Traineeships: European University Institute EUI in San Domenico di Fiesole / Florence / Italy

Traineeships

From time to time the Institute offers traineeships to young people wishing to gain some professional experience in an international environment. The traineeships are filled according to the Institute's needs and its decision on awarding these traineeships is final.

Traineeships may occur in the Library, in the Computing Service or in one of the central administration services.

There are specific requirements for traineeships in the Library and traineeships at the Communications Service.



Conditions for Eligibility

May be considered for a traineeship, candidates who:

A) are studying for a first (post-secondary education) degree and are in the process of obtaining the qualification in which the training is part of the curriculum; OR

B) are involved in a vocational training programme; OR

C) have obtained the above (A or B) qualification, no longer than 18 months prior to the beginning of the traineeship; OR

D) are civil servants of a European Union Member State

Candidates must have a good knowledge of one of the EUI's official languages and a satisfactory knowledge of another language, taking into account that English, French and Italian are the main working languages at the Institute.

Type and Duration

The type and duration of a traineeship shall be:

A) non-remunerated traineeship for a period up to a maximum of 3 months, OR

B) remunerated traineeship for a period of a minimum of 3 months (a trial period) and a maximum of 12 months

The trainee will receive a grant (€1.200,-- per month from January 2012) and funds to cover the cost of one return trip from his/her place of origin during the period of the traineeship.



In both cases, health insurance is obligatory and can be obtained, upon request, through the Institute. The application form must be completed on-line.

Conference: Leaving Europe’s Waiting Room. Overcoming the Crisis of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans. Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, 9-11 November 2012‏

Leaving Europe’s Waiting Room.  Overcoming the Crisis of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans

Southeast European Dialogues

Centre for Southeast European Studies

University of Graz

9-11 November 2012

The Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz in cooperation with the European Fund for the Balkans, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik, Südosteuropa Gesellschaft and Europe Direct Steiermark will host a three day conference on the state of EU enlargement in Graz on the 9-11th November 2012. The goal of the conference is to reflect whether EU enlargement in the Western Balkans is in crisis and will include policy-led discussions on reinvigorating the EU enlargement process and academic panels on specific obstacles in the enlargement process. An edited collection of the best papers presented at the conference is planned for 2013.

This conference will discuss the obstacles and approaches to accelerate and reinvigorate the enlargement process. Instead of viewing enlargement as a state fullfilling formal criteria, the conference will focus on how and if the enlargement process can overcome “enlargement fatigue” and skepticism towards membership of the Western Balkans in the EU to key aspects that the enlargement process both hopes to overcome and which risk remaining an obstacle for EU membership. The conference in particular seeks to give room to young researchers who are able to contribute rich empirical work to the discussion. As an interdisciplinary event, the conference will include policy makers, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists and scholars from other disciplines. The working language of the conference is English.

The organizers invite paper proposal for the conference. Researchers interested in participating are asked to submit a 400 word abstract and CV by 20 July 2012 to the following email address: florian.bieber@uni-graz.at. Applicants are particularly encouraged to apply with papers on the following thematic areas:

· Enlargement Fatigue in the EU? Causes and how to build support for Enlargement.

· Making EU Enlargement Work--How to reinvigorate the accession process?

· EU Conditionality Before Membership: Membership Conditionality vs. Policy Conditionality

· How to Break the Deadlock of Bilateral Disputes in the Western Balkans

· Regatta or Big Bang Model of Accession?

· Closing Difficult Chapters: Rule of Law and Judiciary Regional Cooperation in the WB

· Global Economic Crisis and its Influence on the EU Enlargement

The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit draft version of their papers of 6,000 to 9,000 words for circulation among participants prior to the conference by October 20^th 2012. The organizers of the conference will cover accommodation and board as well as transport to and from Graz for invited participants, conditional on the submission of the draft paper by the deadline.

Centre for Southeast European Studies

The Centre for Southeast European Studies was founded at the University of Graz in 2008 as interdisciplinary forum for teaching and research, based on the university-wide Southeastern Europe focus. The Centre runs a Joint Degree MA program in Southeast European Studies and a PhD program in Diversity Management and Governance, as well as organizing regular events on the region. Its research focus in on contemporary Southeastern Europe, including Europeanization, interethnic relations and democratization. Its staff include political scientists, historians and lawyers and it collaborates closely with other researchers at the University of Graz and internationally. In 2012, among others, it is hosted a lecture by the Croatian president Ivo Josipović and is organising a workshop of the dynamics of social change in Southeastern Europe.

Website of the Centre for Southeast European Studies: http://www.suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at/

Conference: PRIO Cyprus Centre Annual Conference, Cyprus, 26-27 October 2012‏

In the past few years, the question of governance has become a central feature of political debate across Europe. Debates about ideology appear to have given way to discussions about the ways in which political authorities exercise their power. Is that power truly used for the greater good, or is it, will fully or otherwise, narrowly focused on serving particular segments of society? Such debates have emerged throughout the EU. In Cyprus, political authority is confronted with the challenges of the global economic crisis, the crisis in the Eurozone, as well as internal social and political tensions as regards accountability and transparency. Greece is facing widespread social unrest as people challenge the mainstream political parties; likewise in Britain, wave upon wave of political scandal has brought public trust in politicians to an all-time low. Similar patterns of public concern and popular contestation about the very nature of government can be seen in almost every other European country. Indeed, the way in which the European Union itself is governed is increasingly called into question by those who feel that it has lost touch with the citizens of the Union.

Meanwhile, questions of good governance are increasingly being raised in and around Europe's neighborhood. In North Africa and the Near East, the Arab Spring has seen decades-old regimes challenged in ways that appeared all but unthinkable just a couple of years ago. In the Western Balkans, tackling corruption and building a truly effective rule of law, especially against the backdrop of ethnic tensions, remains a pressing concern. In Ukraine, the apparent immunity of those tied to the ruling class has come under increasing scrutiny.

Taking place in Cyprus, and coinciding with the Republic of Cyprus's presidency of the European Union, this conference seeks to examine the ways in which our understanding of good governance is being shaped in the contemporary era across the European Union and its neighborhood. At a theoretical level, we seek to question what is good governance in the era of the economic crisis. Is it about building a virtuous government, or is about ensuring effective and capable bureaucratic structures? Will “good governance” become an elusive panacea like “democratization,” or does it have other substantive qualities that we may use to define and identify it? And if “good governance” was initially a term applied in the development literature to refer to countries that should take Europe as their model, does the term continue to have meaning at a time when Europe itself is called into question? At the same time, we seek to explore the empirical evidence for changing patterns of governance. What lessons can be drawn from the pan-European experience and from the experience of specific regions and individual countries?

We call for papers that address these issues, both theoretically and empirically, in the European Union, the Western Balkans, the Caucasus, North Africa and the Near East. We are particularly interested in papers that link good governance with issues relating to social unrest and/or various forms of conflict, including themes such as:

--The role of “good governance” in the Arab Spring and its aftermath;
--Empirical and/or theoretical studies of governance in the EU crisis;
--Good governance, citizenship and practices of migration;
--Gender, equity and governance;
--The role of governance in regional conflicts and their resolutions;
--Empirical studies of governance in north and south Cyprus;
--The role of Internet and other media in governance today.

Please send a short biography and an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr Rebecca Bryant, r.e.bryant@lse.ac.uk<mailto:r.e.bryant@lse.ac.uk>, by 20 June 2012. Only selected abstracts will be informed by 30 June. Participants may expect that part of their costs will be covered, with priority given to students and recent recipients of the Ph.D.

Submissions deadline: 20 June 2012
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Call for papers
Good Governance in Europe and the Neighbourhood
26-27 October 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus

Conference: The Real and the Imagined in Contemporary Balkans, NIAS, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 19 June 2012‏

The Real and the Imagined in Contemporary Balkans



In lieu of completing their fellowship term (February 1st – June 30th 2012), the NIAS Theme Group The Real and the Imagined in the Contemporary Balkans will be giving a presentation of their research results, to be held on June 19th, 2012, between 10.00 and 18.00, at NIAS.


Programme



10.00 – 10.30 Opening

Welcoming word; Presentation of the Theme Group Research Results; Dubravka Zarkov

Welcoming word by NIAS Rector, Prof. Aafke Hulk;





Session One:

Chair: Frederiek de Vlaming (UvA)



10.30 - 11.15 Dino Abazovic:

Politics, Religion and the Problems of Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Discussant: Catherine Cissé van den Muijsenbergh (IRHJ)



11.15 - 12.00 Marlies Glasius:

Expression of Justice or Political Trials? Discursive Battles in the Karadzic Case

Discussant: Wouter Werner (VU)



12.00- 12.45 Maria Koinova:

Diaspora and Contextualized Transnationalism: Bosnian Diaspora in the Netherlands

Discussant(s): Lee Seymour (Leiden University) and Erna Rijsdijk (NL Military Academy)





13.00- 14.30 Lunch break



Session Two

Chair: Erna Rijsdijk (NL Military Academy)



14.30-15.15 Dubravka Zarkov:

Cinematic Ontologies of War: Representing Bosnia and the (Inter)National Self

Discussant: Sunila Abeysekera (ISS)



15.15- 16.00 Vjekoslav Perica:

Nations vs. Generations: Symbolic Discourses of Heroism in post-Yugoslav States

Discussant: Andreja Lekić (UvA)



16.00 – 16.45 Mitja Velikonja:

Rock’n’Retro:New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Slovenian Music

Discussant: Maja Lovrenović (UvA)



16.45– 17.00 Closing



17.00- 18.00 Reception



If you are interested in attending the seminar, please contact Dubravka Žarkov for more information.

Scholarship: Funded studentship to research Pop Art in Eastern Europe, London‏

Funded studentship to research Pop Art in Eastern Europe
The Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Tate in London seek to recruit a student to undertake a PhD by thesis on the history of Pop Art in Eastern Europe. Commencing in October 2012, this studentship is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme.

In 2015 Tate Modern will mount a major exhibition to explore the wide geographical reach of Pop Art in the 1960s and 1970s. It will provide a focus for new research into Pop's core themes - including the rise of consumerism and popular culture, and the languages, techniques and currency of reproduced images - in Northern and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan.

Working towards a PhD, the student will research the production of Pop Art in one or more countries under communist rule in the period as well as the reception of 'Western' Pop there. (Eastern Europe is defined here as the former Eastern Bloc states and Yugoslavia). The knowledge and insights gathered by the student will contribute to the selection of works for the Tate exhibition by the exhibition's curator and Tate supervisor, Jessica Morgan, as well as the programme of public events and related online and print publications. The student will also be supervised by professor David Crowley, a cultural historian specializing in Eastern Europe at the RCA. S/he will join the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme and benefit from the classes and resources available to all research students at the RCA.

Applicants will need to scope a research proposal within the broad parameters of the project. The doctoral student will be required to identify one or more national context(s) for detailed investigation through primary sources (original works of art, interviews, documentary records) and to develop an approach which allows for comparative investigation. Further details are available on request by emailing the RCA Research Office at research@rca.ac.uk.

The scholarship is for three-years, full-time study. It has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in the 2012/2013 academic year provides eligible students with a maintenance grant payment of £15,590 p.a. and fees of £3,732 p.a. Please note that this award also includes the Royal College of Art's contribution to the top-up fee. EU applicants without UK residency status can apply for this award but, if successful, will only be entitled to a bursary covering the fees. Further information on eligibility requirements is available from the AHRC website: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is 6 July 2012, and it is anticipated that interviews will take place in the week commencing 16 July 2012.

Online: E-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy

The e-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy

The Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies has developed the Distance Learning department in order to offer and enable different programs to individuals who are interested in the field of cultural diplomacy and related areas to have an opportunity to increase their knowledge and experience in this fascinating field. Each program includes four main courses, which are taught in our Masters and PhD programs. In addition, the program offers access to high profile guest lectures, reading material and professional networking opportunities to promote one’s own projects.

The e-Learning department has developed and offers the following programs:

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy & International Relations
The courses will provide insights into how modern cultural diplomacy can be practiced in a wide variety of settings and contexts around the world. The key objectives of the program are to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the theory and practice of cultural diplomacy within the contemporary interdependent world.

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy in Africa
This program will emphasize how cultural diplomacy can be used as an increasingly useful tool for building cooperation both regionally and globally, and explores avenues through which this new form of diplomacy can be used as a driving force to foster good governance, development and the promotion of human rights through the African continent.

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy in the Global Economy
As the move towards more socially responsible business practices gains momentum, the ability to understand and embrace the different values and needs of diverse cultures and societies becomes ever more important. This program will analyze the many reasons why private companies need to be aware of the differences between cultures in their strategic decision-making process and adopt cultural diplomacy models into their agenda. It is in recognition of these three trends: the growing importance of intercultural communication to the private sector, the increasing influence of national image to economics, and the opening up of the global economy, that the ICD has established the E-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy in the Global Economy.

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy & the Media
The E-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy and the Media will focus on the media and its relationship to cultural diplomacy and the international community. The program will emphasize how cultural diplomacy can be used as an increasingly useful tool for bridging the gap between society and the Media, and the role cultural diplomacy can play in shaping the field of communications.

Certificate/Accreditation - All students will be awarded an official certificate accredited by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy’s academic board upon completion of the program. Each certificate will be signed by members of the ICD Academy and Advisory Boards, which include high-level politicians, leading academics and renowned experts, all of whom are responsible for assuring the academic quality of each of the courses as well as the individual intellectual experience of each student. For those student who implement specific projects of cultural diplomacy or write exceptional final papers for their e-learning course it is possible for the student to request letters of recommendation from the ICD to assist in their career development.

Financials - The tuition fee for the program is 600 Euros (including 4 courses) to be paid upon acceptance to the program. The payment instructions will be sent to students together with the acceptance letter.

Program Methodology & Course Descriptions
The courses have been designed in a flexible way to allow students to structure their instruction around their own schedules. Students will be required to do weekly readings and interact with fellow students and professors via the website; however, students can pace themselves according to their preferences. A final paper will be required, upon which the course grade will be based.

The program includes the following components:
• 40 hours of video lectures which students can watch at their convenience
• Reading material relevant to the course’s different modules;
• Online mentoring, discussion forums, and assessments;
• Networking access to other students and professionals enrolled in the e-Learning courses
• Final Paper to be completed within 90 days from the end of the course

The courses will be delivered via the e-learning platform module, a pedagogical tool designed to help participants meet the course's learning objectives through a self-paced study routine supported by multimedia, required and optional readings, discussion forums, assessment quizzes, and a wealth of other information. Adapted specifically to full-time professionals, participants will learn by absorbing (reading), doing (exercises), interacting (online forum) and reflecting (relating to personal experiences).

PhD: PhD Degree in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy

PhD Degree in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy: Babes-Bolyai University in Cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy


The degree is offered and awarded by the Babes-Bolyai University (BBU) in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD).


Where: Germany: Berlin; Romania: Cluj-Napoca




When: Year Round


Overview: The Doctoral studies represent the third cycle of studies offered by Babeş-Bolyai University (BBU) in partnership with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, with the purpose of expanding knowledge through original scientific research. They allow the acquisition of a level 8 qualification according to The European Qualifications Framework and to The National Qualifications Framework.

The Key Objectives of the program are:

• To provide students with an in-depth understanding of the theory and practice of global business.

• To educate students about how cultural diplomacy can be harnessed to improve relations with other corporate entities, governments, individuals and international institutions.

• To analyze the strategic and ethical foundations of corporate social responsibility programs and corporate philanthropy.

Setting Description: The degree is awarded by the Babes-Bolyai University in partnership with the ICD, with instruction entirely in English.

The doctoral studies of a doctoral student are planned for a period of 3 academic years (each composed of 2 academic semesters) and comprise:

A. a training program based on advanced academic studies, carried out in the BBU doctoral school; in Cluj, Romania.

B. an individual program of scientific research/artistic creation, carried out in the ICD- Berlin.

C. The doctoral studies end with the public defense of an original paper, called doctoral thesis, which is the result of the research activity or artistic creation carried out by the doctoral student during his/her doctoral studies. The title of doctor is granted or not granted on the basis of the doctoral thesis and its public defense. The doctoral thesis phase could be conducted anywhere.

Program Value:

•The program offers students a core curriculum in international business education, preparing the future leaders of tomorrow for the leadership, marketing and strategic skills they will need to build careers in economics or business.

•Students will have access to an expert faculty with experience in international economics and diplomacy, and will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in a complex global order.

•Students will obtain an expertise in cultural diplomacy, currently an underutilized but increasingly significant business tool.

•Students will be uniquely situated to create and implement their own programs of corporate cultural diplomacy.

•The curriculum and faculty prepare graduates for careers in academia, economic governance, advocacy and all branches of the international private sector.

•Career Service - Both the ICD and Babes-Bolyai University believe that supporting and assisting our students in acquiring the careers that they seek is an integral part of the PhD program. During the third semester of the program, with the support of our faculty, advisors, and our career services department, we will devise a strategy for how the student may best proceed from the PhD to the career of his or her choice.

•Finally, the program will allow students to study with distinguished and renowned faculties from Romania, Germany, the United States and throughout Europe, enabling contacts with experts in and organizations affiliated with international business and economics.

Program Cost: Tuition for the PhD program in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy is €3,000 per semester (and total of €18,000).

Subjects: International Relations, Economy, Cultural Diplomacy

To apply: The Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies