TELSP 2024 - Toruń Economic and Legal Summer Program

The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, are pleased to welcome applications for the 4th edition of the TELSP program. TELSP is an opportunity for students to lead a 4-week-long summer research project in one of the following areas:

• management
• economics
• business and administration
• finance
• accounting
• logistics
• communication and psychology in business
• comparative constitutional law
• medical law
• insurance law
• human rights and bioethics
• tax law
• new technologies and their impact on criminal procedure
• international and EU public and private law

Program

The main component of the summer program is an active participation in the selected research project offered by the staff members of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, please see the topics and their descriptions here. Interested students are welcome to contact possible advisors for more details concerning the foreseen projects and discuss the dates that the project could be undertaken. The NCU students can join to each project.

See the list of topics and advisors.

Apart from the projects, once a week we will organize an invited lecture and a lunch or dinner for the entire group. We will also offer short trips / sightseeing in the Toruń area on selected weekends. All students will be asked to give 15-minute presentations about the results of their projects at the end of their stay in Toruń.

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Application

We kindly ask all interested students to provide us with the following information in English or Polish:

1. Application form; (closed)
2. Curriculum Vitae (max. 4 pages);
3. Motivation letter (max. 1 page) containing the title(s) of the project(s) they would like to contribute to
4. Consent to personal data processing.
5. Optional: letter of recommendation, e.g. from their scientific advisor, staff member from their institute, former internship advisor, etc.
6. Proof of student status.

Complete applications should be send to telsp [at] umk.pl before the deadline of March 8th, 2024, 14:00 CET. The results of the selection procedure will be announced on the 25th of March 8th of April, 2024. (See results.)

Please note that we cannot reimburse your travel expenses to Toruń / Bydgoszcz. See the official regulations for the Toruń Students Summer Programs:

• Rules of the Call Excellence Initiative – Toruń Students Summer Programs – TSSP of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (and annex)
  
  
• Regulamin Konkursu Inicjatywy Doskonałości - Toruńskie Programy Letnie dla Studentów - Toruń Students Summer Programs - TSSP Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika (in Polish; załącznik)
  
  

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Housing

For each participant, we will offer the student housing in Toruń and a daily allowance of 70 PLN (~15 euro), which is sufficient to cover the living costs during the stay in Poland.

Students will be offered single occupancy rooms in the dormitories of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

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Contact

We encourage prospective summer students to send questions about the science projects directly to the advisors, whose emails are listed below each project description. Questions that are not related to the specific projects can be sent to the school organizers: telsp [at] umk.pl.

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