Agenda

The Migration Working Group presents a seminar on "Development and Irregular Migration", with three presentations on immigration and foreign aid, mismatching conceptualisations of ‘torture or inhuman or degrading treatment’, and the involvement of diaspora members in development projects. Registration is required.

Florence, Italy

25 February 2020

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This online course will explore issues related to religiously attributed violent radicalisation, focusing on how to build resilience within communities and schools. It will examine terrorist events, their consequences and the stories of the perpetrators.

Online

2 March 2020

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The influence of business on politics is a pervasive phenomenon in advanced industrial societies, but the mechanisms are notoriously difficult to study. How and when can we study how business power is exercized and to what effect? This roundtable brings together scholars in political science, sociology, and history, using a variety of methods and angles to analyze elite networks, campaign contributions, and public policy. They provide insights into the stakes of business politics, their engagement, and the impact of their activities.

2 March 2020

Sciences Po,  Room Goguel, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris

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This Florence School of Banking and Finance lecture with Lorenzo Bini Smaghi will pose some necessary conditions that need to be met for a true capital market to be created. It will be in Italian with simultaneous translation in English, and live streamed.

Florence, Italy

9 March 2020

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The study of regulation and regulatory governance is one of the most promising arenas for public policy research. Regulation is typically conceived as a two-party relationship between a rule-maker or regulator (R) and a rule-taker or target (T). This paper sets out an agenda for the study of regulation (and policy more broadly) as a three- (or more) party relationship – with regulatory intermediaries (I) at the center of the analysis. Intermediaries play major and varied roles in regulation, from providing expertise and feedback to facilitating implementation, monitoring the behavior of regulatory targets and building communities of assurance and trust. The author focus the analysis on two cases of intermediations:

a) banks, lawyers and accountants in the money laundering regime and,

b) wholesalers, distributors and physicians in the opioids epidemics. His aim is to discuss the politics beyond the design, interest aggregation and enforcement of the duty to report and to avoid harm in the two cases.

He suggests that the framework of responsibilization process can be useful in understanding the process of making intermediators as rule-takers and that this process as relevance to the way we think on public policy and the power of the state in public policy processes.

10 March 2020

Sciences Po,  Room Goguel, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris

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The IIR is pleased to invite you to the one-day international seminar focused on the tradition and cooperation between the European Union and Japan, including also Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It will take place on March 10th in Karolinum, Ovocný trh 560/5, 110 00, Prague – Stare Mesto. This seminar will be held at the occasion of the 100th anniversary of establishing the diplomatic ties between Czechoslovakia and Japan, and on the Czech V4 Presidency. The key idea is to promote dialogue and cooperation between Japan, EU and V4 states in the multilateral and regional context, and to address the key issues for deepening mutual knowledge and communication.

Prague, Czech Republic

10 March 2020

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Can suburbanization processes and “exurbs” in Paris, London and New York really be compared and why? What are the main economic, sociological as well as environmental issues they are facing today ? To what extent are these territories, as often described, the heart of today’s political discontent and populist votes (Trump, Brexit, “gilets jaunes”…)? To what extent are they jeopardized by metropolization processes being witnessed worldwide and specifically in such metropolitan areas? Robert E. Lang and Eric Charmes will confront their views on “exurbs” territories and populations in a comparative perspective applied to Paris, London and New York.

11 March 2020

Sciences Po, Amphithéâtre Erignac, 13 Rue de l’Université, Paris

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This event by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) and the European Commission, will present and discuss the preliminary findings of the 2020 Media Pluralism Monitor, a scientific tool assessing risks to media pluralism in Europe. Registration is mandatory.

Brussels, Belgium

20 March 2020

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Studies on the politics and governance of migration have rarely spoken to each other. Research on migration politics has emphasised the contentious side of the migration issue. The conference will focus instead on visualizing migration governance and politics as the two facets of the same coin.

Florence, Italy

26-27 March 2020

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The TRACK Kick-off Conference will take place at 30 April 2020 at the Maastricht University Campus Brussels (Avenue de Tervueren 153 | 1150 Brussels). The Conference aims at enhancing knowledge on the European Council as a key institution. High-level academia and practitioners will debate on the EUCO’s role in the Spitzenkandidaten process 2019 and the Brexit negotiations. Additionally, the key note speech will be held by Herman van Rompuy, former president of the European Council.

The Conference is open for the public. Prior registration is required. Please contact Lea Hopp (lea.hopp@uni-koeln.de).

30 April 2020

Maastricht, The Netherlands

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The seminar “EU Project Management: the management of projects from A to Z” will take place in Bruges from 1 to 5 June 2020 and is organized by the College of Europe Development Office.

This seminar is an interactive journey through the lifespan of European projects, from EU funding to tender writing, project implementation and evaluation. Participants will gain a comprehensive knowledge of the essential techniques for successful, cost-effective management of EU projects. This is a particularly pertinent course for those wishing to understand the EU funding process in these most uncertain economic times.

Bruges, Belgium

1- 5 June 2020

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This technical and interactive training programme presents the purpose of M&E and useful practices. The objective of this course is to ensure that participants are thoroughly acquainted with the main principles and techniques of M&E of EU-funded projects.

Bruges, Belgium

8-10 June 2020

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At the conference, TEPSA recommendations for the German EU Council Presidency and “young ideas” from the #EngagEUrCouncil project will be presented and discussed. The subsequent panel discussion will focus, among other things, on the differentiated future of the EU after Brexit. High-ranking representatives from politics and civil society as well as members of the IEP Academic Advisory Board will take part in the event. An invitation to the TEPSA network with further information regarding the registration will be sent at the end of January.

Berlin, Germany

25-26 June 2020

All you need to know about the EU, its decision-making process and policies! Choose the three-, two- or one-week course tailored to your level of experience.

Bruges, Belgium

29 June -17 July 2020

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After four successful editions of the two-week executive training course on the “Energy Union”, for 2020 we have developed a new one-week programme which will give participants a thorough understanding of EU energy policies and governance (including the Clean Energy for All Europeans Package), affected also by international climate change concerns.

Bruges & Brussels, Belgium

6-10 July 2020

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