotiation simulation training was announced by an organization called Negotiation Moot and I thought it’s going to be interesting and on the other hand I will meet new people and see how „Yrope” is working in the real life.

A few days ago Eurofound published a resume of 2nd European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS).

This survey highlights the social and economic policy challenges that the European Union faces today following the two recent rounds of enlargement.
The final result and the statistics were made on the basis of both objective and subjective elements and it makes the impression that we Hungarians are the champions of pessimism in Europe.

Today media is often called as the 4th arm of power.
It’s always present in our everyday life and admittedly
has an influential power on us

- just think of the thousands of children left in front of the TV every day.
In advertisements the society is often visualised by patterns,
some say the world shown in advertisements is similar to reality.
On the other hand there are many being on the opposite opinion.