Since the summer of 1992, the Institute of International Relations (IIR) of Panteion University of Athens has been organizing annually an International Summer Seminar on contemporary international affairs. The IIR Annual Summer Seminar has, thus far, brought together around 356 students from over 35 countries.

Its overall purpose is to provide opportunities for the creation and consolidation of scholarly networks of cooperation by offering an international forum through which scholars exchange information on areas of common interest and disseminate research findings to advanced students.

The main themes of the Seminar were:

2011	History and Philosophy of International Relations
2010	Terrorism: Trend and Transformation
2009	The New International Political Economy:  From Hegemonic to Cooperative Regimes?
2008	The Integration of the Western Balkans into the Euro-atlantic Structures
2007	Islam in Europe
2006	The Energy Issue: Cooperation and Conflict
2005	The EU, Turkey and Greece: Perceptions on the Middle East
2004	Eastern Europe and the Balkans 15 Years After
2003	The Greek Presidency and the External Relations of an Enlarged European Union
2002	The New International Crisis: Implications for International Politics
2001	American foreign policy in South-eastern Europe and the East Mediterranean under the new Bush Administration
2000	The Aftermath of the Crisis in Kosovo
1999 1998	European Security and Regional Conflict Resolution
1997 1992	Conflict Resolution