OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2010. On January 15th-17th the winter seminar of the interdisciplinary student project Baltic Practice will be held in Suzdal.

Baltic Practice began in 2001 as a small summer school, but it grew into a large interdisciplinary project in which students, graduate students and professors from the HSE and other universities conduct research in the field of EU-Russia relations.

The aim of the winter seminars, which have been conducted for 6 years now, is strategic planning for the summer session - from defining the main focus of the project and the specific areas of research, to clarify the tasks of the new Student Organizing Committee-2010, as well as the place and key partners for summer session.

Information on departure:

January 15th, by pre-ordered bus from the metro station Shosse Entuziastov (yellow line) at 17.00. Coordinator Phone: 8-903-558-33-58 (Shabanova Maria).

Do not forget to register and book a room:

    * E-mail: summerbaltika@gmail.com,

    * Phone 8-903-558-33-58 (Shabanova Maria).

Return from Suzdal: Sunday, 17th of January, at 15.00.

For those traveling on their own: Moscow-Suzdal buses depart from Schelkovo bus station. You can take the "commercial" bus to Ivanovo, they depart every half an hour (a separate ticket kiosk to purchase tickets: 20 meters directly from the exit of the subway, out of the first carriage to the left, moving right).

There are buses going from the bus station on schedule, and they have pre-sale tickets. The current schedule can be viewed on the site of MosTransAvto (http://www.mostransavto.ru/index.php?page=avshelk)

Bus station in the town of Suzdal is located outside the city, but the city center can be reached by bus or taxi. If the weather is good, you can take a walk - it is about 3 km.

Accommodation

Hotel Rizopolozhenskaya.

    * Address: Suzdal, st. Lenin, Municipal Town, 9;

    * Phones: 8 (49231) 2-07-06, and 8 (49231) 2-43-14.

What's useful to think through before the trip:

    * What issues of Russo-European cooperation are of interest to you? Can they be studied with the help of different disciplines?

Examples of working groups and topics of the last year event can be found at Baltic Practice website  (http://www.hse.ru/lingua/en/org/hse/baltika/practice_2009/research_groups) 

Prepare a presentation on the three different venues for the summer session - United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, with a little story about the peculiarities of the country, potential partners, existing contacts, the specific venue - or suggestions on this matter.