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Jean Monnet/ECSA Conference 2014The future of EU studies

Brussels, 1 & 2 October

Programme

Wednesday 1 October13:30 14:30 Registration of participants

14:30 16:00 Welcome and Opening Session

Moderator: Xavier Prats Monn, European Commission,Director-General, DG Education & Culture

Welcome:

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Training,Multilingualism and Youth

Opening speech:

Jos Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

Keynote speeches:

Professor Joseph Weiler, President, European UniversityInstitute

Professor Jrg Monar, Rector, College of Europe

Questions and Answers

16:00 16:30 Coffee

16:30 17:30 The Jean Monnet Community: a think-tank on EU issues:

1. A synthesis of feedback from Jean Monnet Professors:the future of the EU, the Eurozone and how to recover from theeconomic and financial crisis.Professor Fausto de Quadros, University of Lisbon - Faculty of Law

2.Student views on EU studies

17:30 19:00 Networking corners,Jean Monnet Helpdesk

ECSA meeting

19:30 Dinner


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Thursday 2 October

09:30 12:30

(incl. coffee break)Working group sessions

WG 1: Towards a re-definition of EU studies?

WG 2: EU studies: feeding results in to policy-making

WG 3: EU studies as an instrument for better governance

WG 4: The European Union in the world: the role of EUstudies

12:30 14:00 Lunch

14:00 15:00 Working group sessions continue

WG 1: Round-up

WG 2: Round-up

WG 3: Round-up

WG 4: Round-up

15:00 15:30 Coffee

15:30 17:00 Closing session

Moderator: Jordi Curell Gotor, European Commission,Director, DG Education & Culture

Rapporteurs: Feedback from working groups

Questions & Answers


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Working Groups

WG 1: Towards a re-definition of EU studies?

This WG will consider the relevance and appropriateness of European studies. Using anumber of examples, it will assess the impact and added value, both of traditionalEuropean integration studies, and of the introduction of a "European dimension" to otherareas of study, and consider how these could be improved.

Moderator: Bernd WCHTER , Academic Cooperation Association

Enrique BANUS President, ECSA World

Alberto ALEMANNO Jean Monnet Professor, HEC, Paris, France

Eleonora WKTARE President, Association des Anciens, College ofEurope

Jean-Philippe RAGEADE Academy of European Law, Trier

Julie LEPRETRE Ecole Normale d'Administration, Brussels

WG 2: EU studies: feeding results in to policy-making

WG2 will discuss what kind of input European studies could provide to policydevelopment, and the best form in which this research could be planned and organisedfor developing, shaping and making policy on European subject matters in the differentfora concerned.

Moderator: Simon TAYLOR, European Voice

Natasa BESIREVIC University of Zagreb, Croatia

Meltem MFTLER-BA Jean Monnet Chair, Sabanci University, Istanbul,Turkey

Daniel GROS Director, Centre for European Policy Studies,Brussels

Udo BULLMANN Member of the European Parliament


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WG3: EU studies as an instrument for better governance

This WG aims to define the needs of the different stakeholders who define or are involvedin governance questions (decision-makers, practitioners, economic players and citizens)and how they can best be met. It will discuss how an exchange of experience and bestpractise can be organised at European level and synergies can be created with a view tocreating momentum and a coordinated dynamic in this area. Central to this exchange willbe the sharing of new knowledge and tailor-made training.

Moderator: Colin STEVENS, eureporter

Leonce BEKEMANS Jean Monnet Professor ad personam, University ofPadua

Lehte ROOTS Talinn Law School, Estonia

Eva HEIDBREDER Heinrich Heine University, Dsseldorf

Mario DI CIOMMO Advisor, Unicredit - Researcher at ASTRID Foundation

Marga PRHL European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht

WG 4: The European Union in the world: the role of EU studies

WG4 looks at the reasons for growing interest in EU studies worldwide. Do EU studiesmeet the needs of practitioners and policy-makers outside Europe? How can we improvethe effect they have? To what extent can Europe learn from the way it is perceived fromthe outside? Will a better understanding of Europe among partner countries enhance theEU's external policy?

Moderator: Ard JONGSMA, University World News

Mark ENTIN Jean Monnet Professor, Director, European Studies

Institute, MGIMO-University, Moscow

Cristina SILVA President, ECSA Chile, Vice-Director CELARE,

Santiago

Richard LEWIS Institute for European Studies, Brussels

Yan ZHANG Director, Asia Europe Foundation, Singapore

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