20/07/2018

WEASA – the final days

Wednesday focused on a completely new topic: free speech online and social media moderation. We met tech ethicist Matthew Stender and discussed what content should be kept off social media, and what can stay up. This is a difficult question. Participants themselves could not universally agree on what content should stay up and what should […]

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17/07/2018

WEASA – days six and seven

We hit the ground running in the second week of WEASA. On Monday, we welcomed veteran journalist Edward Lucas, who shared his immense knowledge on matters related to modern journalism, disinformation, and much more. Participants had the chance to listen to his lectures, while also taking part in an extensive Q&A session, during which they […]

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15/07/2018

WEASA – days four and five

Day four. Things are getting real. We are continuing to focus on information and disinformation. Margo Gontar from StopFake.org has visited our summer school, and we are conducting an exercise in which participants are designing their own disinformation campaigns. (We do, of course, follow up on those campaigns immediately, learning how we could fact-check the […]

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11/07/2018

WEASA – days two and three

We started off our first formal lecturing days by talking about information and disinformation. We analysed the topic both at a wide level, which allowed us to think the matter through from a philosophical and policy point of view, and through a narrower lens, which gave the chance to explore the nitty-gritty details of digital […]

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09/07/2018

WEASA – day one

WEASA has officially begun! We started with our opening ceremony, where Dr Joanna Świątkowska served as our inaugural speaker, giving participants deep insights into modern information- and cybersecurity. We didn’t just learn about modern cyber-threats: we also learned how perceptions thereof evolved over time. Once, computer scientists were the only ones thinking deeply about cyberattacks. […]

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18/06/2018

The WEASA 2018 provisional timetable is now out!

We are proud to share the provisional timetable for WEASA 2018 with you, which is available here. Please note that the lecturers and topics could still change

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18/06/2018

We have selected our WEASA 2018 participants!

We have read through all of your WEASA 2018 applications, and have selected just over 50 candidates who will be joining us in Warsaw this summer! The participants represent a huge range of countries from all across the Eastern Partnership, Western Balkans and, for the first time in WEASA history, the Visegrad Group as well. […]

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15/04/2018

WEASA applications have now closed

WEASA applications are now closed. We would like to thank everybody who applied!   We will soon be in touch with all applicants to inform them about the status of their application

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01/02/2018

WEASA 2018 call for applications

WARSAW EURO-ATLANTIC SUMMER ACADEMY   2018 Edition     CALL FOR APPLICATIONS   The College of Europe Natolin Campus, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and the Polish-American Freedom Foundation (PAFF) announce a call for applications for the sixth edition of the Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy (WEASA) which is scheduled to take […]

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30/01/2018

WEASA 2017 publication

We are happy to present WEASA 2017 publication. The articles compising the vloume have been authored by WEASA 2017 participants and present the analysis of current digital trends in the regions of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The text is avaliable here

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