Naxos Summer School will include both theoretical classes and field exercises during morning and afternoon. Naxos Summer School is an introduction to main principles of theory and practice for students in the fields of human-geography, cultural management, entrepreneurship, local development etc. The subject of Naxos Summer School varies yearly and aiming to assist and introduce the students of the Department of Geography in the fields of European and Greek regional economy. In particular, completing Naxos Summer School students will be able to:

• understand the main principles and content of the human-geography topics
• learn the new tools, techniques and methods in the human-geography

Naxos Summer School is included as academic module in the curriculum of the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean

(http://www.geo.aegean.gr/updates/files/[news][983cc8e9bd02ae5].pdf).

Naxos Summer School is addressed to undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD candidates, as well as researchers and post-doctoral students. The number of eligible students will be selected under the designated selection process by the Steering Committee. The language of seminars will be Greek.

During the last 14 years the Naxos Summer School has successfully taken place in Paros (2003-2011) and Naxos (2011-2017) islands focusing on the topics of Economic Geography, Regional science and Spatial Economics, which are considered to be among the most important and influential topics of today’s scientific theory and research.

Naxos Summer School will focus on Issues of Local Development, as a pillar towards sustainable island development, especially within the today’s current international economic crisis framework. The Naxos Summer school will cover topics, such as:

• Cultural Management
• Education, Life Long Learning and Local Development
• Education
• Life Long Learning
• Local Development: Current Issues of Theory, Applications and Cooperative Policy Planning

• Island growth and sustainable development
• Entrepreneurship, innovation and cultural management
• Cooperative Policy Planning
• Regional growth with emphasis on island regions
• Regional Planning Local Development
• Cultural Management and Local Development during crisis

• Current issues of economic geography, Cooperative Policy Planning, Management and Local Development
• New advances in intercultural communication and cultural differences management
• Managing culture towards regional development
• Organizational practices of regional growth 

The seminars of the School will be accommodated in the famous Oursoulines French School, known as ‘The School of Nikos Kazantzakis’,http://www.e-naxos.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=419&Itemid=280), which has been kindly provided by the Municipality of Naxos and Small Cyclades and the Agency of Culture, Sports, Environment, Education and Solidarity of Naxos  (ΝΟ.Π.Π.Α.Π.Π.Π.Α).

Naxos Summer School will include both theoretical classes and field exercises during morning and afternoon classes.  

References-Notes and Exercises will be available in classweb (open documents)