of the European Urban Research Association (EURA)

and the Standing Group on Local Government and Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)

in collaboration with the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS)

September 1st-4th, 2025, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Climate change, migration, social disparities, provision of affordable housing, and urban tourism are currently pressing global challenges. These challenges arise concretely primarily at the local level and are addressed not least through local policies. The Summer School is designed to give doctoral students the opportunity to present and discuss their work on local policies to solve or at least mitigate such global challenges. Contributions are particularly welcome that demonstrate particular local-level responses to global challenges through comparisons either within a country or between countries. Because comparisons of local policies are to be the focus of the Summer School, the doctoral students will receive methodological guidance from experienced academics. Furthermore, doctoral students will get advice from the editor of a journal how to write an academic article and to submit it successfully to an internationally respected journal.