"The Central European Seminar is a joint PhD seminar held by major Central European universities, from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, bringing together their best students during an intensive work-meeting every year. A number of the leading specialists of the region in social sciences (e.g. history, sociology, political science, demography etc...) present lectures and offer guidance to the PhD candidates of the region. The PhD candidates thus share common learning and experiences at a decisive moment of their formation. The Central European Seminar consequently not only favours international dialogue and multidisciplinary debate, but is equally an occasion to create a network of cutting-edge young researchers, meeting formally as well as informally, and capable of exchanging information and reflections in relation to their academic life."