- Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University
Institute of European Studies – a unit of the
Jagiellonian University , having its roots in the creation of the Inter-Faculty Department for European Studies in 1993. It is the first University Institute in Poland committed to the study of European integration.The seat of the Institute is the Przegorzały Castle located on the top of a hill on the outskirts of the Wolski Woods, about 20 minutes from the centre of
Kraków .The JU Institute of European Studies is a partner institution of the the
Europaeum .Structure
* Centre for European Culture and Society
* Centre for European Heritage
* Centre for European Philosophy
* Centre for the EU Political System
* Department of Central European History and Culture
* Department of European History
* Department of the EU Financial System
* Central and Eastern European Studies
* European Consultation CentreThe Institute is closely connected with the JU Centre for Holocaust Studies and shares one seat with the Centre. The Centre for Holocaust Studies is the only university institution in
Kraków committed to the study of theHolocaust . Before the Centre was established, Holocaust Studies Department was a part of the Institute of European Studies.The Centre cooperates with main Holocaust Studies institutions in the world, including
Yad Vashem and theAuschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . International Summer School "Teaching the Holocaust" is organised in cooperation with theAmerican Jewish University .Study programmes
The Institute conducts a wide range of study programmes in Polish and in English, including MA programmes in European Studies, European Governance, Euroculture or Economy, State and Society, many of them organised in cooperation with foreign partner institutions.
Press
* Forum Europejskie ["The European Forum"]
* Problemy Współczesnego Prawa Międzynarodowego, Europejskiego i Porównawczego ["The Problems of Contemporary International, European and Comparative Law"]Research Projects
*RECON – Reconstituting Democracy in Europe
*Why should we teach about the Holocaust?
*La place, un patrymoine européen
*European Curriculum for Children of Migrant Workers
*Website Guide to Tolerance Education [http://tolerance.research.uj.edu.pl]
*Migracja wahadłowa a procesy europeizacji i konstruowania tożsamości europejskiej
*Nauczanie o Holokauście – Szkoła Letnia dla Nauczycieli
*Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses and ScholarshipsCompleted research projects include: Multicultural Europe, Socrates-Comenius NIKE, Transnational identities – cities unbound – migrations redefined.Main research tasks of the Centre for Holocaust Studies are: studies in post-Holocaust symbolic representations; mutated memories of Holocaust as a social process; studies in Holocaust tourism and pilgrimages; sociology of murderers, bystanders, helpers and collaborators; Holocaust museums studies; legal dimension of the Holocaust exterminations .
See also
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European Studies
*Jagiellonian University
*Kraków External links
* [http://www.europeistyka.uj.edu.pl/main.php?lang_id=2 Institute’s website]
* [http://www.ces.uj.edu.pl/ Centre for European Studies]
* [http://www.imess.eu/ IMESS Programme]
* [http://www.euroculture.europeistyka.uj.edu.pl/ Euroculture Programme]
* [http://www.unimaas.nl/default.asp?template=werkveld.htm&id=52GTR1M155M62HSQ0WWT&taal=en IMPREST Programme]
* [http://www.eurocourses.europeistyka.uj.edu.pl/index_EN.html EuroCourses]
* [http://www.kne-uj.eu Students’ Academic Circle]
* [http://miejsce.info/m/pl/745f1deb477b588b80c924bea0b7907d?type=1 Institute’s Location]
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