Since 1992, the East European Summer School has been annually held by the East European Studies Institute of the University of Warsaw (Studium Europy Wschodniej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, SEW UW). This programme therefore emerged immediately after democratic transformations in Central Europe and still represents an important international platform for young scholars, mainly postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Subsequently, for more than three decades, young scholars up to 35 years of age from the post-Soviet bloc republics, but also from Western Europe and the USA, can meet in the East European Summer School at the beginning of the summer. In the two or three weeks spent in the Polish capital and its surroundings, they can attend lectures and seminars given by leading Polish and foreign researchers on the history, culture, politics or literature of Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. The past-time experts were personalities such as Bronisław Geremek (1932–2008), Csaba Gy. Kiss (1945–2025), John Micgiel (*1953), Bohdan Osadchuk (1920–2011) or Richard Pipes (1923–2018), whereas Czech science was represented by Jaroslav Valenta (1930–2004).