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This document "Desk research and Best Practices research on Summer Schools" is developed in the framework of the Erasmus+ project "SumHEIS - Summer School Development Programme for European HEIs" (High Education Institutions) financed by the European Commission, Key Action 2 - KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for higher education (project reference number 2019-1-IT02-KA203-062984) and implemented by a consortium of 7 partners from 4 European countries – Italy, Greece, Latvia and Ireland. This report – named "SWOT Analysis on Summer School Programmes in HEIs" - is the output of the Intellectual Output 1 of the project, and belongs to its preliminary/foundation phase. Despite all the knowledge and information the seven partners have in the context of the project's subjects, they also find it very important to update and access accurate information within the scope of the project. This paper is an initial cornerstone giving further directions and mainly contextualizing the next intellectual outputs. This report derives from a dual focus: (a) desk-based literature review to identify existing Summer School initiatives, synergies, core features and dynamics identified by the partners, (b) best practices research on Summer School Development in each participating country. This report will present the synthesis of the findings from a SWOT analysis conducted with the responsible persons for the operation of summer schools in the relevant partner institutions representing all the Countries involved in the project (i.e. Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia).