Timeline

First residential phase (July 25- August 4, 2006)

Over the course of the first segment of this phase in the summer of 2006, participants have become familiar with the process and results of the transformation in Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Republics after 1989. This came about through seminars and discussions with invited lecturers.

Participants have also become familiar with the functioning of political institutions and civil society in the Czech Republic through excursions and meetings with leading officials from relevant institutions.

In the second segment of the first resident phase, lecturers helped participants to evaluate and analyze the transformation of Czech and Slovak societies. Participants also attempted to identify the main problems of social and political developments in their own countries.

In the closing phase, participants prepared projects, in which they recommended solutions to specific problems in their countries.

Project implementation phase (August 5, 2006- September 29, 2007)

Under the continuing support of project organizers, participants attempted to implement in their countries the projects that they defined at the end of the first seminar phase.