Annual summary 2015

2015 Annual Summary of Academic Activities

CONTENTS & MISSION FOREWORD LECTURES South Africa: Lessons for African Democracy The Changing Charecter of Human Rights TEACHING The MA in European Politics and Society MA Programme: European History and Civilisation International Graduate Workshops Policy-Making at the EU Level Annual Summer School Classic Colloquium GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Jenkins Scholarship Scheme Oxford - Geneva Study Bursaries Graduate Mobility Bursaries INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & SEMINARS International Conference and Jubilee Celebrations Reconsidering the Third Wave of Democratization EUROPAEUM VISITING PROFESSORS RESEARCH PROJECT GROUPS Comparing Political Concepts in Europe (2006 - ) US-Europe Advisory Group (2004- ) Cultural Difference in Europe (2005 - ) PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS Oxford - Debate on the UK in Europe Opendemocracy Publishing Partnership The New York Review of Books Vaclav Havel Dialogue Project PUBLICATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS Islamophobia: A Non-Concept E-Bulletin Europaeum Website Europaeum Academic Register Europaeum Essentials FINANCIAL REPORT PARTNERS & CONTACTS

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The Europaeum Mission The Europaeum was founded in 1992 as an association of European universities, with a mission to: • • • • • •

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promote excellence in academic research and teaching collaboration between Europaeum partners; act as an open academic network linking Europaeum partners and other bodies in the joint pursuit of study; serve as a resource for the general support and promotion of European studies; provide opportunities for the joint pursuit of new pan-European initiatives; explore new ways and new roles for universities to fulfill their many roles in the new Learning Age; develop a ‘pool of talent’ to carry out research and inquiry into problems and questions confronting Europe today and tomorrow; help train and educate future leaders for a new Europe.

The Europaeum currently consists of ten leading European university institutions: University of Oxford; Leiden University; University of Bologna; University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; Charles University, Prague; University of Helsinki; Complutense, Madrid; Jagiellonian University, Krakow; and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

In addition, the Europaeum has an associate member university: the Institute of Political Studies, Lisbon.

Europaeum programmes include research projects, annual conferences and student summer schools, lectures, joint teaching programmes, public debates, staff mobility schemes, linked scholarship schemes, and a developing knowledge platform.

Patron: Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein

Trustees:Dr Pierre Keller (Chairman); Lord (George) Weidenfeld; Sir Ronald Grierson (Hon. Treasurer) (until Nov 2014 ); Professor Vaclav Hampl, Professor Yves Mény; Lord (Chris) Patten; H.E. Karel Schwarzenberg;; Professor Philippe Burrin; Dr Erhard Busek; Professor Ngaire Woods; Professor Carel Stolker; and Mr Jose Manuel Barroso

FOREWORD

From the Chairman the Board of Trustees

Looking back, last year proved to be a turbulent one both for Europe and for the Europaeum. Our colleagues at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne lost two students with a third seriously injured. in the November 13th bombings. As a Continent, we were engulfed by many Keller crises including migration, which all featured in our discussions throughout the year.

and a EU bid is envisaged to widen the network and seek supporting funds.

Then the Europaeum lost an important friend. We are mourning the passing of George Weidenfeld, at the start of this year. He was a “founding father” of the Europaeum, an outstanding European and a highly creative force in so many areas of public and intellectual life. His Weidenfeld contributions over almost 25 years to the association have been immense. His vision to create a club that could serve as a crossroads for serious intellectual discussion about matters European, has been realized in our proud record of conferences, workshops, lectures, debates – always international, always involving representatives from the media, professions and government. His loss comes just a year after Sir Ronald Grierson, our other founding father.

We put on our usual array of lively graduate workshop, supported visiting professors, and prestigious Europaeum Lectures on security questions on the Ukraine crisis; the character of human rights; on building democracy in Africa,

I can say, though, that George was with us to celebrate the way our association has been encouraging leading younger scholars, to recognise their wider responsibilities in the building of Europe and become drivers to for Continent, one of his cherished aims.

Barroso He was delighted as we all were with the Europaeum “Day of European Democracy” by inviting some 35 of our leading past alumni, graduates, successful research scholars, active professionals, to take part in a day of meetings, policy briefings, and an important debate held in the auspicious Oxford Union on the future of the UK within the EU, with Jose Manuel Barroso and Nigel Farage leading for each side (see page 12 for more). George said how he thrilled he was with this initiative, and we plan to repeat this in Geneva this year.

Europe’s many crises - over Greece, over the UK staying in, over the annexation of Crimea, over the Eurozone, over migration – was, in fact, the theme for our main 2015 conference, hosted with Helsinki as part of the University 375th anniversary. Then, our summer school for 30 select graduates, focused on the crisis of European Euroscepticism and Populism, ona both left and right wings, with key note contributions from both our distinguished trustee, Karel Schwarzenberg, as well as former President, Vaclav Klaus.

Our University members continued to perform well. Thus, in the various international university league tables, six are ranked top or first equal in their own national league standings – including of course Ludwig Maximillian University, which joined us at the start of the year, and we were pleased to welcome its first participants on our events.

We are most grateful to donors who responded to the energetic funding campaign, launched by our SecretaryGeneral, to extend the life of our prestigious Jenkins Scholarship Scheme – which has already supported 70 first class scholars to date.

We were delighted too to welcome EU President, now Professor, Jose Manuel Barroso to our Board of Trustees, and Will Hutton, the well-known Economist as the new Chair of the Oxford Europaeum Group. Thanks are, as ever, due to them and all those Ludwig-Maximillians-University LMU who have helped us in our work - professors who give time and ideas, graduates - with ever greater choice – who opt often repeatedly to participate with energy and enthusiasm in our many programmes.

Looking ahead, we will be exploring possible new members for the coming year, seeking to consolidate our expenditure, which has badly hit by the fall in the value of the Euro, and to extend our exciting new alumni programme with a second special Europaeum Day in the autumn.

Too little credit comes back to the Europaeum. Yet, invariably, our graduates respond with gratitude and praise for our work, so ably led by our Secretary-General, Paul Flather, who maintains an active and full role in our events. Our summer school, for example, enjoyed a rating of 95 per cent excellent or very good from the graduate participants.

So, I want to leave with one of many quotes received, this from a Dutch graduate participant: “I must admit this experience has positively exceeded any expectation. It was a great occasion for confrontation and for meeting the most interesting and brightest people from the Europaeum In September, we had a lively party with 25 former/current network. For these reasons, I would suggest anyone to join graduates to mark the 10 th anniversary of our pioneering, in next year’s Conference.” jointly-offered, MA in European History, linking Leiden, Paris 1 and Oxford, with a brochure and a thoughtprovoking seminar. Our other jointly-offered teaching initiative on European Politics and Society – the Vaclav Dr Pierre Keller Havel Programme - linking Paris 1, Charles, and Leiden 1st June 2015 Universities, with input from Oxford, makes progress,

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EUROPAEUM LECTURES

Europaeum Lectures have been held since the association was founded, as part of its mission to encourage international exchange of ideas and academic mobility. Since 2000, the Europaeum has published many lectures examining key issues confronting Europe.

 South Africa: Lessons for African Democracy– Geneva (28th May) Professor William Beinart, is Fellow of St Antony’s College and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He was founding Director of the African Studies Centre (2002–06; 2009–13) William Beinart and President of the UK African Studies Association (2008–10). His major research interests are in South African history, politics and society (Twentieth-Century South Africa, second edition, 2001). In recent years, he has focused on environmental history (The Rise of Conservation in South Africa (2003); Social History and African Environments (co-edited, 2003); and Environment and Empire (co-authored, 2007)). He chaired the Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies (1992–8), cochaired the Oxford School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (2006–08). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.

 Helsinki +40: the OSCE in 2015Helsinki University ( 12th June) Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements that first create a de facto solidarity. These words of Robert Schumann were cited in the text from our keynote lecture Helsinki +40: the OSCE in 2015 from Philip McDonagh a leading member of the OSCE peacekeeping body based in Vienna was one of the highlights of the the Europaeum’s recent three-day international conference Europe in Crisis : GrExit ? BrExit ? Euroexit ?, co-hosted im mid-June with the University of Helsinki. The lecture from Ambassador Philip McDonagh, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the OSCE, who has had a distinguished career which took to India and many other countries, examined the role of the OSCE as a regional security organisation in the context of Europe today ; looked in depth at the Ukraine crisis as a litmus test, and then outlined how the OSCE could now contribute, and some steps on how the organisation could be made more effective. he discusses concepts of framing questions properly, shared inter-dependence, exercising power without authority, new concepts of secruity, and the failure to sell the OCSE visition. His talk is up online.

 The Changing Character of Human Rights - Oxford ( 12th November) A lively lecture outlining the new parametres that now exist in mainstream thinking with regard to international law and Human rights was very well received from Andrew Clapham, Professor of Public

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International Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, in a Europaeum Lecture at St Antony’s College, Oxford, on November 12th. Professor Clapham outlined many new features now had to be taken into account - extra-territoriality, the role of non- Andrew Clapham state actors, applying retrospective rights, applying rights to armed groups, applying rights to the private sphere and to security companies, dealing with crimes against humanity, and incorporating new rights groups, including, age, caste, same sex, indigenous, disability, self-determination. The lecture followed in our continuing series of Oxford-Geneva Programme lecture series. Professor Clapham is very distinguished legal academic and practitioner who has worked with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2006-14) and representative of Amnesty International at the UN in New York (199197). He also worked as Special Adviser on Corporate Responsibility to Higher Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to Sergio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq.

We hope to publish this talk in due course.

 When Did the Dutch Revolt Become a War ? & Blockade, raw materials, and Grand Strategy in the two World Wars ? – Oxford ( 23rd - 24th April) Two keynote talks were given during the Europaeum Spring School on War-mongering and Peace-Making: conflict Resolution in European History ? Dr Raymond Fagel, Leiden University History Lecturer, discussed Robin Briggs the meaning of war, as opposed to a rebellion or a freedom struggle, all of which might have - and hacve been used - by Dutch and non-Dutch historians down the ages to describe the first Dutch Revolt (1568-1648), provoking a lively debate on meanings. Dr Fagel’s recently publisjed The Netherlandish Emigration in the Renaissance, 1480–1560 (2005). The next day, Mr Robin Briggs, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, fomer Special Lecturer in ModernHistory at the History Faculty, Oxford, discussed how the naval wars - and the battle over collecting and moving raw materials provide more critical to the success (or failure) of conflict and the grand strategies of the powers, giving fresh insights into “war-mongering” and forced “peace-making”. He has published Early Modern France (1977; 1998), Communities of Belief (1989), Raymond Fagel Witches and Neighbours (1996; 2002)

TEACHING

The development of collaborative, multi-centered courses fulfills a central objective of the Europaeum mission, providing future business, political, social and intellectual leaders with a pan-European educational experience.

 MA Programme: European History and Civilisation

Carel Stolker and Paul Flather awarding MA Certificates

Some 25 past, present and future MA graduates attended a special celebratory seminar hosted by Leiden University and the Europaeum to mark the 10th full year of our pioneering, jointly-offered, MA programme in European History & Civilization - which links the History faculties of Leiden, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Oxford, providing three different modes of teaching and study at each of the universities and produced It began with a “pilot year” in 2004-5, and five intrepid pioneers - and now some 90 students have already graduated from the programme. Many have gone on to exciting careers in cultural industries, in public service, and of course in academe, too. The event coincided with a special seminar, and a special memorial brochure, culminating in a lively dinner.

The get-together coincided with the final graduation of the 2015 MA cohort of eight students, with Europaeum Certificates handed to the successful graduates by Leiden Rector Magnificus, Professor Carel Stolker, who participated in proceedings along with one of the programme’s three "founding fathers", Professor Wim van den Doel, now dean of Humanities at Leiden. Good wishes were sent from the other two, speaking at other events, Professor Robert Evans, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and Professor Jean-Pierre Genet, former Professor of History at Paris 1 Panthenon-Sorbonne.

The 2014/15 graduates were: Beatriz Álvarez García (Spain), Xiaoying Ren (China), Sarah Ní Chinnsealaigh (Ireland), Cato van Paddenburgh, Correlli van Hulten, Richard Procee, Charlotte Harte, Jeroen van Raalte (all Netherlands) 2015/16 cohort: Jan Debets (Netherlands); Vanessa Cambrelen (Usa/Germany); Tabea Wanninger (Germany); Jona De Jong (Netherlands); Aart Van Noord (Netherlands); Nik Van Brink (Netherlands)

 MA in European Politics and Society The first graduates emerged from the Europaeum’s MA Programme, which links Charles University, Paris 1 Sorbonne, and Leiden, combining all the strengths and specialisms of these three leading universities, to provide students with a unique learning experience in European Politics and Society, . At a major ceremony the programme was duly named the Havel Programme, after the renowned Czech dissident and will espouse the values that the values of the former President. It runs as a two-year MA Programme over four semesters, specifically linking the fields of European Politics, Contemporary History, European Socio-Legal and Socio-Geographic Studies and European International Relations, with Europaeum students having to attend courses at least two collaborating universities. it engages students so that they can ‘find the place of Europe Václav Havel in its rightful global, political, economic and historical context’. with all successful students receiving a final degree from their home university. The academic convenors are Professor Lenka Rova (Prague) Dr Joost Augustejn (Leiden), Dr Laure Neumayer (Paris) and Dr Paul Flather (Oxford). The programme also combines a special Spring School at Oxford run by the Europaeum, and special lectures from leading Europaeum intellectuals.

There were 9 graduates from the programmes in 2015, five from Prague, three from Paris and two from Leiden: Anna Simbartlova (Prague), Terezie Polakova (Prague), Tomas Juhas (Prague), Katarina Tumova (Prague), Lenka Louckova (Prague), Gaelle Lecourt (Paris), Yasmine Karaduman (Leiden), Anne-Marie Bouwman (Paris), MA Students at the Europaeum Graduates Spring School at the Maison française d’Oxford Cécile Gris (Paris).

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TEACHING

International Graduate Workshops

Graduate workshops are aimed at advanced and post-doctoral students, continued to thrive over the year with high demand for places and feedback very strong. Each workshop involves some 20 Europaeum post-graduate scholars, often from eight or more partner universities, plus Europaeum professors joining local academics and practitioners. The following events took place in 2013:

 Peace-Making & War-Mongering: Lessons from European History ?

Organised in co-operation with the Maison Française d’Oxford and the History Faculty of Oxford (23rd – 25th April, 2015) Europe’s story has been forged in no small part through wars and their aftermath - including the various critical ‘hallmark’ treaties such as Westphalia, Vienna, Versailles and Potsdam. With Europeans remembering the ravages of the 1914-18 ‘Great’ War in 2014 a century on - ‘the war to end all wars’ - this year’s Spring School was set up to look at the impact of “war-mongering” and “peace-making”, those critical treaties which sometimes brought peace, and sometimes brought fresh wars as they unravelled.

The 25 Europaeum graduates taking part - including those on our two linked MA programmes in European History and European Politics and Society set out to explore these themes going back to 1500 – and examining ‘the lessons to be learnt’. There were sesA working Group session in the garden sions looking at religious wars in the 17th century, “conflict over the cross”, the processes of peace-building, and grand naval strategy in the two Wold Wars. An important focus was the story of global peace-making in the 20th century - including sessions looking at the building of the League of Nations, the flaws in United Nations peace-building, and the role of the European Union, and attempts to build a common defence and security policy.

Graduate workshop participants

There were also half a dozen graduate papers exploring their research ideas, and all students took part in a lively debate moderated by Dr Flather that “religion is once again a key factor in modern conflicts,” a motion that was carried. Much was learnt about the complexities of peace-making and indirect consequences of, seemingly, good decisions. Participants explored if the 1648 Westphalian Treaty was a harbinger for future wars, if the UN has run out of steam, and if World War was inevitable. They left wondering if Angela Merkel is correct in saying : “No one should believe that another half century of peace in Europe is a given - it’s not,.” or even that the Ukraine crisis might lead Europe ‘to sleep-walk back into war’, just as Christopher Clark suggested the great powers did by ignoring the Balkans crisis in 1914.

Speakers to included: Dr Jakub Basista (Krakow), Dr Liz Carmichael (Oxford), Mr Robin Briggs (Oxford), Dr Liz Carmichael, Professor Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Dr Raymond Fagel (Leiden), Dr Adrian Gregory (Oxford), Dr Pierre Haroche (Paris 1), Professor Robert Harris (Oxford), Mr Jonathan Scheele(Oxford), Dr Anne Simonin(Oxford), Dr Alexander Leveringhaus(Oxford)

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Student Participants include: Ms Beatriz Álvarez García (Leiden), Ms Justine Cousin (Paris IV), Ms Sophie Debay (Paris 1), Ms Claire Delen(Paris IV), Mr Lars Wibe Hagen (Leiden), Ms Charlotte Harte(Leiden), Ms Denisa Hrnčířová (Prague),Mr Mark Hugen(Leiden), Ms Correlli Van Hulten (Leiden), Ms Veronika Jiříčková (Prague), Mr Tomáš Juhás (Prague), Ms Laura Kangasniemi (Helsinki), Mr Arne Muis (Leiden), Ms Sarah Ní Chinnsealaigh (Leiden), Ms Denisa Nováková (Prague), Ms Cato Van Paddenburgh(Leiden), Mr Richard Procee(Leiden), Mr Jelmer Wouter Puylaert (Leiden), Mr Konrad Pytka (Krakow), Mr Jeroen Van Raalte(Leiden), Ms Xiaoying Ren (Leiden), Ms Irene Scarpa (Oxford), Mr David Semera (Prague), Mr Wietse Stam(Leiden), Mr Jan Stöckmann (Oxford) Ms Iveta Wágnerová (Prague), Ms Myriam Yakoubi (Paris IV).

A graduates examing the death Mask Napolean

TEACHING

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Policy-Making inside Europe? - Brussels (16th – 18th June 2015 )

A particularly passionate discussion was on the then unfolding Ukraine crisis, deeply divided opinions on the merits of the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty, featured in the successful seventh special ‘insider’ three day programme of talks, discussions, interviews and special visits involving those at the sharp end of policy and decisionmaking in Brussels, co-run, as ever, with our colleagues from the Political Studies Institute in Lisbon. , to uncover how European policy is made in Brussels in a range of fields and disciplines. Other sessions, which were held The European Parliament, Brussels partly inside the European Parliament and the Foundation of Progressive European Studies, explored the EU’s Eastern European and African partnerships, and the economic and political future of Europe, including the Five Presidents’ plan and Juncker plan. The accent as usual was on debate and understanding, with good interaction between the young scholars and the Eurocrat community. Once again the individualised working groups run by the Europaeum proved a great hit, with comments from EC insiders on each report back.

Speakers included : Richard Corbett (Advisor To Herman Van Rompuy), Paulo Rangel (Mep, Portugal), Sofia Piedrafita (Research Fellow, Centre For European Studies), Ania Skrzypek (Senior Research Fellow, Foundation For European Progressive Studies), Daniel Levie (Head Of Unit Trade Relations With North America, European Commission), Nicolas Rougy (Executive Director, European Partnership For Democracy), Daniel Hannan (Mep, Ecr, Uk, Committee On Constitutional Affairs), Gunnar Wiegand (Head Of The Division For Eastern Partnerships, Eeas)

Elizabeth Cusma (Barcelona), Katerina MerkloThere were 36 Europaeum graduate participants including 21 from va (Prague), Olga Kovarzina(Geneva), Dr Paul Flather, and Salvador Percastre (Barcelona) (Left the IEP Catholica, Lisbon and Arancha Lucas Morillas (Madrid), to right)

María Eugenia Tapia Rojo (Madrid), Elizabeth Cusma (Barcelona), Olga Kovarzina (Geneva), Dimitra Fragkanastasi (Paris 1), Natalia Weronika Odzimkowska (Paris 1), Katerina Merklova (Prague), María Gómez Merino (Madrid), Daniel Nemirovsky (Barcelona), Alexis Marín Velázquez (Madrid), Salvador Percastre (Barcelona), Věra Řiháčková (Prague), Areva Paronjana (EEAS), Jean-Michel Dartaguiette (Paris 1).

Classic Colloquium: Poetry, Oratory, Rhetoric,Persuasion: The Power of the Word in Ancient Times

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Hosted at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (5th–7th November 2015)

Our 12th Classics Colloquium, in our continuing popular series, held in partnership with our colleagues at Paris 1, was led by Professor Dimitri El Murr, who teaches classical philosophy and history in Paris, atttracted 24 advanced Classics graduates from Europaeum university partners - with applications equaling a record, with many students disappointed they could not be included. There was 17 papers from younger scholars around the theme of Man and Beast, with titles such as Burdens of the beast and man in Latin literature and Roman iconography ; Man and beast in Epictetus Professor Emilio Suarez and Professor Francesco Citti (Bologna) centre with graduate presenters ; and Killing beasts-normalizing nature: The role of heroes.

Discussions proved very lively and continued over meals and coffee breaks, and students reported high levels of satisfaction Papers contributed from senior scholars: Professor Jaume Casals (Barcelona), Professor Francesco Citti (Bologna), Professor Sylva Fischerová, Dr Paul Flather (Oxford), Professor Lucia Pasetti, Professor Emilio Suarez.

Participating students included: Ms Miriam Blanco Cesteros, Mr Mattia Cosimo Chiriatt, Ms Eleni Chronopoulou, Mr Pablo De Paz Amerigo, Ms Soraya Planchas Gallarte, Mr Janne Hovi, Mr Vít Jakimiv, Mr Lassi Johannes Jakola, Mr Dylan James, Ms Lenka Košťálová, Mr Johannes Singer, Ms Chiara Valenzano, Ms Aleksandra Wojtasik, Ms Zofia Wysocka, Mr Kamil Żółtaszek

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TEACHING

Annual Summer School

The Europaeum has run highly successful week-long annual summer schools for its graduates on themes of current European interest. These are multi-disciplinary, including about 30 at postgraduate / research level students, held at a different Europaeum university each year. Three places are allocated to each member institution, with lecturers and tutors drawn from Europaeum faculties.

 Euroscepticism and Populism: Understanding -

the New Politics of Europe

Hosted at the Charles University, Prague (31st August – 5 th September 2015) More than 30 graduates drawn from had ended up on different political nine Europaeum’s parties took part in trajectories to west Europe. a lively six-day summer school hosted enjoyed warm with Charles University, and backed by Participants the Institutes of Political Studies and hospitality over the week, which Economics, exploring why almost one in involved working groups, panel Karel Schwarzenberg four MEPs elected to the 2014 European discussions, a public debate, a Schwarzenberg Parliament are Eurosceptic - from the lively role-playing exercise, and 18 People’s Party in Denmark, Golden Dawn in Greece, graduate presentations, while 12 the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, and Austria, the contributed to a full joint report, Front National in France, and UKIP in the UK - buoyed Vaclav Klaus by concerns over migration and crypto-nationalism right across the Continent sentiments, anti-austerity, available online, while a feedback survey showed anti-liberal, anti-Brussels, anti-elite, anti-Eurocracy, anti almost 95 per cent satisfaction with four out of five formal politics and the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis. rating the event ‘excellent’. Working groups looked at some of the key questions includuing Why is populism Keynote contributions included a 90-minute on the rise ? What strategies should be used to challenge conversation with distinguished former Czech Foreign euroscpetic ? How should EU legitimacy be justified in Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, Europaeum trustee future years ? How does the format of European elections who narrowly lost the Czech Presidency, recalling a encourage protest voting? There was much discussion lifetime in European politics from war time, through suggesting that new forms of nationalism and populism the Communist period and rebuilding after 1989. His were undermining the European Project, fuelled by central message was that crises come and go, and the failures to manage the Eurozone crisis – which has left current crisis had to set in a context with others that were a north-south divide in Eurppe and the so-called PIGS probably worse. An alternative perspective came from (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) reeling with a huge Vaclav Klaus, former President and Prime Minister of debts, one in 4 young people out of work, and welfare the Czech Republic, who gave a typically controversial spending slashed. These economic, social, cultural and address and answered questions for more than an hour, political factors has seen a rise in far left and the far arguing the EU had ‘taken the wrong direction’ and right ‘fringe’ parties changing the style and substance should return to where it was before the Maastricht of European politics. Discussions culminated, as ever, treaty, respecting national sovereignties. Other speakers in the great debate on the last morning on the motion included Pprofessor Václav Hampl, former Rector, now “This House believes that our European Project is not Senator on European Affairs, in a lively discussion on the going to survive another 25 years”, highly popular with EU and Czech skepticism, and Jan Kavan, former Czech all graduates taking an active, part, moderated as usual Foreign Secretary), who analysed how Czech and Poles by Paul Flather. The result was close.

Speakers included: Dr Jiří Pehe (Director, NYU Prague); Dr Hartmut Mayer (Oxford University); Professor Václav Hampl (Senator on European Affairs, former Rector, Charles University, Prague); Dr Paul Flather (Mansfield College, Oxford); Dr Tomáš Sedláček (macro-economist, Československá Obchodní Banka); Professor Dr Janusz Salamon (Institute of Political Studies, Charles University). Dr Vladimir Benáček (Prague), Dr Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), HE Dr Václav Klaus (Czech Republic), Dr Veronika Šprinková (Prague), Dr Ludĕk Sekyra, Dr Marek Tukiendorf (Poland), He Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech Republic), Dr Zdenĕk Kudrna (Vienna), Mr Erik Best (Fleet Sheet media), Rector Mr Andrej Virdzek (Prague).

Working group discussion in the Carolinum

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Students include: Ms Caterina Bracchi (Bologna), Mr Paul Brennan (Leiden), Ms Elizabeth Cusma (Barcelona), Ms Aleksandra Drabek (Leiden), Ms Melissa Gerard(Paris 1), Mr Manuel González López (Madrid), Ms Nikola Karasová (Prague), Mr Michał Kłusek (Prague), Ms Joanna Kudrnová (Prague), Mr Jan Kvetina (Prague), Mr Arnout Le Clercq (Leiden), Ms Fanchon Lefèvre (Paris 1), Ms Tessa Loth (Leiden), Mr Jan Macháček (Lidové Noviny), Mr Martin Mejstřĺk (Prague), Mr Luke Moore (Oxford), Ms Marceline Morel (Geneva), Mr Michał Paulus (Prague), Mr Francisco Pinto Mouraz (Portugal), Ms Dominika Proszowska (Krakow), Ms Agnieszka Pyszny (Krakow), Ms Andreea Rusu (Barcelona), Ms Ester Sabatino (Bologna), Mr Andrej Semenov, Mr João Serrano (Portugal), Mr Paolo Singer (Oxford), Ms Liva Snike (Bologna), Ms Enikő Szabó (Krakow), Mr Hiroshi Tagami (Krakow), Mr Pavel Telička, Ms Galina Thiema (Krakow), Mr Alessandro Torello (Bologna), Mr Jan Woska (Prague), Ms Lucia Zachariášová(Czech Republic), Ms Lenka Zlamalova.

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

Special scholarship schemes have been an integral part of the Europaeum to promote student mobility across the association and provide exciting new study opportunities for Europaeum university graduates. Steps are also taken to invoke in existing and special Europe-wide schemes run by partner universities.

 Jenkins Scholarship Scheme This scholarship scheme, set up in honour of the former President of the European Commission and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, continues as a flagship programme for the Europaeum, which Roy Jenkins himself helped to found in the 1990s to help academics, intellectuals and young scholars ‘bridge Europe’. After celebrating the 10th anniversary of the launch of the scheme in some style last year with donors, friends, suporters and one in three of past scholars attending, there has been a fresh fund-raising drive aims at extending the scheme for additional years, with six scholars selected both in 2014-15 and 2015-16.

The 2015-16 Jenkins Scholars (selected from some 30 eligible candidates) were: Belinda Yibai Li, from Leiden, to study for a MPhil in Development Studies at St Antony’s College, Roy Jenkins Oxford; Grzegorz Stec, from the Jagiellonian University, to study for a MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford; Emma Rimpilainen, from the University of Helsinki, to study for a MPhil Russian and East European Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford, The outgoing Jenkins Scholars with partial awards were: Abigail Buglass, from Trinity College, Oxford, to study towards a DPhil in Classics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; Ms Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi, from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to study towards a DPhil in Anthropology at the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon–Sorbonne).

International scholars - including the Jenkins Scholars - pictured at a reception at Balliol College, Oxford

The 2014-15 Jenkins Scholars who were completing their years were : Ana Mendez Lopez, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, MPhil in Sociology and Demography at Nuffield College, Oxford; Minna Nurminen, from University of Helsinki, MSc in Comparative Social Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford; Kristyna Syrova, from Charles University, Prague, MSt in Celtic Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford; Lucy Duggan, from St Hilda’s College, Oxford, PhD in Medieval and Modern Languages at Charles University; Ellen Davies, from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, PhD in Music Studies at Université ParisSorbonne; Claire Vergerio, from Baillol College, Oxford, PhD in International Relations at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki

 Oxford - Geneva Study Bursaries Our long-running scheme, now worth up to €1,000 to each bursary winner, culminaged in three awards allowing winners to spend three or more weeks on a study visit to Oxford or the Graduate Institute, for thanks to generosity from the Graduate Institute, working on research themes in the evolution of international investment agreements and the construction of immigration detention reform policies.

Lukas Schemper

Mr. Lukas Schemper, a PhD student in International History at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, came to Oxford to continue his research on the history of international organizations for disaster relief.

He carried out archival research in the Bodleian’s United Nations Career Records Project, in order to develop a sociology of international organizations to his research work.

Mr. Jack Seddon, a D.Phil. student in International Relations at St John’s College, Oxford, had to defer this travel to Geneva to 2016, due to ill health. He plans to work on the dissolution of international monetary systems in historical perspective. He plans to work in the archives of the Federal Department of Finance and the Swiss National Bank, to study the 1865 collapse in the Latin Monetary Union, a forerunner to today’s European monetary union.

Jack Seddon

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GRADUATE GRANTS & INITIATIVES 

Lisbon Graduate Debate: 800 years after Magna Carta

Hosted at Palácio Estoril Hotel, Estoril (22nd - 24th June 2015)

The Europaeum again facilitated a very lively international debate led by eight graduates drawn from Charles University, the Jagiellonian, Leiden University; and Bologna University, from the IEP atthe Catholica University, before an audience of some 150 participants at the annual Estoril Forum in Lisbon.The Europaeum is one of a number of leading partners supporting this IEP-led initiative, with this year’s conference focusing on the theme 800 Years after Magna Carta: Law, Liberty and Power, involving speakers from all over the world. The graduate debate was on the Participants debate moderated by Paul Flather proposition that “This House believes Europe is still run by an elite”, a full report appears in the bulletin.

A keynote discussion followed a presentation of his eight years at the helm of the European Union, given by Professor Jose Manuel Barroso, now a Europaeum trustee who also teaches at the Catholica, at Princeton and at the Geneva Graduate Institute, while Charles Moore, biographer of Margaret Thatcher, discussed the contribution of the former UK PM. Dr Paul Flather, who chaired the debate, also gave a lecture on Democracy in India Today. There was also a lively session looking at the legacy of Napoleon 200 years after the Battle of Waterloo.

 Graduate Mobility Bursaries For many years, the Europaeum has offered small mobility grants to assist select graduate students from our partner universities - either highly recommended by a Europaeum faculty colleague or participant - or a former Europaeum participant who has impressed us with his/her contributions - to participate in an event relevant to their studies and development at another university.

One of the awards this year was to Olga Kovarzina a doctoral student from the Graduate Institute, Geneva, who travelled to Paris in December to be present during the United Nations COP 21 Climate Conference period of talks - which successful set out certain legally binding agreements to keep global warming bellow 2°C”. The event attracted 50,000 participants. Olga attended a special conference on the topic at Paris 1 on related issues - presenting a paper on the theme of environmental compliance law and the role of NGOs.

Europaeum Visiting Professors The movement and exchange of academic staff, between Europaeum member institutions, supports the development of broader intellectual perspectives, as well as promoting the exchange of ideas and opportunities for new collaborative initiatives.

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Professor William Beinart , Fellow of St Antony’s College and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford, gave a lively seminar to 20 Geneva graduates looking at the aftermath of the police killings at the Marikana platinum mines, exploring how the relations between Government and unions have unfolded, and its impact on the Zuma Presidency.

William Beinart

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• Dr Andrew Clapham, Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, gave a seminar to 15 doctoral and research scholars hosted at All Souls looking at potential human rights law controversies and proposed reforms, and how such questions play between Europe's politicians and lawyers and international courts.

Andrew Clapham

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

The Europaeum has held annual conferences, covering a wide variety of themes, since its foundation, drawing on the interests and abilities of its scholars. These events draw in policymakers, media, civil servants and think-tanks, alongside professors and other experts.

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A Crisis for Europe today: Grexit, Brexit, & the return of Cold War Winds ?

Held at the University of Helsinki (June 11th - 13th) The Europaeum’s main annual conference involved an exoloration of the crisis - in fact the many crises - facing Europe - tracking back 40 years to the famous Helsinki Accords on Human Rights, through 20 years later to the foundation of the OSCE, through to the recent crises in Georgia and Ukraine.

The conference provided a successful meeting of minds, involving politicians, defence experts, economic officials, in cluding a le ading sp okesman fo r the new Finnish government, as well as academics from across Europe, including, from all Europaeum universities.

Hanna Ojanen, Nicholas Vaicqbourdt and Philip McDonagh

The Europaeum also sposored half a dozen doctoral scholars from Krakow, Barcelona, Oxford, Krakow, Helsinki, and Prague, while the keynote speech was given by OCSE Ambassador Philip McDonagh.(see page 3).

The conference, The Crisis of Europe: GrExit ? BrExit ? and the Cold Winds from the East ?, explored the current narratives of language of crisis – replacing more optimistic narratives that marked its first 50 years first of peace building, then shared prosperity. Speakers discussed crises over the UK, Greece, and the Eurozone crisis far from resolved – even with the six-pack and new governance rules emerging. and the annexation of Crimea, continued, sabre-ratling and, perhaps, the start of a new Cold War, with a hihglight a report by young Europaeum MA European History graduate Chris Allen who had spent many months on the Ukraine front line, meeting and reporting on the mercaneries, their background, hopes and believes. The event covered the politics, the economics, the diplomacy and culture of European politicis today.

Key questions included: Can the EU unravel contradictions in the Eurozone model ? Can the EU resolve exit demands of select members ? Can cultural fragmentation be avoided ? Can Europe face down its Eurosceptic critics ? Is a new iron curtain emerging ? Can Europe find the right kind of leadership to go forward ? Can the pessimism be reversed ?

Speakers include: Dr Andrew Graham (Oxford University); Dr Hartmut Mayer (Oxford); Professor Wim van den Doel (Leiden); Dr Paul Flather (Oxford); Andrew Newby (constitutionalist); Susanna Turunen (security journalist); Klaus Tuori (Economist); Hanna Ojanen (Tampereen), Dr Nicolas Vaicqbourdt (Paris 1) Professor Lenka Rovna (Prague) Natasza Styczyńska (Krakow).

800 YEARS AFTER MAGNA CARTA : REPUBLICAN LEGACIES IN THE NETHERLANDS, BRITAIN AND FRANCE:

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Held at the Leiden University (September 18th ) A special seminar attended by some 25 past, present and future MA graduates was held with contributions from leading professors from Leiden, Paris and Oxford - representing the three strands of this pioneering MA, each presenting and analysing a key historical moment from their country relating to the overall development of human rights.

The seminar took the form of Round Table discussing Republican Legacies 800 years after Magna Carta. First off was Professor Wim Blockmans (now an Emeritus professor at Leiden University, who was much involved in the early development of the Europaeum in the 1990s, speaking on It was not just Magna Carta - Stupid! Next came Professor Brian Young, Professor of History at Oxford, speaking on The Glorious Revolution: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Historical Writing, and finally there Dr Nicholas Vaicbourdt (Université Paris I) on the The Origins of the French Republic. Professor Wim van den Doel, Dean of Humanities at Leiden, one of the founding fathers chaired the event, and good wishes were sent from the other two who were both speaking at other conferences, Professor Robert Evans, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and Professor Jean-Pierre Genet, former Professor of History at Paris 1. The event marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Master's Programme in European History by Leiden University, Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Oxford.

Pictured Nicolas Vaicqbourdt, Wim van den Doel and Wim Blockmans speaking.

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RESEARCH PROJECT GROUPS The Europaeum has stimulated many new international research collaboration. Small project grants enable groups to run a research seminar or workshop, co-ordinate a research proposal, or prepare bids to the European Union and other funding bodies as the following Research Project Groups illustrate:

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Comparing Political Concepts in Europe (2006 - )

Linked Institutions: Helsinki, Oxford, Geneva, Bologna, Paris and Madrid Co-coordinators: Professors Michael Freeden (Oxford), Henrik Stenius and Bo Stråth (Helsinki), Nere Basabe (Madrid), et al.

Work is now focussing on bringing the first volume of research studies from this active Research Project Group expects to fruition. The group was formed more than five years earlier to investigated how key political, legal, cultural concepts such as federal, sovereignty and freedom, are used across and within European nations, linguistic groups and political boundaries. In all, a dozen linked workshops, meetings and conferences and editorial discussions have been held various8sly in Helsinki, Oxford and Berlin, linking a range of scholars from across Europe. It is hoped the first volume of essays will become the first of series on clusters of linked concepts, as differentially used, and looking at differences between Michael Freeden core and peripheral countries in Europe.

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Cultural Difference in Europe (2005 - )

Linked Institutions: Prague, Oxford, Krakow, Madrid, and Tamkang (Taiwan).

Co-ordinators: Dr Nicolas Bunnin (Oxford), Professor Antonio Elorza (Madrid), Professor Jiri Pehe (Prague), Didier Georgakakis (Paris), with Professor Grazyna Skapska (Krakow), In 2103 our internatinal conference held in Paris on Fragmentation in Europe explored cultural and social challenges facing Europe in the wake of the economic crisis, which was raising once again questions about identify and nationality. This is a theme that refuses to go away, and in the wake of the current refugee crisis, it is proposed to look at what it means to be a European and even a good European at a graduate workshop in Prasgue in 2016. TA conference on Europe’s crises in 2015 also touches on these programme themes, exploring the place and basis of cultural differences across Europe, in some ways exploring the official motto of the European Union of Unity in Diversity, through a series of linked events, each involving academics, intellectuals, artists, cultural managers, and politicians. These have taken the form of a series of multi-disciplinary workshops, drawing in philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and political scien¬tists. So far workshops have been held in Prague, Krakow, Madrid, Paris 1 - and we will add Helsinki and Prague again. One feature has been to involve non-Europeans, offering a countervailing and external viewpoints.

The Paris event looked at culture in terms of perceived ‘fragmentation’, following wide disillusionment with the overall European Project for integration, in the wake of the economic, migration and mobility crises, and a feeling that identities may be under threat.

Discussions are continuing to try to to bring ideas from the various Europaeum workshops together for a possible volume of essays.

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Working with international partners

Over the past year, the Europaeum developed a number of productive, lively and complementary partnerships, beyond those with our 12 main University members, which enable us to deliver our mission in more cost-effective and far-reaching methods. With the New York Review of Books Foundation, weith whom this past year we co-supported a prestigious event looking at What is Wrong with Economics ? held in New York with a paper from Dr Andrew Graham, Chair of the Europaeum Academic Council. We are a key partner in the Vaclav Havel Dialogue Project, supporting a moving colloquium on the meanings of European values in June in Prague. We helped lead the Oxford Debates on Europe and Oxford, EUK@OX, composed of six Oxford centres, running a series of lively dialogues examining issues related to the UK BrExit referendum. We remain in partnership with opendemocracy.net with whom we hope to develop wider channels to disseminate our materials.

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PUBLICATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS

The Europaeum publishes pamphlets and booklets based on lectures and other events that are held. These are printed and distributed to partner universities as well as friends of the association. This year, two publications went to press, accompanying our online portfolio of publications.

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Re-evaluvating the Legacy of Henry Kissinger: Statesman or Stuntman ?

Jussi Hanhimäki

A Europaeum pamphlet on the legacy of Henry Kissinger was published in the summer, based on the original Europaeum Lecture delivered on 19th February 2014 at St Antony’s College, Oxford,

by Professor Jussi Hanhimäki, Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and a leading expert on the international history of the Cold War. The lecture is available online or copies can be ordered from the office.

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Europaeum E-Bulletin

The monthly electronic e-Bulletin continues to go out regularly to some 1000 + ‘Europaeum faculty’, linked scholars in partner institutions, participants in Europaeum events, friends and supporters and receives good feedback.

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Europaeum Website

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Europaeum Academic Register

This continues as our main point of external contact, with a monthly record of some 51,000 hits. The content is updated weekly, and moves are underway to continually increase the range of services on offer.

This is now a settled feature of our website, with more than 150 ‘linked’ academics from our 12 partner institutions – listed by name, job, institution(s), discipline(s), research interests, and recent publications – accessible to their colleagues in the search for potential collaborators, for example in joint project bids, via the Europaeum or beyond, and also in raising visibility. Names are added every few weeks and updates are kept to a minimum.

 MA Anniversary Booklet

A special 12-page anniversary booklet was produced to mark the 10th full year of our pioneering and jointly-offered MA programme in European History - which links the History Faculties of Leiden, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Oxford. Some 90 graduates from all over Europe and including some from the US and one from China - all listed in the brochure - have graduated on MA since the pilot year in 2004-5, which is reported in detail in the brochure. It also provides a potted history of the event, paying due homage to founding fathers, Professors Wim van den Doel (Leiden), Professor Robert Evans (Oxford) and Jean-Pierre Genet (Paris 1). Special thanks were given by Rector Professor Carel Stolker of Leiden University at the event. It also summarised the highlyu positive results from a five-year and a 10-year survey, select quotes from past graduates. The brochure was sent to all past graduates, all those involved in the MA and attending the seminar, and shared with all our partner universities.

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EUROPAEUM DAY ON EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY Held at Oxford University (November 23rd)

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More than 30 leading Europaeum alumni were in Oxford last month invited from member institutions to take part in the Europaeum’s inaugural special European Democracy Day focusing how to improve democracy across and within the European Union - including the role the UK may play in a future European Union (see our main poster here). They were drawn from a range of our MA, graduate and summer school programmes as well as our scholarship and bursary awards, with some going back more than more than five years.

Please see here for a list of Europaeum alumni participating. They were able to participate in our day of activities which will include a fireside chat with former EU President Joao Manuel Barroso and Professor Yves Meny, and a model European Parliament-style debate on four key policy recommendations to do with democratic reforms for the EU, including universal election, adding to the powers of the Parliament, investigating how the new six-pack and other reforms will lead to greater centralization, and ways of involving more bottom up participation.

The students were joined by others from the Weidenfeld Scholarships Scheme and the Blatvanik School of Governance. After their dinner at St Antony’s College, they were able to attend the special debate on BrExit reflecting the looming debate on the future relationship of the UK with the European Union.

Participants in the debate clockwise from the top Barroso, Farage, Clegg, and Cash

The debate was set up by the Europaeum in partnership with the Oxford Union, with support from colleagues and partners within the wider EUK@OX consortium, in the historic 192-year old Oxford Union (see news report here) .

Billed as the most significant Oxford Union debate in 10 years or decades, They queued for up to five hours apparently in cold and wet weather to grab their seats for one of the hottest debates hosted at the historic 192-year old Oxford Union.

Even as the packed audience - including special Europaeum guests and senior representatives from the Jagiellonian, from Paris 1, from Charles University, Pompeu Fabre, the Graduate Institute, as well as Oxford - was listening to the powerful debate, a poll for the Independent newspaper was revealing a 52-48 per cent majority actually in favour of BrExit. Our four keynote speakers President Joao Manuel Barroso, former President of the EU and our newest member of the Europaeum Board, Mr Nick Clegg MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nigel Farage MEP, leader of UKIP in the UK and Sir William Cash, long-term Conservative opponent of UK membership, did battle on the on the motion: “This House believes that the UK and the EU are better together”. For images from the The ‘Fireside‘ briefing with Professor Yves Meny (left), debate, as published in The Oxford Times see here. At the end of a lively Professor Barroso and Dr Paul Flather (right) two-hour debate the vote was overwhelming, with 283 for the motion and 74 against. (please see here for a key short from the ). Next month we will publish a link to the actual debate and a full gallery of photos from the debate and from our Democracy Day. Academic Participants: Professor Philippe Burrin (Geneva), Dr Anne Deighton (Oxford), Professor João Carlos Espada (IEP), Professor Josep Ferrer (Barcelona), Dr Paul Flather (Oxford), Dr Andrew Graham (Oxford), Michael Horowitz Qc (Lawyer, Philantropist), Mr Will Hutton (Oxford), Dr Pierre Keller (Former Partner, Lombard Odier & Cie Bank, Geneva ), Professor Zdzislaw Mach (Krakow), Dr Hartmut Mayer (Oxford), Professor Yves Meny (President, Scuola Superiore Sant’anna In Pisa, Former President Of The Eui Florence), Dr Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford), Professor Lenka Rovna (Prague), Dr Anne Simonin (Oxford) , Mr Jonathan Scheele Research (Oxford), Dr Nicolas Vaicbourdt (Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne), H.E. Mr João De Vallera (Ambassador, Portuguese Embassy In The UK), Ms Anne Willcocks CBE (External Affairs Director Of The Uk Insolvency Service, Department Of Business, Enterprise And Regulation), Professor Jan Zielonka (Oxford).

Captions Celebrations in a pub after a good day

Graduate Participants: Mr Karim Aziz (Oxford), Mr Filippo Cicciu (Collaborator Of Radiotelevisione Svizzera); Dr Mary Cox (Oxford), Mr Sofiane Croisier (Oxford), Lesley-Ann Daniels (Barcelona), Ms Katri Eeva (Oxford), Ms Sherine El Taraboulsi (Oxford), Mr Mikolaj Firlej(Oxford), Ms Emma Hakala (Oxford), Mr Tilman Hisarli(Oxford), Mr Mark Hugen( Leiden), Mr Ivaylo Iaydjiev(Oxford), Ms Marloes Jongewaard (Amsterdam), Ms Ottilie Klein(Giessen/Helsinki), Mr Michal Klusek (Legal Expert At Stanczyk Institute Of Civic Thought Foundation), Mr Timo Miettinen (Helsinki University), Mr Timothy Moore(Oxford), Pedro Moreira(Lisbon), Ms Julia Morris(Oxford), Ms Alexandra Nastase (Oxford), Ms Helen Parker (Oxford), Mr Jeroen Van Raalte (Journalist And Historian), Mr Antti Ronkainen (Helsinki), Ms Ester Sabatino (Bologna), Olivier Santin (Oxford), David Semera (Prague), Paolo Singer (Oxford),Ms Liva Snike (Marketing And Liaison Manager For Ibd), Mr Tomas Wallenius (Oxford), Tomasso Zaccaro (European Voluntary Service, Marseille),

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FINANCIAL REPORT 

Summary

The Europaeum operates as a charity under UK Charity Law, and as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee under UK company law. The formal accounts are presented as required by UK company and charity law, prepared by our accountant, Lisa Burdett at CKLG Accountants from Cambridge. For the annual accrual accounts for 2014-15 show: 2015 12 months to 31/3/15

2014 15 months to 31/3/14

225.490

205.586

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225.530

205.626

(197.111)

(247.799)

Income Incoming resources from generating funds: •

Subscription income from Members

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Bank interest receivable

Total incoming resources Expenditure Charitable activities: teaching, research and academic collaboration

(8.218)

(9.327)

(205.330)

(257.126)

Net resources

19.733

(13.540)

Funds brought forward

20.178

71.679

Total funds carried forward

40.379

20.178

Governance costs Total expenditure

The Europaeum’s income continues to come from one main source – some €225.490 from our member university subscriptions. There are other forms of support in kind, which, it is estimated, is probably equivalent to one-third again of our actual annual revenue.

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Benefactions and Donations

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Central Costs

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Activities

As ever, the Europaeum remains indebted to its major benefactors, and to its academic community who volunteer their academic contributions, whose commitment continues to transform ideas into realities.

The running costs of the office – including rent, electricity, postage, equipment, computers and telephone – amounted to €8.218 . Costs, though, are constantly being honed down. Thus in recent years, publications costs have been greatly reduced.Company-related costs are kept well to a minimum by continuing to do as much as possible ‘in-house’, including most book-keeping, record-keeping, design, and website updating. The main cost is the Secretariat and staffing – including Secretary-General (Dr Paul Flather), plus two supported interns from Europaeum universities, backed by a part-time Web manager and design, computing, and database support, as appropriate. Most of Staffing time is spent on planning, organising, setting up and taking part in the programme of activities and teaching partnerships, and bursary schemes. The Secretary-General takes a full part in most events, chairing, moderating and giving papers. UK charity studies confirm that this is usually rated at 85 per cent of staffing time, and this this amount should be 're-allocated' to the activities budget.

The main events of the year are the annual summer school, the annual conference, and in 2015 the Europaeum Day of Democracy which cost about €17,500, most offset in sponsorship, and partnership support.The Jenkins Scholarship Fund, launched in 2004 and linked to the Europaeum association, now provides up to €80,000 a year for leading Europaeum graduates to study at Oxford and Oxford graduates to study at Europaeum universities.

Future needs include upgrading the website, now very overdue, seeking a stronger staffing base to support the Secretary-General, new computer equipment including a new server and a computer and related software, and support to maintain the association's link with various partner institutions.

Overtures are underway to discover a fresh funding stream, to support and secure the future development and programmes of the Europaeum.

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PARTNERS & CONTACTS University of Oxford

Mr Ed Nash Strategy Officer International Relations Office University of Oxford Wellington Square OX1 2JD, UK Tel: +44 (0)1865 280489 ed.nash@admin.ox.ac.uk

Dr Eric Beerkens Bestuursbureau, Directie Academische Zaken Universiteit Leiden De Oude UB Rapenburg 70, PO Box 9500 2311 EZ Leiden, The Netherlands Tel.: +31 71 527 3212, h.j.j.g.beerkens@bb.leidenuniv.nl

University of Bologna

Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne

The Graduate Institute, Geneva

Dr Giovanna Filippini Director Relazioni Internazionali Università di Bologna Via Zamboni 33, 40126 Bologna, Italy Tel: +39 51 209 9364, Fax: +39 51 209 9351 giovanna.filippini@unibo.it

Dr Nicolas Vaicbourdt Maison Internationale 58 Boulevard Arago 75013 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 53 73 71 00 Fax: +33 1 44 07 01 79 Nicolas.Vaicbourdt@univ-paris1.fr

Charles University, Prague

Ms Natasza Styczyńska Institute of European Studies Jagiellonian University ul. Jodłowa 13, 30-252 Kraków, Poland Phone.: +48 12/664 74 22 Fax: +48 12/429 70 52 natasza.styczynska@uj.edu.pl

Dr Jasmine Champenois Executive Director, International Programmes Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Po.Box 136, 1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland Tel: +41.22.908.57.35 jasmine.champenois@graduateinstitute.ch

University of Helsinki

Ms Veronika Hunt Safrankova Director, International Relations Office, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Ovocny trh 3/5, 116 36 Praha, Czech Republic Tel: +4202 224 491 301 Fax: +4202 224 229 487 veronika.safrankova@ruk.cuni

Dr Leena Malkki Director Network for European Studies PO Box 17 (Arkadiankatu 7) 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Tel.: +358 9 191 28808 juhana.aunesluoma@helsinki.fi

Complutense University, Madrid

Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Ms Emma Dafouz Milne Dpto. de Filología Inglesa I Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultadde Filología Ciudad Universitaria s/n 28040 Madrid , Tel.:(34) 91-394.53.72 E.mail: vr.internacional@ucm.es

Institute of Political Studies, Catholic University of Portugal Dr

Ivone Moreira IEP, Portuguese Catholic University Palma de Cima - 1649-023 Lisboa – Portugal Tel: (+351) 217214129, imoreira@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt

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University of Leiden

Ms Regina Arquimbau Ibañez International Project Manager, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Pl. de la Mercè 10 -12 - 08002 Barcelona Tel: 93 542 20 60 I Fax: 93 542 20 81 regina.arquimbau@upf.edu

Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

Raffaella Delli Santi, M.A. Assistant to the President Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Leopoldstrasse 3 80802 München/GERMANY Tel: +49(0)89-2180-6805 Email: delli-santi@lmu.de