Doctoral programme We encourage our Ph.D. researchers to think beyond boundaries Read more Doctoral programme
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Summer School Summer School - Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present Read more Summer School
Read more 2 November 2026 Research seminar Joint event Seventh meeting of the International Thinking and Planetary Futures Interdisciplinary Research Cluster Read more
Read more 6 November 2026 Workshop Department of History The History of Agrochemicals and International Development Read more
EUI co-curates Global Florence, an exhibition on a merchant's voyage around 1600 From 9 October 2026 to 9 January 2027, the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence hosts ‘Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, c. 1573-1636’. Co-curated by EUI Professor Giorgio Riello, the exhibition follows one merchant's voyage around the world through 69 objects. Read more EUI co-curates Global Florence, an exhibition on a merchant's voyage around 1600
How the EU financed its industrial policy – lessons for today’s challenges In the 1970s and 1980s, European industry struggled to keep pace with competitors in the United States and Japan. Dimitri Zurstrassen, a recipient of a European Court of Auditors Research Grant, explored our holdings to trace how the Community developed financing instruments in response. Read more How the EU financed its industrial policy – lessons for today’s challenges
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. Read more Why history needs an intersectional perspective
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. Read more The future of Europe: Margaret Pulk on the Commission’s forgotten futurists