The Summer University for Democracy, which is the annual meeting of the participants in the programme of the Council of Europe’s Network of Schools of Political Studies, will this year bring together in Strasbourg 600 young leaders from public sectors in Central and Eastern Europe. The worldwide crisis at the start of the millennium, calls into question the responsibility, the capability and the legitimacy of political, economic and social leaders. The Summer University 2010 will discuss the crisis of leadership in all its dimensions.