Why Choose the EUI

The European University Institute (EUI) in Florence offers one of the world's largest and most distinguished graduate and postgraduate programmes in the social sciences.

Its Departments of Economics, History and Civilization, Law, and Political and Social Sciences, with their researchers, fellows, faculty and visitors, constitute an international research environment with a community of scholars drawn from over fifty countries in Europe and beyond.

The EUI is home to the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, an interdisciplinary policy research centre working on issues of European integration and European society.

It is also home to the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, a programme for your academics starting out on a professional career and who wish to develop their research and teaching skills.

Research is supported by a first-class Library which collection consists of over 3,000 print journals, over 8,000 full-text electronic journals, and approximately half a million volumes in economics, history, law, and political and social sciences.

The EUI hosts the Historical Archives of the European Union with its unique collection of fonds released under the thirty-year rule.

From admission through to completion of the four-year funded doctoral programme, the EUI offers its researchers excellent academic resources in an environment that is as dynamic as it is diverse.