Congratulations to... Professor Philippe Fargues (RSCAS-Migration Policy Centre) who will direct two, two-year long projects cofunded by the EU’s EuropeAid Cooperation Office. One project , INDIA, is ‘Developing a Knowledge Base for Policy Making on India-EU Migration’, while the second EAST, will be an ‘Observatory of Migration East of Europe’.
Professor Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz (LAW) has been awarded a 60 month European Research Council Grant for the project ‘European Regulatory Private Law: The Transformation of European Private Law from Autonomy to Functionalism in Competition and Regulation’ (ERPL).
Retired SPS professor Friedrich Kratochwil was honoured by former students and colleagues with a reception and dinner in Montreal in March 2011, during the International Studies Association’s conference there. The event was organized by EUI alumni Nanette Neuwahl and Nick Rajkovic, and many EUI researchers and alumni were present.
Hans Geleijnse, who was director of the EUI Library from 20002003, was made ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’, on the occasion of his retirement as ‘Library Strategy Consultant’ at the University of Tilburg. He was given the award in recognition of his special, personal merits for the university and for national and international libraries. 26 Spring 2011