"Academics cannot be managed and I approached my job as a gardener. You have always had my back".
@BrigidLaffan
greets & thanks the Schuman community for her eight years as our Director. Thank you Brigid! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"It is an honour to be recognized by European colleagues" says Erik Jones after being appointed as member of the
#AcademiaEuropaea
.
We're happy to celebrate our Director's last accomplishment! Congratulations
@Ej_Europe
!🎉🎉
Read the full news📌
We're delighted to announce that we won a
@EU_H2020
project:
#InDivEU
, aimed to re-assess, develop & test models & scenarios for different levels of integration among EU member states
#FutureofEurope
.
A big consortium of 14 partners; we'll start in January 2019, stay tuned!
🎉We have a
#birthday
to celebrate this year, we are turning 30! 🎂 It all started with five people and we are now more than 300!
From today we will share memories, milestones, testimonies & future plans➡️Stay tuned
#SchumanCentre30
Some background 📌
"...I cannot think of a better place to study it than at the EUI with its diverse body of excellent researchers.”
Waltraud Shelkle will be joining us in September 2022! ✨
Find out more >>
✨For those new to our community, welcome to the Schuman Centre! ✨
During
#SOU2022
we made a brand new video and what better way to start the
#academicyear
than with a fresh introduction!
Check it out! 📽️
🔊"There is no safe
#Brexit
for the island of
#Ireland
. It is an impossible problem: a border has to go somewhere"
Yesterday,
@BrigidLaffan
was interviewed by
@AJEnglish
about the recent unrest on the
#IrishBorder
@EUI_EU
📽️Watch the clips below⬇️to hear her full thoughts (1/3)
Did you know that... in 1986 the Italian government bought Villa Schifanoia and made it one of the
@EuropeanUni
seats. After renovation works the villa & its beautiful garden look as we see them today
#ThrowbackThursday
On
#InternationalWomensDay
we want to pay tribute to the bright, dynamic and engaging female colleagues that enrich our Schuman community: thank you!👏👏👏
Save the date! On 16 June at 12:00 Commissioner for Trade
@PhilHoganEU
will launch the 'Trade Policy Review', a wide public consultation to shape the direction of EU trade policy. The live event will be moderated by Bernard Hoekman,
#RESPECTprojectEU
:
Back at work, we're getting ready to welcome a new wave of fellows as well as those who were already with us: more than 30 Visiting Fellows, 14 Robert Schuman Fellows, 11 Jean Monnet, 11 Max Weber & 3 Marie Curie Fellows. We're looking fwd to the new academic year!
@BrigidLaffan
#DidEUIknow
about the history of
#VillaSchifanoia
? In 1986, the Italian government bought it to made it one of the
@EUI_EU
seats, but before that, the villa changed hands several times. 🔎 Here's a
#thread
with some interesting facts 🧵 /1
‼️ and we're back ‼️
As the summer slowly comes to an end, the wheels here at the Schuman Centre are turning, waiting for you all to get back in gear and start a new
#academicyear
!
#SchumanSummer
"Unless you have a 'critical mass' of women at the decision-making level, the one or two women present have to carry the burden. The more women around the table, the more the perspective they bring is heard"
-
@BrigidLaffan
Watch her full interview! ➡️
Today we held our monthly administrative
#staffmeeting
: these are the people who support the excellent academic work carried out in all our programmes & projects
.
@BrigidLaffan
sat down with
@Eletorta
for an extended interview reflecting on her career & the difficulties of being a woman in academia
Join us in thanking her for eight wonderful years at the Schuman Centre. Best of luck in the future! 👏
@EUI_EU
🎉Happy New Year! We are particularly thrilled about 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ as we will celebrate our 30th Anniversary! We grew from five to more than 300 people in these thirty years. Stay tuned to celebrate with us in the new year! 📷This was the starting team in 1993...
We are delighted to announce the start of a new Programme on 'European Governance and Politics', led by
@BrigidLaffan
and aimed to become an important international hub of high quality
#research
and reflection on Europe and the
#EuropeanUnion
@EuropeanUni
Yesterday we officially welcomed our new cohort of fellows for the
#newacademicyear
.
It's good to be back to some sort of normality, welcome everyone! 🥳
📣JUST PUBLISHED: our first
#ResearchAgenda
to inform the public debate on major
#global
challenges
🔍Dive into 7⃣ chapters where our researchers analyse global & European issues, reflecting on past work while charting the path ahead🚀
Read it here 📌
Since March the Schuman Centre has held about 120 events online across all programmes: workshops, seminars & lectures & went fully online with teaching activities. We have reached an audience of over 20,000 people. Thank you to all for your commitment in these challenging times🙏
We are culminating the celebration of our 30th anniversary through joint sessions of workshops on six themes that are central to our research agenda.
The
#CallForPapers
is open, please submit your abstract by 31 January 2024!
#CfP
The Schuman Centre started as a modest enterprise of five people and in 2019 it was home to almost 200 people btwn academic & administrative staff.
As we are due to start a new academic year next week a quick look back at our history:
#FlashbackFriday
Today we were very happy to be able to have our welcome lunch with the new fellows and some of our professors: keeping the distance together, welcome again!
We're thrilled to announce that
@stephofmann
will join the
@EuropeanUni
as the next Joint Chair in International Relations with the Department of Social & Political Sciences, & head the
@GlobGovProgram
's 'Europe in the World' area!
Welcome Stephanie!
The
@RobSchuCentre
was launched in 1993 with a Director, 3 secretaries & 4 fellows. Today, we have about 40 professors & distinguished scholars, more than 60 fellows & another 90 people among academic and admin staff...
#WayBackWednesday
“Did the UK subliminally think that small Ireland would not retain the support?” asks
@BrigidLaffan
. “We’re bigger, we’re more important — that does not wash if you are a country leaving. You need to mind your manners on the way out.”
#Brexit
on the FT
This is a must-read for anybody interested in the
#Brexit
saga. Well done
@BrigidLaffan
! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
When are you coming to present it to the
@EUI_EU
community?
Delighted to say that ‘The EU’s Response to Brexit: United & Effective’ has just been published by Palgrave & Macmillan. My thanks to my co-author Stefan Telle for his collaboration.
@EUI_EU
@EUI_Schuman
I did not think I would ever be able to get it over the line given 2022
Congratulations to Adrienne Héritier, who was just awarded the Michael Endres Prize 2019 of the
@thehertieschool
of Governance in Berlin "for her long-time research on in European institutions and European public policy" 👏👏👏
Are you a
#journalist
or a
#media
practitioner? Apply for the 2018 Summer School organised by our
@CmpfEui
programme on 'Journalism in the era of
#algorithms
and artificial intelligence'. It'll take place 11-15 June in Florence. Deadline to apply 28 Feb!
The
@EUI_Schuman
community grows!!➡️Today the new cohort of fellows met director
@Ej_Europe
and enjoyed a Tuscan lunch in Villa Schifanoia
We are happy to have you! ✨
"Our work is particularly important at a time of political volatility within the EU member states & the wider international system. The shifts and shocks of 2016 continued to reverberate..."
@BrigidLaffan
presents our 2017 Annual Report, read more:
We're contributing to a better understanding of the challenges facing Europe today - Listen to former Director Yves Mény on the origins of our Centre
#WayBackWednesday
What lessons can the EU learn from the legacies of the
#HabsburgMonarchy
? With this question Pieter Judson from
@EUI_History
department kicked off our Seminar Series for this academic year. If you missed it, you can watch it here:
#FutureofEurope
Why are far right parties gaining at the ballot box?
Let's first understand what is the 'Politicisation of
#Migration
' with
@LeilaHadjAbdou
in our new
#SchumanShort
!
Watch now!▶️
And today it's
@CateFraGuidi
's turn to say goodbye, after seven years of excellent academic work with us & with
@gaby_um
in particular for the
@GlobalStat_eu
project
@GlobGovProgram
. A great mind and great fun too, good luck Caterina!
"My vision is to preserve all that was achieved until today and invest in continuous improvement."
🗣️
@LeonardoMeeus
on his upcoming appointment as Director of
@FSR_Energy
🗞️Read the full interview:
New fellows joining us this academic year are registering this morning in Villa Schifanoia 🌞
We are happy to welcome you and triggered for what's ahead!
"A year at the
@EUI_Schuman
can be a life-changing experience in terms of perspectives, colleagues, & research" Former Jean Monnet Fellow
@KlodianaBeshku
➡️Apply now for a
#JeanMonnet
Fellowship for the academic year 2024/25
🗓️Deadline 25 Oct 2023
We are thrilled to have our first Simone Veil's fellow
@ProfKMcNamara
with us.
During her stay with us she will explore the EU's new industrial policy & geopolitics. Stay tuned!
@Ej_Europe
@EUI_EU
Max Weber Fellow
@finn_vicki
received the 2022 APSA Migration & Citizenship Section Best Dissertation Award from
@MigCitizenAPSA
Congratulations! We're happy to celebrate your accomplishment!🎉🎉
Check out her work📌
Our roundtable on
#Ukraine
is starting. We welcome a great panel of panelists with Vladimir Gel'man, Dana Allin and Oksana Antonenko.
Stephanie Hofmann and Philip Genshel will ask four questions to them:
1. howe did we get here? How did it come to this?
Just off the press! New book by Philipp Genschel and
@LauraSeelkopf
which maps and explains the spread of modern taxes worldwide, challenging a number of common biases in the literature.
Find out in our new
#SchumanShelf
! 📚
#FridayRead
🥳 Thank you for helping us reach 10,000 followers! 🎉
In honour of this milestone we are highlighting some of our favorite
#BehindTheScenes
moments over the years 🍾
@EUI_EU
@BrigidLaffan
@ErikJones_SAIS
Do you have any favorite Schuman memories to share? Let us know 👇
"
#EUmembership
at its core is about having a seat at the table & being able to influence outcomes.
#Brexit
is the negation of this - it represents a loss of voice and presence. It is a cold place outside the room"
@BrigidLaffan
'The Social Roots of the Transnational Cleavage' with
@HoogheLiesbet
& Gary Marks is starting!
➡️ "Education, occupation, life experiences have a major impact on people's political belonging"
👉Would you like to spend some time as a
#VisitingFellow
in
#Florence
?
🔎If you work in one of our core
#research
areas, this might be of your interest!
💻Check the requirements to apply for the next academic year:
🗓️Deadline: 31 August 2023
We are thrilled to announce this year's Yves Mény Lecture, which will feature our Director
@BrigidLaffan
talking about the EU's response to
#Brexit
. And the discussant will be Yves Mény himself; it cannot be missed!
On 30 Sept at 16h at:
Director
@NOIoweala
offers concluding remarks, "
#Trade
is a means to an end, an end to improve people’s lives whether rich or poor. The rules should be such that we can bring them into the world’s trading system & lead to improvements for people’s lives.”
#SOU2021
📣 What is our added value in a crisis moment like this?
“The Schuman community is not powerless. We make long-term contributions and even if they may not be immediate, they are impactful..”
@Ej_Europe
#Ukraine
We have a new Working Group (WG) called 'Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair WG led by Prof.
@pisaniferry
! It will work on the challenges & policy responses of global collective action problems, with a focus on international
#macroeconomics
&
#finance
in Europe:
This morning we had a special guest at our administrative staff meeting: Director
@BrigidLaffan
!
It was a pleasure to see everyone in person again, but we are sad that she is leaving us soon 😢
Refugees are people who flee from danger and misery. They often need to rely on 'smugglers'. Luigi Achilli explains what 'Human Smuggling' means and the importance of legal channels of mobility:
#WorldRefugeeDay
#WDR
#WithRefugees
#SchumanShorts
Read our latest newsletter covering the start of this new and different academic year, featuring the Yves Mény Lecture on
#Brexit
, our
#Covid19
activities and more -
Congratulations to
@eldaelda
our
@EUI_CMPF
Scientific Coordinator as she joins the
@CoE_HRightsRLaw
Experts on Increasing Resilience of Media'! ✨
"...I will contribute my experience and research on these topics"
Read more >>
On
#WorldChildrensDay
we focus on the growing number of unaccompanied and separated migrant children on a global scale. Little research has been conducted so far on children’s migration patterns or their interactions
with smuggling networks:
Today our multimedia and communication specialists are training for
#hybridlearning
and events!
🔸Timeframes, technology, people, support
🔸How to tailor different room/technology setups to different events
We look forward to putting this in practice this fall!
"World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it" 🇪🇺
#EuropeDay
is not only a celebration of the most creative peace project in history, but a reminder of our mission & the purpose of the
#research
we produce
Ten years ago: Ingo Linsenmann speaking to Stefano Bartolini during the final conference of the four-year long EU-funded project 'NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance'.
The results were published in a book that can still be relevant today
#ThrowbackThursday
🎉In light of
#WomenInScience
day, we celebrate our outstanding colleagues and their significant academic contributions
🔎Discover who they are by browsing our 'People section' on the website 🌐>>
#EU4Women
#WomenKnowStuffToo
👏We look forward to having
@Erik_Jones_SAIS
with us, and we're very thankful to
@BrigidLaffan
, who is still with us until the summer, for her tireless work
🗳️ How can socio-demographic characteristics shape political preferences?
@r_dassonneville
explores the different ways in which social groups vote by analysing how political parties appeal to their socio-demographic characteristics
#TuesdayTopic
#SchumanShort
@EUI_EGPProg
We were delighted to have the team of the African School of Regulation (ASR) with our
@FSR_Energy
colleagues at our campus this week.
ASR aims to be centre of excellence for education, research & discussion, to improve the quality of energy regulation & policy in Africa.
This week, we kicked off the academic year with a welcome aperitif for the new fellows and members of our Schuman community. We are delighted to have you with us this year! Take a look at the photos from the event:
#Nationalism
today is about an 'Other' & about creating a boundary that divides 'Us' from 'Them'; one would have expected to find it in a tribal society...
Our latest
#SchumanShort
on 'Neo-tribal Nationalism' with
@triandafyllidou
is out!
Mark in your calendar: ''Europe in the New World (Dis)order'' by Alexander Stubb, Vice-President of the
@EIB
, on 5 September 2019. In this lecture,
@alexstubb
will give his vision about the current challenges for Europe.
Register now:
@EuropeanUni
Our administrative staff is meeting online today. We are here to continue supporting our academics' work, let's
#StayAtHome
and be safe👍
#teleworking
#COVID19