Students:Case study methodology

Content and goals

In contrast to the e-learning modules of the ISPoS program, the Summer School concentrated on the local problems of a specific region where the huge impacts of supra-regional industries are visible. The program capitalized on the opportunities to see and experience the situation in the Ore Mountains: a Czech – German border region which suffers from (unregulated) mining industry, air pollution from lignite power plants and chemical factories, and above all bears the history of the Sudetenland with all its attached stigmas relating to the forced migration of its inhabitants. We have met local people and points of interest, explored and described the current situation and tried to find solutions through the exploration of the actor analysis method with a practical application to the local circumstances.