The Summer School of the Finnish-Russian Network of Russian and Euroasian Studies is aimed at doctoral students of the area and aims at their professionally informed, international, interdisciplinary exchange. The scholars and PhD students discussed questions of identity and identity politics, subjectivities and subject positions in regional and global contexts, as well as from a transnational perspective. In talks and round tables they approached topics from sociological, ethnological, political, linguistic and historical perspectives.

Heiko Pleines, head of sub project 7 "Political Strategies and Actors of Economic Transformation", was present as a lecturer. He supervised a workshop and presented the first results of his project on identity and self-censorship of Ukrainian journalists. Mareike zum Felde and Charlotta Cordes presented the subproject and their respective dissertation projects on the GDR (or NBL) and Poland in the 1990s. In the workshop, they were able to discuss and examine their perspectives and methodological approaches to "post-socialist transformations", policies of "modernization" and their long-term consequences in an enriching way.