The summer school “Publishing in Public Health”, organised by the Berlin School of Public Health, will take place from September 4 to 11, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The summer school is part of the project “Visibility of Public Teaching and Research in South-East Europe” sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service within an initiative aiming at the academic development of SEECs.

Deadline: April 30, 2011.

The summer school will provide students with information on a wide spectrum of publishing-related aspects, such as

• citation standards;
• research quality criteria;
• systematic literature research methods and public health literature databases;
• use of English in scientific contexts;
• overcoming challenges in writing the various sections of a scientific article;
• requirements from the publisher’s perspective, authorship, the peer-review process, impact factors, etc.

The summer school seminars will be taught by experienced scientists from both German and South-east European universities.

PhD or master students from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, the FYR of Macedonia, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and the Republic of Moldova are invited to apply.

All costs will be covered for the participants.

Further information is available in the attached document.

Source: Information provided by organisers.

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