Intensive Programme - the IP

At the end of their first year, all Euroculture students from all partner universities meet with Euroculture faculty and European experts during a seven-day summer school, which we call the Intensive Programme - the IP.

In preparing for the IP, Euroculture students have to write a research paper related to the annual IP-theme. During the IP, the Euroculture students present their papers and comment on the papers of their fellow students. Group work, public lectures, excursions, workshops, and seminars form further important parts of the IP. Socialising and networking are also key components of the IP.

The best IP papers are published in an annual publication. These publications can be found at the bottom of this page. The Career Day has become an established and integral part of the IP. During this event, former students and external experts are introduced to current Euroculture students in order to help students better prepare for their professional orientation and job search after graduation.

The IP has three main objectives:

• To sum up and reflect on the content and methodologies taught during the first and second semesters, in a problem-oriented platform.

• To meet and interact with other Euroculture consortium students and staff during a a seven-day intensive course.

• To pave the way for the third and fourth semester, which are filled with methodological, competence-based, and research-intensive modules.

Current IP Topic:

• 2024/2026: Overcoming Borders in Europe and Beyond (University of Udine)

Past IP Topics:

• 2023/2025: Dissonant Heritage and European Citizenship (Université de Strasbourg)

• 2022/2024: No Europe for the Young? (Palacky University Olomouc)

• 2021/2023: Dissonant Democracy: Utopias, Dystopias and Backsliding in Democratic Processes (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

• 2020/2022: Religions of Europe: Dynamics of Secularity, Moral and Ethical Discontents (Upppsala University, Sweden)

• 2019/2021: A sustainable Europe? Society, Politics, and Culture in the Anthropocene (Deusto University, Bilbao, Palacky University Olomouc)

• 2018/2020: Inequality and Solidarity (Georg-August University of Göttingen, Palacky University Olomouc)

• 2017/2019: Where is Europe? (University of Groningen, Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

• 2016/2018: Visions of Europe (University of Strasbourg, Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

• 2015/2017: Ideals and Ambiguities of Human Rights in Past and Present (University of Udine, Palacky University Olomouc)

• 2014/2016: Uses and Abuses of the Past (Palacký University Olomouc)

• 2013/2015: European Environments: How a New Climate is Changing the Old World (Uppsala University, Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

• 2012/2014: Resistance, Resilience & Adaptation: Understanding a Changing Europe (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

• 2011/2013: Cultural Citizenship and European Identity: Envisaging Challenge (Deusto University, Bilbao)

• 2010/2011: Europe: Space for Transcultural Existence? (University of Göttingen)

• 2009/2010: Europe between Europeanisation and Globalisation (University of Groningen)

• 2008/2009: Unity and Variety in the Perception of European Cultures (Palacký University Olomouc)

• 2007/2008: European Heritages and Collective Memories (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

• 2006/2007: Difference or Discrimination? The Challenges of a Multicultural Europe (Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg)

• 2005/2006: Space and Power in Europe: Culture, Communication, and the Politics of Identity (Deusto University, Bilbao)

• 2004/2005: Borders in an Enlarged EU: Bridges or Barriers? (University of Udine)

• 2003/2004: Images of Europe (University of Ghent)

• 2002/2003: European Transformations – Transformation of Europe (University of Göttingen)

• 2001/2002: Regionalism and Nationalism in an Integrating Europe (University of Uppsala)

• 2000/2001: Cultural Constructions of Europe: European Identities in the 21st Century (University of Groningen)

• 1999/2000: The Cultural Impact of Migration in Europe (University of Uppsala)

Publications of Past Intensive Programme Papers:

IP 2010, organized by the University of Groningen: Walking the Tightrope: Europe Between Europeanisation and Globalisation: Selected Papers Presented at the Euroculture Intensive Programme 2010. Euroculture Consortium. 

IP 2011, organized by the University of Göttingen: Europeans in-Between: Identities in a (Trans-)Cultural Space: Selected Texts Presented at the Euroculture Intensive Programme 2011. Euroculture Consortium. 

IP 2012, organized by the University of Deusto: Rethinking Citizenship: New Voices in Euroculture: Selected Texts Presented at the Euroculture Programme 2012. Euroculture Consortium. 

IP 2014, organized by the University of Uppsala: European Environments: How a new Climate is Changing the Old World: Selected Texts Presented at the Euroculture Intensive Programme 2014. Euroculture Consortium. 

IP 2018, organized by the University of Groningen: Where is Europe?: Respacing, Replacing, and Reordering Europe: Selected Texts Presented at the Euroculture Intensive Programme 2018. Euroculture Consortium. 

IP 2019, organized by the University of Göttingen: Inequality and Solidarity: Selected Texts Presented at the Euroculture Intensive Programme 2019. Euroculture Consortium.