NES CSDSI Academic Head Professor Shlomo Weber opened the school with his lecture “Frontiers in economics of diversity”. During the classes, NES CSDSI fellows introduce the participants to the current research of the center. The invited experts of the school are Professors Steven Durlauf (Chicago), Joan Esteban (CSIC and Barcelona GSE), Theodore Gerber (Wisconsin–Madison), Karl Ove Moene (Oslo), Debraj Ray (New York).