EUI activity report 2022.
Date: 2023-07-13
Institutions: European University Institute
Subjects: European University Institute, activity report, higher education

EUROPEAN 
UNIVERSITY 
INSTITUTE

EUI
ACTIVITY 
REPORT 2022

CONTENTS

FROM 2022

IN NUMBERS

IN RESEARCH

THE PRESIDENT

STAGE RESEARCHERS

UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

03 MESSAGE FROM 
05 THE EUROPEAN 
06 HIGHLIGHTS  
08 EUI  
10 TRAINING EARLY 
18 EXCELLENCE 
24 TRAINING CURRENT 
29 ENGAGING  
33 EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, 
36 SUPPORT  
38 BUDGET 
42 LEADERSHIP, FACULTY,  

AND INCLUSIVENESS

AND GOVERNANCE

GLOBALLY

SERVICES

FIGURES

AND FUTURE POLICY MAKERS 

MESSAGE FROM THE 
PRESIDENT

and trade. Importantly, in 2022, the EUI developed a new 
Executive Education Catalogue and laid the foundations 
for the nascent EUI Global Executive Master.

In 2022, the EUI also made extensive strides in equality, 
diversity, and inclusiveness – a key priority for the 
Institute. With the establishment of the Gender Equality 
Committee, which serves in the implementation of 
the EUI’s ambitious Gender Equality Plan, the EUI 
developed best practices and procedures throughout 
the year. Most notably, the EUI put forth a new Policy on 
Harassment, Sexual Harassment, and Bullying. The new 
policy reaffirms the EUI’s zero-tolerance and establishes 
three distinct bodies for advisory, support, and problem-
solving.

All in all, 2022 brought more connections with European 
academia through partnerships and alliances, chiefly 
via CIVICA, new opportunities to open up to the 
world, for example through the School of Transnational 
Governance, and success in implementing the Institute’s 
strategic vision, despite many difficulties - including the 
consequences of Brexit. This was confirmed by the mid-
term evaluation of the 2019-2024 EUI Strategy, which 
also put in the spotlight the need to better contribute 
to capacity building in research and higher education 
across Europe and to harness the digital transition, with a 
dedicated strategy. 

These are just a few of the EUI’s many accomplishments 
over the year. This report gathers much more, 
highlighting the Institute’s work in further boosting its 
central role as a hub in the social sciences and humanities 
in Europe. 

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to taper, the year 
2022 brought an opportunity to re-connect in person 
and reflect on this common experience, including the 
continuing challenges borne from the crisis. The EUI 
witnessed a vibrant return to serving as an international 
gathering place for academics across disciplines to 
collaborate on research and exchange with policy makers 
and members of society. 

As a hub for the social sciences and humanities in 
Europe, the EUI’s early stage researchers benefitted 
greatly from this new era. In 2022, 85% engaged in 
interdisciplinary activities, while more than 50% attended 
activities organised by another university in the EU, often 
in person. More than 700 early stage researchers from 
other universities in the EU attended EUI events. Many of 
these activities took place through our CIVICA alliance, 
which saw a renewed phase with new funding through 
the EU’s European Universities Initiative.

As the post-pandemic era began to unfold, a devastating 
war hit Europe. The Russian attack on Ukraine presented 
a tragic crisis with a myriad of challenges. The EUI and 
its Contracting States promptly condemned the attack 
with an official statement. The Institute organised an ad 
hoc selection and admission procedure for candidates 
affected by the war to join PhD, master and post-doctoral 
fellowship programmes, including in cooperation with 
the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. 
The EUI also opened courses and trainings to affected 
scholars. More than 90 Ukrainians benefitted from EUI 
programmes, on campus and online. 

The 2022 State of the Union conference was a notable 
example of a return to in-person exchange, and as a 
place for academics to discuss crucial topics, such as 
the war in Ukraine, with policy makers. The 2022 edition 
was again hosted on the EUI campus and at Palazzo 
Vecchio in the centre of Florence. It brought together 
high-level policy makers and top scholars to discuss “A 
Europe fit for the next generation?” Both the war and the 
continuing difficulties from the pandemic were high on 
the agenda. 

In 2022, as many as 15,700 participants took part in EUI 
activities aimed at policy makers, including conferences, 
policy dialogues, and executive training. During the 
year, executive education at the EUI marked a full 
recovery from the pandemic crisis, with a 70% increase 
in participants compared to 2021. More than 4,600 
professionals took part in dozens of trainings during the 
year, gaining fresh insight and honing skills in areas such 
climate, digital transformation, banking and finance, 
energy regulation, gender, migration, peace and security, 

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THE EUROPEAN 
UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

A renowned transnational hub of interdisciplinary research and higher learning, 
the European University Institute (EUI) unites scholars, practitioners, and policy makers 
to study and address the most pressing global challenges.

Founded in 1972 by the members of the then European Communities, today the EUI  
is the leading institute in Europe dedicated to the social sciences and humanities.  
The three pillars of its activities are the training of early stage researchers through 
excellent research, policy-relevant research, and the training of current and future policy 
makers.

THE EUI ACTIVITY 
REPORT 2022

This report offers a summary of the EUI’s many initiatives in 
the year 2022, demonstrating the extensive progress made in 
accomplishing the institute’s strategic priorities for 2019-2024.

A STRATEGIC 
VISION

A HUB FOR SOCIAL 
SCIENCES AND 
HUMANITIES IN EUROPE

BRIDGING THE 
CAPABILITY GAP 
IN EUROPEAN HIGHER 
EDUCATION

DEVELOPING 
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY 
ACADEMIC 
PROGRAMME

ENGAGING 
GLOBALLY

DIVERSITY AND 
INCLUSIVENESS

IMPROVING 
ACCOUNTABILITY

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2022

JANUARY

APRIL

•  History Professor Regina Grafe begins mandate as 

•  History Professor Giorgio Riello wins ERC Advanced 

EUI Dean of External Relations.

Grant.

•  Law Professor Deirdre Curtin begins mandate as EUI 

•  SPS alumna Helena Carreiras appointed Portugal’s 

Dean of Graduate Studies. 

first female Minister of Defence.

•  Law alumnus Juan Jorge Piernas López awarded 

•  STG welcomes five Ukrainian Policy Leader Fellows 

Jean Monnet Chair.

and master students.

•  First EUI-YouGov Data Conference takes place at 

•  Conference on the Future of Europe video series 

the RSC.

launched with EUI academics.

FEBRUARY

•  Lukas Wiehler, STG master student, receives first 

CIVICA Capstone Project Award.

•  Law alumnus Federico Fabbrini leads Jean Monnet 

Centre of Excellence REBUILD.

•  Academic community celebrates Black History 

Month with initiatives and events.

•  African School of Regulation launched through 

partnership between Florence School of Regulation 
– Energy & Climate and climate-sector institutions.

•  “SISU – Stories of never giving up” podcast 

launched with STG Director Alexander Stubb.

MARCH

•  EUI reacts to war in Ukraine with statement and 

information hub.

•  Law Professor Giovanni Sartor appointed ERC 

• 

Scientific Council member.
International Women’s Day celebrated at the EUI, 
with spotlight on research and policy contributions.

MAY

•  European mayors gather at Palazzo Buontalenti in 

event organised with Eurocities.

•  First CIVICA Research Excellence Tours hosted at 

the EUI and Sciences Po.

•  Annual State of the Union conference hosted at the 

EUI and Palazzo Vecchio.

•  Project launched on queer pasts with History 

Professor Benno Gammerl.

JUNE

•  2022 EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony held at the 

EUI.

•  STG Professor Daniel Innerarity appointed Chair in 

AI & Democracy.

•  RSC Director Erik Jones elected member of the 

Academia Europaea.

•  Max Weber Fellow Nikolai Badenhoop provides 
European Parliament with expert assessment on 
Green Bonds.

•  European Digital Media Observatory annual 

conference takes place in Brussels.

•  STG welcomes the first cohort of diplomats from the 

•  EUI-led projects selected for three of six CIVICA 

Western Balkans.

collaborative research projects.

•  “Understanding the war” video series launched with 

STG Director Alexander Stubb.

•  “African Renaissance: Young African Leaders in 
Florence” short film presented by the STG.
•  Pilot Network for Research Ethics and Data 

Management Training founded with Economics 
Professor Thomas Crossley as Principal Investigator. 

•  Research area “Focus on Southeastern Europe” 
launched by Global Governance Programme.
•  History Department and the RSC host lecture with 
John J. Mearsheimer on the Russian invasion on 
Ukraine.

•  Economics Department lecture series hosts Kenneth 
Rogoff on “Institutional Innovation and Central Bank 
Independence 2.0.”

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEJULY

OCTOBER

•  First edition of the EUI Research Newsletter sent to 

16,000 subscribers.

•  High-level event in Kampala, co-organised by the 
EUI and the Uganda Council on Foreign Relations, 
marks the Institute’s strengthened engagement with 
Africa.

•  EUI members participate in CIVICA Summer School 

at Lake Como. 

•  Law alumna Dorothy Estrada-Tanck appointed Chair 
of United Nations Working Group on Discrimination 
against Women and Girls.

•  Max Weber Fellows Victoria Finn and Natalia 

• 

Garbiras-Díaz win APSA thesis prizes.
International Visegrad Fund Research Grant 
Programme at the Historical Archives of the 
European Union agreement confirmed.

•  Research area “Knowledge, Governance, 

•  CIVICA alliance embarks on a new and ambitious 

Transformations” launched by Global Governance 
Programme. 

AUGUST

•  EUI and the Joint Research Centre of the European 
Commission establish cooperation in support of 
Ukrainian scholars.

•  Research project “ACE BRAIN”, co-developed with 
the STG, focuses on the future of blockchain in 
Europe.

SEPTEMBER

•  Master of Research in Economics welcomes its first 

cohort.

•  STG Young African Leaders Programme enters 

second round.

•  Corinna Unger and Elias Dinas appointed new 

Heads of Department (History, SPS).

•  Waltraud Schelkle appointed Joint Chair of the 
Department of Political and Social Sciences and 
RSC.

•  Herman Van de Werfhorst appointed Chair in 
Sociology, Department of Political and Social 
Sciences.

•  Monika Baar appointed Joint Chair of the 

Department of History and Robert Schuman Centre.
•  Leonardo Meeus appointed Director of the Florence 

School of Regulation.

•  Law alumna Síofra O’Leary elected President of the 

European Court of Human Rights.

•  STG Professor Kenneth Amaeshi joins EU advisory 

group on sustainable finance.

•  Equality, diversity, and inclusiveness webpages 

launched.

•  European Governance and Politics Programme 

launches online voting advice application.
•  Florence School of Banking and Finance and 

CESIFIN host conference on the multiple roles of 
central banks.

•  RSC “CrossJustice” project develops platform to 

phase.

•  First CIVICA Data Science Days hosted at the EUI.
•  EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy launched 

by European Commission, ESAs and the EUI.
•  “Syrian trajectories: Challenges and opportunities 
for peacebuilding” project launched by RSC Syria 
Initiative.

NOVEMBER

•  First comprehensive Executive Education Catalogue 

published at the EUI.

•  New phase of “CIVICA for Early-Stage Researchers” 

kicks off at the EUI.

•  Centre for a Digital Society launched at the RSC.
•  European Media and Information Fund awards 
€5.7M for projects fighting disinformation.

•  Delegation from the STG Climate team and the 
Florence School of Regulation – Climate attends 
COP27.

•  Research Network on Ukrainian Migration co-

launched by Migration Policy Centre.

•  Workshop on globalisation and justice held by 
the Transnational Democracy Cluster, EUI-STG 
Democracy Forum and the CSOs Citizens Take Over 
Europe and European Civic Forum.

DECEMBER

•  Final conference of the “Differentiation: Clustering 
Excellence” (DiCE) project, analysing the effects of 
the war in Ukraine.

•  New partnership between Florence School of 

Regulation and European Central Bank to train 
banking supervisors.

•  Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom 
takes part in project to identify emerging “news 
deserts” in Europe and map risks for local media.
•  Second mandate confirmed for the European Digital 

enforce procedural rights’ effectiveness.

Media Observatory on disinformation.

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EUI IN NUMBERS

23MEMBER 

STATES

1,000+

SCHOLARS 
FROM

390+

FACULTY, ACADEMIC, 
AND RESEARCH STAFF

90+COUNTRIES

90+INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS 

IN RESEARCH, EXCHANGE, 
AND EDUCATIONAL 
INITIATIVES 

EUI PEOPLE

158 FULL AND PART-TIME 

PROFESSORS 

233

ACADEMIC AND 
RESEARCH STAFF

POLICY LEADER 
FELLOWS

YOUNG AFRICAN 
LEADERS

20

25

680

DOCTORAL 
RESEARCHERS 
AND STUDENTS

3,321

ALUMNI

60

47

MAX WEBER 
FELLOWS

309

SUPPORT STAFF 
IN 2022 

ROBERT SCHUMAN, 
FERNAND BRAUDEL 
AND JEAN MONNET 
FELLOWS

96

COUNTRIES 
REPRESENTED
IN 2022 

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTERESEARCH AND TRAINING

INTERDISCIPLINARY 
RESEARCH CLUSTERS

2022 RESEARCH OUTPUT
69% in Open Access
(source: Cadmus, EUI research repository)

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84

13

DEFENDED PHD 
AND LLM THESES

ERC PROJECTS

12%
WORKING 
PAPERS

10.7%
CONTRIBUTION 
TO BOOKS

12.5%
OTHER

7.4%
TECHNICAL 
REPORTS

EXTERNAL FUNDING 
FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

27.6M

1,043
TOTAL

SUMMER SCHOOLS

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EUI RESEARCH OUTPUTS

1,043

ENGAGING EXTERNALLY

6.3%
BOOKS

3.8%
VIDEOS

10.9%
THESES

36%
ARTICLES

0.4%
DATASETS

95

15.7K

EXTERNAL 
PARTNERSHIPS

PARTICIPANTS AT EUI 
POLICY EVENTS

1.4K

MEDIA MENTIONS

167K

SOCIAL MEDIA 
FOLLOWERS 
(MAIN CHANNELS)

18K

HIGHLIGHTS 
NEWSLETTER 
SUBSCRIBERS 

7M

WEBSITE 
PAGEVIEWS

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TRAINING EARLY STAGE 
RESEARCHERS

Training early stage researchers through excellent research is one of the EUI’s main pillars of 
activities. With an academic environment that is international, interdisciplinary, and innovative, 
the Institute provides a stimulating environment for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Each 
year, up to 150 new candidates embark on a research-intensive doctoral programme at the EUI’s 
departments of Economics, History, Law, and Political and Social Sciences. The EUI is also home 
to the Max Weber Programme, the largest and most innovative post-doctoral programme in the 
social sciences and humanities in Europe. 

The EUI’s four fully funded doctoral programmes 
prepare candidates for outstanding career prospects 
within academia, international organisations, and 
the public and private sectors. The is Institute is 
characterised by its thriving intellectual climate, rich 
in seminars, conferences, and events, hosting leading 
academics and policymakers from around the world. 
Notably, researchers have access to state-of-the-art 
facilities, including an extensive research library and 
the Historical Archives of the European Union.

THE DOCTORAL PROGRAMME
In 2022, more than 1,300 candidates applied for 
the EUI’s doctoral programmes, LLM programme in 
Comparative, European and International Laws, and 
its new Master of Research in Economics (MRes). 

Figure 1:

Application and admission by department,  
2022-2023 recruitment procedure

,

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 The EUI accepted approximately 120 candidates, 
leading to an admission rate of approximately 9%, 
which is in line with averages from the past decade. 

Almost 600 doctoral, LLM, and MRes researchers 
were enrolled at the EUI in 2022. 76% were from the 
EU, 7.5% were from the UK, Norway, and Switzerland, 
16.5% were from other non-EU Member States.

Figure 2:

Total number of enrolled doctoral and LLM researchers 
for academic year 2022-23, by department

3
LLM

166
SPS

156
LAW

21
MRes

109
 ECO

152
 HEC

Fostering quality supervision, academic skills, 
and wellbeing
Outstanding, high-quality supervision is a core activity 
at the EUI. With around 60 top scholars from around 
the globe, the EUI academic staff offers innovative 
methods, diverse perspectives, and a distinct aim 
towards excellence in research. The Institute assesses 
the quality of doctoral supervision among doctoral 
candidates during the third term of each academic 
year through a written questionnaire that fully 
respects the anonymity of the respondents.  

The EUI strives to promote an academic environment 
in which the doctoral researchers’ global 
development and wellbeing are also highly regarded. 

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In addition to support in producing a fine thesis, 
the EUI provides workshops and training designed 
to foster academic and professional development, 
opportunities for international exchange programmes 
and placements, support for wellbeing, and many 
extra-curricular activities. 

In 2022, the completion rate remained high in the 
doctoral programmes, with 88.5% of candidates 
admitted in cohorts 2011 to 2015 completing the 
doctorate.

Working groups and interdisciplinarity 
Researcher-driven working groups are an important 
arena for scholarly growth and interaction at the 
Institute. Some groups offer an opportunity for 
deeper specialisation within a discipline, while others 
offer cross-disciplinary enrichment. In 2022, over 
40% of the 50 active working groups were jointly 
run by researchers from two or more departments; 
the most common collaborations are with the EUI’s 
Interdisciplinary Research Clusters and with initiatives 
led by Max Weber postdoctoral fellows. Significant 
examples are the Conversation on Histories of 

Capitalism working group, which brings together 
law and history researchers; the Queer and Feminist 
studies working group (HEC, LAW, RSC), whose 
meetings in 2022 investigated gendered democracies 
and queer pedagogies, among other topics; and 
the Qualifie working group, in which researchers 
from three departments and the Robert Schuman 
Centre for Advanced Studies share their fieldwork 
experiences and analyse research ethics issues 
from the perspectives of political science, history, 
ethnography, sociology, development studies, and 
religious studies. Discussions in 2022 included the 
relationship between field research and activism, and 
visual methodology and multi-sited ethnography in 
migration research. 

In 2022, nearly 85% of early stage researchers 
and more than 78% of EUI faculty took part in 
interdisciplinary activities.

Reaching out to Europe’s brightest 

The EUI conducts extensive campaigns for its PhD programmes, LLM programme in 
Comparative, European and International Laws, and Master of Research in Economics. In 2022, 
the EUI produced a series of new videos to illustrate the beauty of the EUI campus and its 
academic offer, as well as a video featuring the First Generation Initiative. The EUI hosted 21 
online PhD Information Sessions and Q&A targeting EUI contracting and associate member 
states in 2022. In addition, the four departments held 11 virtual open days. 

DEIRDRE CURTIN 
Dean of Graduate Studies

“The EUI is a vibrant and engaged research community 
that fosters excellence in doctoral research and its 
supervision, guiding researchers with a positive mind-set 
and academic support to reach high quality results in a 
caring and responsive environment.”

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Economics

The EUI’s Department of Economics 
focuses on a wide range of topics 
in the fields of microeconomics, 
macroeconomics, and econometrics. In 
addition to coursework and electives, 
PhD researchers receive training in 
public presentation and career building, 
preparing them for prominent roles at 
distinguished universities and major 
institutions worldwide.

History and Civilisation

The EUI’s Department of History 
and Civilisation focuses on global, 
comparative, and transnational 
approaches to the history of Europe in 
the world since 1400. The Department 
encourages critical reflection on 
the research, writing, teaching, and 
dissemination of history across national 
borders, and empowers researchers to 
relate and apply historical research to 
contemporary challenges.

Law 

The EUI’s Department of Law is 
committed to the study of law in a 
comparative and contextual manner, 
with a special focus on European and 
international law. Courses and seminars 
are interactive and research-oriented, 
and designed to enhance both academic 
knowledge and professional skills.

Political and Social Sciences  

At the EUI’s Department of Political and 
Social Sciences, research spans the fields 
of comparative politics, international 
relations, sociology, and social and 
political theory in Europe and beyond. 
The Department supports an innovative 
approach to research projects and 
doctoral theses, and offers practical 
workshops focused on data collection 
and analysis.

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THE MAX WEBER PROGRAMME

The Max Weber Programme (MWP) is the largest 
international postdoctoral programme in the social 
sciences and humanities in Europe. It is known 
for pioneering the idea of a taught postdoctoral 
programme in the social and historical sciences – a 
distinct model that combines support for research 
with teaching, academic communication, and other 
career development skills. The aim of the Max Weber 
Programme is to provide fellows with the experience 
of membership in a vibrant academic community, 
to which they make a central contribution. The 
programme offers fellows the unique opportunity 
to share their research experience with peers from 
different disciplines and nationalities on a daily basis, 
whilst enhancing professional academic skills and 
acquiring the MWP Teaching Certificate. 

The Max Weber Programme fosters multidisciplinary 
research collaboration across departments and 
between established and early career researchers 
within the EUI. Events, such as the distinguished 
Max Weber Lecture Series and the multidisciplinary 
thematic groups and workshops, raise the profile and 
research output of the EUI as a whole, while bringing 
the EUI academic community together. 

The fellows
During the 2022-2023 academic year, the MWP hosts 
a total of 61 fellows, 35 of whom are female and 26 
male. The fellows represent 31 nationalities from 
around the world. Of the 41 first-year fellows who 
started in 2022, 25 were women and 16 were men, 
and they represent 23 countries. 

Figure 3:

Departmental affiliation of 2022-2023 Max Weber Fellows

ECO

HEC

LAW

RSC

SPS

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The MWP continues to be an attractive opportunity for 
early stage researchers with over 800 applicants to the 
2022 call, maintaining the numbers from the previous 
year. With an acceptance rate of around 7%, the Max 
Weber Programme remains highly competitive. In 2022, 
the EUI launched a special call for fellows affected by 
the war in Ukraine, with the Max Weber Programme 
playing a key role. 

Fellowships are affiliated across the departments and 
the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. 
Starting from the 2023 cohort, Max Weber fellows 
will also be affiliated with the School of Transnational 
Governance.

Figure 4:

Applications and admission to the Max Weber Programme, 
2022-2023

Focusing on future academic careers
The Max Weber Programme supports the fellows’ 
research, as well as the development of skills needed 
for future academic careers – making the fellows 
highly attractive to future employers. Up to 95% of 
Max Weber fellows find positions in international 
academia and beyond after their stay at the EUI. In 
2022, 39 fellows moved on to new positions, 19 of 
them in academic teaching jobs and 20 in research 
positions. In 2022, 20 fellows continued to a second 
year in the programme. 

The Max Weber Programme promotes job market 
success through a wide offer including practical 
workshops on develop CVs and application 
materials, professional feedback on presentation 
and interviewing skills, a taught module to enhance 
presentation skills, individual consultations on job 
search priorities and strategies, and the organisation 
of mock job talks and other support when fellows are 
long- or short-listed. In 2022, the programme offered 
31 skills training activities, ranging from master 
classes to courses on publishing, writing, and being 
competitive on the job market.

The programme’s Academic Careers Observatory, 
which is open to the whole EUI academic community, 
is an open access online resource providing 
exhaustive data on topics such as career curricula, 
salary levels, degree of openness and job security 
in 40 different national settings, and updated 
information about available research funding 
opportunities.

Together with the Max Weber Programme, several 
well-established fellowships welcome outstanding 
scholars and practitioners to the EUI’s academic 
community.

*Admission figures include second- and third-year 
fellows

JUHO HÄRKÖNEN 
Dean of Postdoctoral Studies

“The EUI is a hub for postdoctoral research in the social 
sciences and humanities and has led the way to more 
structured postdoctoral training in these disciplines. We 
strive to build on this legacy and continue to support 
the growth of young academics from all over the 
world.”

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The Department of Political and Social Sciences 
organised the third edition of its summer academy on 
“(In)equality, Democracy and Solidarity in Europe”. 

The 2022 CIVICA Summer School “Reconstructing 
Europe after Crises” gathered early career researchers 
across the social sciences and humanities for an 
interdisciplinary reflection on how crises and their 
aftermaths shape our understanding of the European 
Union.

SUMMER SCHOOLS
The EUI has a long tradition of organising a variety of 
summer schools, broadening its offer to participants 
outside the Institute’s community. In 2022, the 
Institute offered 13 summer schools across its 
departments and programmes.

The 18th edition of the annual Migration Summer 
School provided an opportunity for participants to 
evaluate continuities and change in global migration, 
including the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 
pandemic. The Florence School of Regulation Energy 
& Climate held a one-week residential Summer 
School on “Economic Foundations for Energy and 
Climate Policies”. The Department of Law offered the 
10th edition of the Law and Logic Summer School, 
and the third edition of its AI and Law Summer 
School. In addition, the Academy of European Law 
held summer courses on “The Law of the European 
Union” and “Human Rights Law”. Meanwhile, the 
Department of History organised its 18th summer 
school on “Global and Trans-national History: What is 
European History in the 21st Century?”. 

The EUI’s Master of Research 
in Economics 

In 2022, the EUI welcomed its first cohort for the new Master 
of Research in Economics. The one-year programme is 
predominantly research-based and focuses on the acquisition and 
practice of research skills. The cohort of 12 students from across 
Europe began their studies in September 2022.  

The Economics Department has been working in recent years 
to attract more candidates from countries with lower admission 
rates. It now proposes the master programme to recruit talented 
students who need to enhance their training before entering a 
PhD programme. This one-year programme combines the core 
material of Economics with a series of advanced courses on 
European practices, which distinguishes it from its competitors. 
Students are encouraged to participate in Department activities, 
such as research workshops and conferences, and undertake a 
thesis with the guidance of a supervisor. 

Upon completion of their MA, students can seek to enrol in a PhD 
programme, at the EUI or elsewhere. Of the first cohort, seven 
submitted successful applications to the EUI doctoral programme 
in economics.

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The EUI and the CIVICA alliance 

With 72,000 students and PhD candidates, CIVICA is 
the alliance that unites ten leading European higher 
education institutions – including the EUI. Selected 
by the European Commission in 2019 as one of the 
pioneering alliances under the European Universities 
Initiative, CIVICA completed its pilot period in 2022 
and embarked on a new and ambitious four-year 
phase. The EUI, responsible for the work package 
“CIVICA for Early-Stage Researchers”, hosted a 
launch event in late 2022 with colleagues from across 
the alliance meeting in Florence. 

A European space for early stage researchers  
Through CIVICA, the EUI offers its early stage 
researchers an opportunity to connect with other 
European centres of excellence through seminars, 
workshops, summer schools, and online activities. 
In 2022, more than 50% of EUI PhD researchers 
participated in an event or activity conducted by 
another university in the EU – one third of which 
were through the CIVICA alliance. Also in 2022, more 
than 600 early stage researchers from outside the 
EUI benefited from the Institute’s many activities – 
including through the CIVICA alliance. 

As a hub for social sciences and humanities in Europe, 
the EUI is well positioned to take the lead on many 
CIVICA initiatives, Notably in 2022, 26 researchers 
from across the alliance participated in the CIVICA 
Data Science Days at the EUI campus. The Institute 
hosted a CIVICA teacher training, providing a 
space for researchers from the alliance universities 
to learn, share insights, and exchange practices. 
An online course catalogue, created by the EUI, 
allows alliance members to publish digital course 
offers. Furthermore, the EUI delivered 119 CIVICA 
Certificates for Advanced Academic Skills at the end 
of the pilot phase.

CIVICA Research
The joint research initiative of the alliance, CIVICA 
Research provides an academic network in social 
science research and develops the instruments 
to support excellence. The initiative’s approach is 
interdisciplinary and problem-driven, and its focus 
areas resemble the themes of the Interdisciplinary 
Research Clusters of the EUI.  

Competitive research calls have been launched 
within the alliance to encourage collaborative 
research activities between academics in the 
different partner universities. In early 2022, CIVICA 
Research announced that the EUI would lead three 
of six collaborative projects. Later in the year, 
CIVICA announced four additional projects with EUI 
involvement. Of the 10 total research collaboration 
projects, five are coordinated at the EUI.  

EUI scholars also contributed to the CIVICA Research 
Excellence Tours in 2022 providing lectures on 
biodiversity governance, for example, and on sources 
of voter bias against politicians of immigrant origin. 
Also in 2022, the EUI contributed significant expertise 
to the CIVICA Open Science Initiative.

The Digital Trade Integration Project  
The Digital Trade Integration Project, supported by 
CIVICA Research, achieved a major milestone in 2022 
with the publication of an Open Access database 
covering regulatory policies pertaining to the digital 
economy across 100 countries. Project leaders Martina 
Ferracane and Bernard Hoekman coordinate the work 
between the universities and other partners across the 
globe.

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RESPONDING TO THE RUSSIAN 
INVASION OF UKRAINE 

Following the Russian military attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the EUI condemned 
the invasion with an official statement and the EUI Community manifested its support to the 
people of Ukraine, mobilising its resources to assist those in need. In July 2022, the EUI and 
its Contracting States released a joint statement to further condemn the aggression. In this 
framework, the EUI created the EUI-Ukraine Initiative, which led to several activities to assist 
Ukraine and its population, including a number of opportunities for Ukrainian scholars who fled 
the country.

Opening the EUI to scholars affected by the 
war

In 2022, the EUI organised an ad hoc selection and 
admission procedure for candidates affected by 
the war. The Institute admitted three candidates to 
its PhD programme, one to the Master of Research 
in Economics, two to the Master of Transnational 
Governance, and eight to its more senior fellowships 
through the Max Weber, Programme the Robert 
Schuman Centre, and the School of Transnational 
Governance. Regarding the fellowships, and of 
particular relevance, was a cooperation the EUI 
established with the Joint Research Centre of 
the European Commission to provide Ukrainian 
researchers with a 12-month fellowship scheme.  

Partnering in solidarity with Ukraine

Also in 2022, the EUI worked with university 
cooperation networks, such as the CIVICA alliance, 
the Open Society University Network, Scholars 
at Risk, and the Scholar Rescue Fund, towards 
coordinated action in assisting the Ukrainian 
university sector and scholars. It began compiling 
a list of academic initiatives and scholarships from 
partner and non-partner institutions in support of 
Ukrainian scholars.

The Italian Red Cross and the EUI established a one-
stop shop on the EUI campus, to support Ukrainians 
at the Institute to navigate the different issues linked 
to their displacement to Italy.

Figure 5:

Research and analysis on the conflict

EUI  admission  procedure  for  candidates  affected 
by the war

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3

2

1

PhD
Programme

Master of 
Research in 
Economics

Master of 
Transnational 
Governance

Fellowships

Furthermore, the EUI opened courses and trainings 
to scholars affected by the war. Examples include the 
EUI Department of Law and Academy of European 
Law opening summer courses to participants from 
Ukraine. The Florence School of Regulation provided 
free courses on energy policy and regulation for 
Ukrainian researchers. Finally, the EUI launched a 
special traineeship programme for candidates from 
Ukraine. More than 90 Ukrainians benefitted from EUI 
programmes, on campus and online, in 2022.  

Throughout the year, EUI scholars contributed 
research expertise toward analysing and (re-)
formulating policies in the areas of European security 
and solidarity, migration, energy, and humanitarian 
and economic assistance in the context of the war. 
The EUI devoted more than 40 workshops, briefings, 
lectures, videos, and special events to understanding 
the crisis in Ukraine and communicating proposals for 
effective policy. Many of these are available as video 
recordings. The Ukraine collection in Cadmus, the 
EUI’s research repository, counts dozens of items for 
2022. 

The Florence School of Regulation and Bruegel 
held two online events on Europe’s dependence 
on Russian natural gas imports and the possibility 
to do without. Discussions of the conflict’s 
energy repercussions, also touched on Ukraine’s 
future energy supply. The Institute’s experts on 
disinformation and media freedom stepped up 
efforts to counteract war-related propaganda. Others 
outlined what effective sanctions would look like, as 
well as the broader impacts of the war on economic 
and financial union and the EU’s relations with other 

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEstates in the “post-Soviet” space. The Migration 
Policy Centre launched a Research Network on 
Ukrainian Migration, in collaboration with the United 
Nations University, the University of Maastricht and 
the Centre of Migration Research at the University of 
Warsaw.

Many scholars enriched the blogosphere 
conversation; the highest readership gained by any 
research posts were two EUIdeas blogs criticising 
John Mearsheimer’s thesis, presented at a lecture 
at the EUI, that the West’s defence posture had 
provoked the Russian invasion.

The EUI community 
and the war in Ukraine  

The Russian military invasion had a significant 
impact on the EUI community, leading to various 
grassroots initiatives to support those affected 
by the war. The EUI Ukraine Solidarity Initiative, 
a network of mainly EUI researchers, organised 
awareness-raising campaigns, academic events, 
and offered support to the Polish Red Cross. The 
EUI also launched an internal bulletin on Ukraine 
and provided assistance to Ukrainian citizens 
fleeing the war. EUI community members raised 
funds to support Ukrainians present on campus, 
and the EUI Library recorded an audiobook and 
held a special performance to support those 
affected by the war.

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The Digital Trade Integration Project 

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The Digital Trade Integration Project, supported by CIVICA Research, achieved a major 

milestone in 2022 with the publication of an Open Access database covering regulatory 

policies pertaining to the digital economy across 100 countries. Project leaders Martina 

Ferracane and Bernard Hoekman coordinate the work between the universities and other 

partners across the globe.

 
 
EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH

Research at the EUI is problem-centred and policy relevant, relying on an interdisciplinary approach 
grounded in law and the social sciences. EUI scholars ask fundamental questions about human 
society and investigate complex, real-world problems. Their work embraces a diversity of methods 
and approaches, and while the issues addressed are of global concern, many initiatives have a 
specifically European perspective. The Institute’s research strategy promotes interaction between 
scholars at all career levels and policymakers the world over to make lasting contributions to 
research and policy agendas. 

SUCCESS IN RESEARCH 
FUNDING COMPETITIONS 
EUI History Professor Giorgio Riello won a prestigious 
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant 
in 2022. His success against a very competitive field 
brings the number of ongoing ERC projects hosted 
at the EUI to 13. Riello’s research project, called 
“CAPASIA – The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism: 
European Factories in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800”, 
aims to recast the narrative of global economic 
change and capitalism by bringing into striking view 
the significance of Asian ports in the Indian Ocean. 

Professor Daniele Caramani launched a new project 
in 2022 as part of a successful application to Horizon 
Europe. Caramani and his team will investigate 
the social and political cleavages generated, or 
exacerbated, by the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing 
so, they will contribute to a larger, multidisciplinary 
project providing policy advice that has relevance 
also for EU debates on health, the Green Deal, 
Europe’s Digital Decade, Conference on the Future of 
Europe, and other issues. The four-year, 13-institution 
research consortium, called REGROUP (Rebuilding 
Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic), is 
led by University of Groningen. 

Figure 6:

Breakdown of externally funded research projects in 2022

41%
Privately funded 
projects
€11,434,893

€27,594,608

49%
EU funded projects
€13,306,647

10%
Publicly funded 
projects
€2,853,068

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships, to research 
awards from the CIVICA alliance, to multi-institution 
collaborations and networks. Aside from international 
grant competitions, in 2022 the EUI invested heavily 
in winning tenders and co-sponsorships, to build new 
relationships with key stakeholders. 

These illustrations of recent success in the ERC and 
Horizon Europe are only a small part of a wider 
research and partnering endeavour. The Institute runs 
more than 120 externally funded research projects, 
ranging from individual fellowships, such as the 

The EUI’s overall award monies supporting research 
activities in 2022 was nearly €27.6 million. This 
notable result is almost twice the annual average 
for 2018-2021 and represents a 58.8% increase in 
research award monies over for the best year to date 

GIACOMO CALZOLARI 
Dean of Research

“We live in difficult times, presenting us with new and 
profound societal challenges that require solutions. 
At the EUI, we are convinced that the answers lie 
in excellent and policy-relevant research, which 
we continuously develop with the efforts of our 
experienced and junior scholars.”

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RESEARCH INFORMING 
POLICYMAKING  
Both fundamental and applied research at the 
EUI speaks to the needs of policy makers and 
practitioners, and much of the knowledge is co-
produced through trainings and dialogues. In 2022, 
published work by EUI scholars that contributes 
to policy formation on issues such as prevention 
of greenwashing in finance; tensions between 
fundamental rights and citizenship; AI and regulatory 
effectiveness; citizen oversight of electoral processes 
via technology; and – in particular for the EU – 
developments in migrant integration and the ethics of 
migration policy dilemmas, as well as key challenges 
to the European Freedom Act.

The research group at the Florence School of 
Regulation which focuses on transport contributed 
expertise on key issues of transport and sustainability 
through multiple publications in 2022. Marking the 
European year of rail, the team assessed 10 years of 
European transport regulation and pointed the way 
forward for organising regional railway services and 
for intermodal ticketing. FSR-Transport also weighed 
in on how to keep aviation competitive, resilient and 
sustainable in the post-COVID era. 

(2020). Approximately half of the EUI’s externally 
funded projects are funded by the European Union; 
another 41% are privately funded and 10% are 
publicly funded.

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH 
Pressing societal challenges systematically 
ignore disciplinary boundaries. For this reason, 
interdisciplinarity is a common thread of research at 
the EUI. This has been exemplified by the problem-
oriented research of the Robert Schuman Centre 
for Advanced Studies since its founding 30 years 
ago, and by the Interdisciplinary Research Clusters 
introduced in 2020. Selected for funding from the 
Research Council, each cluster is coordinated by 
faculty from at least two departments. The clusters 
operate in synergy with ERC projects, the Max 
Weber Programme and the School of Transnational 
Governance’s Transnational Democracy Initiative 
and its Climate Chair, as well as the Robert Schuman 
Centre and its eight thematic programmes. The 
Centre also pays special attention to challenges 
associated with communicating interdisciplinary 
research to foster evidence-based policy making. Its 
public events and workshops are designed to involve 
stakeholders from the public and private sector in 
addition to academics. The engagement of EUI 
scholars at all career stages in cross-departmental 
and interdisciplinary activities is aimed to ensure that 
research activity and professional development are 
closely intertwined.

The research themes of the Interdisciplinary Research 
Clusters reflect a similar engagement with challenges 
vital to societies at large. In 2022, a sixth cluster, on 
Decentring Eurocentrism, joined the existing five, 
which address: Technological Change and Society; 
Inequality, Welfare and Social Justice; Environmental 
Challenges and Climate Change Governance; 
Transnational Democracy in the 21st Century; 
and Crisis of Expert Knowledge and Authority. In 
2022, the EUI hosted some 50 cluster events. With 
participation from all the EUI, the clusters provide 
early stage researchers, in particular, opportunities to 
organise academic-to-practitioner conversations. 

Multi-disciplinarity is a hallmark of the Max Weber 
Programme. In 2022, the Max Weber postdoctoral 
fellows organised 10 thematic research workshops, as 
well as an annual conference, for discussion of their 
work from various disciplinary perspectives. Fellows 
collaborated with the EUI’s many other research 
groups to facilitate the exchange of ideas on, for 
example, the legitimacy and trust challenges of 
digital governance, Eastern Europe as a laboratory of 
social change, the politics of expertise, or the making 
and unmaking of identities in the early modern 
Mediterranean.

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some €27 million destined to research, in 2022, it 
focused on enhancing project information sharing, 
standardising processes, and data and research 
communication. Among the special initiatives in 2022 
was the creation of an extensive resource webpage 
for the EUI academic community that assembles 
and updates expertise from across the Institute on 
project development, funding, management, and 
communication. In 2022, the Research Support 
team led by the Dean of Research continued to 
focus on ethics in social science research and data 
management, with the aim of establishing the EUI as 
a hub in Europe for these critical aspects of research.

EUI RESEARCH FUNDING 
The EUI runs several internal grant competitions for 
research support, using its own funds. The funding 
available is relatively modest, but the multiplier 
effect of the awarded grants – often pilot projects – 
is well attested. In 2022, the EUI Research Council 
awarded €187,980 to six new and four renewed 
projects for activities in 2022. Applications from the 
Interdisciplinary Research Clusters received support 
of some €59,000 for 2022 activities, while €42,750 
was allocated among 21 applications from early 
stage researchers (PhD candidates and post-doctoral 
scholars). Three projects received CIVICA Research 
funding, in total €26,557. In addition, the Swiss Chair 
allocates €60,000 per year for collaborative research 
(seven awards made for 2022). Since 2020 alone, the 
EUI Research Council seed funding has resulted in 
two successful ERC applications. 

Post-graduate research grant programmes have 
proven successful in increasing consultation of the 
Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), 
which are housed at the EUI. The HAEU administers 
five grant schemes to support on-site research: the 
European Court of Auditors grant, the grant scheme 
of the European People’s Party 

In an ERC project addressing the devastating 
social effects on children of forced migration and 
resettlement in new communities, Economics 
Professor Sule Alan and colleagues from Bilkent 
University analysed the effects of specially designed 
after-school programs to cultivate tolerance and 
conflict-resolution skills. A 2022 evaluation of the first 
phase of the study, involving 65 schools in Turkey and 
baseline data on more than 15,000 pupils, yielded 
positive results.

A project led by Philipp Genschel (Robert Schuman 
Centre) and Anton Hemerijck (SPS), which has 
been monitoring solidarity in Europe since 2018, 
presented findings and the latest (open access) data 
to academics and policymakers at its 2022 annual 
conference. The 2021 survey included additional 
questions on COVID-19 vaccines and restrictions, 
while the 2022 wave further expanded the 
questionnaire with questions on the war in Ukraine. 
The project draws support both from YouGov itself 
and the ERC Synergy Project SOLID based at the EUI.

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT 
FOR RESEARCH 
The strong foundation of administrative expertise 
on grants, including a team of project managers 
at the Robert Schuman Centre, was reinforced in 
2021 with the creation of a central Research Support 
unit to serve the whole EUI. Aside from managing 

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its annual Love Data Week and created a Data liaison 
network with representatives from all academic units. 

In 2022, Cadmus, the EUI Research Repository, 
acquired the capabilities to manage and stream 
audio and video content. Contributions eligible for 
inclusion are EUI Distinguished Lectures and video 
presentations of EUI PhD and master theses. Cadmus 
also indexes external multimedia content in the 
context of the special collections and key events.

Through CADMUS, the Institute’s special research 
collection on Ukraine, the COVID-19 research 
collection and the COVID-19 Social Sciences Data 
Portal continued to provide a valuable service to 
the scientific community worldwide. The portal was 
relaunched in 2022 with improved discoverability and 
access, thanks to funding from Horizon Europe’s BY-
COVID project.

In 2022, the EUI published 69% of its research 
output in Open Access. This represents an increase 
compared to 66% in 2021 and 55% in 2020.

Group in the European Parliament, the European 
Space Agency research grant, the International 
Visegrad Fund grant, and the Vibeke Sørensen 
grant. In 2022, 22 grants were awarded under these 
programmes. In addition, a STAREBEI grant from 
the European Investment Bank Group supported a 
research project at the Alcide de Gasperi Centre. 

THE EUI AND OPEN SCIENCE 
The EUI values the principles of Open Science in 
scholarly communication, aiming at the broadest 
openness, reach and impact of its research. The 
Institute remains at the forefront of the Open Access 
movement. The 20th anniversary statement of the 
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI20) was 
endorsed with a commitment signed by the Dean of 
Research and the Library Director. For International 
Open Access week, a roundtable marking BOAI20 
discussed how the value of openness can (or cannot) 
drive research practices and decision making at EUI. 
In early 2022, the Institute installed the first EUI fund 
for article processing charges, aiding EUI members to 
publish in Open Access, and complementing existing 
transformative read-and-publish agreements.

The EUI was active in international partnerships 
and networks, contributing to the development 
of alternative research evaluation within the 
HuMetricHSS Initiative and the Coalition for 
Advancing Research Assessment. To promote 
awareness of best practices in research data 

EUI Research Newsletter   

In 2022, the EUI launched a semi-annual research 
newsletter featuring publications from across its 
academic community that bring key evidence 
and analysis to the most pressing policy areas. 
The newsletter is sent to an audience of 18,000 
subscribers around the world. It is part of a wider 
EUI initiative to develop a systematic approach to 
communicating the EUI’s research activities and 
make them more readily available to society.

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The EUI and the European Research Council 

During 2022, the EUI was host to no less than 13 
ERC grants, of all types, including two partners in 
a Synergy project. These awards represent world-
class research being conducted in political science, 
law, economics, and history. The funded projects 
touch on fundamental social science and humanities 
themes such as identity, and the nature of tolerance, 
inclusion, and solidarity; key histories of capitalism, 
globalisation, financial risk and economic thought; 
challenges at the top of policy agendas today, such as 
digitalisation, migration and democracy, risk and crisis 
management, and the provision of social welfare.

The success rate of EUI applications can be expressed 
through a comparison between the number of full-
time faculty and ERC awards, with one ERC grant for 
every five faculty members. In addition, the EUI’s ERC 
grants in 2022 were nicely distributed across the units: 
the Departments of History had three ERC grants, the 
Departments of Economics and Political and Social 

ERC projects at the EUI

CAPASIA
The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism: European 
Factories in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 
Giorgio Riello

CompuLaw
Computable Law 
Giovanni Sartor

ECOINT 
Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, 
and the Complex History of Globalisation 
Glenda Sluga

GlobalCitizenshipLaw   
Global Citizenship Law: International migration and 
constitutional identity 
Liav Orgad

INCLUSION 
Social Inclusion and the Political Economy of Education: 
Building Social Capital in Ethnic Diversity 
Sule Alan

MERCATOR 
The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and 
Global Risk 
Youssef Cassis

PROTEGO 
Procedural Tools for Effective Governance 
Claudio Radaelli

Sciences each had two, the Law Department had one, 
the Robert Schuman Centre had four and the School 
of Transnational Governance had one. 

Many of the ERC projects are led by EUI faculty who 
have significant teaching and advising loads; this 
testifies to the insights and inspiration that can result 
from intensive interaction with doctoral researchers 
and early-career scholars, also in shaping excellent 
projects.

Maria Leptin, ERC President

SOCIOBORD 
Social Politics in European Borderlands. 
A Comparative and Transnational Study, 
1870s-1990s 
Laura Lee Downs

SOLID (first Synergy partner) 
Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics. Sovereignty, Solidarity 
and Identity in the EU Post 2008 
Hanspeter Kriesi

SOLID (second Synergy partner) 
Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics. Sovereignty, Solidarity 
and Identity in the EU Post 2008 
Waltraud Schelkle

TechChange 
Technological Change: New Sources, Consequences, 
and Impact Mitigation 
Philipp Kircher

TRANSNATIONAL 
The transnational divide: local triggers, social 
networks, and group identities   
Liesbet Hooghe

WellSIRe 
Wellbeing Returns on Social Investment 
Recalibration 
Anton Hemerijck

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Making the EU Archives accessible   

In 2022 the Historical Archives of the European Union 
inventoried more than 270 additional linear meters of 
EU institutional archives, including new holdings from 
former European Parliament presidents and the Europe-
an Environmental Agency. In addition, it launched a new 
multimedia portal, providing online access to thousands 
of assets including photos, posters, and audio-visual files. 
To facilitate research, especially for scholars from Central 
and Eastern European countries, the Archives renewed 
an agreement with the International Visegrad Fund to 
provide six research grants annually for scholars from 
Visegrad-four and associated countries. The Archives also 
hosted the Inter-Institutional Archives Group meeting, 
normally hosted by the European institutions, as well as a 
joint Master-PhD winter course on the history and politics 
of European Cooperation, together with the four member 
universities of the EU-funded 4EU+Alliance. The Archives’ 
education programme conducted learning laboratories 
with approximately 630 students from 17 different schools 
in the Florence area, as well as Rome, Spain, and Greece. 

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TRAINING OF CURRENT AND 
FUTURE POLICYMAKERS 

New knowledge is the foundation of impactful and lasting change. The EUI has strong links with 
the world of policymaking in Europe and beyond. This is reflected in its policy relevant research 
and training of current and future policymakers and practitioners through executive education, 
policy workshops and fellowships. In 2022, nearly 15,700 people took part in EUI activities aimed at 
policymakers and policy actors with more than 8,800 coming from the EU.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION 

Over the past two decades, the EUI has offered 
hundreds of executive trainings across its different 
units and has supported the professional growth of 
thousands of experts from 160 countries. Through 
EUI executive education, professionals from policy, 
diplomacy, NGOs, media, and the private sector gain 
fresh insight into their respective fields, hone key skills, 
and broaden their professional networks, enhancing 
their leadership performance and impact. 

In 2022, the EUI offered 90 executive training activities 
taught by international experts with extensive academic 
and political experience. More than 4,600 participants 
took part, gaining new insights into topics such as 
climate, digital transformation, banking and finance, 
energy regulation, gender, migration, peace and 
security, and trade. In 2022, executive education at the 
EUI marked a full recovery from the pandemic crisis, 
with a 70% increase in participants compared to 2021. 

Executive education at the EUI represents a mix of 
open-call courses, tailored programmes, and specific 
capacity-building projects. The following examples 
from 2022 show the breadth of training activities 
available at the Institute:

•  Two groups of junior and mid-career diplomats 
from the Western Balkans spent a week in 
Florence for a training on matters relating to EU 
policymaking and key diplomatic skills. The training 
helped to strengthen strategic relations between 
the Western Balkans and the EU and contributed 
to the consolidation of democratic institutions in 
the region, supported its prospect of EU accession, 
and facilitated the reconciliation process among 
Western Balkan countries. 

•  The 12th edition of the ENTraNCE course for 

national judges of the EU Member States, provided 
participants an overview of EU competition law 
and an introduction to the economic theories 
underpinning its enforcement. The newly established 

Centre for Digital Society ran the first edition of 
the Patent Licensing Academy, offering advanced 
training on the law, economics and practice of patent 
licensing. 

•  The Bank Resolution Academy, organised by the 

Florence School of Banking and Finance, fostered 
a deep and comprehensive understanding of the 
EU bank resolution rules and  procedures. The EU 
Supervisory Digital Finance Academy supports 
financial supervisory authorities in coping with 
the risks and opportunities offered by advanced 
technologies in the financial sector. Additionally, the 
EUI and the European Central Bank announced a new 
partnership aimed to develop a training programme 
for European banking supervisors across the Single 
Supervisory Mechanism. 

•  The Florence School of Regulation’s Summer 
School on Regulation of Energy Utilities gave 
participants from energy companies and 
representatives from National and European 
Regulatory Authorities a comprehensive overview 
of the fundamental regulatory principles of the 
electricity and gas sectors.  

•  Under the umbrella of the European Transnational 

Governance Network, the EUI welcomed 
participants from public administrations and the 
private sector for a Summer School on Agile 
Governance. Training participants discussed how 
agile organisations can anticipate future events, 
quickly reorganise in times of disruption, and 
adequately respond to fast-changing environments. 

•  The  EUI also organised a hybrid course on 

migration policy communications and a residential 
course on effective migration management.  

A process of further developing EUI Executive 
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School of Transnational 
Governance

The EUI’s School of Transnational 
Governance trains current and future 
leaders in the methods, skills and theory 
of global governance, supporting them 
in developing policymaking strategies 
that transcend national borders. The 
school offers executive training seminars 
and policy leader fellowships as well 
as a two-year Master in Transnational 
Governance.institutions worldwide.

Robert Schuman Centre 
for Advanced Studies

The Robert Schuman Centre for 
Advanced Studies develops cutting-
edge academic research and then makes 
it policy relevant. The activities of the 
Robert Schuman Centre span multiple 
dimensions and include the Florence 
School of Regulation, the Florence 
School of Banking and Finance, the 
Migration Policy Centre, the Global 
Governance Programme, the Centre 
for Judicial Cooperation, and the new 
Centre for Digital Society, alongside a 
wide range of other programmes and 
projects.

Global Executive Master, which was approved by the 
High Council at the end of 2022. The Global Executive 
Master programme will welcome professionals in 
the broader public sector who increasingly need to 
act as agents of change and as policy entrepreneurs 
in a transnational policy context. It will welcome its 
first cohort in 2024 and builds on the strengths and 
expertise available across the EUI’s academic units. 
Constructed around core and elective modular courses, 
the Global Executive Master will have concentration 
tracks and will be delivered on a part-time basis to 
working professionals combining in-presence and 
online learning. The two-year programme will offer 
four specialisations: energy and climate; economy 
and finance; technology and governance; geopolitics 
and security. Also in 2022, the EUI worked to deliver 
the new Executive Education Catalogue. Published in 
early 2023, it presents EUI’s courses covering a wide 
spectrum of public policy areas.

POLICY FELLOWSHIPS 
The School of Transnational Governance hosts 
Policy Leader Fellows, who are early to mid-career 
practitioners coming from around the world to 
enhance their work and professional skills. In 2022, 
the EUI admitted the sixth cohort, with 25 fellows with 
23 nationalities. The Policy Leader Fellows play an 
active role in the EUI community. They interact with 
policymakers and academics through EUI workshops, 
trainings, conferences, and other events. The fellows 
are selected through a global call for applications 
with attention given to creating a group with diverse 
geographic and professional backgrounds. During 
weekly STG Talks, the Policy Leader Fellows discussed 
the work conducted during their time at the School 
of Transnational Governance. Organised formally 
for the first time in 2022, the fellows conducted 
mock job interviews for the graduating second-year 
master students and presented their career paths, 
sharing advice with those entering the job market in a 
mentoring panel.

In 2022, the second cohort of 25 African fellows of 
the Young African Leaders Programme joined the 
School of Transnational Governance. The fellows 
were selected among nearly 2,000 applicants. The 
programme, financed by the European Commission’s 
DG for International Partnership, strengthens the global 
leadership skills of mid-career African professionals 
during a three-month stay in Florence. The fellows from 
across the African continent participated in dialogues 
with African, European, and international policy leaders 
in a seminar series. They also went on study visits to 
Brussels, Rome, and the College of Europe in Bruges. 
The EUI is envisaging activities to broaden its offer 
given the extensive interest and large number of 
applicants.

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Policy dialogues often produce outcomes in the form 
of policy briefs, if not books, that can feed further 
the debate in the form of recommendations. An 
important policy relevant publication is the Media 
Pluralism Monitor, published annually by the Centre 
for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom and co-
funded by the European Commission.

A policy roundtable jointly organised with the 
European Parliamentary Research Service and the 
Directorate General for Internal Policies of the 
European Parliament discussed the defence of 
democracy in the EU political system.

The Banque de France and the Pierre Werner 
Chair organised a joint conference on upcoming 
macroeconomic risks and the policies needed 
to tackle them. The OECD and the EUI co-
organised the presentation of the 2022 OECD 
Employment Outlook, addressing the challenges 
of the employment, wage and inequality dynamics 
examined in the report, and the required action for 
governments.

In 2022, European Commission Vice-President for 
Values and Transparency Věra Jourová joined policy 
events on media pluralism, the rule of law, as well 
as the annual meetings of the European Digital 
Media Observatory and the European Media and 
Information Fund.

EU Cyber Direct and the EUI organised the fourth 
edition of the European Cyber Diplomacy Dialogue 
which focused on governance and the future of 
cyberspace. 

Also in 2022, academics, policymakers, and members 
of civil society met in Florence to celebrate the launch 
of the newly established Chair in Artificial Intelligence 
and Democracy. The Chair is supported by the 
Spanish Secretary of State for Digitalisation and 
Artificial Intelligence and the Institute of Democratic 
Governance. During the policy dialogue participants 
discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on 
democratic systems and how digitalisation can 
improve democracy.

POLICY DIALOGUES 

The EUI’s policy dialogues are a testing ground 
for new policy ideas and one of the ways the 
Institute bridges the gap between academia 
and policymaking. The dialogues bring together 
policymakers, academics, as well as members of civil 
society and the private sector for frank exchanges on 
key international policy issues.

Figure 7:

Activities aimed at policymakers, number of participants 
by country

Participants from
extra-EU countries
5,702

Participants from
EU countries
8,875

Climate change is a prime example of a policy issue 
that cannot be tackled by countries individually 
and where interaction between actors is required 
for innovative policy solutions. The School of 
Transnational Governance’s climate team organised 
three policy dialogues in 2022 on industrial 
decarbonisation in the context of its Breakthrough 
Energy project. Another dialogue addressed land-
based removals, while an event on voluntary carbon 
markets was part of the EUI’s first climate week.

In 2022, a delegation from the EUI attended 27th 
Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United 
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 
in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The Florence School of 
Regulation – Climate announced the completion 
of its three-year LIFE DICET project, which aimed 
to support policymakers in enhancing international 
carbon market cooperation and reducing gas 
emissions. The project reached 5,000 policymakers 
and stakeholders. The EUI also organised an event on 
“A new future for voluntary carbon markets through 
improved integrity and transparency?”

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEIn 2022, the programme accepted its third cohort, 
admitting 41 new students with 19 different 
nationalities – almost half of them from outside 
Europe. Throughout the year, students participated 
in a broad range of events, talks, workshops, and 
lectures held by globally recognised scholars and 
leaders, such as Former European Commission 
President José Manuel Durão Barroso, economics 
Nobel laureate Bengt Holmstrom and New America 
CEO Anne Marie Slaughter. 

Master in Transnational 
Governance 

The EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony in 2022 
was a landmark occasion as the Institute awarded 
degrees to the first cohort of 28 students in the 
Master in Transnational Governance. Praising them 
for their academic achievements and the courage 
demonstrated in applying for a new programme, the 
Director of the School of Transnational Governance, 
Alexander Stubb, said, “You put a lot of trust in us.” 
He also encouraged them to keep an empathic, 
“open and curious mind” in their future endeavours. 

Born out of the desire to respond to a world in rapid 
evolution, the programme educates future policy 
leaders to address global challenges both effectively 
and ethically. Led by distinguished academics and 
practitioners, students are trained to understand the 
legal, economic, and political underpinnings of global 
policymaking beyond borders, an important skill 
for employers operating in today’s rapidly changing 
geopolitical landscape. Students do a compulsory 
curricular internship at one of the EUI’s partner 
organisations, including the European Parliament, 
other EU institutions, UN agencies and international 
bodies, as well as think tanks and civil society 
organisations worldwide. 

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The State of the Union 2022

The 12th edition of The State of the Union conference 
was held on 5-7 May on the EUI campus and at 
Palazzo Vecchio in the centre of Florence. High-level 
speakers included European Parliament President 
Roberta Metsola, European Union High Representative 
Josep Borrell Fontelles, and WHO Director-General 
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. 

The title of the 2022 edition was “A Europe fit for the 
next generation?” Policy leaders and experts from 
academia and beyond gathered in to discuss the 

European agenda, including the climate emergency, 
the digital transition, the Next Generation EU 
recovery plan, and the war in Ukraine and its complex 
geopolitical, economic, and legal ramifications.

The conference included an Open Day at Villa Salviati, 
hosted by the Historical Archives of the European 
Union, allowing the local community to participate in 
the event and visit the EUI campus. 

135 SPEAKERS

SESSIONS

43

86%

OF SPEAKERS PARTICIPATED 
IN FLORENCE

LIVE AUDIENCE

500+

11,500+

ATTENDED ONLINE 

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ENGAGING GLOBALLY

Engaging globally is one of the EUI’s strategic objectives. Through a rich variety of activities with 
public and private partners, the Institute strives to strengthen connections to the world and to boost 
its international profile as a leading European higher education and research institution in the field of 
social sciences and humanities. 

DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL 
PARTNERSHIPS 
The EUI works with partners from academia and 
beyond, reaping a multitude of benefits. Joining 
forces with a variety of organisations to teach and to 
learn, to create and share knowledge, the institute 
reaches beyond academia and seeks to deepen 
connections with policy-making institutions and the 
world of practice. The EUI’s partnerships around the 
globe create mobility opportunities for researchers, 
fellows, faculty, and staff, and they broaden networks 
for research, teaching, executive education, and 
policy dialogues. 

The Institute had 95 active partnership agreements in 
2022. Around half (52%) were with higher education 
institutions; 26% with international or regional 
organisations; and the remainder spanning civil 
society groups, foundations, think tanks, media; 
research networks and national authorities. Two-thirds 
of the EUI’s partners were in Europe.

While maintaining existing relationships in 2022, 
the EUI also established new partnerships with the 
University of Bologna, the Centre Marc Bloch, the 
Italian School of Administration, Fondo Ambiente 
Italia, the University of International Business and 
Economics of China, and the Organisation of 
American States. 

Figure 8:

EUI partner map as of December 2022

LEGENDA

Academia

Civil Society

Foundation

Media

National Institution

Network

International/Regional Institution

Think Tank

North America
Canada

United States of America

Europe
Austria
Belgium
Estonia
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russian Federation

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Switzerland

UK

Asia
China

India

Japan

Republic of Korea

Caribbean
Jamaica

South America
Argentina

Brazil

Colombia

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Africa
Algeria

Benin

Rwanda

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Uganda

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In 2022, the EUI gave special attention to potential 
partners in priority geographical regions such as 
Africa, Asia, and the Western Balkans. In line with 
efforts to bridge the capability gap in European 
higher education and research, the Institute reached 
out to universities, schools of public administration, 
and other relevant institutions in the Western Balkans, 
the European Commission (DG EAC and DG NEAR), 
and EU Delegations in Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, 
Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia 
to identify relevant partners, funding opportunities, 
and raise awareness of the EUI’s scientific 
engagement in the region. 

The EUI continued to work within the CIVICA alliance 
in 2022 to promote mobility and interdisciplinary 
approaches to education and research across Europe. 
It also strengthened connections with an array of 
university networks, including the European University 
Association, European Association for International 

Education, European and Transnational Governance 
Network, Social Sciences Universities Network, Open 
Society University Network, International Public Policy 
Association.

Another specific area of global engagement activities 
in 2022 was the international expansion of the School 
of Transnational Governance. The EUI developed 
new partnerships with leading universities to support 
student mobility, attract potential students, and 
leverage relationships with international and regional 
organisations to obtain curricular internships for 
master students. In 2022, more than 30% of second-
year master students had mobility experiences in 
five EUI partner universities. Building on existing 
partnerships, the entire cohort participated in 
traineeships with 29 different public and private 
institutions in Europe and worldwide.

REGINA GRAFE 
Dean of External Relations

“Knowledge knows no borders. The EUI has embarked 
on an active strategy to internationalise beyond its 
European core with global partnerships in training 
and research that aim at building an inclusive network 
of scholars and practitioners ready to take on the 
challenges of our societies.”

INTERNATIONALISATION 
THROUGH POLICY-DRIVEN 
RESEARCH
The EUI works with institutions in and outside Europe 
to support interdisciplinary, policy-driven research. 
These include the Graduate Institute Geneva, 
Central European University, Monash University, the 
European Parliament, the European Commission, the 
OECD, the UN, the World Bank, and the European 
Investment Bank.

The EUI’s work on global governance is a prime 
example. In 2022, the Global Governance Programme 
held the Global Citizenship Observatory annual 
conference on “Citizenship and political development 
– Membership contestation and democratic norms 
around the world”, as well as a conference on “US–
China competition, COVID-19, and democratic 
backsliding in Asia”. The annual World Trade 
Forum, organised jointly with the World Trade 

Institute, brought together trade policy researchers 
and practitioners to discuss recent developments 
in global trade and investment. Also on trade, a 
roundtable in partnership with UNCTAD looked at the 
implementation of the African Continental Free Trade 
Area.

Furthermore in 2022, the Florence School of 
Regulation signed a partnership with the United 
Nations Economic and Social Committee for Asia 
and the Pacific for training and support in the 
design and organisation of energy regulatory policy 
and to promote energy connectivity in the Asia-
Pacific Region. In the context of the EU-funded 
LNGnet project, the School organised training 
courses on decarbonisation, gas and LNG market 
design attended by participants representing the 
Mediterranean and Eastern Partnership countries, 
East Asia, the Indian Ocean, and South Africa.

The Syria Initiative of the EUI’s MEDirections 
programme launched the project “Syrian Trajectories: 

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEhas hosted around 700 fellows with more than 40 
nationalities. Furthermore, it successfully places 
fellows on an international career path, one of its 
priorities. In 2022, 67% found a position in an EU 
country, whereas 33% accepted employment outside 
the EU. 

Figure 9:

Max Weber Programme 2022 employment cohort

Employment 
in EU

Employment 
non-EU

Challenges and Opportunities for Peacebuilding”, 
funded by the European Union and Germany as part 
of the Syria Peace Initiative implemented by the 
German Agency for International Cooperation. 

The EUI also hosted the second Annual Conference 
of the Florence Competition Programme, organised 
in cooperation with the OECD. The conference 
addressed the future of competition policy in the light 
of growing anti-globalisation and populist political 
movements around the world. 

INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE 
DOCTORAL AND FELLOWSHIP 
PROGRAMMES 
A further way researchers may enrich their studies 
is by taking advantage of co-operation agreements 
that the EUI has with universities and governments 
worldwide. Many of these, notably those with 
US and European universities are arrangements 
going back to the 1990s. The COVID-19 pandemic 
presented challenges to the international mobility 
and research missions of early stage researchers. 
In 2022, the EUI put much effort into ensuring that 
existing institutional arrangements and the necessary 
resources remained in place, and into developing 
new strategic partnerships. International mobility for 
students and researchers at the doctoral and master 
levels is effectively facilitated through Erasmus+, 
teaching placements, peer learning, collaborative 
research projects, co-organisation of academic 
events, executive education trainings and summer 
schools, and providing access to the EUI’s research 
infrastructure.

The EUI’s international reputation of academic 
excellence attracts young scholars not only from 
Europe but from farther afield. To diversify the EUI 
student body the Institute finances a number of 
researchers from around the world through the EUI 
Special Doctoral Fellowships Programme. In addition, 
the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International 
Cooperation continues to award grants to candidates 
from selected non-EU states. In 2022, the Institute 
received more than 500 applications from non-
EU candidates for the doctoral programme, which 
represents 40% of the total number of applications for 
less than ten available grants. 

The Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies 
is a key element of the EUI’s global reach. The 41 
new fellows who entered in 2022 represented 23 
countries, while the applicant pool represented 
90 – demonstrating that the programme is of well-
known internationally. Over the years, the programme 

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Focus on Africa 

The EUI has been engaging on topics related 
to Africa for years. Notably, 2022 brought these 
efforts to a new level as the Institute undertook 
special initiatives to strengthen its relationships with 
higher education institutions and organisations in 
policymaking in Africa, including the African Union.

A common agenda 
In the framework of the Africa-EU Partnership, the 
aim is to define collaborations where African and 
European research agendas can advance knowledge 
together in order to understand and respond to 
complex cross-border issues. 

In 2022, the EUI organised a high-level event in 
Kampala, in partnership with the Uganda Council 
on Foreign Relations (UCFR), which marked the 
EUI’s strengthened engagement with Africa. 
Experts and officials from the African Union, the 
Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the 
East African Community, the European Union, and 
EUI alumni discussed the main findings of the report 
on “Migration governance and migration diplomacy 
in Uganda”, released by the EUI’s Migration Policy 
Centre and Makerere University. In addition to the 
conference, 25 African experts participated in an EUI 
executive training about migration governance in East 
Africa.

In an op-ed published in New African, EUI President 
Renaud Dehousse described the Uganda visit as “the 
starting point of a long journey towards joint research 
and teaching initiatives on Africa co-developed with 
our partners.”  

Advancing knowledge 
The EUI’s research reflects the community’s 
commitment to Africa. In 2022, the Institute had nine 
ongoing research projects on topics relevant to global 

policy challenges that call for enhanced cooperation 
and a common agenda across African and European 
continents. Examples include the research project 
to establish a coordinated platform of dialogue and 
exchange to contribute to Peace and Stability in 
Libya, also developed at the EUI and now continuing 
at LUISS, in Rome.

In the last 10 years, the EUI has enrolled more 
than 70 master students, doctoral researchers, and 
fellows from Africa, with approximately 40 in 2022. 
The Institute has dedicated an area of its website 
to outline its various activities, including research, 
related to the African continent. 

Young African Leaders Programme
The EUI offered the second edition of its Young 
African Leaders Programme in 2022. The fellowship 
hosts talent from the new generation of African 
leaders and is supported by the European 
Commission’s Directorate-General for International 
Partnerships. During a three-month stay in Florence, 
Young African Leaders from across the continent 
are immersed in training on climate change, peace 
and security, gender, migration, health, sustainable 
finance, and much more. Fellows visit Brussels 
and other European capitals, to participate in 
seminars with prominent African and European 
speakers and work on their leadership, writing, and 
presentation skills. In 2022, the programmed hosted 
25 participants, an increase from 17 in 2021. The 
2023 programme is designed to host 30 fellows. 
The short film “African Renaissance: Young African 
Leaders in Florence” provides an extract of the 
vision, objectives, participants, and activities of the 
fellowship. It won a gold award at the Hamburg 
WorldMediaFestivals in 2022 and a special award at 
the Montecatini International Short Film Festival.

African School of Regulation
In 2022, the EUI supported the creation of the African 
School of Regulation (ASR), through its Florence 
School of Regulation. The ARS aims to be a centre 
of excellence for independent discussion and 
knowledge exchange with the purpose of improving 
the quality of African energy regulation and policy. 
In this initiative, the EUI has partnered with several 
institutions and organisations in Europe, the US, and 
Africa, including the University of Cape Town, the 
Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy 
Sciences (Algeria), and the Energy Nexus Network 
(Sierra Leone). The African School of Regulation is 
also supported by the European Union through a 
Global Technical Assistance Facility.

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE 
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, 
AND INCLUSIVENESS

Equality, diversity, and inclusiveness are not new concerns at the EUI. They are baked into its very 
foundational vision, which emphasises the interconnections between languages, cultures, and 
scientific approaches. However, with the commitments affirmed in the EUI Strategy 2019–24 and the 
creation of the Office of the Dean for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusiveness, these have become top 
institutional priorities.

The year 2022 saw the establishment and 
consolidation of a number of dedicated institutional 
structures and policies that provide concrete 
measures together with leadership and accountability 
for integrating Equality, diversity, and inclusiveness 
(EDI) into all aspects of community life. The President, 
with the support and endorsement of the High 
Council, established the Office of the Dean of EDI 
in October 2021 to serve as the nodal organ within 
the EUI that is explicitly tasked with overseeing, co-
ordination, and implementation of all EDI efforts. In 
2022, the mandate of the Dean extended to serving 
as an informal sounding board and direct point of 
contact for all members of the EUI community for 
matters ranging from individual concerns related to 
gender bias in EUI events, to disputes concerning 
free speech issues on campus, to policy issues on 
inclusive language in recruitment notices for positions 
at the EUI.

The first year of the EUI’s experience with the 
Office of the Deanship brought awareness of the 
ground that the mandate needs to cover in a small 
institution that has constituencies with varied needs 
and priorities. It also brought rich consultation 
with representative bodies at the EUI, above all 
the Gender Equality Committee and the Diversity 
Committee.

positive with academic units reporting that the 
exercise facilitated a broadening and deepening of 
the pool of potential female candidates. 

While many of the initial actions undertaken by the 
Gender Equality Committee concern the recruitment 
process and composition of the EUI faculty, it has also 
paid close attention to gender issues that significantly 
impact researchers, as well as senior management. 
The Committee undertook a comprehensive gender-
sensitive review of the annual seminar assessment 
and supervision assessment forms that are vital 
for researchers to be able to provide constructive 
feedback on the quality of instruction being provided 
at the EUI. Research was conducted and best 
practices developed in connection with different 
aspects of pedagogy and doctoral supervision in 
academia. 

BREAKING BARRIERS  
In its commitment to gender equality, the EUI is active 
in supporting women in the academic community 
and beyond. In 2022, more women than men were 
enrolled in the master programme, the Max Weber 
Programme, and the executive trainings.

Figure 10:

2022 gender diversity among learners and fellows

PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY 
The EUI established the Gender Equality Committee 
pursuant to the ambitious Gender Equality Plan 
(2022–25) that the Institute adopted following a 
consultative process with its broader membership. In 
2022, the Committee met monthly to develop best 
practices and procedures for the implementation 
of various action items in the plan. For example, to 
avoid gender bias in recruitment processes at the 
EUI, search committees in all academic units are 
required to name three female candidates who match 
the profile before the chair is publicly advertised. 
The feedback from this process has been uniformly 

DOCTORAL PROGRAMME*

M 53.01%

F 46.99%

MASTER PROGRAMME*

M 47.12%

F 52.88%

MAX WEBER PROGRAMME*

M 43.55%

F 56.45%

EXECUTIVE TRAININGS**

M 50.68% F 48.87% Other 0.45%

* September 2022          **January-September 2022

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NEHA JAIN 
Dean for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusiveness

“The EUI strongly believes that we cannot continue to 
privilege privilege. We are committed to empowering 
collective action and individual initiative to build an EUI 
that celebrates what each of us brings to our shared 
community.”

In 2022, the Lights on Women initiative, at the 
Florence School of Regulation, launched the first 
episode of “The W Factor”, a news interview series 
exploring the state of energy and climate affairs, 
and the added value that female leaders bring to 
the table. It also published Energybase, a database 
of women in energy, climate, and sustainability. 
The Florence School of Banking & Finance held the 
“Women in Finance” debate on private and public 
gender inclusiveness in decision-making positions. 
Furthermore, the Robert Schuman Centre 
renamed the Schuman Fellowship the Simone 
Veil Fellowship and will welcome the first fellows 
in 2023. Also in 2022, the School of Transnational 
Governance wrapped up the Inclusive Leadership 
Initiative, with a policy dialogue and an executive 
training for political leaders looking to develop 
skills and competences in achieving a more 
diverse, equal, and inclusive leadership.

FOSTERING DIVERSITY
In parallel to the Gender Equality Committee, the 
EUI also established the Diversity Working Group 
in 2021 to examine the question of racial and 
ethnic diversity at the EUI. One of the first concrete 
actions taken by the Working Group in 2022, which 
was also the result of focus group exercise, was the 
inclusion of a racial and ethnic diversity question in 
EUI doctoral and postdoctoral application forms. 
The second task was to draft an Ethnic and Racial 
Equality Plan. The Plan is similar to the Gender 
Equality Plan in that it covers a three-year timespan, 
gives clear objectives with concrete actions to 
be taken, and designates specific actors who are 
responsible for its implementation. The Plan was 
discussed in the Executive Committee, as well as 
the Academic Council, in late 2022 and will form 
the basis for the drafting of an Ethnic and Racial 
Equality Plan to be adopted by the EUI in 2023. 

Supporting the first generation

The First-Generation Initiative is a key element in the EUI’s work to foster diversity. It provides 
members of the academic community, who grew up without a parent or guardian who 
completed a university degree, with the skills, resources, and networks necessary to navigate 
the challenges of an academic career. In 2022, the initiative launched peer groups for first-
generation researchers and students to discuss common issues. It also initiated a mentoring 
programme with the EUI Alumni Association.

Figure 11:

Educational background of EUI PhD applicants (cohort 2021-2022) 

1,069 

38%

403 

115 

28%

32 

Total applications

First generation

Total applications

First generation

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEThe EUI has a policy on disability and specific 
educational needs that was adopted in 2012. In 
2022, it supported 47 young scholars and early 
stage researchers, representing an increase of 25% 
compared to the year before. 

These institutional measures are complemented by 
community-led networks and initiatives, including 
the Decolonising Initiative. In 2022, it worked with 
the newly established Interdisciplinary Research 
Cluster “Decentring Eurocentrism”. 

The EUI Library gave a significant contribution in 
2022 by curating scientific contents that address 
diversity and inclusiveness from a disciplinary 
perspective. It also worked with the EUI community 
to promote activities linked to the International 
Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the 
Holocaust, Black History Month, Women’s History 
Month, and LGBTQI+ Pride Month, among others.

TRAINING AND RESOURCES
These formal efforts are important but can only do 
so much in terms of nudging behaviour to effect 
cultural change. Much of the EDI work at the EUI 
must thus also be directed to measures related 
to awareness raising and creating an inclusive 
and respect environment. To this end, the EUI 
begin developing various types of trainings on 
gender bias and harassment prevention in 2022. 
Sourcing trainings that meet the EUI’s needs as an 
international organisation, as well as a university 
with researchers and staff from many different 
backgrounds, was challenging. Thus, the EUI 
hired an EDI officer, to begin in 2023, to develop 
comprehensive trainings that are tailored to the 
community. Furthermore, it created a dedicated 
webpage with updates and information on various 
EDI initiatives and contact persons.

EUI Policy on Harassment, Sexual 
Harassment, and Bullying  

In 2022, the EUI adopted a new Policy 
on Harassment, Sexual Harassment, and 
Bullying. The drafting followed a multi-stage 
process involving an expert report and broad 
consultations among different constituencies 
of the EUI community. The new policy reflects 
best practices but is also adapted to the specific 
needs of the EUI community, which is both small 
and intimate by university standards, but at the 
same time highly diverse. 

The new policy reaffirms the EUI’s zero-tolerance 
approach to harassment and bullying. It adopts 
a victim-centred approach and contemplates 
a clear separation of institutional roles with 
the establishment of three distinct bodies to 
conduct advisory, support, and problem-solving 
functions.

The Confidential Harassment Advice Service is 
responsible for assisting members of the EUI 
community in understanding their rights, as well 
as the support measures and choices available 
to them. It includes support and academic staff 
across different EUI units, selected through 
an open nominations process by members of 
the EUI community, and reflects a diverse set 

of profiles and experiences. Investigations and 
formal complaints are handled by the three-
member Harassment Decision-Panel composed 
of an external expert Ombudsperson, one of the 
EUI Deans, and a senior member of the EUI staff. 
Finally, the policymaking and advisory function is 
carried out by the Harassment Policy Committee, 
which is tasked with conducting periodical 
reviews and assessments, assessing institutional 
needs, and proposing measures to facilitate 
achievement of the policy’s objectives. 

The new policy has the twin aims of harassment 
prevention through awareness-raising and 
training and prompt and effective redress of 
grievances through information dissemination, 
supportive measures, and the establishment of 
accessible dispute resolution mechanisms. It 
was presented to the EUI community in January 
2023, together with a special video aimed to 
raise awareness and provide information on the 
new policy and the relative bodies.

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SUPPORT SERVICES

Providing effective and efficient services tailored to the academic community is the core mission of the 
EUI Support Services. With more than 300 active staff, the different services work to implement the 
EUI Strategy 2019-2024. They are committed to reviewing, modernising, and streamlining operational 
processes to ensure that the Institute maintains its competitive edge, resilience, and excellence in 
teaching and research. In 2022, efforts focused greatly on transitioning out of the COVID era, ensuring 
a secure, accessible, and attractive campus, greening the EUI, and promoting accountability. The 
Support Services also strived to promote the visibility of the Institute. 

TRANSITIONING INTO 
A POST-COVID ERA
In 2022, while the effects of the COVID-19 crisis 
began to subside, the EUI Support Services worked to 
safeguard the community by facilitating access to the 
vaccine and providing on-site testing. By the end of 
the year, most measures had been lifted and, overall, 
the EUI fared well throughout the crisis. Activities 
began to return to in-presence or hybrid format, 
which, in a positive light, brought an opportunity for 
innovation and impetus for an institutional Digital 
Strategy with transformative ambitions for the core 
functions of the EUI. 

A SECURE, ACCESSIBLE, AND 
ATTRACTIVE CAMPUS
IIn view of creating a secure, accessible, and attractive 
campus, the EUI was able to build on lessons learnt 
from the pandemic period and shift from emergency 
COVID-19 measures to long-term health, safety, 
and security policies. The EUI adopted a formal 
campus security policy, also outlining campus access. 
Moreover, the Institute took an important and over-
due step to align occupational safety measures on 
campus with national regulations, beginning with a 
gap analysis to establish a roadmap for achieving full 
compliance. The EUI also strengthened cybersecurity 
through the creation of on- and off-site disaster 
recovery locations, as well as more sophisticated 
mitigating measures.

In 2022, the EUI concentrated on improving the 
attractiveness of the campus and its services. Notably, 
to support the continual growth of the School of 
Transnational Governance, scheduled works were 
completed at Palazzo Buontalenti, thanks to funding 
secured from the Italian authorities. The EUI also 

MARCO DEL PANTA 
EUI Secretary General

“The EUI’s mission to target excellence 
needs to be supported by first-class 
operations. The EUI strives to ensure 
innovative, dynamic, state-of-the-art services 
to its international academic community that 
are equally efficient, sustainable, and robust 
to maintain continuity even through trying 
and changing times.”

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conducted an internal audit aimed at improving the 
Institute’s attractiveness to a wider pool of applicants 
to staff positions. 

together planning, reporting, and risk management in 
a cohesive cycle. 

The Real Estate and Facilities Service and the 
Historical Archives of the European Union obtained 
the ISO9001 Quality Management certification. 
Furthermore, the EUI took concrete steps towards 
a formalised approach to quality assurance in 
its academic programmes, as well as towards 
the accreditation of the Master in Transnational 
Governance. Finally, the Institute took significant 
steps towards a formalised and structured approach 
to records and archives management across all units. 

of more than 10% between 2021 and 2022 
alone. The EUI also decreased its electricity 
consumption by 8% in 2022, compared to 2019. 
Thanks to water management improvements, 
consumption also dropped, compared to the 
previous year, by almost 6%.

In terms of environmental sustainability, the 
decrease gas, electricity, and water consumption 
at the EUI in 2022 resulted in a 1.65% reduction 
in CO2 emissions, compared to 2021. Waste 
reduction at the EUI was also notable in 2022, 
with decreases across the board, including 
plastics waste cut in half compared to the 
previous year and a dramatic drop in paper 
waste.

PROMOTING ACCOUNTABILITY
To promote accountability, the EUI established a new 
Charter in 2022, defining the internal auditor’s role 
and conducted internal audits on externally funded 
projects and on EUI procurement to further improve 
efficiency. A new external audit company completed 
its first audit with very positive results and no remarks, 
especially on the financial statements and budget 
implementation. This was welcome news after the 
EUI implemented a new reporting framework on 
its annual accounts (core accounts, consolidated 
accounts, and the Pension Reserve Fund). For internal 
controls, the EUI established a new Corporate 
Planning and Reporting Framework, bringing 

A greener EUI

The EUI paid close attention to energy saving in 
2022 in the light of the institutional commitment 
to reducing the Institute’s environmental impact 
and due to the persisting energy crisis. The EUI 
implemented energy saving initiatives across 
campus and sought sustainable solutions for 
saving water and reducing waste. Moreover, the 
EUI actively worked towards implementing an 
Environmental Management System, based on 
the European Commission’s Eco-Management 
and Audit Scheme. 

The EUI’s energy saving efforts proved 
especially effective in 2022. The Institute 
registered its lowest level of gas consumption 
over the past eight years, with a decrease 

Figure 12:

EUI monthly average waste production in 2021 and 2022

3,200

2,000

1,600

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BUDGET FIGURES

Figure 13:

The funding of the Institute: Revenue and expenditure for the 2022 financial year in euros

WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM…

…AND HOW IT IS USED

Total revenue €93,711,851

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Total expenditures €84,039,645

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEFigure 14:

Staff Repartition (December 2022) 

Figure 15:

External resources 2018-2022

35,000

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

0

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

EUI ACTIVITY REPORT 2022 - Budget figures

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Figure 16:

Evolution of contributions to the EUI budget, 1975-2022

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

EU contribution to the budget

MS contribution to the budget

Archives contribution to the budget

Externally financed reseach activities

Other revenue

Other nationals contributions

1975

1980

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2015

2022

Figure 17:

Evolution of member states’ contribution to the budget, 2011-2022

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE29.08%
MS contribution 
to the budget

2022

2.71%
Archives contribuiton 
to the budget

Figure 18:

EUI sources of funding in 2022

20.83%
EU contribution 
to the budget

4.48%
Other national
contribution

8.43%
Other revenue

Figure 19:

Stipends disbursed in 2022 (estimate): 

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LEADERSHIP, FACULTY, AND 
GOVERNANCE

Renaud Dehousse 

President

Marco Del Panta 

Secretary General

DEANS

Giacomo Calzolari   
Dean of Research 

Deirdre Curtin  

Dean of Graduate Studies

Regina Grafe   

Dean of External Relations 

Juho Härkönen   

Dean of Postdoctoral Studies 

Neha Jain  

Dean of Equality, Diversity, 
and Inclusiveness

ACADEMIC UNITS

Andrea Ichino   

Department of Economics 
(Head of Department)

Corinna Unger    

Department of History and 
Civilisation 
(Head of Department since Sept. 2022)

Giorgio Riello  

Department of History and Civilisation 
(Head of Department until Sept. 2022)

Joanne Scott    

Department of Law 
(Head of Department)

Ellen Immergut     

Department of Political 
and Social Sciences
(Head of Department until Sept. 2022)

Erik Jones      

Robert Schuman Centre 
for Advanced Studies 
(Director)

Elias Dinas    

Department of Political 
and Social Sciences 
(Head of Department since Sept. 2022)

Juho Härkönen 

Max Weber Programme 
(Director)

Alexander Stubb     

School of Transnational Governance
(Director)

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTESUPPORT SERVICES

Jan-Paul Brouwer      

Human Resources Service
(Director)

Marco Incerti   

Communications Service
(Director) 

Roberto Nocentini 

Budget and Financial Affairs Service 
EUI Administrative Coordinator
(Director) 

David Scott 

Information and Communication 
Technology Service
(Director) 

Josep Torn     

Library
(Director) 

Kathinka España   

Real Estate and Facilities Service
(Director) 

Mathias Neukirchen    
Academic Service
(Director) 

Dieter Schlenker   
Historical Archives 
of the European Union
(Director)

Júlia Serrano  

Accounting Service
(Chief Accountant) 

Lukasz Wieczerzak    
Internal Audit Office
(Internal Auditor) 

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FULL-TIME FACULTY (DECEMBER 2022)

Economics

Zeinab Aboutalebi
Sule Alan
Jesus Bueren
Giacomo Calzolari
Edouard Challe
Russell Cooper
Giancarlo Corsetti (Joint Chair with RSC)
Thomas Crossley
Andrea Ichino
David Levine (Joint Chair with RSC)
Laurent Mathevet
Alexander Monge-Naranjo
Alessandro Tarrozzi

History and Civilisation

Monika Baar (Joint Chair with RSC)
Giancarlo Casale
Benno Gammerl
Regina Grafe
Nicolas Guilhot
Pieter Judson
Lauren Kassell
Lucy Riall
Giorgio Riello
Glenda Sluga (Joint Chair with RSC)
Corinna Unger

Law

Deirdre Curtin
Peter Drahos
Martijn Hesselink
Neha Jain
Claire Kilpatrick
Sarah Nouwen
Jurgen Kurtz (Joint Chair with RSC)
Nicolas Petit (Joint Chair with RSC)
Urška Šadl
Joanne Scott
Mathias Siems

Political and Social Sciences
    Jeffrey Checkel
    Elias Dinas
    Klarita Gërxhani
    Miriam Golden
    Juho Härkönen
    Anton Hemerijck
    Simon Hix
    Stephanie Hofmann (Joint Chair with RSC)
    Ellen Immergut 
    Filip Kostelka
    Waltraud Schelkle (Joint Chair with RSC)
    Arnout van de Rijt
    Herman van de Werfhorst 

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Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

Thorsten Beck
Daniele Caramani
Andrew Geddes
Bernard Hoekman
Erik Jones
Leonardo Meeus
Martin Ruhs
Maarten Vink

School of Transnational Governance

Kenneth Amaeshi
Michael Bauer
Adam Kamradt-Scott
Emma Lees
Kalypso Nicolaidis
Georgios Papakonstantinou
Claudio Radaelli
Diane Stone
Alexander Stubb
Lauri Tierala

EUI HIGH COUNCIL 
(DECEMBER 2022)

Austria

Stefan Griller 
Vienna University of Economics and Business 
Florian Pecenka 
Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU, Brussels

Belgium 

Pascal Buffin 
Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs 
Theodora Gentzis 
Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs 
Stefano Messina 
Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs

Bulgaria

Rumyana Kolarova 
University of Sofia

Cyprus 

Androulla Vassiliou 
Former EU Commissioner for Education and Culture 
Former Minister of Education
Terpsa Constantinidou 
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth

Denmark 

Pernille Ulrich 
Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education  

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEMarlene Wind 
University of Copenhagen 

Anita Vahere-Abrazune 
Ministry of Education and Science

Estonia 

Ursula Tubli 
Ministry of Education and Research

Finland

Sami Niinimäki 
Ministry of Education and Culture 
Tuomas Parkkari 
Ministry of Education and Culture 
Liisa Savunen 
Academy of Finland

France

Carle Bonafous-Murat 
Conference of University Presidents 
Rosaly Datchi 
Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation 
Toni Legouda 
Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation

Germany 

Stefan Konetzko 
Federal Ministry of Education and Research 
Heike Mark 
Ministry of Finance and Science of Saarland 
Sandra Greiner-Odinma 
Ministry of Finance and Science of Saarland 
Adrian Steinert 
Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Greece

Georgios Dellis 
Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs   
Andreas Gofas 
Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs  

Ireland

Ian McKenna  
Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 
Keith Moyens 
Higher Education, Department Education and Skills 
Sióbhan Mullally 
Irish Centre for Human Rights

Italy

Simona Battiloro 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation 
Sabino Cassese 
Former Minister and Judge at the Constitutional Court 
Alessandro De Pedys 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Latvia

Ilze Saleniece 
Ministry of Education and Science 

Luxembourg 

Robert Kerger 
Ministry of Higher Education and Research 
Stéphanie Schott 
Ministry of Higher Education and Research

Malta

Tanya Sammut Bonnici 
Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs 
Christopher Magri 
Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs

Netherlands 

Frans Van Vught 
University of Twente, Enschede  
R.C.G. Van der Meer 
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science 

Poland 

Łukasz Gruszczyński  
Kozminski University 
Jacek Mazur 
Ministry of Education and Science
Przemysław Skrodzki 
Ministry of Education and Science

Portugal

Maria das Dores Guerreiro 
University Institute of Lisbon - Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
Nuno Severiano Teixeira 
NOVA University of Lisbon

Romania

Sorin Costreie 
University of Bucharest 
Adrian Curaj 
Bucharest Polytechnics University

Slovakia

Martina Klofáčová 
Ministry of Education, Research and Sport 
Lucia Mokrá 
Comenius University,  Bratislava

Slovenia

Andrej Kotnik 
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport 
Peter Volasko 
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport

Spain 

Margarita De Lezcano-Mújica Nuñez 
Ministry of Universities

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Sweden

Malin Rönnblom 
Karlstad University 
Andres Sundin 
Swedish Research Council

Council of the EU

Elizabeth Willocks 
Council of the European Union 
Eugenia Dumitriu-Segnana 
Council of the European Union

European Commission

Themis Christophidou 
European Commission 
Stefaan Hermans 
European Commission 
Stefan Zotti 
European Commission

European Parliament

Riccardo Ribera d’Alcalá 
European Parliament 
Emanuela Ilario 
European Parliament

BUDGET AND FINANCE 
COMMITTEE 

Austria

Kajetan Stransky-Can  
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research 
Georg Tummeltshammer   
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research

Belgium

Pascal Buffin   
Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs 
Stefano Messina 
Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs

Bulgaria

Sonia Krastanova-Bogdanova  
Ministry of Education and Science 
Zornitsa Todorova  
Ministry of Education and Science

Cyprus

Paris Protopapas  
Ministry of Finance

Denmark

Gunvor Faber-Madsen  
Danish Agency of Higher Education and Science 
Nicolai Narvestad  
Danish Agency of Higher Education and Science

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Estonia

Kai Treier   
Ministry of Education and Research

Finland

Satu-Anniina Pakarinen  
Academy of Finland 
Tomi Vallius  
Academy of Finland 
Floora Ruokonen   
Academy of Finland-Research Council for Culture and 
Society  
Liisa Savunen   
Academy of Finland  

France

Guy Durand  
Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation 
Toni Legouda   
Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation

Germany

Stefan Konetzko   
Federal Ministry of Education and Research  
Melanie Liebscher   
Federal Ministry of Education and Research 
Adrian Steinert   
Federal Ministry of Education and Research 
Ulrike Tramer   
Federal Ministry of Finance

Greece

Odysseas-Ioannis Zoras   
Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs  
Alexandra Karvouni   
Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs 

Ireland

Kathryn Coleman  
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, 
Innovation and Science 
Veronica Dalton   
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, 
Innovation and Science 
Alan O’Callaghan    
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, 
Innovation and Science

Italy

Simona Battiloro   
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation 
Giuseppe Danna    
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation 
Francesco Guarascio    
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation 
Alessandra Lanari  
Ministry of Economy and Finance 
Cecilia Piccioni   
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation 

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Slovakia

Andrej Horský  
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport 
Pavel Kiss   
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport

Slovenia

Andrej Kotnik  
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport 
Marina Očko  
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport

Spain

Fernando de Hipólito Ruiz  
Ministry of Universities 
Margarita de Lezcano-Mújica Núñez 
Ministry of Universities

Sweden

Anneli Fröjd  
Swedish Research Council

European Commission

Themis Christophidou   
European Commission 
Stefaan Hermans   
European Commission 
Stefan Zotti  
European Commission

Council of the European Union
Jean-Baptiste Laignelot    
Council of the European Union  

European Parliament

Riccardo Ribera D’Alcala     
European Parliament   
Emanuela Ilario      
European Parliament   

Salvatore Vizzini    
Ministry of Economy and Finance  

Latvia

Baiba Jurkevica  
Ministry of Education and Science  
Ilze Saleniece   
Ministry of Education and Science 
Anita Vahere-Abražune    
Ministry of Education and Science  

Luxembourg

Léon Diederich  
Ministry of Higher Education and Research 
Jean-Marie Haensel  
Inspectorate of Finance

Malta

Christopher Magri  
Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs 
Tanya Sammut-Bonnici  
Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs

Netherlands

Ron van der Meer  
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science 
Jaco van Vliet 
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science 
Frans van Vught  
University of Twente 

Poland

Małgorzata Hofman  
Ministry of Education and Science 
Jacek Mazur   
Ministry of Education and Science 
Bernadeta Szydłowska   
Ministry of Education and Science 

Portugal

Fernanda Coelho   
Ministry of Foreign Affairs  
Luísa Igreja  
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education/
Foundation for Science and  Technology 
João Lacerda Machado  
European Affairs Directorate-General (MFA)  
João Pina de Morais 
European Affairs Directorate-General (MFA)   
Ana Quartin  
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education    
Tiago Saborida  
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education   

Romania

Iordan Barbulescu   
SNSPA/National School of Political Science and Public 
Administration 

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RESEARCH COUNCIL 

Marietta Auer

Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Maria Bigoni

University of Bologna

Tarunabh Khaitan

University of Oxford

Carina Mood

Stockholm University

Bogdan Murgescu
     University of Bucharest 

Morten O. Ravn

University College London

Davide Rodogno

Graduate Institute, Geneva

Maria Fernanda Rollo
     Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Hélène Ruiz Fabri

Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International 
European and Regulatory Procedural Law

Jacques Thomassen
University of Twente

Otto Toivanen

Aalto University School of Business

Jarle Trondal

University of Agder

Anne Van Aaken (Chair)
University of Hamburg

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NOTE

Report on calendar year 2022

Published in May 2023 by the European University Institute

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