Aims

The project “Politics and Policy-Making at the Local Level” (POL-LOC) aims to achieve the following seven objectives:

• Initiation and establishment of a long-term cooperation between the partner universities/faculties/institutes, their students and teachers/researchers, who deal with local government and related issues;

• Preparation of innovative, strongly interdisciplinary and high quality programme for purposes of summer school that would be aimed at policy making and politics at the local level;

• Preparation of innovative, strongly interdisciplinary and high quality teaching materials that would be aimed at policy making and politics at the local level;

• Organization of annual international summer schools where university students (postgraduates as well as PhD students/candidates) and young teachers/researchers from various partner universities/faculties/institutes would take part in;

• Development of knowledge and experience of those university students and teachers/researchers who deal with local government and related issues;

• Innovation and improvement of educational processes at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia as well as the other partner universities/faculties/institutes;

• Contribution to the European studies that are centred on local government and related issues.