Scientific Programme

The Summer School is organized by the Erasmus network ICP-95-I-3074/14, co-ordinated by Prof. Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, University of Rome "La Sapienza", and by the Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, in association with the Finnish Graduate School of Psychology.

The goal of the summer school is to familiarize students with the latest theoretical, empirical and methodological developments in the study of social representations and thus help them to plan and carry out their doctoral research projects. The Summer School will also provide an opportunity for young scholars from different European universities to make contacts and initiate collaborative research. Some on-going cross-national research projects will also be discussed. The Summer school is planned to be the first step on the way toward a European Ph.D. in Social Representations and Communication.

The summer School consists of workshops, lectures, and independent work. The preliminary topics of the workshops are:

• relationships of Theory of Social Representations to other theories;
• culture and social representations;
• net strange areas in the study of social representations;
• new methods in the study of social representations
• diffusion, transmission and generation of social representations through different media: the case of advertising;
• social representations in organizational contexts;
• multi-dimensional identity and the social representations of the European Union.

The summer school is primarily intended for postgraduate students interested in theory of social representations. In special cases, advanced graduate students working on a Master's Thesis related to social representations may be accepted as students.

The venue of the summer school is the Lahti Centre of Adult Education, affiliated with the University of Helsinki. Lahti is a town of about 100,000 inhabitants, located 120 Km north of Helsinki. The participants will stay in double rooms in a hotel at a walking distance from the Adult Education Centre. The participation fee is 350 ECU (2000 FIM), which includes teaching, accommodation and meals but not travel expenses.

The application form should be mailed by May 31 to the local organizer of the Summer School:

 

 

Prof. Klaus Helkama,
Department of Social Psychology,
University of Helsinki.

The form should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae of the applicant and by a letter of reference from his or her supervisor. The scientific secretary of the Summer School is

 

Dr. Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman,
Department of Social Psychology,
University of Helsinki,
Box 4, 00014 HY, Finland,
FAX: +358-0-191 2973 (from May 8, 1995: +358-0-19122973).

 

A number of grants for participation in the Summer School are available for those students who study at a department which is part of the Erasmus network coordinated by Prof. de Rosa, University of Rome "La Sapienza", or the Nordplus network coordinated by Prof. Liebkind of the University of Helsinki.

Erasmus grants: Eligible to apply for these grants are students who already participate in the Erasmus 93/94 or 94/95 exchange mobility programme and who are currently involved in the international research programme in Social Representations in agreement with the INTENSIVE PROGRAMME section of the ICP-I-94-3074/14. Applications should be sent to:

 

 

Prof. Annamaria Silvana de Rosa,
Cattedra di Psicologia degli Attegiamenti e delle Opinioni,
Università di Roma "La Sapienza",
Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185 Roma, Italia.

 

Nordplus grants: eligible to apply for these grants are students who are associated with one of the departments in the Nordplus network coordinated by Prof. Karmela Liebkind of the Department of Social Psycology in Helsinki. Applications should be sent to:

 

 

Prof. Karmela Liebkind,
Department of Social Psychology,
University of Helsinki,
Box 4, 00014 HY, Finland