Summer schools

The EARA Summer Schools are excellent training contexts for young scholars interested in adolescent development. The first EARA Summer School took place in 2001. From 2008 to 2016, EARA collaborated with SRA to organize Summer Schools, and since 2017, EADP joined the summer school organization.

THE 2025 EADP-EARA-SRA SUMMER SCHOOL

In 2025, the European Association for Developmental Psychology (EADP), the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA), and the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) will again jointly organize a summer school focusing on research on adolescence. The summer school is a training ground for young scholars interested in adolescent development. The summer school brings together established researchers, recognized for their expertise and teaching abilities with doctoral students from around the globe, for several intensive days of research training. The training includes exposure to innovative and creative research, as well as workshops focusing on professional skills. Previous summer schools have given students enthusiasm to search for scientific guidance outside of the borders of their countries and the walls of their universities.

The 2025 EADP-EARA-SRA Summer School will be held in Anupriškės, Lithuania from August 21 to August 25 (just before the ECDP conference, submission deadline January 31, see: https://www.ecdp2025vilnius.eu), with arrival on August 21. The site for the school will be Tony Resort, located in a beautiful part of Lithuania – the Anupriškės Pine Forest. The summer school will be directed by Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz, Susan Branje, and Lisa Kiang. Senior Scholars participating this year will include: Simona Caravita, Charissa Cheah, Takuya Yanagida, Eva Telzer, Geertjan Overbeek and Jennifer Symonds.
We invite doctoral students in any part of the world to apply. A total of 24 students (8 per association) will be selected based on their academic records, research experience, letters of recommendation, and overall evidence of scientific aptitude and competence. Students who apply should have their doctoral research planned or underway, but not completed, so that they can benefit from the critiques given during the school. Students will have to cover their own travel costs, while accommodation from August 21st to August 25th (4 nights) and meals are paid for by the summer school. Students selected by SRA (whose travel costs are expected to be substantially higher) will be eligible for an SRA travel fellowship.

HOW DO YOU APPLY?
Prepare your application in English, and combine everything into one Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file, (labeled firstname_surname_application.docx), including:
1. Your curriculum vitae
2. A short description of your dissertation topic and progress so far (1-2 pages double spaced),
3. A recommendation letter from your supervisor.
4. You need to be a member of EARA, EADP, or SRA upon acceptance for the school. Indicate your (anticipated) membership(s) in your application letter.

Send the application, by email, to the 2025 EADP-EARA-SRA summer school committee through
EARAdolescence@gmail.com.
Applications must be received by March 31, 2025. All applications received by that date will be evaluated by members of the EADP-EARA-SRA summer school committee, with notifications emailed within around 2 months, in any case before May 31, 2025.

 

THE 2024 SUMMER SCHOOL

The 2024 EADP-EARA-SRA Summer School was held in Larnaca, Cyprus from September 21 to September 25 (just before the EARA conference). The summer school was directed by Lysanne te Brinke, Susan Branje, and Lisa Kiang. Senior Scholars participating included (in alphabetical order): Christy Buchanan, Marlis Buchmann, Charissa Cheah, Steven Eggermont, Kostas Fanti, and Berna Güroğlu.

A total of 24 students were selected based on their academic records, research experience, letters of recommendation, and overall evidence of scientific aptitude and competence. 

Here you can read the 2024 EADP-EARA-SRA summer school report

Picture from the 2024 Summer School in Cyprus

Archive

2023: EADP/EARA/SRA Summer School, Turku, Finland
2022: EADP/EARA/SRA Summer School, Dublin, Ireland
2019: EADP/EARA/SRA Summer School, Kalamata, Greece
2018: EADP/EARA/SRA Summer School, Ghent, Belgium
2017: EADP/EARA/SRA Summer School, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2015: EARA/SRA Summer School, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2014: EARA/SRA Summer School, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2013: EARA/SRA Summer School, Kent, Ohio, USA
2012: EARA-SRA Summer School, Spetses, Greece
2011: EARA-SRA Summer School, Tucson, Arizona, USA
2010: EARA/SRA Summer School, Orebro, Sweden
2009: EARA/SRA Summer School, Vancouver, Canada
2008: EARA/SRA Summer School, Torino, Italy
2006: EARA Summer School, Belek-Antalya, Turkey
2003: EARA Summer School, Marbach castle, Germany
2001: EARA Summer School, Chexbres, Switzerland