This methodological workshop aims to gather an overview of the various funding opportunities available to researchers, such as FWO, OZR and EU funding possibilities. Specific attention will go to the guidelines of submitting funding applications.
A 3-day intensive program designed for professionals and students seeking an advanced understanding of the EU institutions and decision-making. Register Now !
This workshop, organised by Senior Research fellow at the IES Dr. Eva Gross, interlinks questions of the EU’s performance vis-à-vis its strategic partners with its approach to specific challenges: climate change, regional conflicts and failed states, migration, and development. Contributions to this workshop address these challenges from a number of viewpoints: the nature of the challenges, their interconnectedness, but also respective EU, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and Russian approaches to tackling them. By contrasting different national approaches, viewpoints and proposed policy solutions, this workshop aims to generate research questions, establish synergies between researchers, and enable to formation of an expert community on this subject.
The Institute for European Studies is pleased to announce a lunchtime Policy Forum on Culture and Migration. It well be held at 12h30, April 14 at the Institute for European Studies (IES), Pleinlaan 15, 1050 Brussels.
The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universitetit Brussel and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) kindly invite you to their next Environmental Policy Forum.
On 8 March, Charlotte Burns will present the results of a study on the European Parliament's green credentials in the co-decision procedure in the 2000s, which investigated whether the European Parliament is an environmental champion and whether co-decision has been good for the environment.
Ms. Burns worked in the European Parliament as a Research Assistant to the Chair of the Environment Committee for two years before undertaking her PhD at the University of Sheffield. She currently teaches at the University of Leeds.
Commenting on Ms. Burns presentation will be Professor Doctor Ludwig Krämer, Honorary professor for European environmental law at the universities of Bremen and Copenhagen and visiting professor at University College, London and working with the Commission for three decades as Head of Unit of Legal Affairs, Waste, waste management and environmental governance in DG Environment
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The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universitetit Brussel and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) kindly invite you to their next Environmental Policy Forum.
On 1 March, Mr. Reid Lifset, Resident Fellow in the Center for Industrial Ecology and Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program at the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, will present a keynote presentation.
Mr. Lifset is well known for his contributions to the development and analysis of the environmental strategy of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). He will offer insights on the challenges to creating proper incentive structures for EPR in modern environmental policy, a question that is central in the on-going revision process of the EU’s WEEE Directive on recycling waste electronics.
Commenting on Mr Lifset’s presentation will be Harri Kalimo, a Senior Research Fellow at the IES.
Ethical issues of CFSP/ESDP in the European borderlands
This workshop is designed to elucidate the ethical consequence of the changes in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) including the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) as a result of the progressive blurring of the internal/external borders and policy objectives. Within this overall objective, the workshop examines the value assumptions underlying traditional CFSP/ESDP objectives including SSR, rule of law and peace building more broadly; and contrasts these assumptions with the value premises underlying JHA that touch on CFSP (particularly counter-terrorism and border management) and that underline the increasing blurring between internal and external security objectives of EU external relations. In addition to a conceptual stock taking, the workshop also discusses the consequences of these potentially conflicting objectives in the field.
The IES organises its next Environmental Policy Forum on Wednesday 10 February. Mr. Arthur Runge-Metzger will present a keynote address on EU Climate Policy Post-Copenhagen and will focus on the prospects for EU climate policy after Copenhagen, covering both internal policy and the Commission's view on the next steps at the international level.
His presentation comes on the occasion of the launch of the latest volume in the IES book series!
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Dr. Irina Tanasescu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies (IES) and Head of the E-learning training Unit. She is a Political Science Lecturer at the VUB and teaches 'Dilemmas of European Integration' at Vesalius College.
Dr. Koen Van den Bosche worked as a researcher at the IES on EC Fisheries Policy and was awarded his doctorate in 2009.
Venue: Rome Conference Room Institute for European Studies Pleinlaan 15 - 5th floor
'The European Union in International Affairs 2010 ' A Garnet Conference
The multidisciplinary
GARNET Conference ‘The European Union in International Affairs’ will provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas
among the growing number of scholars that take an interest in
understanding the interface of EU and international politics and law. It will
be open to all relevant disciplines and sub-disciplines, including
(international) law, international political economy, economics and
history. The Conference will also continue to foster exchange between
the scientific and the policy communities, especially through keynote
addresses by senior policy makers and a number of policy-link events
featuring academics as well as policy makers. The Conference broadly
covers all aspects relevant to understanding the EU in international
affairs, including implications for and effects of the structure of the
global order , in order to allow
for active participation by as many scholars as possible working on
relevant subjects.
The Institute for European Studies (IES) is proud to welcome Dr. Jamie Shea
who will give a series of six lectures, each dealing with a specific
challenge and what NATO and the international community need to do to
meet that challenge successfully. Dr. Jamie Shea received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo war when he served as the spokesperson for Nato. He is now the Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary
General at NATO Headquarters.
The Institute for European Studies (IES) is proud to welcome Dr. Jamie Shea
who will give a series of six lectures, each dealing with a specific
challenge and what NATO and the international community need to do to
meet that challenge successfully. Dr. Jamie Shea received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo war when he served as the spokesperson for Nato. He is now the Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary
General at NATO Headquarters.
The Institute for European Studies (IES) is proud to welcome Dr. Jamie Shea
who will give a series of six lectures, each dealing with a specific
challenge and what NATO and the international community need to do to
meet that challenge successfully. Dr. Jamie Shea received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo war when he served as the spokesperson for Nato. He is now the Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary
General at NATO Headquarters.
This workshop is designed to elucidate the ethical consequence of the changes in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) including the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) as a result of the progressive blurring of the internal/external borders and policy objectives. Within this overall objective, the workshop examines the value assumptions underlying traditional CFSP/ESDP objectives including SSR, rule of law and peace building more broadly; and contrasts these assumptions with the value premises underlying JHA that touch on CFSP (particularly counter-terrorism and border management) and that underline the increasing blurring between internal and external security objectives of EU external relations. In addition to a conceptual stock taking, the workshop also discusses the consequences of these potentially conflicting objectives in the field. 
The IES organises its next Environmental Policy Forum on Wednesday 10 February. Mr. Arthur Runge-Metzger will present a keynote address on EU Climate Policy Post-Copenhagen and will focus on the prospects for EU climate policy after Copenhagen, covering both internal policy and the Commission's view on the next steps at the international level.
A 3-day intensive program designed for professionals seeking an advanced understanding of the EU institutions and decision-making.
The multidisciplinary
GARNET Conference ‘The European Union in International Affairs’ will provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas
among the growing number of scholars that take an interest in
understanding the interface of EU and international politics and law. It will
be open to all relevant disciplines and sub-disciplines, including
(international) law, international political economy, economics and
history. The Conference will also continue to foster exchange between
the scientific and the policy communities, especially through keynote
addresses by senior policy makers and a number of policy-link events
featuring academics as well as policy makers. The Conference broadly
covers all aspects relevant to understanding the EU in international
affairs, including implications for and effects of the structure of the
global order , in order to allow
for active participation by as many scholars as possible working on
relevant subjects. 
The Institute for European Studies (IES) is proud to welcome 
IES is a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Email: ies@vub.ac.be