• Staff will give some key-note lectures and workshops dealing with most recent developments in the field of education policy analysis
• Papers will be made available in advance in EUDORA portal in order to allow vivid and in-depth discussion
• Students will get opportunity to present their recent research work in workshops. They are encouraged to address specific questions concerning their research and development work.
• Workshops may be conceived as learning situations (and not as lectures). Therefore, active work and co-operation in a non-competitive learning environment should be addressed.
• Students and staff will form “Special Interest Groups” in order to discuss particular “hot issues” of education policy analysis.
• Participants will find opportunity to establish a “Community of Practice”. Their publishing of their research papers in the Future College Electronic Publication Series (a refereed journal) may be seen as one important issue in this development.
• Staff will be available to give special supervision to students for particular issues of their research work.
• The programme will be structured into thematic units chaired by “chairs of the day” with their high level competence in the respective academic field.

Students as well as staff are expected to submit abstracts and draft versions of their research papers in advance. Participants are then expected to study these contributions carefully prior to the Intensive Programme so that substantial discussions will become a reality. 

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Intensive Programme “BIP” will bring together professors and students from about 10 European Universities aiming at discussing most recent developments in the field of “European Education” at a “state of the art – level” in order to improve both critical analysis and constructive competence.

The working days within this intensive programme may be described as follows:

• Four slots a day, each representing a workload of 1.5 hours

• At least one additional slot, also representing a workload of 1.5 hours for the work in “special interest groups” or individual counselling of research and development work of students

The workshops should offer profound discussion of the different presentation for lecturers and students. Furthermore each participating student will have the opportunity to publish his/her presentation.

Guiding principles of an educational-didactic approach are:

• Constructivist learning theories

• Collaborative problem-solving and

• Active learning within multinational learning and problem-solving groups

Up to 7.5 EC points may be awarded to the student for the participation, presentation and its publication

Dates and Place of this IP

The intensive programme will take place in beautiful Jurmela, Latvia from Sunday, 20th August – Friday, 1st September 06

Please take care of your flight arrangements yourselves and choose the most reasonable means of transportation. € 400,-- is guaranteed for travel costs. If you need more than that, please contact the coordinating institution. A lump sum is also guaranteed for accommodation and subsistence. The IP will be held at the Hotel Lielupe in Jurmela. You will receive more information on the hotel and financial issues after the 15th May.