Following the launch of the Global Europe Centre in Canterbury, our campuses in both
Canterbury and Brussels are currently organising a series of ‘Global Europe’ workshops, held for interested postgraduate research students at the University of Kent.
Panels will cover all aspects of the study of Europe at large. These range from the practicalities of academic research, including information on funding and publishing opportunities or Brussels as a fieldwork location for EU studies, all the way to more thematic panels on the EU’s foreign policies in the context of the Arab Spring.
The first workshop will take place on the 27 June, 2013 in Brussels, followed by the second in Canterbury in September. The aim of the workshops, therefore, is twofold: to have external speakers and experts convey their insights about the study of Europe and the EU from an inside-out perspective, and in line with the philosophy of the Global Europe Centre, to facilitate inter-campus cooperation between Brussels and Canterbury researchers.
Global Europe workshop Brussels
27 June 2013
9:00-9:15 – Arrival and coffee
9:15 – Welcome by the Global Europe Centre: Dr. Tom Casier, Prof. Elena Korosteleva, Prof. Richard Whitman
9:30-11:00 – Practicalities of academic research in Brussels
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Maurer, Head of the Brussels SWP office, German institute for International and Security affairs
• Prof. Dr. Richard Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
• Prof. Dr. Elena Korosteleva, Professor of International Politics, University of Kent
11:00-12:30 – EU policies toward the MENA region; EU foreign policy after the Arab spring
• Hugues Mingarelli, EEAS Managing Director Southern Neighbourhood and Middle East
• Dr. Mohamed Sameh, EuroArab Forum
• Dr. Rosa Balfour, Head of Europe in the World programme, European Policy Center
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 – Lobbying as a part of EU policy-making
• Karl Isaksson, Managing Partner Brussels, European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA)
• Lucyna Gutman, Board member of the Society of European Affairs Professionals (SEAP)
• Jos van den Akker, Parliamentary assistant to MEP Esther de Lange
15:00-16:30 – EU funding opportunities/research grants
• Dr. Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero, Principal Administrator, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Luciano Di Fonzo, Head of Sector, Jean Monnet Programme, EACEA, European Commission
• Dr. Karolina Pomorska, Marie Currie fellow at Cambridge University
The final programme of the workshop on the 27 June will be available at www.kent.ac.uk/politics/gec
If you are interested in receiving more information on the workshops, please contact
Moritz Pieper (mp442@kent.ac.uk).