The following researchers have been awarded a Vibeke Sørensen Grant for the consultation of primary sources at the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), following the 30 June 2021 deadline: Reza Aghababadastjerdi, Matteo Amoroso, Renato Raffaele Amoroso, Aude Foucoin, Dr David Grealy, and Dr Thomas Süsler-Rohringer.
Reza Aghababadastjerdi, PhD candidate at Khalij-e Fars University (Bushehr, Iran), will investigate the different dimensions of the commercial and political relations between Iran and the European Economic Community between 1957 and 1979. Matteo Amoroso, a master’s student recently graduated from the University of Florence, aims to reconstruct the role played by federalist associations and in particular the European Movement in supporting the draft ‘Treaty establishing the EU’, approved by the European Parliament on 14 February 14 1984. Renato Raffaele Amoroso, PhD candidate at LUMSA University in Rome, will assess the contribution of the European Investment Bank (EIB) to the implementation of strategies for the industrialization of the South, analysing specifically documents related to the granting of global loans. Aude Foucoin, a master’s student at Aix-Marseille University, will seek to identify and analyse the role of different women in the administrative services of the European Coal and Steel Community. Dr David Grealy, Associate Lecturer at Lancaster University, will examine the evolution of the human rights dimension of the Lomé Convention to shed light on the competing visions and strategic divergences that precluded the establishment of a united European approach to human rights promotion. Finally, Dr. Thomas Süsler-Rohringer, Post-doctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, will analyse the role of the European Economic Community as a platform for transnational knowledge transfer and investigate how the creation of a European ombudsman was in turn shaped by national debates on the relationship between political structures and the population.
The Vibeke Sørensen Research Grant for visiting scholars was set up in 1993 by the then-President of the European University Institute, Emile Noël, with support from the European Commission. The grant scheme was renamed in 1997 to honour the memory of Dr. Vibeke Sørensen (1952 – 1995), an alumna of the EUI’s Department of History and former staff member of the HAEU.