WEASA

🔙 Flashback to the Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy (WEASA) 2025

What makes WEASA so unique? It’s not just that mid-career professionals attend but shape the experience through active engagement and peer-driven learning.

One of the most unforgettable moments of edition was the Oxford-style debate on the motion👇

“This House believes that foreign interference, not internal weakness, is the main cause of democratic backsliding in the Eastern Partnership.”

⚖️ The arguments were passionate, informed, and deeply nuanced. And the outcome was a draw perfectly reflecting the complexity of the democratic challenges facing the region today.

Founded in 2013 by the Polish American Freedom Foundation, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the College of Europe in Natolin, WEASA is a fully funded summer school for mid-career professionals from the Eastern Partnership region working in civil society, media, public administration, academia, and beyond.

Each year, WEASA invites its alumni back not just to reconnect, but also to lead as Group Facilitators.

This year, we were lucky to have Iryna Krasnoshtan and Irakli Jgharkava take on that role, and they truly shined! 🌟

Thank you both for your energy, insight, and leadership 🥰