Un bel exemple de coopération inter-universitaire européenne auquel le LEPS a fortement contribué est le Doctorat Européen sur les Représentations Sociales et la Communication (European Phd on Social Representations and Communication), mis au point par Annamaria De Rosa (Université La Sapienza, Rome), à partir de 1992. Sous le patronage de la section "Joint Curriculum Development" du programme Erasmus et dans le cadre d'un programme de coopération Socrates de l'Université La Sapienza de Rome, ce Doctorat européen est constitué d'un réseau de treize universités européennes sur la base, pour l'essentiel, des équipes de chercheurs participant aux activités du LEPS. Dans ce cadre se sont tenus de 1995 à 2004, dix écoles d'été, dirigées par la Professeure Annamaria De Rosa. Dorénavant, les écoles d'été sont remplacées par des "International Lab Meetings Series". Ce doctorat européen dispose désormais, de par la qualité de sa formation académique et son orientation européenne, du support financier du prestigieux programme Marie Curie.

  International Lab Meetings Series (2005-2008)

(next meeting: 28 august - 06 september 2006)

The European PhD International Lab Meetings, successor to the decade of International Summer Schools, provides an important opportunity for young researchers to obtain advanced academic and technical skills needed to conduct state-of-the-art research. Twelve ten days-long courses are organised around the theme of Social Representations in Action and Construction in Media and Society and focus on advanced practical training for 25 participants. The first two events each year integrate virtual and face-to-face sessions, aimed at training doctoral students in meta-theoretical analysis of the literature. The following one is face-to-face intensive training courses requiring the physical mobility of participants and open to long-term dissemination via web. These events share common objectives and have a didactic structure with multiple training opportunities for critical analysis of the link between multi-media communication systems and social representations. The methods, techniques, software packages and related method theory guiding applications in research design, will provide the unifying theme for each event of the proposed advanced courses. The topics developed in the participants' research projects presented and discussed during the workshops will provide a variety of societal issues mediated and constructed via traditional and new media. The program's originality is in its training methods, integrating face-to-face interaction (workshops, lectures, presentations) with mediated virtual interaction (Internet forum discussion, web-videoconferencing, streaming videos). Key lectures expand the horizon to other communication fields (semiotics, linguistics, sociology, mass communications, media studies etc.). The phenomena we cover (information society, new socialization and communication strategies and applications for politics, health, the environment, social minorities, gender, etc.) are clearly relevant to EU policy.

  Liste des écoles d'été (1995-2004)