WEASA 2025

We are excited to announce the opening of recruitment for the Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy (WEASA) 2025! It will take place in person at the College of Europe Natolin in Warsaw from July 6 to 13, 2025. 

WEASA is an annual summer school for mid-career professionals who are genuinely interested in geopolitics, democracy, security and digital affairs. 

WEASA was founded in 2013 in partnership by: The College of Europe in Natolin, the Polish American Freedom Foundation and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. 

Amidst intense geopolitical instability and an ongoing surge of disinformation, strengthening digital resilience is more critical than ever—particularly for societies in vulnerable areas. Recognising this, the College of Europe in Natolin, in collaboration with the Polish American Freedom Foundation, has decided that WEASA 2025 will focus on empowering citizens from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine with the essential skills and knowledge to confront disinformation challenges and enhance national resilience.   

This year’s theme is: “Digital Resilience in the Age of Disinformation”. 

This year’s WEASA will cover such topics as: 

• Disinformation and an introduction to OSINT 
• Media literacy: concepts and practical exercises 
• Personal digital security: practical tools for being safe online    
• Democracy and human rights in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus 
• Emerging powers and their hybrid influence on Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus 
• The challenge of cybersecurity in the democratic process. 

Our program blends lectures, workshops, and panel discussions, offering both theoretical grounding and practical applications. Content design has been carefully adapted based on alumni feedback to better meet today’s challenges. 

 

Practical information: 

• Dates: July 6–13, 2025
• Location: College of Europe, Natolin campus, Warsaw, Poland
• Application Deadline: May 11, 2025
• Travel costs will be reimbursed up to 350 euros, and accommodation and meals during the academy are fully covered by WEASA organizers. 

 

Participants / Eligibility: 

We typically look for mid-career professionals (usually those with at least five years of professional experience), who work as policy analysts, experts, advisers, civil servants, journalists, private sector specialists and in NGOs and are interested in WEASA related topics. 

Participants must agree to the WEASA 2025 Rules of Procedure before applying to WEASA. 

In order to register, you need to register first on the first page or by clicking here.

Questions can be directed at: contact@weasa.org. 

 

Every year, WEASA carefully monitors global geopolitical developments and creates its concept note through extensive brainstorming, analysis, and lengthy consultations with its partners and alumni. Please, be aware that there is copyright protection for the content that WEASA and its Speakers.  Any attempt to solidify, multiply, copy, distribute or otherwise disseminate the content of WEASA without prior consent from WEASA or without making a clear reference of WEASA would be deemed a copyright infringement.