Recently conducted events

'Quo vadis EU: Actors in Play: EU Institutions'

by: Prof. Dr. Amelia Hadfield, Prof. Dr. Joachim Koops, Prof. Dr. Irina Tanasescu and Dr. Alexander Mattelaer

This second Jean Monnet Webinar provides a brief but insightful view of the EU Commission, Council and Parliament as institutional entities, policy makers and modes decision-making, as well as a focused look at the changes brought the Treaty of Lisbon, including the role of the new External Action Service (EEAS).

Wednesday 30 November: The ISA Programme: Governance Structure and Role in the EU

Margarida Abecasis (European Commission) & Patrick Wauters (Deloitte)

This lecture series is organised in cooperation with the Citadel Statement Group.

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Wednesday 23 November: Where can the EU go in its eGovernment activity post-Poznan?

One week after the Ministerial Conference on eGovernment, held in Poznan, Poland, the IES/Citadel Statement team organise a roundtable on eGovernment in the EU. This roundtable provides an insight into EU-policymaking processes. At this event, each speaker will respond to the question: "Where can the EU go in its eGovernment activity post-Poznan?"

This lecture series is organised in cooperation with the Citadel Statement Group.

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The Institute for European Studies and Vesalius College of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has the pleasure of inviting you to the final lecture of the European Peace & Security Studies Lecture Series:

JAMES APPATHURAI, NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Security policy will talk on "NATO's INTERVENTION IN LIBYA: LESSONS LEARNED AND CHALLENGES AHEAD" 

The Institute for European Studies, in cooperation with the Institute for European Enviromental Policy, kindly invites you to attend the upcoming policy forum on 7 November 2011 concerning the ageing electricity networks of Europe and the use of renewable energy in the (near) future.

• Prof. Dr. Sebastian Oberthür, Academic Director of the Institute for European Studies (Chair)
• Jesse Scott, Energy and Climate Programme Director of demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy
• Mark Johnston, Senior Policy Adviser WWF European Policy Office
• Tom Howes, Deputy Head of Unit Renewables and CCS policy, DG Energy, European Commission

For more information and mandatory registration, click here!

The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in cooperation with the CEDEM-Université de Liège and the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, Belgium, kindly invite you to their upcoming Migration Policy Forum on 21 October with:

• Dr Ilke Adam, Institute for European Studies, VUB (Chair)
• Eva Schultz, DG Home, Unit B.1 Migration and Integration, European Commission
• Didier Boone, Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, Belgium
• Prof. Dr Marco Martiniello, FNRS/CEDEM - Université de Liège
• Dr Sergio Carrera, Centre for European Policy Studies

For the full programme and mandatory registration, please click here.

The training workshop aims to bring together scholars from different European universities active in the field of European Studies and to provide them with all necessary knowledge and tools to apply for FP7 funded projects. To this end, speakers who have worked for the European Commission in this area and scholars who have successfully applied for FP-funded projects in the past from both academia and think tanks have been invited to provide background information and guide participants through the application process. The workshop is strategically divided into two days. During the first day participants will be introduced to the structure of the FP7 programme, the calls for proposals and the work programmes. The key part of the training is the research factory workshop on the second day, which includes practical exercises to apply the gained knowledge. Moreover, the event aims at fostering exchange of experiences between the participants and hereby improving the chances of success in the application process.