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The Summer University of the Institute of Federalism

The Summer University of the Institute of Federalism
is an annual three week course on the topic of
"Federalism, Decentralisation and Diversity".
The Summer University is organised around three major
modules. The first week addresses in a theoretical
approach the major challenges that federalism and
decentralisation face in multicultural societies. The
second week addresses various institutional aspects of
nation-state and supranational forms of federalism,
including the European Union. The third week focuses
on some of the major issues discussed in the first or
second week. While in the first two weeks the work
runs through interactive classes and workshops, in the
third week the professors guide students' work in
groups on given cases and the results are discussed in
plenum.
In 2004 over 51 participants from 35 countries
attended the Summer University, including Ph.D.
students, civil servants, constitutional advisors and
a member of parliament. The members of the Summer
University's faculty are internationally known
scholars of law, political science, sociology and
economy with expertise in the issues of post-modern
challenges to nation-state and democracy, federalism,
decentralisation and multiculturalism.
The seventeenth session, with the theme of
"Federalism, Constitutionalism and Conflict
Transformation in Multicultural Societies", will be
held from 29 August to 16 September 2005.
www.federalism.ch

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