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The mess at home, and who is still expected to clean it, with Léa Pessin

Why does housework remain so unequally divided between women and men, long after other gender gaps have narrowed? In this #EUIResearch interview, EUI Assistant Professor Léa Pessin discusses what more than 800 AI-generated rooms reveal about who is still expected to clean up at home.

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The future of Europe: Margaret Pulk on the Commission’s forgotten futurists

Can the future be turned into a research problem? In this #MyEUIResearch story, Margaret Pulk traces how the European Commission experimented with futures research, and what happened when policymakers and futurists had different ideas about what it could deliver.

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Learning law by performing it: innovative teaching at the EUI

This new #uniquelyEUI series on innovative teaching shows how experimentation at the EUI reaches beyond research and into the classroom. In the first episode, Sarah Nouwen and Antoine De Spiegeleir discuss what happens when students of international law stop reading about trials and start performing them.

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Why do international organisations make poor scapegoats for politicians?

Tim Heinkelmann-Wild

Shifting blame onto international organisations for negative outcomes is generally expected to be a common strategy of national politicians. But research reveals that leaders use this tactic far less often — and far less successfully — than we think....

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Learning from Chornobyl? Handling nuclear risks during peace and war

Angela Liberatore

In this EUIdeas piece, Science Diplomacy Fellow Angela Liberatore reflects on the legacy of the Chernobyl/Chornobyl nuclear disaster and how it has influenced policy, crisis response, and wartime concerns over the 40 years since the accident. ...

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Why history needs an intersectional perspective

At the 2026 Yves Mény Annual Lecture Professor Benno Gammerl explored how intersectional perspectives and individual life stories can complement established narratives of German contemporary history and help us better understand the present.

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EUI ranks first in the EU for political sciences in 2026 ShanghaiRanking

The EUI ranks first in the European Union for Political Sciences in the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, placing 11th worldwide. The Institute also has the highest international collaboration score of any institution in the global top 11.

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Berlinde De Bruyckere in conversation at Palazzo Buontalenti

Internationally renowned Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere joined the EUI community at Palazzo Buontalenti on 24 September for a public conversation on art, human vulnerability, memory and transformation, as part of ‘OPEN: A New Civic Space for Art and Science.’ 

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