TELSP - 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 3rd 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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Schedule for 2023 edition:
- January 9th till March 5th, 2023
- submission of the research project proposals by the projects' supervisors
- March 15th, 2023
- announcement of the selected projects on the TSSP web sites
- March 20th – April 20th, 2023
- recruitment of foreign students for individual research projects
- May 17th, 2023
- announcement the list ( and reserve list) of participants
- June 1st - 18th, 2023
- recruitment of NCU students
- May - June, 2023
- formalities for foreign students
- at the beginning of July, 2023
- announcement the list (and reserve list) of participants from NCU
- July, August - mid September 2023
- implementation of Summer Programs
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Application
We kindly ask all interested students to provide us with the following information
in English or Polish:
- Application form; (closed)
- Curriculum Vitae (max. 4 pages);
- Motivation letter (max. 1 page) containing the title(s) of the project(s) they would like to contribute to
- Consent to personal data processing.
- Optional: letter of recommendation, e.g. from their scientific advisor, staff member from their institute, former internship advisor, etc.
- Proof of student status.
Complete applications should be send to
telsp [at] umk.pl before the deadline of
April 20th, 2023, 14:00 CET. The results of the selection procedure will be announced on the 17th of May, 2023.
Please note that we cannot reimburse your travel expenses to Toruń / Bydgoszcz. See the official regulations for the Toruń Students Summer Programs:
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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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