The summer school will be held in the Smolenice castle, a beautiful site renewed as a Congress centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (http://www.kcsmolenice.sav.sk/). The village of Smolenice with the well-known castle is situated at Malé Karpaty mountains, 60 km northwest from Bratislava. Adjacent English park, well included into mountain forest edge, offers numerous possibilities for walking to the visitors.