Participation in these activities is highly recommended. Apart from the 19 courses on offer, many extra activities are being organized. Benefiting from the central position of Leuven, European Studies offers you the opportunity to participate in several study-trips. These trips allow students to see how international institutions function in practice. During these trips well-placed insiders talk about their work environment or their professional field.
Students have the opportunity to meet people who make European policy day after day.
As we are close to Brussels, we pay a visit to the European Commission, where officials of different Directorates General come to talk and to discuss about the field they work in. One of the other study visits brings us to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. There, we attend a hearing in one of the cases and meet one of the Court's judges. In Strasbourg we visit the European Parliament, where we attend a plenary session and meet several Members of Parliament. Also in Strasbourg, we visit the Council of Europe, where we attend lectures about the activities of this lesser known pan-European intergovernmental organisation.