Last updated:
November 6th, 2007

Summer Schools

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Summer Schools
Upcoming - Past - Background

From 2006, the Summer School series has been granted financial support from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility.

Upcoming

2008, July 6-12: Space in Unified Models of Economy and Ecology Venice, Italy Coordinator: Anastasios Xepapadeas University of Crete, Greece

2009, July 5-11: Economics, Transport and Environment
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Stef Proost, Center for Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics , KULeuven, Belgium

Past

2007, July 4-10: Trade, Property Rights and Biodiversity
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Cees Withagen, Department of Economics, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2007

2006, June 25 - July 1: Computable General Equilibrium Modeling in Environmental and Resource Economics
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Christoph Böhringer, University of Heidelberg and ZEW Mannheim, Germany

2005, July 3-9: Welfare Measurement and Cost Benefit Analysis in Dynamic General Equilibrium
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Karl Gustaf Löfgren, University of Umea, Sweden

2004, July 1-7: Dynamic Models of Growth and the Environment
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Aart De Zeeuw, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

2003, September 1-6: Political Economy of the Environment
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Anthony Heyes, Royal Holloway - University of London - Department of Economics Egham Surrey, UK

2002, September 2-14: Game Theory and the Environment
Lavagna, Genoa, Italy
Coordinator: Carlo Carraro, University of Venice and FEEM, Italy
Co-organiser: Fioravante Patrone, Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and its Applications

2001, July 2-7: Economic Valuation Methods
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Bengt Kriström, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Forest Economics, Sweden

2000, July 4-8: International Dimension of Environmental Economics
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Carlo Carraro, University of Venice and FEEM, Italy

Background

In the autumn of 1991 and 1992, with the patronage of the EAERE, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti organised two one-week courses in Venice, Italy, for a small group of doctoral students in environmental and resources economics from all over Europe. In the autumn of 1995 and 1996, similar events took place at the Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, with financial support from the Dutch National Science Foundation.

In view of the success of these initiatives, EAERE decided to organise these workshops on a permanent yearly basis. For this purpose, a partnership with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Venice International University (VIU) was created. Since 2000, EAERE, FEEM and VIU have been successfully running their annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics, usually held in Venice and hosted in the VIU campus. Up until now there has been only one exception to this fortunate partnership: in 2002 the Summer School was held in Lavagna, Genoa (Italy), organised in co-operation with FEEM and the Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and its Applications (CITG).

The immediate aim of the Summer Schools is to provide advanced training to European PhD students in specialised topics relating to the field of environmental and resource economics. The topic is established by the EAERE Council and varies every year. The issues proposed generally reflect lively areas of current research and policy interest. However, the rationale for providing such training lies in the benefits which accrue from it. The benefits of advanced research training are obvious; the reasons for organising it at a European level are:

(i) no single higher education institution has the critical mass of either staff or students to organise advanced training in specialised topics, so there are clear benefits to collaboration;

(ii) given the relatively small number of PhD students in the field of environmental and resource economics in any single European country, these benefits from collaboration also arise across boundaries of nation states;

(iii) organisation at the European level also means one is able to attract the very best teachers in Europe and the US to lead the Summer School, to the obvious benefit of the students;

(iv) given the diversity of environmental problems facing different European countries and the policy responses to those problems, there are clear pedagogic benefits to students learning about these different approaches, and the Summer Schools provide first-hand experience of sharing these ideas by dialogue with students and staff from other countries;

(v) these benefits from networking with other staff and students extend beyond the period of the Summer School, and establish contacts which can be renewed later at conferences and other meetings;

(vi) these broader benefits accrue not just to the students but also the staff; they get a chance to discuss ideas with other researchers on a more sustained basis than is often offered by a conference, and also get the chance to meet some of the best young PhD students in Europe, both to learn what they are doing, perhaps spot possibilities for future collaboration, and to spot potential recruits into research/teaching posts;

(vii) more generally, the Summer Schools also serve a broader objective of training a cadre of young researchers on European issues of environmental and resource economics who may be encouraged to be more mobile in their selection of subsequent employment within Europe;

(viii) EAERE also has the more instrumental wish to build loyalty to the association of the leading new European researchers in the field of environmental and resource economics.

Only EAERE members may apply for the School.

EAERE scholarships are awarded to successful applicants that conform with the following criteria: merit and financial need.