The international Summer School “European Union’s Fundamental Values in Times of Crisis” will be held at RGSL from 4 to 12 August 2025.
The summer school is organised as a study course consisting of lectures, seminar sessions, and study visits. The final session of the course is a debate, bringing together scholars and policymakers to offer a platform for discussing current challenges.
The topics include:
• Protecting Fundamental Rights in the Age of AI
• Response of the EU External Action on crises outside the EU borders
• EU and the rule of law: crisis or controversies?
• Financial crisis: types, causing factors, frequency and implications
• EU enlargement: a potential overstretch?
• Workshops on European Commission policy priorities
The participants will have study visits to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, the European Commission representation in Latvia and the Constitutional Court of Latvia.
The Summer School will conclude with a prominent panel discussion on the future of EU values, with Dr.sc.pol. Toms Rostoks, Director of the Centre for Security and Strategic Research, National Defence Academy of Latvia, Sintija Broka, PhD cand., LLM, Deputy Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, and Inguss Kalniņš, LLM, Adviser to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Latvia. The discussion will be moderated by RGSL Lecturer, PhD cand Ieva Miļūna.
Upon successful completion, participants will receive a certificate of attendance and 4 ECTS.
The summer school will be attended by 24 students from 4 countries – Latvia, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, and 6 universities – Riga Graduate School of Law, Lund University, Riga Stradins University, University of Tartu, University of Helsinki and University of Latvia.
The summer school is organised within Erasmus+ Jean Monnet academic project “EU Fundamental Values in Times of Crisis”.
Programme of the summer school is available here: