Ionut Sasu obtained his B.A. in Political Science at the University of Bucharest (Romania) in 2002 and his M.A. in European Political Sociology at Dalarna University (Sweden) in 2004. In April 2005, he started his PhD research at the VUB on the efficiency and legitimacy of the institutional reform of the European Union under the Constitutional Treaty. His research interests cover aspects of European integration, European Union institutional reform and public policy. He is based at the VUB-affiliated Institute for European Studies.

Education:

2005-present PhD candidate/researcher , Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) •  PhD research project: The EU after the constitutional treaty: effective and legitimate?

2004-2005 MA student , Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development, organized by: University of Trento (Italy), University of Regensburg (Germany), Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), European Academy of Bolzano (Italy) and University of Belgrade (Serbia-Montenegro) •  MA project work: Social exclusion and urban segregation in the Balkans •  Program focus: comparative and interdisciplinary approach of the processes of change and transformation at local level •  Courses: economics, law, sociology and political sciences, project cycle management, workshops, skills training, internships

2003-2004 MA student , Master's program in European Political Sociology, Dalarna University - Falun (Sweden) •  MA thesis title: The Metaphysics of Illusion. A Comparative Analysis of the Italian and Romanian Fascist Movements •  Program focus: institutional, rational and cultural analyses of the European politics and societies, social policy, social and national movements, the role of the non-governmental organizations etc.

2001-2002 Socrates-Erasmus Exchange student, Complutense University of Madrid ( Spain ) , Faculty of Political Science and Sociology

1998-2002 BA student , University of Bucharest (Romania), Faculty of Political Science, Department of Political Science in English, module: European Politics and International Relations •  BA thesis title: The Role of the Communist International in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)