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Abstract:

 This article presents the activity of the Summer Universities, organized by the University Youth Knowledge Academy (UNYKA) at the State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT) - Sofia, Bulgaria and their role as a specific innovative method for enhancing the motivation of students. This method provides real opportunities for the formation and development of targeted diffusion of theoretical and practical knowledge and skills, and appears as a major prerequisite for the educational and scientific progress of students, young scientists and other, non-academic, external to the university environment, participants in the educational process.

Summer universities enable students not only to obtain information and share the experience of their mentors. Students are given the opportunity to manage their short stay on their own, to guide the diffusion of knowledge in a suitable direction and to organize their contacts with local communities on the territory of individual municipalities.

The specific connections and relationships between tutors and students as representatives of the educational institution on the one hand and local authorities and mayors, as representatives of the municipalities on the other, establish a collaborative base of almost perfect relationships, sustainable links and partnerships. All these result in enhancing the motivation of young people to participate in planned research activities and in achieving high scientific and practical results.

Keywords: Summer Universities, university environment, knowledge and skills, Knowledge Diffusion, educational process, enhancing, motivation.