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Before you are registered
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Please, let us know your arrival and departure dates as soon as possible!
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Top)Some of you may need a Visa to travel to Bulgaria. If so, you can ask for a Visa to be issued by the Bulgarian Embassy in your country. If you need a special letter of invitation for the Summer School in order to receive a Visa, please let us know now, so we could send you one. To the best of our knowledge citizens of EU, and CEE countries do not need a visa. Do check whether citizens of your country need a Visa for Bulgaria.
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No courses run in parallel, so you can attend all courses. However, we strongly advice you to enroll in 6 of the 10 courses offered, thus attending 4 hours of classes per day plus 2 hours tutorials in small groups. Each course consists of 5 large sessions (90 min. each), 5 small group sessions (45 min. each) and 2 project work meetings. Participants who want to get credits from a course should attend the small group and project meeting and fulfill all assignments. Thus participants can get credits for one course per week maximum. Each course taken in the case of successful completion will give you 2 credits.
Kalina Christoff (Stanford University, USA) – Cognitive Neuroscience of Executive and Prefrontal Function
Barbara Finlay
(Cornell University, USA) – Development and Evolution of the BrainMaurice Greenberg (New Bulgarian University, BG) – Introduction to Connectionism
Stella Vosniadou
(University of Athens, GR) – Conceptual Change in Physical KnowledgeMichael Thomas
(NCDU, ICH, UK) – Connectionist Models of Developmental DisordersCsaba Pleh
ss2001c8.html(University of Seget, HU) – Language Understanding in Children, Adults and PatientsRobert Goldstone
(Indiana University, USA) – Human learning and adaptive systemsJeff Elman
(University of California at San Diego, USA) – Connectionist approaches to psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and linguistic theorySusan Epstein
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There are two kinds of certificates - one will be granted for participation in the Summer School and the other one - to those who get credits.
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All payments at the Summer School should be done by bank transfer or check (add USD10 processing fee). Payments should be in US dollars.
As an exception it can be done on spot. In this case the fee will increase by USD100 for late registration. Unfortunately, for bank reasons, no other currency will be accepted. This means that you need to be prepared to pay the amount on Monday, July 9th, in cash.
Credit cards are not so commonly accepted in Bulgaria as on West, especially if you want to withdraw cash in foreign currency. There are a lot of bankomates where one may withdraw money with a credit or debit card in Bulgarian currency. The common way of paying in Bulgaria is in cash. The local Bulgarian currency is leva. The exchange rate is fixed to 1 lev per 1 DM. If you would like to buy something or go somewhere, a sum of 150-200 USD should be more than enough.
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The weather in Bulgaria is usually very warm in July. Generally the temperature is around 25 C but it can vary around 35 C. Note, this is not an official forecast, it is just previous life experience.
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There is only one airport in Sofia There will be someone in the Arrival Section waiting for participants on their arriving date. Look for that person who will hold a sign. This person will give you detailed instructions. Just in case you miss him/her, here is how you can get to the place where you will be staying.
If you are staying at ELENA HOTEL: The address is: 46 Ljubliana str., tel. 562 849, 957 1454.
If you have registered for the CIURK HOSTEL: The address is: 224 Tzar Boris-3rd blv., phone: 57141, 570251.
Taking a taxi is a good option. There are currency exchange offices at the Airport. Be careful when taking a taxi. Better take a yellow DAEWOO car with big black 21-21 numbers written on it.
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Where may I get a schedule for Summer School courses and events?
Initial schedule is available now on our site (click here). There will be preliminary registration at your hotel / hostel on Sunday, July 8th. Some materials, including the full timetable will be available there as well. Late registration and payment of fees will be on Monday, July 9th, at NBU, room number 401.
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Three meals daily (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) are included in the registration fee for the period July, 9th - 28th. They will be served at Hotel Elena. There will be bus shuttles from the restaurant to the School and back for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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School transportation
There will be regular bus transportation every day during Summer School according to the following schedule:
The correspondent bus stops are in front of CIURK hostel, restaurant, and University.
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In case of emergency, or if you get lost on the day of your arrival, here is one home phone number: 56-99-60 (Boicho Kokinov). You can try also our office number 955-75-18. Permanent office of the Summer School is at the New Bulgarian University,
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Last updated 05/22/02 11:15