The Center for Behavioral & Experimental Agri-Environmental Research has awarded the CBEAR Prize to the Research Network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy (REECAP).
The annual CBEAR Prize for Agri-Environmental Innovation goes to leaders who foster the development of evidence-based policy design at the intersection of agriculture and the environment.
International Conference at Le Mans University in association with the University of Latvia May 19-20, 2022
This two-day conference, which explores transculturality with a special focus on the US, in two languages, English and French, invites papers on topics related but not limited to:
This conference is supported by the Institute for European and Global studies.
3L.AM – EA 4335 (UM, UA)
The Languages, Literature, Linguistics laboratory of the Universities of Angers and Le Mans (3L.AM Lab), Welcoming Team No 4335, is a Research Unit present on two sites, noted A by the Agence d’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (2011 evaluation campaign). It brings together 60 teacher-researchers (40 in Le Mans and 20 in Angers) and welcomes 40 PhD students.
http://3lam.univ-lemans.fr/fr/index.html
Le Mans Université
The University of Le Mans contributes to the research lines of the Institute for European and Global studies and to the education offer on European culture(s).
http://www.univ-lemans.fr/en/index.html
The Institute for European and Global Studies Alliance Europa organises a Summerschool for PhD students from the 2Oth to the 24th June, 2022 in Nantes. During the event they will address local stakeholders issues regarding European integration.
From the 20th to the 24th June, 2022, PhD students will take on the role of consultant to offer a new multidisciplinary perspective to local stakeholders: public institutions, private organisations, associations, and the media of the Pays de la Loire region. They will formulate a diagnosis providing answers to the local stakeholder on issues related to :
PhD students will benefit from academic lectures, an introduction course on the role of consultant and they will work in a multidisciplinary team to tackle a concrete issue for a local stakeholder.
Since the 1980s, the increased impact of local and regional stakeholders in European integration has been facilitated by major developments such as the acceleration of the globalisation process which has gradually eroded the state's monopoly as the only legitimate actor in foreign policy. Along with the emergence of a transnational society that transcends borders, the processes of decentralization or devolution of powers has widened the previously limited opportunities of subnational authorities in terms of international relations.
At the same time, the European Union instituted a system of multi-level governance in which local and regional authorities intervened, in a more or less close relationship with the States. The development of EU policies and their funding raised the stakes for territorial policies and for all political and socio-economic actors. Actor networks therefore become a mode of action for influencing policies and decisions likely to impact them.
The numerous crises on the continent have not weakened the process. On the contrary, they offer up an opportunity to shift our vision of Europe by increasing citizen participation, including at the local level, by relying on dynamic civil societies. Local and regional authorities can innovate in raising awareness, information, and communication policies on Europe to facilitate populations taking ownership of it.
This interdisciplinary field of research allows for a different approach to the study of European integration, which not only factors in a bottom-up approach but also broadens the scope of actors, leaving behind one primarily centered on capital cities and European institutions. There are many specificities and territorial singularities in Europe, but the study of European actions, policies and strategies of actors in Nantes and the Loire region, in a territory that has seen the birth of many citizen initiatives, will be part of a comparative vision thanks to the international nature of our Summer school.
This Summerschool is composed of academic conferences, a discovery course on the role of consultants and a multidisciplinary teamwork to answer a concrete issue from a local stakeholder.
15 to 20 international doctoral students accompanied by academics in humanities and social sciences will meet for five days to take on a mission from a local stakeholder and to help them advance their thinking in relation to the European dimension of their activity.
Our participative and innovative model will be conducive to exchanges between doctoral students working in the field of European and international studies and non-academic actors to develop new professional skills in consulting for the socio-economic world, the media, civil society and local authorities.
The event is organised in English and in French.
MICHEL CATALA
Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Nantes - Director of the Institute for European and Global Studies.
The director of the Institute for European and Global Studies since its creation in 2015, Michel Catala launched the RFI Alliance Europa programme in 2013, with Arnauld Leclerc. A university professor since 2004, he directed the CRHIA, a history laboratory bringing together 50 teacher-researchers and 89 doctoral students in Nantes and La Rochelle. He has a long practice of directing research structures and collective research programmes on the history of Europe on a regional (DCIE) and national (Labex EHNE) scale. A specialist in the history of international relations in Europe and the history of European construction, he has been teaching these subjects for 15 years. He is the author of numerous publications on these issues, and has also launched many international partnerships. He is the founding president of the Maison de l’Europe in Nantes, and is particularly familiar with civil society and local authority actors working on European issues in Nantes and the Loire region.
ARNAULD LECLERC
Professor of political science at the University of Nantes and director of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange-Guépin from 2015 to 2020. Holder of the “Telos, Ethos, Nomos Europa” Jean Monnet Chair. Coordinator of Alliance Europa's Axis 1 "Governing Europe in a globalised world".
A member of the Law and Social Change Laboratory (CNRS/University Joint Research Unit n°6297), Arnauld Leclerc is a specialist in political theory applied to Europe. He directs the Master 2 in Political Science of Europe and created in 2011 an original selective bachelor’s degree dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of Europe. All the classes he teaches relate to European studies, contributing to the vitality of this field and to the debates on European issues through his regular participation in public debates and the organisation of numerous scientific and extra-academic events. He is the president of Euradio, a radio school specialising in European issues, welcoming students from all over Europe every year and broadcasting in several languages.
He is the coordinator of the Chair of European Philosophy project held by philosopher Jean-Marc Ferry, and the author of several collective works including Les intellectuels et le pouvoir. Déclinaisons et mutations (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012), Conclusion : La citoyenneté européenne en temps de crise and L’Europe : crise et critique (Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2016, 2017) and Du mot au concept. La démocratie comme intellectualisation de la dispute sociale (2017), L’Europe face au défi des religions: construire un espace public par-delà la sécularisation (2017). His research themes are the the philosophy of Europe, the theory of democracy and the philosophy of the university.
See the page of the “Télos Ethos Nomos Europa” Chair.
Deadline : 29 March 2022
The Institute for european and global studies Alliance Europa organises a Summerschool for PhD students from the 2Oth to the 24th June, 2022 in Nantes. During the event they will address local stakeholders issues regarding European integration.
This event is organised within the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union of the Council of the European Union*.
* This event is not organized by the French government. It is however authorized by the Government to use the emblem of the French Presidency of the Council of the Council of the European Union.
MARIE BONNENFANT
MARIE BONNENFANT
Education and Innovation Development Project Manager
Alliance Europa Institute for European and Global Studies
USR 3491 Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin
tel : 02 53 00 93 88
mail: Marie.Bonnenfant@univ-nantes.fr
MSH (Office: 509)
5 allée Jacques-Berque
PO BOX 12105
44021 NANTES CEDEX 1
Please contact her :
– to obtain information on the education courses of the institute for European and Global Studies
– to request support related to the internationalization, professionalization and interdisciplinarity of the Institute for European and Global Studies’ education programmes.
– to propose a project, an action, to mature an idea
– to obtain information on the European Idea Factory
LORRAINE STRAVENS
LORRAINE STRAVENS
PhD student in History of International Relations, CRHIA - University of Nantes // Project manager for the summerschool "Local and regional stakeholders and European integration" (2022)
At the CRHIA of the University of Nantes, Lorraine Stravens has been preparing a thesis since September 2017 on “The emergence of local and regional governments in national and European development aid policies since 1980”, under the supervision of Professor Michel Catala, with the support of Alliance Europa (as part of the CITER project) and LabEx EHNE.
For Alliance Europa, Lorraine Stravens participated in the development of the LIPE project and the setting up of doctoral seminars.
From February to July 2022, Lorraine Stravens was project officer for the Institute for European and Global Studies Alliance Europa. She was involved in the preparation, organisation and evaluation of the summerschool “Local and regional stakeholders and European integration”.
This call for papers is published in the framework of the UACES research network « The Role of Europe in Global Challenges: Climate Change and Sustainable Development ».
Deadline for paper proposals: Friday 11 March 2022
Date of the conference : Monday, 14 – Tuesday, 15 June 2022
Convenors: EU*Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management
Venue: ESSCA School of Management, Angers (Loire Valley, France) & Online
The EU*Asia Institute from ESSCA School of Management is looking for contributions from scholars and practitioners in the field of sustainable development research, encompassing all its dimensions – economic, and social and environmental sustainability. The objective of the conference is to analyse the dynamic of European integration in the fields of sustainability policy and action. Questions will be posed about the extent to which a ‘narrowing’ in the definition of the concept of sustainability has taken place, as seen through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals and in the response of the European Union and European nations in particular. The European Union is portrayed as a global actor in the development of Sustainability Policy. A key question to be addressed is to what extent international perceptions meet realities ‘at home’ and the extent to which a European model of sustainability has emerged.
This conference will look particularly at the impact of sustainability policies on the European integration process as well as the EU as an environmental leader in the world.
Contributions should address one of the following themes:
Please send an abstract of 150-200 words, your name, institutional affiliation and contact details to Professors Thomas Hoerber (Thomas.Hoerber@essca.fr), Rosa Fernandez (Rosa.Fernandez-Martin@warwick.ac.uk) and to Dr Jonas Schönefeld (j.schoenefeld@iwu.de)
Deadline for paper proposals: Friday 11 March 2022
Applicants will be notified by Friday 25 March 2022.
There are no registration fees for this workshop. Venue, lunch and coffee breaks will be covered by UACES/ESSCA. Some travel funding may be available for young, early-career researchers.
EU-Asia Institute (ESSCA)
The Eu-Asia Institute is the research centre for interdisciplinary European Integration Studies of the ESSCA Angers School of Management.
THOMAS HOERBER
Director of ESSCA's EU-Asia Institute - Professor of European Studies at ESSCA - Coordinator of Alliance Europa's Axis 1 "Governing Europe in a globalised world".
Research topics: European history and policy; space, energy and environmental policies of the EU and its partners; European Studies; International Relations
Thomas Hoerber coordinates the international network “The Governance of Sustainability in Europe”.
2 December 2021 – Institute for Housing and Environment (IWU) in Darmstadt, Germany
Online via TEAMS, please contact Dr. Rosa Fernandez (Rosa.Fernandez-Martin@warwick.ac.uk) to get the link.
Following the UACES Annual Conference in September 2021, we hold an author workshop through the UACES Research Network « The Role of Europe in Global Challenges: Climate Change and Sustainable Development ». The workshop participants will work towards a joint publication project, such as a special issue or an edited book.
As the host institution is “The Institute for Housing and Environment », this workshop will focus on the topic of housing and buildings, but also cover agriculture and mobility policy in the context of the European Green Deal.
The European Commission launched the European Green Deal (EGD) in December 2019 in order to set the European Union on a firm path towards sustainability. While there are vibrant scholarly debates on issues around climate change, the energy transition and biodiversity, other areas that affect how we live, eat and travel have received less attention. To address this imbalance, this panel will focus on three key policy areas with high relevance for achieving the ambitious targets of the EGD:
housing/buildings, agriculture and mobility.
Since the publication of the EGD, the Commission has published further strategies, namely one on a renovation wave (October 2020), a farm to fork strategy (May 2020) and strategies related to hydrogen and batteries (July/December 2020).
Papers in this workshop will address the prospects for successful implementation of the EGD in any one of these three policy areas, focusing on any of the following aspects:
• Task allocation across multiple levels of governance, including issues of subsidiarity
• Implementation across the Member States, including how the EGD interacts with national circumstances
• The role of sub-national actors, including regions and cities
• The interaction between technical and governance issues (e.g., monitoring, standard-setting, etc.)
• Steering mechanisms (hard and soft approaches) and policy instruments
• The role of different actors and institutions
Project page « The Role of Europe in Global Challenges »2021-Programme-Workshop-Live-Eat-Travel-Darmstadt
EU-Asia Institute (ESSCA)
The Eu-Asia Institute is the research centre for interdisciplinary European Integration Studies of the ESSCA Angers School of Management.
THOMAS HOERBER
Director of ESSCA's EU-Asia Institute - Professor of European Studies at ESSCA - Coordinator of Alliance Europa's Axis 1 "Governing Europe in a globalised world".
Research topics: European history and policy; space, energy and environmental policies of the EU and its partners; European Studies; International Relations
Thomas Hoerber coordinates the international network “The Governance of Sustainability in Europe”.
From October 18 to October 22, 2021, the International Business Week (IBW) took place at IAE Angers.
The IBW consists of bringing together all the international Master 2 courses of IAE Angers, including its historical Polish partner, Nicolaus Copernicus University, which was once again able to travel to work in groups (5 to 6 students of all nationalities) on a specific issue.
This event is part of the Unleash your talents project, supported by the Institute following the 2021 innovative education call for proposals.
This year’s theme was: “Design the alumni network you would like to have for your future”.
The students were evaluated on 3 aspects :
– group work and cohesion.
– Oral presentation.
– submission of a report.
Each morning of the week was dedicated to speakers on topics related to the international network (the need to have a network, intervention of alumni from all horizons, presentation of the alumni network of the partner university…)
In order to motivate the students to give their best, the first two groups received a price.
The International Business Week resulted in 6 consulting reports with concrete proposals for the creation of the future international alumni network.
The next step is to pool all of these proposals to draw up a roadmap for the creation of this network by 2022.
RONAN CHARDONNEAU
Co-Head of the Master 2 International Management and Marketing
– Associate lecturer in digital marketing
– Co-Head of the Master 2 International Management and Marketing
– Audience analysis trainer (Piwik, Google Analytics, TMS)
https://ronan-chardonneau.fr/
IAE Angers
IAE - University School of Management
IAE Angers is part of the well-known French network “IAE France” which encompasses some of the best Management programmes spread out over 35 Schools. Together, they share a common spirit and ambition that it is to help students become optimistic managers, respectful, curious and successful creators.
The dual health and climate crises confronting humanity and the planet today are unprecedented. These crises are impacting human activity in all its diversity extending across cultural, societal, political, legal, business, economic and educational spheres. In addition to these global phenomena, we have also witnessed national, social (“Black Lives Matter” in the United States, the Afghan crisis…) and political crises (Brexit in the United Kingdom, American insurrection on Capitol Hill in January 2021…). This period evokes representations of real and fictional historical crises. The specter of natural disaster – pandemic, flood, fire, hurricane – and the effects on populations seem to come to life in the media and in the contemporary collective imagination.
This international conference proposes to bring together researchers and professionals from various fields to examine different aspects of the current period, but also of other periods of crisis. We will set out to examine the challenges that arose during these critical times and those that we still face today. Finally, we will also study the opportunities presented by these crises and, in particular, the economic, business, cultural and legal innovations that have emerged and continue to emerge. In the spirit of Applied Foreign Languages and International Business (LEA), a department strongly invested in research in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Nantes, and of the Centre for Research on Identities, Nations and Interculturality (CRINI), this conference is intended to be resolutely interdisciplinary and international. The notions of crisis, challenge and innovation will be examined in three workshops corresponding to the research topics of CRINI’s Theme 2: 1) Language for specific purposes and specialised translation – LSP Didactics; 2) Identities and processes of patrimonialisation; 3) New challenges in international business: trade & supply chain perspectives. The scope of the crises and the multiplicity of their consequences on human activity require an interdisciplinary approach to analyse and understand these complex events.
CHARLOTTE BARCAT
CHARLOTTE BARCAT
Lecturer in British civilisation, member of CRINI, at the University of Nantes.
Research themes :
Northern Ireland, Bloody Sunday, public enquiries, management of a conflicted past, collective memory, official memory of the British state.
Charlotte Barcat is developing the research project “The role of Europe in the Northern Ireland peace process: legal and economic policies, changes in identity” with the support of Alliance Europa.
Charlotte Barcat is also Treasurer of the Société Française d’Etudes Irlandaises.
CRINI (Centre for Research on National Identities and Interculturality – EA 1162 (UN))
CRINI (Centre for Research on National Identities and Interculturality – EA 1162 (UN))
The Centre for Research on National Identities and Interculturality brings together the research in civilization, linguistics and literature, carried out in several cultural areas, by the teacher-researchers of the different departments of the UFR. The CRINI has set itself the goal, through numerous publications and conferences, of elucidating national cultural specificities/identities and their interferences/interactions. It benefits from the contribution of a large network of foreign researchers regularly associated with its activities.
http://www.crini.univ-nantes.fr/
Nantes University
Nantes University
Nantes University offers courses from bachelor’s to master’s degrees and excellence research projects concerning Europe in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
It is home to the Institute for European and Global Studies, which implements the Alliance Europa programme.
https://www.univ-nantes.fr
Région Pays de la Loire
Région Pays de la Loire
The Pays de la Loire Region is a local authority created in 1982.
The Pays de la Loire Region supports the Alliance Europa programme as part of its encouragement to Research, Education and Innovation in Pays de la Loire.
The regional territory in a few words: the Pays de la Loire Region is a young and dynamic territory with a population of 3.8 million inhabitants and which attracts more than 25,000 people every year. The region is made up of 5 departments (Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée).
http://www.paysdelaloire.fr Deadline: January 15, 2022
Date of the event: 22-24 June 2022
The dual health and climate crises confronting humanity and the planet today are unprecedented. These crises are impacting human activity in all its diversity extending across cultural, societal, political, legal, business, economic and educational spheres. In addition to these global phenomena, we have also witnessed national, social (“Black Lives Matter” in the United States, the Afghan crisis…) and political crises (Brexit in the United Kingdom, American insurrection on Capitol Hill in January 2021…). This period evokes representations of real and fictional historical crises. The specter of natural disaster – pandemic, flood, fire, hurricane – and the effects on populations seem to come to life in the media and in the contemporary collective imagination.
CHARLOTTE BARCAT
Lecturer in British civilisation, member of CRINI, at the University of Nantes.
Research themes :
Northern Ireland, Bloody Sunday, public enquiries, management of a conflicted past, collective memory, official memory of the British state.
Charlotte Barcat is developing the research project “The role of Europe in the Northern Ireland peace process: legal and economic policies, changes in identity” with the support of Alliance Europa.
Charlotte Barcat is also Treasurer of the Société Française d’Etudes Irlandaises.
CRINI (Centre for Research on National Identities and Interculturality – EA 1162 (UN))
The Centre for Research on National Identities and Interculturality brings together the research in civilization, linguistics and literature, carried out in several cultural areas, by the teacher-researchers of the different departments of the UFR. The CRINI has set itself the goal, through numerous publications and conferences, of elucidating national cultural specificities/identities and their interferences/interactions. It benefits from the contribution of a large network of foreign researchers regularly associated with its activities.
http://www.crini.univ-nantes.fr/
On September 22, the “Governance of Sustainability in Europe” research network held its closing conference focusing on the dynamics of European integration in the areas of sustainability policy and resulting politics. During the event, participants had the opportunity, remotely or directly at the ESSCA campus in Angers, to share their opinions, thoughts and suggestions with the various speakers. In total, some 40 online and in-person participants were able to attend 17 presentations, most of which will be published.
The three-day event began with a roundtable in French, open to the general public, moderated by Professor Michel Catala, Noam Leandri, Secretary General of ADEME, Francesco Mattina, Vice President of the CPVO Angers, Catherine Chabaud, from the European Parliament, Anne Houtman, Team Europe, and Pascale Beldent, head of the CSR mission at ESSCA. The discussions focused on the issue of sustainable development in Europe.
You can listen to the replay of the round table in FR here.
The first session of the conference was dedicated to the presentation of the book by Prof. Thomas Hoerber and Dr. Gabriel Weber entitled “The European Environmental Conscience in EU Politics – A Developing Ideology” (Routledge, 2021). Other contributors, Dr. Marjorie Tendero, Dr. Tomasz Braun and Joel Kuenzer, had the opportunity to provide some insights into their chapters. The second session, led by Dr. Kristina Kurze, focused on the issue of energy policy and resources. Topics included Romania’s controversial recovery and resilience plan, policies related to the EU Circular Economy Action Plan, and energy and climate governance regulation.
On the second day, the event opened its third session, chaired by Dr. Gabriel Weber, dedicated to the role of the EU as a global sustainability actor and its level of influence on the international scene. Session 4, “Technology and know-how in EU sustainability policies”, led by Dr. Kristina Kurze was dedicated to the role of academic knowledge transfer models for sustainable innovation and the role of digital service companies in a digital society. Finally, session 5, led by Prof. Thomas Hoerber, dealt with green finance, in particular the position of the European Central Bank in the EU sustainability strategy, regulatory initiatives and green tax systems.
On the third and final day, Dr. Kristina Kurze and Dr. Helene Dyrhauge had the opportunity to present their book “Making the European Green Deal Work: EU sustainability policies at home and abroad” focusing on transformation processes within the EU and in countries that have not yet been the subject of much research such as Russia and the Middle East. The event ended with the closing speech of Prof. Thomas Hoerber highlighting the success of the conference, driven by the significant variety of topics covered, allowing to cover subjects that had not been studied by the research network before, and by the number of forthcoming publications dedicated to this theme. Prof. Thomas Hoerber concluded by encouraging participants to suggest other frameworks and means to expand the research carried out so far on the governance of sustainable development.
For more information on the closing conference follow this link.
THOMAS HOERBER
THOMAS HOERBER
Director of ESSCA's EU-Asia Institute - Professor of European Studies at ESSCA - Coordinator of Alliance Europa's Axis 1 "Governing Europe in a globalised world".
Research topics: European history and policy; space, energy and environmental policies of the EU and its partners; European Studies; International Relations
Thomas Hoerber coordinates the international network “The Governance of Sustainability in Europe”.
EU-Asia Institute (ESSCA)
EU-Asia Institute (ESSCA)
The Eu-Asia Institute is the research centre for interdisciplinary European Integration Studies of the ESSCA Angers School of Management.
http://www.essca.fr/EU-Asia/
ESSCA
ESSCA
Angers School of Management
ESSCA equips students and managers for a successful and sustainable career while taking fully into account the human and social dimensions of a globalized world.
https://www.essca.fr/en/
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