Participants

The School was intended mostly for doctoral students and post-doctoral university staff chosen through competition among candidates from all countries of East-Central Europe. Moreover, MSH students can be recruited from among:

• young scholars from universities and academies of sciences who have regular classes with students or are in didactic training at universities;
  
• scholars from archives and libraries who cooperate with universities and have didactic classes;
  
• young scholars from the US and Western Europe whose specialization concerns East-Central Europe;
  
• fourth- and fifth-year students of universities, which recognize MSH courses as part of their students' curricula
  
• younger students upon a special university rector's request (conditioned on the humanities core curricula reforms in the university)
  

The fundamental principles of the East-Central European School in the Humanities include individual construction of interdisciplinary curricula and tutorial assistance (each MSH student is supervised by a tutor -a prominent specialist- selected by him/herself). Students are supposed to combine classroom learning with an active pursuit of research in teams.