On the 22nd of June ECLA will celebrate the closing of the academic year 2004-2005 in the beautiful ‘Ratssaal’ of the Town Hall of Pankow. The building was constructed in 1902, in the middle of a population boom that made Pankow – previously a small town outside of Berlin – into a contiguous district of the capital city. Thirty-one students in the Academy Year and thirteen students in the research-oriented Project Year programmes at ECLA will receive certificates as part of the ceremony, which is to include student music performances and addresses by the ECLA academic leadership and a guest speaker.
Many of ECLA’s Project Year students are looking forward to continuing their studies next year at the graduate level at institutions all over the world, including Columbia (USA), Leuven (Belgium), Georgetown (USA), Bremen (Germany), University of London (UK) and Boston College (USA).