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Baltic Graduate School for Social Sciences and Humanities will be founded in Tallinn

On Friday, 3 October at 13.00, the rector of Tallinn University, prof. Rein Raud, the rector of the University of Latvia, prof. Marcis Auziņš, the rector of Vytautas Magnus University, prof. Zigmas Lydeka will sign an agreement to found the Baltic Graduate School for Social Sciences and the Humanities (BGS). The agreement will be signed in Tallinn University (Uus-Sadama 5, U-649).

The aim of the school is to increase co-operation between Baltic universities in the field of tertiary education, to provide PhD students with more broad-based supervision and consulting, better access to relevant research in their areas, as well as to ensure higher quality of feedback and assessment of their work. This will help to internationalise tertiary education in the Baltic area and create a network of cooperation among supervisors and PhD students.

The Baltic Graduate School is a result of co-operation between Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian universities. The author of the idea, prof. Rein Raud, justifies the foundation of the school: “Although the three Baltic states have rather different traditions and ways of thinking, we are still similar enough to enrich each other by creating a wider basis for the development of doctoral studies in the fields of the humanities and social sciences. As Tallinn University has a good experience of co-operation between the Baltic states, namely the foundation of Baltic Film and Media School, I dared to suggest our university to be the basis for this new co-operation as well.”

The new doctoral school will be inter-disciplinary, which means that it is divided into history, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, semiotics etc sections. Each section will be led by an outstanding scientist of the field and the leadership will be equally shared by the three states. The universities can participate in all sections according to their choice.

The school will be co-ordinated by the centre founded at Tallinn University.

Krista Männa
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Tallinn University
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