To foster international cooperation between the EASP and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), two joint activities have been agreed:

the International Teaching Fellowships
the Summer Institute in Social Psychology (SISP)

International Teaching Fellowships

General information

• The scheme supports one-week expert-led graduate schools in Europe and North America. Applications are welcome at any time. Two Fellowships will be awarded each year, one to be hosted in Europe, the other in North America.
• The aims of this scheme are:
  • to foster international cooperation between members of these two organisations;
  • to provide an opportunity for groups of graduate students to receive intensive specialist education from an academic expert from overseas;
  • to provide an opportunity to build links between groups of researchers and research institutions within a geographical region.
• The scheme operates as follows. A host institution (e.g. a university psychology department in North America) arranges an invitation to a distinguished scholar from overseas (e.g. somewhere in Europe) to provide one week of instruction and supervision for a group of graduate students. The host institution, together with other participating departments must cover all the costs of accommodation, meals and entertainment.
• In addition to providing official backing (e.g. the title of the Fellowship) and coordination for this scheme, EASP and SPSP provide financial and material support. Each Fellow will receive a stipend from EASP and SPSP amounting to $ 2,000. This may be used to cover travel or other expenses including those of companions.
• The host institution need only have a few graduate students who participate, but must arrange that students from other neighbouring institutions also participate for the full week. At least one, and preferably 2 or more other institutions should send graduate students to participate. The total number of students should be between 8 and 16. The organisation of the week's activities is flexible but should ensure that as many graduate students as possible are able to gain from a mixture of large and small-group or one-to-one interaction with the Fellow. The week should include social as well as academic activity, and should include ways of ensuring that links and communications among the participants are set up on a longer term basis.

Procedure for applications

• One Fellowship will be awarded annually to an institution in Europe and the other to an institution in North America. The host institution organiser must be a member of EASP or SPSP, respectively. The Fellow visiting North America must be a member of EASP and the Fellow visiting Europe must be a member of SPSP.
  
• The host organiser should prepare a 2 page application that provides an explanation of how the expertise offered by the Fellow will provide education in an aspect or area that is not normally covered by faculty already working among the host-site group of departments. The application should describe how many students will participate, and from which departments or institutions. In addition there should be a summary of the type of social and extra-curricular activities that will be arranged around the Fellow's visit (e.g. the visit could be attached to the end or start of a conference, there could be other academic events linked to the visit, and there might be a trip to a regional tourist attraction, museum, exhibition, or other event), and what steps will be taken to ensure that the network of participating graduate students is sustained after the conclusion of the Fellow's visit. The application must include a copy of the proposed Fellow's Vita, and a letter from the proposed Fellow stating that, if the Fellowship is granted, he or she will accept the invitation.
  
• Priority will be given to proposals that best meet the criteria of bringing international social psychological expertise to a wider group of graduate students. Applications from institutions that have limited resources or access to such expertise will receive higher priority.
  
• The application should be submitted by email to the EASP executive officer. Applications are considered jointly by representatives of the Executive Committee of EASP and SPSP. Proposals must be for meetings to be held at least 6 months later. This allows time for the meetings to be publicised in EASP and SPSP Bulletins and Newsletters and to ensure that participation is as full as possible. Deadlines for applications are March 15th and September 15th.
  
• After the Fellowship, the host organiser must provide a brief report summarising the week's activities and the list of participants, for publication in the EASP Bulletin and the SPSP Dialogue

Summer Institute in Social Psychology (SISP)

General information

• Modelled on the bi-annual EASP summer schools, which are held in even-numbered years, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) offers comparable two-week intensive summer schools for US/Canadian doctoral students, to be held in the United States in odd-numbered years, beginning in 2003.
  
  SISP 2003: University of Colorado, Boulder, July 13-26, 2003
  SISP 2005: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on July 24-August 6, 2005,
  SISP 2007 : University of Texas at Austin , July 15-28, 2007
  SISP 2009: Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from July 12-25, 2009.

  The 2011 SISP will be held at Princeton, New Jersey, USA from July 24 - August 6, 2011.

  EASP schools are set up primarily for European students, but the organisers also always accept five US-students, selected and sponsored by SPSP. Vice versa, the SPSP schools are set up primarily for USA/Canadian students, but the organisers will also accept five European students (EASP postgraduate members), selected and sponsored by the EASP.

• The deadline for SISP applications for European EASP members has closed on December 31, 2010.
  

• Format of SISP 2011
  
  Full length courses
  Each student will enrol in one of five full-length courses, each taught by two prominent instructors. For 2011, the instructors and courses are:

  (1) ACCURACY IN JUDGMENTS OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
  David Funder, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside & Tessa West, Department of Psychology, New York University

  (2) HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
  Sally Dickerson, Department of Psychology & Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine & Traci Mann, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

  (3) SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
  David Dunning, Department of Psychology, Cornell University & Simine Vazire, Department of Psychology, Washington University

  (4) SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN GROUPS
  Fabrizio Butera, Department of Social Psychology, University of Lausanne & John Levine, Department of Psychology and Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh

  (5) SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
  Hart Blanton, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut & Deborah Prentice, Department of Psychology, Princeton University

  Three day workshops

  (1) IMPLICIT MEASUREMENT
  Keith Payne, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  (2) INTRODUCTION TO SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS
  Kali Trzesniewski, Human and Community Development Department, University of California, Davis

  (3) MISSING DATA: ANALYSIS AND RELATED ISSUES IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
  John Graham, Department of Biobehavioral Health and Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University

  SISP website
  Further details can be found on the SPSP website http://www.spsp.org/sisp/ and on
  the SISP website https://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/related/SISP/index.php