As a part of its efforts to increase the international visibility of the Grenoble area, the laboratory of excellence PERSYVAL-Lab stimulates and financially supports the organization of thematic schools (or summer schools) within its scientific scope. The ultimate goal is to coordinate the existing activity and to foster new events so as to offer a whole bunch of summer schools which are representative of the scientific research at Grenoble in its full diversity. To this end, the labex PERSYVAL-Lab supports, as a first priority, summer school held in Grenoble from mid-June to mid-July. These summer schools may be recurrent or not.