Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development – SLLS

Summer School 2017

Garima Gupta

What did you not expect to find or see in Switzerland?

Still more to explore, as few days are remaining.

The participants of the Summer School are from 23 different countries, where are you from?

From Varanasi, India.

What is special about your home country?

Well, putting it in one sentence, India is beautiful Country depicting a perfect example of unity in diversity.

Did you have a remarkable encounter with people from Zurich you would like to share?

Oh yeah personally, i find People of zurich to be more co-operative
and suggestive be it from the organizer, the Hotel Reservation, or the
poeple whom i daily meet to ask for any doubts while travelling.

So far, how do you like the presentations in the Summer School?

To begin with, the presentations so far are well informative. To be more precise, its more based on Hands on experience. The Curricula for this course is design thoughtfully.

Did this Summer School meet your expectations?

Yes, i Hope this summer School has really increased my insight and feel for the longitudinal and life course Research.

Did you have a good time in Zurich and are you planning to come again?

Certianly yes, I would like to visit zurich again for the purpose of
learning, and improving my knowledge (University of Zurich) as well as for my own reasons.

What would you like to be different in the next Summer School?

Something to be based on confirmatory and exploratory factor Analysis, SEM or PLRS

What was special about this Summer School or what did you miss?

Well, the most attracting part of this summer School for me was the Curricula designed. The hospitatily, the approach of the Speaker to make particiapants understand the concept and methodology was another attraction. For me, the preseantation or the lectures of the Scholars were pretty informative and new. It added certianly new to my knowledege which I will try to explore in my near Research work.