Intensive Programme (IP) and Yearly Topic

Between the second and third Euroculture semesters an Intensive Programme (IP) takes place. It is a week long. The location of the IP rotates around the parter universities.

All students, staff members and guest professors from the universities of the Euroculture Network come together for the IP.
The students have the chance to meet and exchange experiences with their fellow students from the other universities as well as with the other staff members. Representatives from our international partner universities also attend the IP.

During the IP, all students are required to present their IP paper to a group of fellow students. Beyond the presentations, the IP also offers various possibilities to engage with the yearly topic. The Programme for the IP includes group work, public lectures, roundtable discussions, seminars as well as workshops with experts. The IP also offers the chance to participate in excursions and other shared free time activities.

Interested in finding out what an Intensive Programme looks like? Click here to get an impression of our summer schools! The publications with the best student papers of our IPs can be found here.

List of yearly topics

2024-2025:

Overcoming Borders in Europe and Beyond (Udine)

2023-2024:

“Dissonant Heritage” and its significance for the Euroculture project (Strasbourg)

2022-2023:

No Europe for the Young? (Olomouc)

2021-2022:

Dissonant Democracy: Utopias, dystopias and backsliding in democratic processes (Krakow)

2020-2021:

Religions of Europe. Dynamics of Secularity, Moral and Ethical Discontents (Uppsala)

2019-2020:

A sustainable Europe? Society, politics and culture in the Anthropocene (Bilbao)

2018-2019:

Inequality and Solidarity (Göttingen & Pune @ Olomouc)

2017-2018:

Where is Europe? Respacing, Replacing and Reordering Europe (Groningen @ Krakow)

2016-2017:

Visions of Europe (Strasbourg @ Krakow)

2015-2016:

Ideals and Ambiguities of Human Rights in Europe, Past and Present (Udine @ Olomouc)

2014-2015:

Uses and abuses of the past (Olomouc)

2013-2014:

European Environments: How a New Climate is Changing the Old World (Uppsala @ Krakow)

2012-2013:

Resistance, Resilience & Adaptation: Understanding a Changing Europe (Krakow)

2011-2012:

Cultural Citizenship and European Identity: Envisaging Challenge (Bilbao).

2010-2011:

Europe: Space for Transcultural Existence? (Göttingen)

2009-2010:

Europe between Europeanisation and Globalisation (Groningen)

2008-2009:

Unity and Variety in the Perception of European Cultures (Olomouc)

2007-2008:

European Heritages and Collective Memories (Krakow)

2006-2007:

Difference or Discrimination? The Challenges of a Multicultural Europe (Strasbourg)

2005-2006:

Space and power in Europe: Culture, Communication, and the Politics of Identity (Deusto, San Sebastian)

2004-2005:

Borders in an Enlarged EU: Bridges or Barriers? (Udine)

2003-2004:

Images of Europe (Ghent)

2002-2003:

European Transformations- Transformation of Europe (Göttingen)

2001-2002:

Regionalism and Nationalism in an Integrating Europe (Uppsala)

2000-2001:

Cultural Constructions of Europe: European Identities in the 21st Century (Groningen)

1999-2000:

The Cultural Impact of Migration in Europe (Uppsala)