Visegrad Cooperation

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Visegrad Co-operation

• 1.ICWiP
• 2.Security in a Global World symposium series on
  security policy
• 3.DRC Summer and Winter Seminars
• 4.The 2nd Pécs Meeting of Ibero-American
  Researchers (2nd PEIR)

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1. ICWiP

• International Culture Week in Pécs
• Main organiser SIEN Foundation
• Since 1997, one of the most important and popular
  thematic student festivals in Europe

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ICWiP

• Thematic student festival
• 1. summer university
• 2. cultural festival
• Themes
• 1999 Youth culture
• 2000 EUtopia? About the future of Europe
• 2001 MEDIArt media and arts
• 2002 Gender roles
• 2003 The future of democracy
• 2004 rEUnion about the enlargement of Europe
• 2005 CO² Communicate co-operate!

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ICWiP

• Co-operation
• linking student and youth organisations
• activating NGOs
• developing the culture of co-operation
• adopting modern skills, making practical use of
  knowledge gained in the traditional educational
  systems
• meeting of cultures, getting acquainted with and
  understanding cultural differences

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ICWiP

• Visegrad co-operation - ICWiP
• V4 partners
• Erasmus Student Network Gdansk (PL)
• European Youth Co-operation Centre (PL)
• University of Nitra (SK)
• Masaryk University of Brno (CZ)
• Integrace (CZ)

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ICWiP

• ICWiP 2005
• www.icwip.hu
• Tel/fax [phone]
• E-mail icwip_at_interhouse.hu

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2. Security in a Global World

• October December 2004
• symposium series on the strategic partnership
  between NATO and the European Union, the role of
  NATO in the European security, and in shaping
  global international security policy
• special focus on the co-operation between the
  Visegrad countries in the field of security
  policy December 2004
• lecturers security experts from PL, SK, CZ and
  HU
• www.nato.interhouse.hu
• to be continued in 2005 Security in a global
  world 2.

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3. DRC Summer School and Winter Seminars

• First Regional Winter Seminar of Young Social
  Scientists
• The Future of Intergovernmental Regional
  Co-operation in the Enlarged EU
• Special focus on The Future of Visegrad
  Co-operation within the EU
• Lecturers from partner institutions in SK
  (Constantine University, Nitra), CZ (Ostrava VB
  Technical University), and HU
• www.drc.interhouse.hu

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4.The 2nd Pécs Meeting of Ibero-American
Researchers (2nd PEIR)

• parallel with the 6th Ibero-American Week in Pécs
• Old and new encounters between Europe and Latin
  America
• experts and researchers of Latin America from the
  Visegrad countries, too
• partner institutions
• Centre for Latin and Ibero American Studies
  (CEILA) of the Economic University of Bratislava
  (SK)
• The Centre for Latin-American Studies (CESLA) of
  the Warsaw University (PL)
• Charles University, Centre of Ibero-American
  Studies (CZ)

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Future

• We are currently working on several projects
  involving Visegrad countries
• We are open to partnership and co-operation with
  institutions from the V4 countries
• www.interhouse.hu
• titkarsag_at_interhouse.hu
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]