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Robert Schuman Centre

We produce research on the major challenges facing Europe and the World

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Voices of Ukrainian women

On the occasion of 2023 International Women's Day, we asked Ukrainian female scholars at the European University Institute to share a message with all the community.

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Marco Buti joins the European University Institute

The EUI is delighted to announce that Marco Buti will be joining its faculty in May. Marco Buti will hold the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair in European Economic and Monetary Integration, based at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

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From energy regulation to migration, from media pluralism to banking and finance

Our nine research programmes address the key questions facing the European Union and its global role through both basic and policy-oriented research.

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Our community

The Schuman Centre is home to a large community of professors, fellows, researchers as well as practitioners

Every year we welcome Jean Monnet Fellows, Max Weber Fellows, Marie Curie Fellows, EP and EU Fellows and Visiting Fellows. We also welcome regularly participants to our executive trainings and summer schools.

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Portrait picture of Marika Armanovica, EP Fellow

Marika Armanovica, EP Fellow

Intense, rich and ingenious. My fellowship felt fuller than a mere academic experience as I could halt my professional life in order to read, listen and be listened.

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Christakis Georgiou, Visiting Fellow

An exciting, vibrant and stimulating scholarly community located in a superb natural and architectural setting, the Schuman Centre was the perfect place to spend a sabbatical for me as a Europeanist scholar.

Portrait picture of Jacqueline Owigo, MPC Summer School

Jacqueline Owigo, MPC Summer School

I met great migration scholars and researchers. This was key for me, given that I come from an International Relations background and wanted to learn more about migration theories and policy debates

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Igor Nikolic, Research Fellow

Collegiality, support, research-intensive atmosphere and connection with policy-makers and industry makes this an ideal place for me and other researchers wanting to make a lasting impact on society.

Portrait picture of Katharina Von Schnurbein, EU Fellow

Katharina Von Schnurbein, EU Fellow

The exchange with top researchers from around the world imprinted a long lasting impact on me. Yet, there is no risk of being stuck in an ivory tower, thanks to the participation of policy makers

Portrait picture of Frank Borge Wietzke, Jean Monnet Fellow

Frank Borge Wietzke, Jean Monnet Fellow

My year as a Jean Monnet Fellow in 2020/21 sadly coincided with the pandemic. However, I experienced the Schuman Centre as an extremely welcoming and inspiring place to work.

Portrait picture of Klodiana Beshku, Jean Monnet Fellow

Klodiana Beshku, Jean Monnet Fellow

A year at the Robert Schuman Centre can be a life-changing experience in terms of perspectives, colleagues and research. It succeded to be like this even under a pandemic year, let alone in a normal one

Portrait picture of Michael Sanfey, Visiting Fellow

Michael Sanfey, Visiting Fellow

The Robert Schuman Centre is unique: a beautiful setting at Villa Schifanoia; outstanding researchers; and excellent conference facilities. These three elements provided me with a really great environment for my work on sovereignty

Portrait picture of Vivian Gerrand, Max Weber Fellow

Vivian Gerrand, Max Weber Fellow

An ideal environment both from the perspective of intellectual inquiry and of collegiality that I could not more highly recommend to researchers

Portrait picture of Jean-Jacques van Helten, Visiting Fellow

Jean-Jacques van Helten, Visiting Fellow

After 30 years in international banking, the Florence School of Banking and Finance’s allows me to reflect and debate on the policy and structural issues facing today’s banking and finance industry

Portrait picture of Heliodoro Temprano Arroyo, EU Fellow

Heliodoro Temprano Arroyo, EU Fellow

Perhaps the most incredible thing about the Schuman Centre is its combination of excellence with a friendly, informal and very motivating working atmosphere

Portrait picture of Stefan Fritsch, Jean Monnet Fellow

Stefan Fritsch, Jean Monnet Fellow

The Jean Monnet Fellowship allowed me to begin a new project on the EU’s innovation policies regarding Artificial Intelligence. I profited tremendously from sharing it with the EUI’s world class academic community. What an experience!

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Policy dialogue and training

A core objective of our mission is to engage actively with the world of practice through policy dialogue and executive training. We organise workshops, seminars and restricted roundtables, as well as executive training courses for academics and policy-makers. Some of our programmes have developed executive training courses in various niche areas, notably, banking and finance, regulation, media and communication and the judicial sphere.

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Video Highlights

European solidarity and the war in Ukraine | Dietlind Stolle

Schuman Short on Conditionality with Jelena Dzankic

Roundtable: Climate neutrality & the new energy order: is carbon pricing up to the twin challenge?