ECLA’s thirteen Project Year students presented the final version of their research projects in a two-day event capping the Project Year programme at ECLA. Students’ research topics were as varied as the specialisations of ECLA faculty and ranged from the poetry of Francesco Petrarca through the philosophy of Heidegger to the dangers of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Project Year programme at ECLA was introduced in the Autumn of 2003. It allows students to pursue an individual research project while also taking an interdisciplinary core course and elective courses.