Karlovci Grammar School is launching a project of an annual summer school of classical languages and tradition called ‘Collegium Carolivicanum – Karlovci Latin School’.

The theme framework of the project involves the interpretation and transmission of the European classical heritage through complementing and enhancement of the knowledge of the ancient civilization and the classical languages as its bearers, with special effort being put in representing Latin in broader cultural and historical context as

• a means of intellectual activities and international communication from the Roman Peace at the beginning of our era until the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century, i.e. the major lingua franca of all times;

• the language of a supranational literature and culture, the res publica litterarum, which, through centuries, encompassed the works of individuals, groups, and communities stemming from different ethnic, confessional and other profiles;

• the first and until this day the most recognizable emissary of the culture of reconciled identities and unity in the diversity which lies at the very foundation of modern Europe.

In addition to the educational and pedagogic potential which derives from the theme framework, The Latin Summer School, in its format which will include

• full-time activities and constant, direct communication among teachers and students from different national and school communities, as well as

• ‘vehicular’ use of Latin as the sole means of communication in the school and beyond,

will offer an efficient pattern of enhancement of language skills and their integration into a meaningful whole, where the ‘passive’ and ‘active’ knowledge naturally blend in the process of mastering the language.

Formally, thematically and methodologically similar to other endeavors in this area (as well as being formulated according to the experiences of seasonal Latin schools around Europe), Collegium Carolivicanum will also have its own distinctive profile:

• it will be bound, symbolically and literally, to the beginnings of Karlovci Grammar School, which, in the early 18th century was established as a Latin school of humanities in the classical tradition;

• in the form adjusted to contemporary trends, it will recreate the elements of the programme followed by the early generations of Karlovci Grammar School students and makes use of the authentic textbooks and other didactic materials, as well as the methodology of those times;

• in its modern approach, it will serve the original goals of the grammar school: to educate, in the context of broader regional, even the Central European domain, generations capable of cherishing and promoting mutual civilizational values thus contributing to the general well-being.

In realizing the project Collegium Carolivicanum, Karlovci Grammar School will be collaborating with the Philological High School of Belgrade and the Institute of Antiquity and Classical Heritage at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, as well as with the renowned experts from Serbia and abroad.