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International Summer School

COMPARATIVE RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES:
CONCEPTUAL MODELS

Organized by
UNESCO-MOST and the International Social Science Council (ISSC)

Sofia, Bulgaria, 20-30 June 2002

Background
Objectives
Lectures
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Summer School 2000

Background

The dissemination of research experience in the field of social sciences is a major task of international organizations. UNESCO-MOST and the ISSC have a special responsibility in this respect because of the focus of their activities on international comparative research. The accumulated experience has to be shared with young researchers thus facilitating capacity building in the social sciences.

Guided by this idea, the first Session of the Summer School on Comparative Research in the Social Sciences was held in Sofia in June 2000. For this Session, 34 students from 24 countries were selected out of 147 applicants. The Session was evaluated very positively by the participants and the organizing institutions.

Objectives of the Summer School

  • To discuss achievements and problems of comparative research in the social sciences;
  • To present comparative projects of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme;
  • To present comparative research programmes of the ISSC;
  • To offer the opportunity to young scholars to present their own research projects;
  • To facilitate the debate between young scholars, their peers and prominent scholars;
  • To facilitate the professional contacts between young scholars from various countries and regions.

Lectures and Seminars offered
  • Conceptual models for comparative study of global trends and societal transformations;
  • Conceptual models for comparative study on supranational integration;
  • Conceptual models for comparative research on poverty;
  • Conceptual models for comparative regional studies.

Æ See also: Programme, evaluation and list of participants (PDF file)

Local Organizer:

Professor Nikolai Genov
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
13A, Moskovska Str., 1000 Sofia,
BULGARIA
Tel/Fax: +3592-9806132
E-mail: nbgen.most.risk@datacom.bg

  

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