Board of Recommendation

	Professor dr. H. Steinbusch, Neuroscientist, Director of European Graduate School of Neurosciences (EURON), Maastricht, The Netherlands
	Professor dr. Z. Pirtošek, Neurologist, Head of the department of Neurology of University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia
	Professor dr. E. Ch. Wolters, Neurologist, Chair of World Federation of Neurology Association for Parkinsonism and Related Disorders  Research Group.
	Sara Riggare, Stockholm, Sweden, Parkinson's Disease expert by personal experience, engineer, Healthcare informatics student, Project manager in healthcare informatics, and World Parkinson’s Disease Conference Ambassador.

Learning Objectives

Scientific

After the summer school you increase your knowledge with regards to:

• What is known about Parkinson’s Disease?
• What is not known about Parkinson’s Disease?
• What methods are used to solve the unknowns?
• How would you contribute to solutions?
• How to write a research proposal?
• How to approach a scientific Peer Review?

Skills

You will: 

• Improve teamwork skills
• Improve problem solving skills
• Improve time management skills
• Improve stress management skills
• Improve presentation skills
• Improve communication skills

Experience

You will experience: 

• the virtues of a student centered focus in education
• a patient centered approach to research
• a combination of academic thinking and creative thinking.
• a work hard - play hard mentality: work during day, party at night during the whole summer school(!) - sleep little.