In the end, we were happy that the proportion of male and female students matched the relative number of applications, and that the participants represented over 20 different countries.

All applications were read by two members of the organizing committee and discussed extensively with special emphasis on excellence and diversity. The most intensive period (next to the summer school itself), however, was the selection of students out of a pool of excellent applications clearly outnumbering the available spots. In the first year of planning we were also busy recruiting ten teachers for the summer school who we thought would cover topics important for our science and for society. The hotel that we finally chose offered affordable twin rooms that we personally inspected back in 2016. With the kind help of the previous organizers at the University of Exeter, and Sibylle Classen, and the encouragement resulting from the fact that the EASP summer school had never been conducted in Switzerland, we submitted a proposal and were thrilled when it was accepted by the Executive Committee in April 2016.ĭid it really take over two years to plan two weeks? Zürich is an expensive city, so we put a lot of effort in securing additional funding from sponsors and finding an affordable accommodation for students (the university does not have dorms that could be used for that purpose). In December 2015 we became interested in organizing the next EASP summer school, as three of us had been participants in previous summer schools and believed we were now in a position to give something back to the association.

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