HESP Summer Schools Program
Oleksandr Shtokvych, Program Manager
Open Society Institute, HESP
P.O. Box 519, H-1397 Budapest, Hungary
Tel: (36 1) 327 3862, Fax: (36 1) 327 3864
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS- OSI HESP Summer Schools Program 2002
The Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of the Open Society Institute
(OSI) invites proposals for the HESP Summer Schools Program 2002
PROGRAM OUTLINE
The Higher Education Support Program promotes the advancement of higher
education within the humanities and social sciences, throughout the region
of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and
Mongolia. HESP supports both institutions and regional and international
initiatives.
The Summer Schools Program is one of HESP supported programs that promote
change in higher education at the classroom level. The goal of the Summer
Schools is to provide young university teachers with the experience and
tools for updating the courses they teach, both in terms of content and
teaching methods. The schools provide teaching materials, practice and
support that will enable the participants to utilize and share this
experience at their home university departments. By targeting university
teachers in their home regions, often in their own language, the Program
encourages the widest access to new ideas.
Approximately forty grants will be awarded for Summer Schools to be held in
June-September 2002 throughout the region. Each School will invite between
25-30 junior academics for 2-4 weeks to participate in a number of courses
taught by international teams of resource persons and engage in a variety of
curriculum and teaching methodology development activities. The Schools are
organized by Course Directors, who work closely with the host institutions
and teams of resource persons on designing and managing the schools'
contents, program, materials and follow-up activities.
PROGRAM PRIORITIES
In line with HESP priorities, the Summer Schools Program supports projects
targeting junior university teachers in the broad area of Social Sciences
and Humanities. HESP supports schools that are held in Central, Eastern and
Southeastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Mongolia and focus on
developing, training in and dissemination of innovative teaching
methodologies promoting interactive cooperative learning, discussion and
development of critical thinking.
GOALS OF THE SUMMER SCHOOLS
- The Summer Schools present courses that can serve as examples of
contents
(subject matter, comprehensive treatment of the topic, representation of
various schools of thought, combination of theoretical and practice-oriented
materials, including fundamental literature and current publications) of
teaching in social sciences and the humanities. By presenting and analyzing
the contents of the taught courses, the schools also aim to aid curriculum
and course development;
- The Schools demonstrate effective and innovative methods and techniques
of teaching (variety of methods of class work, use of interactive methods
promoting open critical discussion and stimulating independent learning) and
working models of collaborative approach to teaching through team-teaching,
"teaching shadowing", use of teaching assistants, other forms of cooperation
between experienced and junior academics;
- The Summer Schools Program seeks to facilitate the creation of a network
of academics of various levels from different countries of the region and
abroad by stimulating a variety of joint activities in curriculum,
methodology and materials development during and after the school. Schools
bring together international groups of participants from a variety of
cultural backgrounds and academic systems. They are intended as creative
group projects, in which each participant has a value that contributes to
the success of the School. Participants are addressed as university
teachers, not students, which facilitates the dialogue and fosters peer
relationship between the junior and experienced academics;
- The program aspires to provide the participants with the experience and
tools relevant and applicable to their teaching and encourages them to share
this experience and tools with the colleagues at their home departments.
FUNDING
Schools are organized on a matching-funding basis, with HESP covering not
more than 50% of the overall costs of the program. The applicants are
expected to submit applications for funding to several sources
simultaneously with submitting the application to HESP.
APPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCESS
Detailed Guide for Applicants, containing program, organizational, budgeting
and application guidelines for Course Directors is available in printed and
electronic format from the HESP Summer Schools Program office, national
Soros Foundation offices and the OSI web site: www.osi.hu/hesp. Proposals
for funding the Summer Schools projects that respond to the goals and
priorities of the HESP Summer Schools Program must be submitted to HESP at
the address below by 28 September 2001. Prospective course directors are
encouraged to contact the HESP Summer Schools Program office as early as
possible with advance notice of the proposal and for additional information
for applicants. An international academic selection committee will review
received proposals and make preliminary selection and recommendations to
Course Directors in early November 2001. Final decisions on HESP funding for
Summer Schools of 2002 will be made and announced to the applicants in
mid-December 2001.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For full details, and application forms please contact national Soros
Foundation offices or:
HESP Summer Schools Program
Oleksandr Shtokvych, Program Manager
Open Society Institute, HESP
P.O. Box 519, H-1397 Budapest, Hungary
Tel: (36 1) 327 3862, Fax: (36 1) 327 3864
Email: [log in to unmask]
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