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As the pace of European integration accelerates, decision-makers, opinion-formers, politicians and citizens in European countries increasingly need to ‘think European’, to transcend national perspectives and empathise with a European mix of national and international cultures.

To meet that challenge, 10 leading European university institutions – Oxford, Leiden, Bologna, Bonn, Paris I, Geneva (Graduate Institute of International Studies), Prague (Charles), Madrid (Complutense), Helsinki and Krakow (Jagiellonian) – have jointly set up an association designed to serve as an ‘international university without walls’, in which future scholars and leaders of our new Europe will have an opportunity to share common learning and confront common concerns together, from a formative age and throughout their active lives.

The Europaeum exists to foster collaborative research and teaching, to provide op-portunities for scholars, leaders, academics and graduates, to stage conferences, summer schools and colloquia, and to enable leading figures from the worlds of business, politics and culture to take part in transnational and interdisciplinary dia-logue with the world of scholarship.

Recent themed programmes have been on The Future of the European University; A TransAtlantic Dialogue; Culture, Humanities and New Technology; and Islam-in-Europe.The association operates flexibly, responsibly and simply – with a minimum of bureaucracy and complexity. Small internal grants promote the mission of the association.

All events aim to include professors from three or more partner institutions, while remaining open and ready to work alongside any other bodies or experts. The Euro-paeum now encompasses all those in Social Sciences and the Humanities, and more recently, experts in Science History and Science Policy.

Longer-terms aims encompass jointly-offered teaching programmes, developing ca-pacity for policy-related work and an internet-based knowledge centre promoting international academic collaboration, as well as new linked scholarship and visiting professorship schemes.

Above all the Europaeum aims to add to the sum knowledge about – and for – the new Europe, to help prepare the future citizens and leaders of – and for – Europe, to ensure that all partner universities are fully engaged in both explaining and making Europe’s future, and to leave all those involved in the Europaeum with an enlarged ‘sense of Europe’.

The Europaeum Vision

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The Europaeum was founded in 1992 as an association of leading Eu-ropean universities, with a mission to:

promote excellence in academic links in research and teaching collaboration between the Europaeum partners;

act as an open academic network linking the Europaeum partners and other bodies in the pursuit of study;

serve as a resource for the general support and promotion of European studies;

function independently in the search for new ideas;

provide opportunities for the joint pursuit of new pan-European initiatives;

serve as a high level ‘think-tank’ exploring new ideas and new roles for universities in the new Learning Age;

provide a ‘pool of talent’ to carry out research and inquiry into problems and questions confronting Europe today and tomorrow;

help train and educate future leaders for a new Europe.

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The Europaeum consists of 10 leading European university institutions: the University of Oxford; Universiteit Leiden; Università di Bologna; Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-

Universität Bonn; Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva; Université de Paris I Panthéon-

Sorbonne; Univerzita Karlova V Praze; Universidad Complutense, Madrid; Helsingin Yliopisto, Helsinki; and

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow.

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Contents

“Je vois avec plaisir qu’il se forme dans

l’Europe une république immense d’esprits

cultivés. La lumière se communique de

tous les côtés.”

Voltaire in a letter to Prince Dmitri Alekseevitch Golitsyn, 14 August 1767

Major Benefactors ............................................................................... 4

Foreword ............................................................................................. 5

The Year in Review ............................................................................. 7

The Years Ahead ............................................................................... 14

Projects, Grants & Scholarships ....................................................... 16

Financial Report ................................................................................ 24

Europaeum Budget ............................................................................ 27

Governance ....................................................................................... 29

A Brief History .................................................................................. 31

Past Achievements ............................................................................ 37

Committee Members ......................................................................... 48

Contact Details .................................................................................. 52

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Major BenefactorsThe Europaeum is grateful for the generous benefactions received from:

ARCOARTAL (Mr Guy Ullens)

The Bertelsmann FoundationBT

Mr Friedrich Busse (Firmenich GmbH)Capital Group

Clifford ChanceThe Clore Foundation

DaimlerChrysler Services AGThe European Commission

Mrs Madeleine FeherFondazione Cassa di Risparmio

The Forte Charitable TrustCount Giuseppe Gazzoni-Frascara

The Maniusia and Gildesgame TrustSir Ronald GriersonMrs Robin HambroSir Emmanuel Kaye

M Pierre KellerMr Claas Kleyboldt (AXA Konzern AG)

Mr Henry KravisHSH The Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein

Marcucci GroupMr Jurg MarquardMrs Maja OetkerSir Angus Ogilvy

The Lisbet Rausing Charitable FundMr Wafic Saïd

The Fritz Thyssen StiftungMr Paul Fentener van Vlissingen

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Foreword

Professor Karol Musiol

Chair of Europaeum Council (Acting), Rector, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Karol Musiol

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Foreword


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Classics Colloquia

Tears in the Ancient World was the theme of the fourth Europaeum graduate Clas-sics Colloquium, which took place over a long weekend in November at Leiden University. The event accommodated a wide range of topics and disciplines, with participants from the universities at Bologna, Bonn, Leiden, Madrid, Oxford and Prague, plus a guest speaker from Erasmus, Rotterdam, to discuss each other’s lec-tures, exchange experience and e-mail addresses, and even go to the pub together.

The event was coordinated by Professors Joan Booth, Professor of Classics at Lei-den, and Philip Hardie, Professor of Latin at Oxford. After the opening paper by Professor Piet Schrijvers (Leiden), addressing the question of whether ‘good men are by nature more inclined to weep’, almost a dozen lively graduate papers were presented, leading to an animated discussion of the phenomenon of weeping.

The colloquium revealed that the ways we weep, whether we do this in private or in public, the significance and the function of weeping are all highly determined by culture, age, gender and social position. The event also explored how tears in texts can be a means of persuasion, an instrument for characterisation, a rhetorical short-cut, or merely ‘tearjerkers’ themselves.

Previous Europaeum colloquia focused on Heroditus and Tacitus, Travellers from Antique Lands, and The New Posidippus and the Tradition of Epigram.

Corporate Governance

A seminar focussing on plans for a future international research project on corporate governance, involving, among other experts, Professors Colin Mayer, Dean of the Said Business School and Professor of Management Studies (Oxford), and Chris-toph Horn, Professor of Philosophy (Bonn), was held at the Said Business School in Oxford in the year under review.

The seminar was arranged as a dialogue between academics and experts, practi-cioners and CEOs including those involved in legal and economic research as well as experts on the situation in Russia and China, and leading practitioners from top companies.

The seminar also discussed plans for a new European research project that could link several Europaeum partner universities.

The event followed a successful symposium on Restructuring Corporate Govern-ance: the new European agenda, in 2005 reviewing the spate of high-profile ac-counting scandals and discussed good practice, and approaches to help ensure clean corporate governance.

The Year in Review

Students in Leiden’s library

Colin Mayer

Classicists debate tears and laments

Dialogue links academics and corporate leaders

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The Europaeum report from that event, available on the website, included contri-butions from Alastair Ross Goobey, Chairman of the International Corporate Gov-ernance Network and Chairman of Hermes Focus Funds; Sir Ronald Grierson, Eu-ropean Chairman of Blackstone Group and former Vice President of GEC; David Jackson, Company Secretary of PB; George Dallas, Managing Director at Standard & Poor’s; Guy Jubb, Head of Corporate Governance at Standard Life; and Antonio Borges, Vice President of Goldman Sachs (see europaeum.org website).

The Context of Eastern Christianity

Plans to set up a network of graduate students were formulated during a second research workshop meeting of the Eastern Christianity in Context research group in Oxford last December, supported by the Europaeum. The network aims to link academics and students from Leiden, Bologna and Oxford.

Papers at the seminar provided glimpses into cutting-edge research on Eastern Christianity from the Sudan to Mongolia, and included examinations of materials preserved in Syriac (Christian Aramaic), Arabic, Coptic (Christian Egyptian), Nubi-an (ancient Sudanese) and Armenian. Papers on art history and archaeology further broadened the context in which Eastern Christianity can be understood.

The workshop highlighted student participation, follows a previous meeting in Lei-den in 2004. The research group is coordinated by Professors David Taylor, Oriental Institute (Oxford), Bas ter Haar Romeny (Leiden), and Anna Shirinian (Bologna).

Helsinki hosts Euro Economists

The fifth meeting of the Europaeum’s Economics research project group, focusing on European economic integration, was held at the University of Helsinki in 2006 with participants from Helsinki, Bologna, Paris, Prague and Oxford universities.

Themes included citizenship policy as it related to processes of European financial integration; measures of transition, such as the privatisation process and political pressures on central banks; and the determinants of migration policies, such as brain drain and trade union monopolies.

More than 25 scholars attended the workshop coordinated by Professors Tapio Pal-okangas, and Otto Toivanen (Helsinki), supported by Professor Gianfranco Rossini (Bologna), Hubert Kempf (Paris), and Frantisek Turnovek (Prague).

Previous workshops have focused Enlargement and Regionalisation (Oxford 2002); European economic integration (Oxford 2003), Politics and economics of European integration (Prague 2004); and Factors, goods, and externalities (Bologna 2005).

Helsinki University

Focus on Christianity in Eastern Europe

Economists debate Europe and the Euro

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A sixth workshop is under consideration, and plans to publish a collection of essays distilling key findings from past meetings are being considered.

Islam-in-Europe Programme

An Islam Study Day was held in Oxford during the year under review, while a success-ful research workshop was held in Bologna on Muslims and European Citizenship.

The Europaeum Islam-in-Europe programme was launched at the 2004 Europaeum Summer School in Leiden, on the topic of Islam and Europe: Building Bridges, and continued at a Leiden-Oxford Programme symposium on Moving the Frontiers of Europe: Turkey, Risk or Opportunity, held in Leiden in December 2004.

The event featured contributions from Professor Léon Buskens, lecturer in Islamic Law and Anthropology of the Middle East at Leiden University; Professor Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology at Bristol University.

New Jenkins Scholars

Seven new Jenkins Scholars were elected for the 2006 – 7 academic year, under the scholarship scheme, which honours the lifelong devotion of the former President of the European Commission and the Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

The scheme is linked to the Europaeum, which Roy Jenkins helped found in the 1990s, to support academics, intellectuals and young scholars to ‘bridge Europe’. Awards are for £10,000 per annum, usually for one year.

Jenkins Scholars studying in Oxford during the year under review were: Anna Valerius from Bonn, studying for an MSt. in European Literature, at New College; Agnieszka Kuba from Krakow, studying for an MLitt in Law, at Wolfson College; Julie Francastel from Paris studying for an MJuris, at Trinity College; and Michal Simecka from Prague studying for an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies, at St. Antony’s College.

Meanwhile, Charlotte Filial continued research on a DPhil in Development Studies, attached to the Ortega Gasset Institute at the Universidad Complutense, and Ayelet Banai carried out archival research and fieldwork on a DPhil in 20th Century Euro-pean Political Thought, at Paris I; and Richard Niland, worked on archival research on Joseph Conrad, for a DPhil in English Literature, at Paris I.

The success of the scheme was due to be celebrated at a special event in Oxford in mid 2007, in the presence of Sir Anthony Kenny, chair of the fundraising committee, and Dame Jennifer Jenkins, wife of Roy Jenkins.

Students at the Islam in Europe Study Day

Roy Jenkins

Seven new scholars elected

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Europaeum MA in European History and Civilisation

A cohort of nine students, mainly from the Netherlands and Belgium, studied dur-ing the 2005 – 2006 academic year on the Europaeum MA in European History and Civilisation, at Oxford, Leiden and Paris.

The course is validated by Leiden University, and involves students studying for one trimester each at the Universities of Leiden, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Oxford, which all offered different perspectives and modes of teaching. Course fees were kept under €6,000.

The course aims to tell the story of the European Project, from its medieval roots to the current integration debates, via the Holy Roman, Napoleonic and Habsburg Empires, and the rise and, perhaps, fall of nation states.

So, the Leiden module focused on state formation and nationalism since 1200, as well as ideas, methods and philosophy used to interpret European history; in Paris, the module involved studies of structures of power and culture, encapsulating com-munication, public space and relations between history, memory and space. Finally, in Oxford, students had a special lecture series on the Emergence of Europe, and completed a dissertation on a topic of their choosing.

Tuition costs have kept to a minimum, currently €6,000 for EU students (and €12,000 for non-EU students).

Other jointly offered MAs under consideration are on themes including Europe and Globalisation; European International Relations; Human Rights in Europe, Euro-pean Economic Integration; and European Theology, each aiming to link three Eu-ropeaum university partners.

Social Security Research

A further meeting was held by the group looking at International and European So-cial Security Law combining research and teaching ideas at four partner universities, reviewing the expanding field of European social security legislation as European citizens enjoy increasing job mobility.

Representatives from the universities of Paris, Leiden, Bologna and Ghent took part in the workshop, led by Professor XXXXXXX. It is hoped to produce some study tools which could be used in university teaching.

MA students in 2006

European economic integration

Nine students graduate on history

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Liberalism in Eastern Europe

The members of the group studying Liberalism in 20th-Century Europe, took part in a third research workshop, organised in Budapest. The group, led by Professor Michael Freeden, Professor of Politics at Oxford and Director of the Centre for Po-litical Ideologies, links the Universities of Oxford, Leiden, Bologna and Prague.

This event set out to study the distinctive interpretations that liberalism has taken in Eastern and Central Europe in the 20th Century. Many participants from Central Europe attended. The first workshop was held in Oxford in 2003, and a second in Prague in 2005. It is hoped to produce a collection of leading essays from the three workshops.

Oxford-Geneva ties strengthened

Academic collaboration linking the Graduate Institute for International Relations, in Geneva and Oxford were boosted when a special grant was renewed, enabling the annual programme of bi-lateral links to be developed, including an annual student research bursary, and linked workshops.

The annual lecture series continued, with lectures in Autumn 2006 by Professor Hew Strachan, Professor of War Studies and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, who spoke on The Changing Character of War at the HEI; while Professor Henryk Ki-erzkowski, Professor of Economics at HEI, spoke in Oxford on Globalisation and Outsourcing.

The bursary programme enables graduates from Oxford and the HEI, to under-take study visits at the link institution, with grants worth €1,500 each and an early award went to Cristiano d’Orsi, from the HEI Law Centre, to visit Oxford to work at the Refugee Studies Centre on his thesis on the definition of refugee in African legislation.

Other funds were used to support activities linked to US-Europe Transatlantic Dia-logue Programme, led by Oxford and Geneva academics.

Interpreting Pope John Paul II

The values and ideas of Pope John Paul II, formerly Cardinal of Krakow, in terms his Aristotelian, Thomist and Phenomenological thought – especially his ideas ex-pressed in his book, The Acting Person – were featured in a one-day workshop and a Europaeum Lecture last autumn.

Pope John Paul II

HEI Geneva

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Professor Wladyslaw Strozewski, Professor of Ontology at the Jagiellonian Uni-versity, Krakow, spoke on Phenomenology and Scholasticism in Karol Wojtyla’s Thought at the one-day event organised with Gresham College in London, and the Forum for European Philosophy, and the Europaeum.

The following day, Professor Strozewski lectured on Human Being and Values, de-veloping themes from his own philosophical experience in the Krakow Phenomenol-ogy Group, in which he and Karol Wojtyla were colleagues. The lecture is published on the Europaeum’s website.

Other speakers at the London workshop included Professor Keith Ward, former Re-gius Professor of Divinity, Oxford, on Veritatis Splendor; and Sir Anthony Kenny, President of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, on John Paul II as a Thomist. The events were coordinated by Dr Nick Bun-nin of the Oxford Institute of Chinese Studies.

US – Europe Programme

Fissures in the TransAtlantic alliance – which has dominated world affairs for the past 60 years – following the end of the Cold War, the 9/11 attack, and the Iraq inva-sion, were under the spotlight at events organised under the Europaeum’s TransAt-lantic Dialogue Programme.

The annual Summer School in the year under review focused on Bridging the Di-vide: EU-US relations after 9/11, held at the Jagiellonian in Krakow, with graduates from all ten Europaeum universities discussing the future for Atlanticism and the West.

The event coordinated under the Centre for European Studies, and direction of Pro-fessor Zolzlislaw Mach, focused on…

The Europaeum is also planning an international conference focusing on the future state of US-Europe relations looking towards 2020, to be held in Washington, DC, in February 2007. Among experts set to take part are Chris Patten, former European Commissioner for External Relations and Richard Haass, Chairman of the Council for Foreign Relations, Joska Fischer, former German Foreign Minister, and Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State.

The association’s US-Europe programme is also set to continue in 2008 with a work-shop reviewing the relationship between Enlargement and Atlanticism since 2004. The Europaeum has run its TransAtlantic Dialogue Programme to promote intellec-tual exchange between European and US academics, intellectuals and policymakers, through a series of lectures, academic conferences, and workshops. A report and a collection of essays, based on the dialogue, is planned in due course.

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Following a proposal by the Academic Committee in March 2006, the Europaeum Council approved a focussed review of the working of the Europaeum, given that the association would be some 15 years old in 2007. The Europaeum grew and evolved gradually throughout the early 1990’s; 1992 is generally used as our “founding” date.

The Europaeum began in the early 1990’s (initially with just three university part-ners), essentially as a voluntaristic organisation, linked to Politics, Humanities, and Law, with a number of wide-ranging, collaborative goals. As the history shows, the Europaeum evolved steadily through the 1990’s. From 2000, once a formal sec-retariat was set up, the Europaeum began to grow and develop, reviewing its aims and objectives, further increasing membership, widening the number of associated disciplines, focussing on publications, setting up its three small grants schemes, and developing its joint teaching initiatives.

The proposed review is commensurate with the organisation, and scale, of the asso-ciation itself, focussing mainly on academic assessment, and, broadly, the objectives of the organisation, liaison structures, and fundraising.

So the terms of reference were defined as:

Academic: Assess via publications, benefits of research group involvement and collaboration; mobility and travel support; lectures, workshops, conferences and study events; bursaries and scholarships; new types of collaboration; visit-ing professorships and other joint teaching programmes.

Co-ordination and Inclusion: Assess successfully of strategies such as rota-tion of events; for encouraging bids and participation; outreach and inclusion work from the Secretariat; liaison support offered by individual partners; local coordinators and support, and local structures at each partner level.

Student involvement: Assess levels of student participation in Europaeum activities, including Summer Schools, student debates, conferences and work-shops; possible continuing involvement; benefits to academic or professional careers; need for an alumni society.

Funding and fund-raising strategies: Assess current and future projected fundraising; relative involvement of partner institutions; current and future needs; identify new avenues and potential sources for future fund-raising; promote collective action in innovation and responsiveness in knowledge transfer; academic collaboration and institutional support, foregone payments and fees, and costs of coordination in fund-raising, and methods to support the Secretary-General in his efforts.

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One set of measures of progress of the association would be, quite simply, by refer-ence to its current Mission Statement, which has eight wide-ranging objectives. The review team was asked to assess the extent to which each of these aims has been addressed, as a key measure of progress. These are as follows:

Promote excellence in academic links in research and teaching collaboration between the Europaeum partners;

Act as an open academic network linking the Europaeum partners and other bodies in the pursuit of study;

Serve as a resource for the general support and promotion of European studies;

Function independently in the search for new ideas;

Provide opportunities for the joint pursuit of new pan-European initiatives;

Serve as a high level ‘think-tank’ exploring new ideas and new roles for universities in the new Learning Age;

Provide a ‘pool of talent’ to carry out research and inquiry into problems and questions confronting Europe today and tomorrow;

Help train and educate future leaders for a new Europe.

The Council agreed that a team of three ‘wise people,’ be appointed to carry out the review, nominated by different Europaeum partner institutions. These were Dr Jeroen Torenbeek, Director, James Boswell Institute, University of Utrecht, Profes-sor Wim Blockmans, Professor of History, University of Leiden and Professor Peter Pulzer, Gladstone Professor Emeritus of Government, University of Oxford..

The review was begun at the beginning of 2007 based on collated data, an electronic survey to Europaeum partners and faculty, and meetings and visits as appropriate.

An interim report was expensed in summer 2007 to be submitted to a joint meeting of the Europaeum Council and Academic Committee.

The overall aim of the exercise is to leave the Europaeum with a clearer sense of what has been achieved, and where, and how, it can, now, best go forward.

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Auditor Peter Pulzer

Auditor Wim Block-mans

Auditor Jeroen Toren-beek

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Overview

Scholarship support is a key element of the Europaeum. Various schemes directly linked to the association have been set up since the 1990s to encourage students to engage in lively and serious exchanges, and pursue international study across the association.

The Visiting Professorship Scheme, set up in 2002, aims to encourage wider academic collaboration and exchange of ideas, and promote opportunities for private research.

The Europaeum Research Project Groups programme, which offers seed fund-ing to academics establishing collaborative research groups, was set up in 2000 and has led to a number of publications, and repeat grants when initial groups have cemented links and continued to pursue their joint work.

The New Initiatives Scheme, set up in 2001, provides support for innovative and inventive projects that stimulate intellectual exchange and collaboration at academic or student level.

Academic and Student Mobility grants are also made to encourage Europaeum faculty and students to take part in pan-European events.

Scholarships

The Jenkins Memorial Fund Scholarships, successfully launched ahead of sched-ule in early 2004, were created in honour of the late Lord (Roy) Jenkins, former president of the European Commission, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and founding father of the Europaeum. He Chaired Oxford’s European Studies Board, which coordinated the early development of the Europaeum, and also the Founders’ Council of senior benefactors for the association’s first eight years.

The Jenkins Scholarship Fund brings graduates from Europaeum partner universi-ties to study at Oxford, and provides for Oxford students to study in Europe at Eu-ropaeum universities. Awards are now open to candidates from all 10 partners and will be made on merit, as judged by the awards panel. Awards are worth €15,000 per annum, mostly linked to Master’s degrees in the Humanities or Social Sciences.

This new scheme was launched following a successful initial fund-raising drive, led by Sir Anthony Kenny, emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford. The programme came on stream just as the initial group of Europaeum-linked scholarship schemes, set up in the 1990s, were completing their cycles. The first scholarships were awarded in 2004-5. A further four Jenkins

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Projects, Grants & Scholarships

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Scholars were elected for 2005-6, and seven for 2006-7. Full details of the scheme are available at www.oxford.ac.uk/scholarships.

The Scatcherd European Scholarships provide a dozen awards at Oxford each year for graduate students who are nationals of any European country (excluding the UK and Turkey, but including Russia and other countries to the west of the Urals) to sup-port postgraduate study at Oxford in any subject area. These awards were left to Ox-ford by Mrs Jane Ledig-Rowholt, in a generous legacy of €11.2 million (£7 million) in support of the development of the Europaeum and European Studies. The scholar-ships cover University and College tuition fees, and provide a maintenance grant for living costs. Awards for degrees are made initially for one year but may be renewed for up to two further years, subject to satisfactory progress. Awards are also available for Oxford students going on to postgraduate study at leading European Universities, including Europaeum partner institutions. (see http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/io/)

The Oxford-Geneva Link Programme, which provides a good model for encourag-ing academic collaboration and student movement between institutions, has recently been extended. The student bursary short-study scheme, launched in 2000, will con-tinue to allow one HEI graduate to study at Oxford and one Oxford graduate to study at the HEI each year until 2008-9.

The Oxford-Paris Link awards, supported mainly by leading French companies, ran for many years in the mid-1990s. Almost 100 students benefited from various link programmes over the years. Further funding did not materialize, though, to revive the Oxford-Paris Link, which completed its cycle in 2000.

The cycles of the following scholarship schemes initiated during the launch phase of the Europaeum have now come to their end: The Artal Scholarships Scheme to enable Belgians to study at the University of Oxford; Europaeum Scholarships in Jewish Studies, which annually enabled up to six postgraduates at other Europaeum institutions to study for the Diploma in Jewish Studies at the Oxford Centre for He-brew and Jewish Studies; the Henry R Kravis Scholarships, which allowed students from Central or Eastern Europe read for an MPhil in European Politics and Society or the MJuris in European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford; and the Thyssen Scholarships, which supported study for the MPhil in European Politics and Society at Oxford.

Europaeum New Initiatives Scheme

The New Initiatives Scheme, launched in 2001, aims to provide recognition and sup-port for new and innovative projects that further the mission of the Europaeum to strengthen the pan-European academic community. These might involve new dis-ciplines, new student-related participation, new link institutions, new programmes

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2004Steering board on joint MA in European History (Oxford/Leiden)Six graduate law conference bursaries (Geneva)Symposium on Europe: Shaping the Future (Leiden)Symposium on Turkey – Risk or Opportunity? (Leiden)Steering group meeting on an economics MA (Bologna)Europaeum MA student debriefing meeting and steering group meeting to review possible joint Economics MA (Bologna)Graduate seminar on Eastern Christianity in Context (Leiden)Seminar on Russia and Europe (Oxford)

2005Symposium on Corporate Governance: the New European Agenda. Co-ordi-nator: Prof Colin Mayer (Oxford).Panel discussion on Israel’s Security Barrier (Oxford). Including Professors Adam Roberts (Oxford), Vera Gowlland-Debbas (Geneva) and Vaughan Lowe (Oxford). Co-ordinator: Prof Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford).Lecture Series on Rousseau on Inequality (Oxford). Lectures and Collo-quium. Co-ordinator: Alexis Tadié (Maison Française d’Oxford).Study Day on Islam in Europe (Oxford). Leiden and Oxford graduates, seminars and lectures. Co-ordinator: Professor Wim van den Doel (Leiden).Conference on Bi- and Multilingual Universities (Helsinki). Europaeum participants for conference. Co-ordinator: Professor Thomas Wilhelmsson (Helskinki).The fourth Europaeum Classics Colloquium in Leiden: weekend workshop for 18 graduate students from Europaeum partners on the theme of Tears in the Ancient World. Co-ordinators: Professors Joan Booth (Leiden) and Philip Hardie (Oxford).Conferences on The Charta Oecumenica (Prague/Bonn). Co-ordinator: Ms Margarethe Hopf (Bonn).

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(such as the UN student assembly) or preparing new forms of collaboration, such as a new joint degree-level programme.

Grants of up to €3,000 may be awarded to academics or graduate groups with an academic director for projects contributing to the Europaeum mission.

Projects supported include:

2006 Initiatives to be supported in include an international conference on Islam and Citi-zenship in Bologna; a seminar on Population Ageing linking Krakow and Oxford; a workshop on Poland and the UK linking HEI, Oxford and Krakow; a workshop on Good Governance and Democracy linking Paris I, Oxford and several other Eu-ropean universities; a forum on John Paul II as Philosopher linking Krakow and

Projects, Grants and Scholarships

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Oxford; a conference on Anglo-French History linking Paris and Oxford; bursaries for six Europaeum students to attend a law conference in Paris; further meetings of the conference series on the Charta Oecumenica; and a fifth Europaeum Classics Colloquium, to be held in Madrid.

Visiting Professors Programme

The movement and exchange of academic staff between Europaeum member institu-tions supports the development of broader intellectual perspectives and promotes the exchange of ideas, as well as providing an opportunity for new collaborative projects to be formulated and discussed. This concept is central to the Europaeum mission, and thus is actively supported through our academic mobility programmes.

Europaeum universities can invite a distinguished scholar from another partner in-stitution to serve as Europaeum Visiting Professor. Typically an EVP may offer a seminar, give a lecture and/or supervise research students; he or she may also pursue personal research, work with collaborators, or plan collaboration opportunities.

Other Chairs

A number of other Visiting Chairs are linked to the Europaeum association. Profes-sor Umberto Eco of Bologna University, for example, was appointed by Oxford to the post of Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature, and delivered a series of eight lectures in Oxford on Translating and Being Translated.

In 2003 it was Professor Nike Wagner, from Vienna, who spoke on themes related to theatre and psychoanalysis. In 2004, Oxford hosted Mario Vargas Llosa who is linked to the Complutense University, Madrid.

EVPs include:

2001Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill of Oxford visited Geneva to teach refugee law.

2002Professor Bernard Michel of Paris 1 visited Prague, to lecture and develop collaborative work.Catherine Redgwell of Oxford visited Geneva, to lecture and develop col-laborative work.Professor Robert Frank of Paris I made two visits to Oxford to lecture and teach.

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The Chair of European Thought, linked directly to the Europaeum and ultimately supported by Peter Johnson, is attached to Balliol College and was held by Professor John Burrow from 1994 to 1999. He is author of many articles and books includ-ing Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in Political Thought (The Carlyle Lectures, OUP, 1988).

The Bertelsman Europaeum Visiting Chair in 20th Century Jewish History and Poli-tics is also linked to the Europaeum and attached to Mansfield College, Oxford, with generous support from the Bertelsmann Foundation, and is awarded each year to a distinguished scholar in the field who is required to deliver a series of lectures and seminars, including at least one major Europaeum Lecture.

The election board is currently chaired by Michael Freeden, Professor of Political Ideology, Mansfield College, Oxford.

Europaeum Research Project Groups

This scheme, supporting a series of international Research Project Groups, now enters its fourth year. It encourages collaborative initiatives linking European aca-


2003Professor Michael Wolter of Bonn visited the Theology Faculty at Oxford.Professor Tiziano Bonazzi of Bologna visited Oxford to do research and take part in a conference.Professor Herman Phillipse of Leiden visited Oxford to teach and conduct research.Professor Hubert Kempf of Paris I visited Prague to lecture, run seminars and plan a further economics research workshop.

2004Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill of Oxford taught at Geneva.Professor John Barton of Oxford visited Bonn to give a lecture and continue joint research collaborations, now dating back 20 years between the two universities.Dr Godfrey Hodgson of Oxford visited Leiden to teach and lecture. This was also part of the US-Europe programme.

2005Professor Robert Evans of Oxford visited Leiden twice, to teach and lecture, and to discuss joint projects.Professor Michael Freeden of Oxford visited Bologna to teach.Professor David Robertson of Oxford visited Krakow to lecture.Professor Iain McLean of Oxford visited Prague to lecture.

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demics, including at least three Europaeum institutions. Successful groups receive a ‘pump-priming’ grant of up to €3,200 (£2,000) to aid a launch, run a workshop, or develop a project programme. The aim is to stimulate new international research within, but not exclusive to, the Europaeum academic community.

Applications are now accepted year round, with bids refereed by ad hoc Advisory Panels. Bids are expected to demonstrate originality, a clearly defined objective, and a ‘multiplier effect’ to the benefit of Europaeum. Applications with links to other Eu-ropaeum projects are especially welcomed. Additional development grants are avail-able to Europaeum Research Project Groups that show progress in the first year.

2001-02: Professor Avishai Margalit, Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lectured on Betrayal and Trust, and gave a graduate seminar on the Middle East crisis.2002-03: Professor Dan Diner, Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, and History Profes-sor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lectured on Jewish and General History in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Narrations and Interpretations.2004-05: Professor Robert Gellately, Professor of History at Florida State University, lectured on Hitler and Stalin: Dictatorship and Social Catastrophe.2005-06: Professor Aaron Shai, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, lectured on Sino-Israeli Relations and Historical Perspectives within Israel.

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Europaeum Research Project Groups 2000 – 2005

Future groups to be supported are set to analyse Political Concepts in Europe (2006), The Internet and e-Democracy (2007) and Human Rights and Constitutional Law (2007).


The Churches and the Family in Western European Society (2000 - 2). This project operated through three-day annual meetings over the course of three years. Linked Institutions: Oxford, Bonn, and Leiden.

Financial integration and future of the International Monetary System (2002- ). Four workshops and a linked Summer School at Oxford in 2002 on European Economic Integration have taken place, now backed by a networking group created a wide circle, including a workshop in autumn 2005 in Bologna on The Economics of European Integration: Factors, goods, externalities, institutions and mobility in Europe and beyond with participants from Oxford, Leiden, Bologna, Helsinki and Paris. A further workshop is planned for Helsinki in 2006. Linked institutions: Paris, Prague, Bologna, Oxford and Helsinki.

The Kosovo Stability Pact and the future of the Balkans (2000 - 1). A research workshop was held in Geneva to review and discuss a funding proposal for the EU and other foundations. Linked Institutions: Oxford, Bologna, Leiden, Bonn, Geneva, and Paris.

European Identity: Reason, Science and Law (2002 - ). This project has encompassed several individual meetings, including an event on Machiavelli. A further wrap-up workshop is under consideration. Linked Institutions: Leiden, Bologna, Oxford, and Prague.

The Regulation of e-Commerce (2002 - 2003). The funded event led to the publication of a volume of essays, E-commerce Law: National Topics and Perspectives (Kluwer Law International, 2003, 144 pages). Linked Institu-tions: Oxford and Leiden.

International security institutions in Europe: Domestic Dimensions (2003). The project aims to provide a more complete understanding of post-Cold War security arrangements in Europe and has included conferences and Euro-paeum Lectures. Linked Institutions: Paris, Geneva, Oxford, and Prague.

Appropriations, Misappropriations and Adaptations of Liberalism in Twen-tieth-Century Europe (2003-6). Following a research workshop in Oxford, a second workshop was held in Prague in 2005, looking at the experiences of liberalism, illiberalism and the new liberalism of the ECE region, with

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a follow–up event planned in Hungary in 2006. Work is also underway on a collection of papers. Linked institutions: Oxford, Leiden, Bologna, and Prague.

Transmission and Understanding in the Sciences (2002 - 6). Discussions have focused on the processes involved in transmitting scientific ideas across Europe. The cycle of meetings, involving a range of supporting bodies including the Europaeum, has continued and further meetings are planned for 2006. Work is now underway on a series of publications. Linked Institu-tions: Bologna, Oxford, Paris, Krakow et al.

Cultural Difference in Europe (2003 - ). The first workshop, involving a range of academics, intellectuals, artists and arts managers, was held in Prague and plans were confirmed for a further workshop in Krakow in 2006, and Madrid in 2007. The project is also supported by Tamkang University. Linked Institutions: Prague, Oxford, Krakow, Madrid, and Tamkang (Taiwan).

Future of European Humanities and New Technology (2003 - ). An interna-tional workshop was held in Oxford, in 2003, on The Future for European Humanities, with a follow up in Prague (2004) with additional support from APEX, and a further international conference on the digitisation of archives is planned for 2007. Linked Institutions: Oxford, Leiden, Prague, and Paris.

Eastern Christianity in Context (2004 - ). This project aims to foster gradu-ate development, organising a joint Graduate Studies Seminar for Oxford, Leiden, Bologna and other students which will gather once yearly. The first seminar was held in Leiden, in December 2004. Linked Institutions: Leiden, Bologna, Oxford et al.

European and International Social Security Law (2005 - ). This project aims to combine research and teaching at four partner universities studying Euro-pean social security legislation. A first meeting was held in Ghent in 2005 to prepare a set of teaching tools to be made available for use in all universities in the association. Linked Institutions: Paris, Helsinki, Prague and Ghent.

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Overview

The Europaeum operates as a charity under UK Charity Law, and as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. Accounts are presented in a format required by UK company and charity law, prepared by our accountants, CKL from Cambridge. They are calculated over a calendar year, from 1st January 2006 to the end of December 2006. Overall the balance for the Europaeum company at the end of the year in re-view, 31st December 2006, was +£XXXXXX, including €XXXXXX in a separate Euro account.

The Europaeum’s income continues to come from three main sources. Some £87,500 has come in the form of ‘subscriptions’ from the 10 members (this comprises the Common Fund). There have also been new contributions.

There is also support “in kind” leveraged by Europaeum activities and grant pump priming. Support in kind is very difficult to estimate, but includes the contributions to academic travel by university department, foregone honoria, support in terms of meeting rooms and catering, which could account for more than €75,000 per an-num. In addition the Europaeum coordinates the Jenkins Scholarship support worth €90,000 per annum, whose funds are actually held by the University of Oxford. Equally, the Euroapeum Bertelsmann Chair, worth £80,000 per annum is held by Mansfield College. Finally, there is the residue of the gifts and benefactions made for the benefit of the Europaeum and Oxford European Studies during the 1990s (formerly known as the Projects Fund) which, of course, decreases year on year.

The basic running costs of the office, including overheads such as rent, electricity, and telephone, amounted to XXXXXX. Staffing costs (now including four days a week for the Secretary-General, one full-time Programme Officer and the equivalent of a second post, in terms of office administration and part-time support for comput-ing, publications and design work, and web support and interns) were £XXXXXX.

Company-related costs have again been kept well within the estimated Projections by continuing to do as much as possible ‘in-house’, including most ledger-keeping and record-keeping, design, and website updating. Costs related to Europaeum pub-lications totalled £XXXXX.

The provisional Budget Projections (2004-2009) indicate that the current, increased, levels of project and office support can be maintained until the 2008-9 academic year without the need for additional fundraising; fundraising will be continued as a matter of urgency to ensure the Europaeum’s continued service beyond 2009.

Three restricted sub-accounts, as shown in the table, are for support for the Geneva-Oxford Link Programme, support for disseminating the DaimlerChrysler-supported research inquiry into The Future of European Universities, and development work for our proposed Institute of Public Policy and Governance.

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The accrual accounts for all the main categories of expenditure for the calendar year 2005 are presented in the table, set against initial Projections. This year, the accounts are also presented in graphical form.

Benefactions and Donations

As ever, the Europaeum remains indebted to its major benefactors, and to its aca-demic volunteers, whose commitment continues to transform ideas into realities.

The Jenkins Scholarship Fund, launched in 2004 and linked to the Europaeum as-sociation, now supports half a dozen annual bursaries for leading Europaeum gradu-ates to study at Oxford and Oxford graduates to study at Europaeum universities. The Europaeum remains very grateful to all of the late Roy Jenkins’ many friends and admirers, Oxford University and the Colleges of Oxford, to the Fund’s patrons, including Dame Jennifer Jenkins, and, most of all, to Sir Anthony Kenny, former Master of Balliol College and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, who co-ordinated this initiative.

It is right, as ever, to recall previous generous benefactions from Mrs Jane Ledig-Rowohlt, ARTAL (Mr Guy Ullens), Mr Henry R Kravis, and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, which led to scholarships at Oxford for visiting Europaeum graduates, and M. Pierre Keller who recently renewed his gifts to the Europaeum allowing academic links to be developed, especially those between Oxford and Geneva. We also acknowledge the generosity of the Lisbet Rausing Foundation which allowed the fabric of the Europaeum to be improved over recent years.

A gift from the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany funds the Bertelsmann Euro-paeum Visiting Professorship in Twentieth-Century Jewish History and Politics at Oxford, attached to Mansfield College. Incumbents have included Professor Avishai Margalit (2001-2), Professor Dan Diner (2002-3) and Professor Robert Gellately of Florida State University (2004-5), and Professor Aron Shai of Tel Aviv State Univer-sity who lectured on Israel’s foreign and domestic relations.

The major Europaeum research inquiry into the role of European universities in leading the Knowledge Revolution, which ran from 2001-3, was made possible thanks to the generosity of DaimlerChrysler Services AG, with a £150,000 project grant, with partnership support from the three key host universities involved, namely Humboldt Berlin (December 2001), Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (September 2002) and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (June 2003), plus the Euro-paeum itself.

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logue, for various policy seminars, and Tamkang University, co-supporters of our European Cultural Difference series. These partnerships are continuing.

Projects Fund

The generous benefactors who helped launch the Europaeum in the 1990s, contrib-uted to what was termed the Projects Fund, used to fund a full range of collaborative schemes, including the Research Project Groups scheme, the New Initiatives scheme including mobility grants, teaching support and colloquia, and the Visiting Profes-sors scheme. There was also support for other regular joint projects, including the lecture series, the annual summer schools and conference. These residual grants, gifts and donations also aided the re-launch of the Europaeum in 2000. Since then, new grants and benefactions have helped to top up the association’s budget.

Central Spending

This is covered by an average subscription from each partner university equivalent to €15,000 per year, unchanged since 2000. This covers, essentially, the costs of the Secretariat and staffing, including a part-time Secretary-General (Dr Paul Flather), plus one Programme Officer (Katherine Fletcher/Christina Bevir) and one Web and Publications Officer (Chad Frischmann), plus other part-time support staff from time to time with differing expertise for design, computing, and database work. The Eu-ropaeum also benefits from interns from time to time. Spending in the 2006 calendar year remained in line with projections from the 2000 Business Plan and the 2004-9 Budget Projections.

The Academic and Management Committees each held audio-conference meetings again in 2004-5, thereby saving the association and members both time and money, while allowing decisions to be made.

There was minimal equipment update, though office supply costs did go up reflect-ing national and international trends.

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Explanatory Notes:The discrepancy between “Actual” and “Projected” 2005 income is due to receipt of General Fund contributions in arrears from previous years.This is an annualised estimate for fundraising. The Europaeum received a benefaction of £150,000 in 2004, in effect covering three years’ worth of fund-raising projects. Student fees, which the Europaeum passed on to the University of Oxford as part of the European History and Civilisation MA programme (no profit was made).Other forms of income.This includes audio conference meetings, plus Council and Academic Committee members’ accommodation and other related meeting costs.Covers the design, printing and distribution of the Annual Report, the Europaeum Review, lecture pamphlets and other publications.This includes rent, power and maintenance, office supplies, postage, printing materials, telephones, computer software, computer support, equipment enhancement, equipment replacement and depreciation.This covers salaries, national insurance, and pensions for the Secretary-General, the Programme and Publica-tions Officers, assistants and interns, and travel and expense allowances.Includes costs for computing, insurance, auditing, banking, accountants, legal advice, and contingencies.This line-item allows for new projects linked to specific new grants. It is expected to be under-spent in any given year unless new grants are specifically ear-marked for new projects.

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Income Projected 2004 Actual 2004 Projected 2005 Actual 2005Common Fund (University (£) (£) (£) (£)Subscriptions 90 000 90 000 90 000 92500Bank Interest 2 801 1 394 1 000 2767Benefactions/Grants 50 000 150 000 70 000 3575Seminars/Teaching 0 0 - 11341Miscellaneous 4 - - - -Total Income 142 801 241 394 161 000 110 183

Expenditure Projected 2004 Actual 2004 Projected 2005 Actual 2005Council and Committee Costs 5 2 250 1 360 3 700 2 154.68Publications 6 15 104 8 595 18 400 5 811.83Office Costs 7 17 370 13 463 28 182 33 022.19Staffing 8 92 028 77 532 112 760 93 009.94Staffing Recharges to Restricted Sub-accounts -8 070 706 0 0Company Costs 9 18 700 15 821 17 100 19 200.73Total Expenditure 137 382 117 477 180 142 162 576.23

Grants & Projects Projected 2004 Actual 2004 Projected 2005 Actual 2005Research Project Groups 10 000 1 712 10 000 7 150.43New Initiatives Scheme 12 000 1 784 8 000 10 204.02Europaeum Visiting Professors 8 000 2 017 8 000 2 916.06Annual Conference - 5 000 4 000 3 381.69Other Programmes 2 000 260 2 000 5 116.72Annual Summer School 6 000 5 018 6 000 5 516.04Policy Forum Events 12 250 - 3 000 175.16Joint Teaching Programmes 2 000 159 3 000 11 399.52New Projects 10 15 000 1 220 8 000 1 930.63Scholarships Schemes Support (not in 2004 Annual Report) 2 000 - 1 000 173.95Total Grants 69 250 17 170 53 000 47 964.22

Projected 2004 Actual 2004 Projected 2005 Actual 2005Total Expenditure and Total Grants 206 632 134 647 £233 142 £210 540.45Excess of Expenditure over Income -63 831 106 747 -£72 142 -£90 980.59Balance at the start of the year 112 031 82 553 £325 000 £314 203.00Balance carried forward £48 200 £314 203 £252 858 £213 845.55

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Summary of the Designated Funds for Calendar Years 2004 and 2005

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Summary for Calendar Years 2004 and 2005

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B. Designated funds Oxford-Geneva benefaction: total £100k 2

Projected 2004 Actual 2004 Projected 2005 Actual 2005Annual Expenditure 20 635 18 645 15 000 8 261Total Expenditure (at year end) 54 854 52 864 65 864 61 125

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Projected 2004 Actual 2004 Projected 2005 Actual 2005Annual Expenditure - - 1 150 960Total Expenditure (at year end) 1 150 960

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A Brief HistoryHistory

The Europaeum was conceived in the early 1990s by Lord (George) Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson to give future young scholars and leaders the chance to meet, discuss, and develop together a real ‘sense of Europe’. The Europaeum was to be a framework within which a group of leading European universities would strive, together, in search of new kinds of pan-European thinking, linking the brightest academic minds and young scholars. It was also conceived as an autonomous and free-thinking body that would seek to add to the sum of knowledge and ideas in the ‘new’ Europe. Its development can be split into four phases: a successful launch period, an important period of consolidation, a phase of innovation, and now a phase of extension.

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The mood of the times, including a move towards integration in Western Europe and the re-emergence of Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of Communism, encouraged and encompassed a need to promote pan-European ideas, programmes and initiatives, even styles of thinking – and universities clearly had a key role to play. The Europaeum was launched as a department of Oxford University, formally to ‘advance European studies and education’, encouraging ‘the movement of aca-demic staff and students’ and for ‘the study of the languages, history, cultures and professions of the people of Europe’. Core partnerships were established linking Oxford with the universities of Leiden, Bologna and Bonn, and an international net-work was born. Oxford played a lead role during this phase, spearheading a sig-nificant and successful fund-raising drive across Europe, with the committee legally linked directly to the University.

The Europaeum in Oxford helped establish two new centres: the Institute for the Ad-vanced Study of European and Comparative Law (IECL), now a highly developed and flourishing centre which has an active relationship with the association; and the Centre for European Politics, Economics and Society (CEPES), closed in 2003 in an Oxford Politics Department reorganisation. It also led to the creation of new posts, some within the centres: most notably a Chair in European Thought, the establish-ment of a range of scholarships for European graduates to come to Oxford, and a general boost for European Studies at Oxford. A number of linked Visiting Chairs, for example in Literature, Opera Studies, and Jewish Studies, were also set up.

Collaborative activities were launched, including annual conferences and summer schools. A Founders’ Council of key benefactors, friends and supporters was created to play its role, while an ad hoc ‘supervisory’ Europaeum Committee was set up in Oxford to oversee development of the network. Work was coordinated by the Steer-ing Group, while much depended on the energy of key individuals.

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The network expanded to include Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Geneva (Graduate Institute of International Studies, HEI), and next Prague (Charles University). Ox-ford also initiated its own five-year institutional review following its standard cus-tom, and all Europaeum partner groups were invited to comment on developments. In 1998, various new initiatives took place. While the annual summer schools and conferences continued to flourish, with a clear policy of rotation by institution, a regular newsletter was created, alongside a new website for easy access, plus a da-tabase of academics working in European Studies and related subjects at the partner institutions. A small ‘subscription’ was introduced to support core costs, while funds were raised to support individual projects.

Each partner institution was invited to create its own appropriate local Europaeum committee or group of linked academics, to feed in new ideas and comment on policies. The Europaeum Committee was converted to an international Council with representatives from all partners. Group meetings bringing together key academics within their own subject discipline were arranged, and plans were discussed to pro-mote small international collaborative research groupings.

A detailed Steering Group report presented the Europaeum Council, with options for development, and the governing structure was simplified, with the Europaeum Council now established as the overarching governing body (replacing the Oxford-based structure), supported by an Academic Committee to oversee academic priori-ties and projects, and a Management Group to help deliver and organize the day-to-day links.

It was also agreed to appoint a part-time Secretary-General, whose brief would be to focus solely on the overall development of the Europaeum, to help steer what was now an association into its next phase of development. Projects would also seek to involve more graduates and young scholars.

Phase III: Innovation 2000-200�

The Secretary-General formally took up his part-time post in Spring 2000 and im-mediately started work on a Business Plan to lay out clear objectives, update the mission, outline strategies for development, and structure a financial plan through 2005. Consultations took place in 2000, and the plan was formally approved in 2001. A part-time assistant was hired in the Summer, and in the Autumn converted into a full-time assistant was appointed and the Secretariat was established in new premis-es of its own, in Central Oxford, on the Banbury Road, in the Voltaire Foundation building. With these new institutional arrangements, the Europaeum was ready to embark upon a period of innovation and play a fuller part in the changing European

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higher education area. To underline this, all regular activities were encompassed within formal guidelines.

Three new small grant schemes were also established during this period. Joint re-search was to be supported via the Europaeum Research Project Groups. These were designed, significantly, to draw additional disciplines within the orbit of the Eu-ropaeum, including Modern History, History of Science, Classics, Philosophy and Theology.

The New Initiatives Scheme was introduced to widen innovation in collaborative activities by encouraging more debates, lecture series, mobility grants, joint teach-ing, library links and technology transfer. Two model European student debates were backed under this scheme and graduates now regularly participate in events. Study days and policy fora are also supported.

Finally, academic mobility was boosted under the Europaeum Visiting Professor-ships, enabling leading academics to teach and research at partner institutions within the association, helping nourish future academic and teaching links.

New projects set out to utilise the enormous opportunities provided by new technol-ogy. An international research project examining the Future of European Universi-ties in the ‘Knowledge Society’ was unveiled with the backing of a substantial grant from DaimlerChrysler Services, a leading financial corporation in Germany. The project analysed future trends for university development, the application of Infor-mation and Communication Technologies (ICT), and ways to advance learning and research.

Meanwhile, the programme of summer schools, conferences and scholarship pro-grammes continued to expand. At an important meeting in Paris in 2001, the Council determined that the Europaeum should set a target of 10 university members, de-velop ideas for policy research, and focus on joint teaching opportunities for young European scholars. The Europaeum Review, launched in 2001, serves as a forum for intellectual exchange, and increases the profile of the association. A revived Eu-ropaeum Lecture series has also led to several significant publications. Keynote speakers at Europaeum events during this period have included Tim Berners-Lee, Umberto Eco, Lord (Ralf) Dahrendorf, Jacques Delors, Timothy Garton Ash, Sir Marrack Goulding, Avishai Margalit, David Marquand, Ben Okri, Lord (Chris) Pat-ten, Romano Prodi and Mary Robinson.

Most important were the fresh initiatives to boost joint teaching initiatives. An Aca-demic Committee working party examined ways of encouraging teaching collabora-tion, reviewing half a dozen current partnerships created through the Europaeum. Two innovative programmes, an MA in European Politics, Culture, History and In-stitutions, linking Bologna, Leiden and Oxford, and a plan for modular programmes

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in European Business, Culture, and Institutions, initially to link Leiden and Oxford, were run as pilot projects.

Fundraising efforts continued to boost the Projects Fund, alongside the subscriptions from members to cover core costs. The Europaeum was also converted to an inde-pendent charity, run as a not-for-profit company.

Phase IV: Extension 200�-200�

With fresh momentum, the Europaeum found itself involved in a burgeoning number of projects, still based on the principles of rotating venues for conferences, meet-ings and summer schools. A new Academic Business Plan for the fourth phase was endorsed with the key aims of completing and consolidating the membership target, developing joint teaching initiatives, and creating a joint Policy Institute.

In 2003, Complutense University, Madrid, joined the Europaeum. Helsinki followed in 2004 and the Jagiellonian, Krakow, in 2005. The association thus reached its target of 10 members, although as an open body, the Europaeum collaborates with scholars and experts from all other bodies.

Rapid progress was made on joint teaching initiatives: in 2004-5, Oxford, Paris and Leiden piloted a new jointly-offered Europaeum MA in European History and Civi-lisation, with the programme formally launched in 2005-6. The Leiden-Oxford Pro-gramme was also re-launched over 2004-5 with a series of policy-oriented symposia, followed by workshops and events focusing on Europe, with student participation.

The Europaeum’s successful policy forum series is now established with events on a range of topics including Reshaping Europe, Turkey, Corporate Governance, Islam in Europe, The Barrier between Israel and Palestine, and The Future for Europe.

After widespread consultation, a proposal for a new Europaeum Public Policy and Governance Institute was approved in in 2004. The current focus is on fundraising, with steps underway to link Europaeum experts and university-based policy units within a ‘virtual cluster’ of policy experts, and to set up Europe-wide collaborative research project prototypes across the association.

Three major overarching themed programmes were launched, each initiating a series of linked workshops, seminars, conferences and lectures, and each leading to a major Europaeum-inspired publication: the Humanities and New Technology programme in 2003, the Islam-in-Europe programme in 2004 and the US-Europe TransAtlantic Dialogue programme in 2005. The latter will open up opportunities for partnerships with US universities.

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Following the death of Roy Jenkins, one of the founders of the Europaeum and former Chancellor of the University of Oxford, a memorial fund was set up to raise funds for European scholarships, and these have been directly linked to the Euro-paeum by the trustees. Two early awards were made in 2004, reflecting early fund-raising success. This success continued, and in 2005 four Jenkins Scholars were elected, two to study at Oxford, and two for Oxford graduates to study at Europaeum institutions. For 2006-7, seven awards are expected, and the plan is for half a dozen awards per year in the future. The scheme has been warmly welcomed by all Euro-paeum partners, and efforts to develop further scholarship schemes continue.

Further joint MAs in European Economic Integration and European Theology are currently in incubation, while discussions continue regarding the revival of jointly-offered MAs in European Political Cultures, International Relations, Community Law, and Philosophy. The award of Europaeum Certificates, conferred upon stu-dents who complete scholarly work while engaging in Europaeum activities, has been extended.

In 2004, a major gift was received from the Lisbet Rausing Foundation, which al-lowed the Europaeum to move into new premises, upgrade its computers and extend its programmes, and develop plans for a policy institute. In 2005, the Oxford-Ge-neva Link Programme also received a further benefaction.

The Europaeum has also focused on publications in this phase of extension, with the continuing series of Europaeum pamphlets and the Europaeum Review, which continues to command respect. The organisation has supported conference and workshop reports on, for example, Whose Europe?, The Other, E-commerce, and Corporate Governance.

The Europaeum has widened its scope with workshops in the History of Science and European Science Policy, through its new programmes with partnerships in US bod-ies, and proposals to create a European Studies institute in Turkey and set up a new research scholarship scheme.

Many of the targets for this fourth phase of ‘extension’, including enlarging mem-bership from seven to ten university members, consolidating a research strategy, developing grants and scholarship schemes, and reviewing the major joint teaching initiatives along the ‘Euro-Masters’ models had been achieved or were in progress by 2006. The focus for future years is on publicising the findings of the Europae-um’s two-year research enquiry into the future of European higher education; pursu-ing new programmes on US-Europe Relations, Islam-in-Europe, and Culture, Hu-manities and New Technologies; developing a ‘virtual cluster’ of policy institutes and researchers; extending fund-raising work; and eventually developing a work-ing Knowledge Centre linking partner institutions, individual scholars, and library resources.

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GovernanceCommittees

The Europaeum functions as a not-for-profit Company, incorporated under UK Law, and as a charity under UK Law (Charity number 110 54 77). It is governed by a Council and operates via two formally constituted international academic commit-tees supported by a management Liaison Group.

Europaeum Council

Final legal authority rests with the Europaeum Council, effectively the trustees of the charity and the Directors of the company Board. The Council comprises two representatives from each partner university, including the Rector, Vice-Chancellor, Director (or a designated representative if so assigned), plus distinguished elected individual supporters of the Europaeum. A full range of disciplines are represent-ed on the Council. Three ‘non-Executive’ directors are Lord (George) Weidenfeld (Chairman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Publishers), Sir Ronald Grierson (European Chairman, Blackstone Group International), and M. Pierre Keller (Senior Partner, Banque Lombard Odier).

Academic Committee

The Academic Committee is responsible for academic policy strategy, initiatives and links, and consists entirely of academic representatives. An annual meeting is usually held each Spring, to review and set academic policy for the coming year. A second annual audio-meeting is held, usually in November. The committee is cur-rently chaired by Professor Wim van den Doel (Leiden), who took over from Profes-sor Hubert Kempf (Paris). It is convened by the Secretary-General. Each institution has two senior academic representatives, together representing a cross-section of

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disciplines currently including Law, Economics, History, Politics, Sociology, Theol-ogy and Philosophy.

Management Liaison Group

The Management Liaison Group is responsible for day-to-day work, enabling aca-demic initiatives to be implemented and followed up. The committee works to sup-port new initiatives and carries out decisions from the Academic Committee and Council. The committee is convened by the Secretary-General, and its work is in-creasingly done via audio meetings and internet contact.

Founders’ Advisory Council

The Founders’ Advisory Council, composed of the heads of all partner institutions, major donors and other valued patrons of the Europaeum, meets from to time to time to provide general guidance and advice to the Europaeum. The Chancellor of the University of Oxford serves as Chairman ex officio, and the heads of the Europaeum partner institutions are also ex officio members. New members who render valuable services to the association may be asked to join.

Local Committees

A key role is played by local Europaeum groups or committees, created by each partner institution. These can bring together academics from a wide range of linked disciplines to discuss link programmes, grants, development and fund-raising. Thus Professor Vera Gowlland Debbas coordinates Geneva’s Europaeum Group, Profes-sor Wolfram Kinzig Chairs a Bonn Group, while Dr. Andrew Graham is Chairman of the Oxford Europaeum Group.

Secretariat

The slim organisation is supported by a Secretariat based within the Oxford Uni-versity campus. This consists of a Secretary-General (part-time, currently Dr Paul Flather), a full-time Programmes Officer (currently Katherine Fletcher), a part-time Publications Officer and an Office Assistant/Researcher. The team co-ordinates the association’s work, delivers on committee decisions, promotes and implements grant schemes and new initiatives, manages Europaeum events and prepares the as-sociation for further development. Additional part-time support comes from a Web Officer and graduate interns.

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Past AchievementsConferences

1993 Oxford: Are European Elites Losing Touch with their Peoples? Keynote speaker: Lord Dahrendorf, Warden, St Antony’s College, Oxford. Jack Hayward, Professor emeritus of Politics, Oxford, coordinated the event.

1994 Oxford: Europe and America after the Cold War: the End of the West? Keynote speakers: Admiral Ulric Weisser, Head of Planning Staff, German De-fence Ministry; and Professor Maarten Brands, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy.

1995 Bonn: The integration of East Central Europe into the EU Keynote speaker: Dr Hans van Plötz, Secretary of State of the German Foreign Of-fice, plus officials from several Central European embassies.

1996 Geneva: Defining Europe’s Identity: Issues and Trade-Offs Keynote speaker: Rt. Hon. Lord Denis Healey, former UK Chancellor of the Ex-chequer and Secretary of State for Defence.

1997 Paris I: Europe and Money Keynote speakers: Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission, and Rt. Hon. Lord (Norman) Lamont, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1998 Leiden: Human Rights and the Plight of European Immigrants Keynote speakers included: Dr Reinhard Marx, Netherlands Civil Service, and Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford.

2000 Bonn: The Implications of the New Knowledge and Technology Wissenschaftsnacht (Night of Science), focusing on the ‘Global Brain’ and the evo-lution of Knowledge and Action, mixing lectures, talks, and hands-on participatory events.

2001 Oxford: Democracy and the Internet: New Rules for New Times Keynote speakers: Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; Andrew Pinder, UK Government’s e-Envoy; Stuart Hill, Board member BT; and Predrag Voštinić, ANAM and Radio B92, Belgrade.

2001 Berlin: Borderless Education: Bridging Europe Keynote speakers: Professor Marcel Pera, President of the Italian Senate; Professor Peter Scott, Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University; and Professor Piet Akkermans, Rector of the College of Europe.

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2002 Paris: New Responsibilities for New Times Keynote speakers: Professor Tomáš Halik, Charles University, Prague; Jack Lang, Former Education Minister, France; Ben Okri, poet and writer; and Professor Domi-nique Moïsi, Deputy Head, French Institute for International Relations.

2003 Oxford: National Models and the European Constitution Keynote speakers: Professor Bronisław Geremek, former Minister of Foreign Af-fairs, Republic of Poland; Denis MacShane MP, UK Minister for Europe.

2003 Bonn: New Partners: Opportunities and Risks Keynote speakers/discussants: Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, Direc-tor of UNHCR and head of the Ethical Globalisation Initiative; Gerd Schulte-Hillen, former Board Member, Bertelsmann; Avi Primor, Former Ambassador of Israel in Germany; Lord (Claus) Moser, former education advisor to the UK Prime Minister and former Warden, Wadham College, Oxford.

Leiden, June 2004: Europe, Shaping the FutureKeynote speakers: António Martins da Cruz, Former Foreign Minister, Portugal; Wim Duisenberg, Former President, the European Central Bank; Ben Verwaayen, CEO, BT; Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Minister of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands.

Leiden, December 2004: Moving the Frontiers of Europe: Turkey, Risk or OpportunityKeynote speakers: Arie Oostlander MEP; António Martins da Cruz, former Foreign Minister of Portugal; Erik-Jan Zürcher, Professor of Turkish Studies, Leiden Univer-sity; and Professor emeritus Geoffrey Lewis, University of Oxford.

Oxford, March 2005: Restructuring Corporate Governance: The New European AgendaKeynote speakers/discussants: Alastair Ross Goobey, Chairman, International Corporate Governance Network; Sir Ronald Grierson, former Vice President GEC, UK; Professor Dan Prentice, University of Oxford; Professor Jakob de Smit, Univer-sity of Leiden; George Dallas, Managing Director, Standard & Poor’s Governance Services Unit; David Jackson, Company Secretary, BP; Jonathan Rickford, Director, Company Law Centre, British Institute of International and Comparative Law; An-tonio Borges, Vice President of Goldman Sachs; Profesor Colin Mayer, University of Oxford.

Oxford, April 2005: Americanisation and Europeanisation: Rival Projects or Synonyms?Keynote speakers: Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Direc-tor of the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford; Denis MacShane, MP, UK Minister

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Leiden, June 1994: Concepts of EuropeEuropaeum and Central European participants discussed ideas of Europe, integra-tion and federalism, with keynote address by Lord (George) Weidenfeld and support from Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands.

Bologna, September 1995: The Problem of Political Leadership between His-tory and Social Science The school brought together 26 graduate students, 15 lecturers and 13 discussants, looking at the nature of political leadership, in theory and practice, in European his-tory, in a variety of institutional and national contexts.

Bologna, September 1996: The Civic Nation and the Ethnic NationDiscussions focused on the political systems and traditions of the Netherlands, France, Italy and Britain, with keynote contribution by Professor Tiziano Bonazzi (Bologna), and workshops directed by the students themselves.

Budapest, March 1998: Risk Policy AnalysisThis ‘spring’ school brought together participants from 15 countries from the Eu-ropaeum and Central Europe at the Central European University in Budapest in a multidisciplinary analysis of risk from the legal, social, political, economic and medical points of view, with hands-on ‘crisis management’ and ‘scenario planning’ modelling. The event was supported by AXA Cologne.

Oxford, September 1998: Human RightsA multidisciplinary event drawing in philosophy, law, politics and international rela-tions graduates, combining theoretical sessions on politics with sessions on freedom of religion, refugees, the democratic deficit and relations with law and the media.

Paris, September 1999: NATO and European Defence50 graduate participants and academics came together to discuss future security ar-rangements against the background of the NATO campaign in Kosovo, as well as relations with the US and the implications of eastward NATO enlargement for the WEU, OSCE and EU, led by Professor Robert Frank of Paris I.

Bologna, September 2000: European Policy and EnlargementDaily public policy themes included public policies, the EMU, social policies and structural funds, environmental policy and agricultural policy, and extended to a second week of discussions at nearby Trento University, under the theme of Europe-anisation of National Politics.

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Oxford, September 2000: Church as Politeia in SocietyA second three-day summer school investigating the role of Christian religious culture and institutions within the historical development of European society and politics.

Oxford, September 2001: Human Rights and the Movement of People in EuropeBringing together legal, economic, social and political perspectives, this week-long programme explored the challenges of racism, displacement and the causes and ef-fects of migration in countries of origin.

Oxford, September 2002: Economics of European IntegrationExamined the economics and politics of the Enlargement of the European Union, regionalisation, and the implications of economic integration, monetary union, con-vergence and institutional reform. This event brought together masters and doctoral graduates, many presenting their own papers.

Prague, September 2003: New and Old Ideas of European FederalismExamining the roots of European federalism, in light of current trends and the drive towards a new constitution, bringing together history, economics and politics. Grad-uates and lecturers were also involved in a lively and innovative public debate on whether the new Europe will mark the end of the nation-state.

Leiden, August 2004: Islam and Europe: Building BridgesThis six-day event covered history, politics, international relations, culture and law, focusing on concepts of political Islam, Islam in Europe, Islamophobia, legal con-flicts with Islam and Shariah Law, and the reception of Muslim communities within Europe.

Geneva, September 2005: Multilateral Governance: Effective Ways Forward?In addition to lectures by senior academics and student presentations, graduates from all ten Europaeum partners learned about the realities of multilateralism through visits to the Red Cross and UN, and a final debate simulation.

Teaching, Courses and Study Programmes

The development of collaborative multi-centred courses fulfils a central objective of the Europaeum mission, providing future business, political, social and intellec-tual leaders with a pan-European educational experience. Currently the pioneering MA in European History and Civilisation is functioning well. Other courses are in preparation, in addition to a number of individual collaborative teaching modules.

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European Culture, Business and Institutions: Symposia 2004-6A programme of symposia, short courses and modules offered jointly by Leiden and Oxford, aimed at linking academic and business-sector professionals working in Europe and elsewhere, offering an opportunity to ‘return’ to the university world to deepen knowledge of cultures, historical backgrounds, institutions and ways of life and thought of the peoples of Europe. Themes included Shaping the Future of Europe; Moving the Frontiers of Europe: Turkey, Risk or Opportunity; and Restruc-turing Corporate Governance: The New European Agenda.

Law StudiesSince 1992, Oxford, Leiden and Sienna have collaborated in European Law Stud-ies, involving joint teaching and study, with dozens of student exchanges. Professor Marcel Brus was on a joint contract between Oxford and Leiden (1997-2001), link-ing the two European Law programmes.

Academic MeetingsIn 1997 academics representing all Europaeum partners in the fields of European Political Thought, Economics of Integration, and Modern History met at Oxford, Paris and Bologna respectively to agree strategies to promote international academic collaborations.

Economics of European IntegrationSince 1999, Paris I has offered an Economics of European Integration module, open to undergraduates and graduates across the Europaeum, with links to Bologna and Prague.

Oxford European CentresThe Europaeum played the key role in the creation of the Oxford Centre for Eu-ropean Politics, Economics and Society (1995-2003) and the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law, which continues to flourish. The Europaeum has also been involved in the creation of a number of posts, notably Visiting Chairs in Theatre, Literature, Opera Studies, European Thought, and the Bertelsmann Euro-paeum Visiting Professorship in 20th Century Jewish History and Politics.

MA in European History and CivilisationThis was successfully launched in September 2004, validated by Leiden, linking the universities of Paris I, Oxford and Leiden and providing a variety of perspectives for up to 12 graduate students per year.

MA in European Economic IntegrationDiscussions continue to develop a new multidisciplinary Europaeum MA linking the universities of Paris I, Helsinki, Bologna and Prague.

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MA in Political Cultures, History and InstitutionsThis ran from 1999-2001, linking the universities of Bologna, Leiden and Oxford, focusing on different perspectives of European 19th and 20th Century history, poli-tics, institutions and leadership.

Joint Theology CoursesDiscussions are underway, led by the Bonn Center for Religion and Society, to de-velop joint theology courses, building upon past university exchanges and relations, especially between Bonn and Oxford. Courses under consideration include a Mas-ters in Ecumenical Theology and a four-year Bachelor of Divinity (Europaeum) pro-gramme, with one year to be spent at another Europaeum partner.

Classics ColloquiaAn annual weekend in the autumn brings together Classics students from across the Europaeum network to discuss a specific theme or new discovery from the past 12 months.

Scholarship Programmes

The Europaeum has created a number of scholarships and bursary programmes aimed at encouraging student mobility across the association:

Jenkins ScholarshipsThe Oxford-Geneva Bursary SchemeEuropaeum Scholarships in Jewish StudiesThe Scatcherd European Scholarships scheme

Publications

Europaeum ReviewThe journal of the Europaeum, the Europaeum Review, combines news, articles, viewpoints and essays. It is published twice a year and circulated free to all academ-ics active within the Europaeum. It can also be obtained at a price of €5 (£3). [ISSN 1747-8614] or online at http://www.europaeum.org.

Europaeum LecturesMany lectures have been published and distributed free across member institutions. Hard copies are available for €6 (£4) or copies can be downloaded from the website. [ISSN 1474-8622] http://www.europaeum.org.

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Conference ReportsElistism, Populism and European Politics, report of the 1993 Europaeum conference, edited by professor Jack Hayward, was published by Clarendon Press. [ISBN 0-19-828035-1]Democracy and the Internet: new rules for new times, from the 2001 Europae-um Policy Forum, was published by the Europaeum in 2002, with contribution from UK Prime Minister e-Envoy Andrew Pinder. Copies are available from the Europaeum office, priced €8 (£5).Federalism and the Future of Europe, published in partnership with the Club of 3, is available from the Europaeum secretariat for €6 (£4).E-Commerce Law – National and Transnational Topics and Perspectives, based on a policy seminar linking Leiden and Oxford law faculties.The Other, based on an international workshop in 2002, backed by the Euro-paeum and held at Charles University, Prague, dissecting the concept of The Other and its impact on globalisation, diversity, pluralism, equality, migration and refugees.The Future of European Universities, three international expert conference reports from Berlin, Paris and Bonn, are currently being finalised for a printed edition.Whose Europe? National Models and the Constitution of the European Union, ed. Professors Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Stephen Weatherill, report of conference held in Oxford in April 2004.Restructuring Corporate Governance: The New European Agenda, based on the Leiedn-Oxford Programme conference in Oxford in March 2005, now published.

Lectures

Europaeum Lectures have been held since the association was founded, as part of its mission to encourage international exchange of ideas and academic mobility. Since 2000, the Europaeum has published Lectures which examine the key issues con-fronting Europe. Find a full list of published talks on the Europaeum website.

2000Dr David Robertson, Oxford, on A Common Constitutional Law for Europe: Questions of National Autonomy versus Universal Rights.Dr John Temple Lang, former Competition Director at the EC, on The Commis-sion and the European Parliament – an uncertain relationship.

2001Professor Ian Brownlie CBE QC, Emeritus Professor of International Law, All Souls, Oxford, on International Law and the Use of Force by States: Revisited.Professor Philippe Burrin, Geneva, on Strands of Nazi Anti-Semitism.

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2002Lord Professor (Ralf) Dahrendorf, former Warden of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, on Global Security Interlinked: Poverty, Security and Development. *Professor Michael Meyer-Blanck, Professor of Theology, Bonn University, on Tradition - Integration - Qualification: Some Reflections on Religious Educa-tion in European Schools.Professor Umberto Eco, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Compara-tive Literature, gave a lecture series on Translating and Being Translated.Professor Tiziano Bonazzi, Professor of European-American Relations, University of Bologna, on Europa, Zeus and Minos: or The Labyrinth of Euro-American Relations.Professor Charles Wyplosz, Professor of Economics, HEI, Geneva, on Fiscal Discipline in the Monetary Union: Rules or Institutions.*Professor Robert Frank, Professor of Modern History, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, on France and the United Kingdom in the Construction of Europe.

2003Sir Marrack Goulding, Warden of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, on The United Nations and Peace Since the Cold War: Success, Failure or Neither?*Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, on International Law and the Use of Military Force: The United Nations, the United States and Iraq. *Professor Christian Hacke, Chair of Political Science and Contemporary History, Bonn University, on Challenges for German Foreign Policy at the Beginning of the 21st Century. *

2004Sir Alan Budd, Provost of Queen’s College, University of Oxford, on A Tale of Two Economies. *Professor Sir Anthony Kenny, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, on What is Europeaness?*Dr Godfrey Hodgson, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, on The Other American Presidential Election: Choosing a President and Pycho-analysing a Nation.*

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2005Dr Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Russian Democratic Party (Yabloko) and Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, on Russia: Where Do We Go? How Do We Get There?*Professor Victor-Yves Ghebali, Professor of Political Science, HEI, Geneva, on The OSCE and European Security: Essential or Superfluous?Professor Geoffrey Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Turkish, University of Oxford, on Europe, Turkey and Islam.Professor Jean-Fabien Spitz, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris 1, on ‘Forced to be Free’ and Other Republican Enigmas. What Did Rousseau Really Mean?Professor David Robertson, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, on Where Next? Europe After the Recent Referenda.Professor Robert Gellately, Bertelsmann Europaeum Visiting Professor of 20th Century Jewish History and Politics, and Professor of History at Florida State University, on Stalin and Hitler: Dictatorship and Social Catastrophe (series of 8 lectures).Professor Jean-Philippe Genet, Professor of History, University of Paris 1, on European History: Union or Disunion?Professor David Robertson, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, on Where Next? Europe After the Recent Referenda.Professor Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, on Why the British Left Matters for Europe.Professor Aron Shai, Bertelsmann Europaeum Visiting Professor of 20th Century Jewish History and Politics and Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, gave a series of four lectures.

* These lectures have been published – copies available from the Europaeum secre-tariat for a small fee.

Virtual Network

A grant was used in 2005-6 to develop a ‘virtual cluster’, linking relevant policy units within Europaeum institutions and create a list of Europaeum policy research-ers. Link Institutes include Prague’s ‘Europeum’ Institute for European Policy, Leiden’s Centre for Government Studies, Oxford’s Public Policy Unit, Bologna’s Dipartimento di Organizzazione e Sistema Politico, and Helsinki’s Network for European Studies. Plans are underway to set up prototype research projects in Cor-porate Governance, the impact of ageing, and European cities.

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Acting Chairman: Professor Karol Musioł, Rector, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Professor Ilkka Niiniluoto, Rector, University of HelsinkiSir Colin Lucas, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford (Chairman until October 2004)Dr John Hood, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford (from November 2004)Dr Andrew Graham, University of Oxford (from January 2005)Professor Douwe Breimer, Rector Magnificus, University of Leiden (until February 2007)Dr Joost van Asten, University of LeidenProfessor Pier Ugo Calzolari, Rector, University of BolognaProfessor Roberto Grandi, University of BolognaProfessor Matthias Winiger, Rector, University of BonnProfessor Wolfram Kinzig, University of BonnProfessor Philippe Burrin, Director, Graduate Institute of International Studies, GenevaProfessor Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Graduate Institute of International Studies, GenevaProfessor Pierre-Yves Hénin, President, University of Paris I (from September 2004)Professor Robert Frank, University of Paris IProfessor Václav Hampl, Rector, Charles University, Prague (from September 2005)Assistant Professor Lud’a Klusáková, Charles University, PragueProfesssor Carlos Berzosa Alonso-Martínez, Rector, Complutense University, MadridProfessor Lucila González Pazos, Vice-Rector, Complutense UniversityProfessor Thomas Wilhelmsson, University of HelsinkiProfessor Franciszek Ziejka, Rector, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Professor Szczepan Biliński, Vice-Rector, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (from Sep-tember 2005)Lord (George) Weidenfeld, Chairman, Weidenfeld & NicolsonSir Ronald Grierson, Chairman, Blackstone EuropeM. Pierre Keller, Senior Partner, Banque Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & CieSecretary: Dr Paul Flather, Secretary-General, the Europaeum

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Chairman: Professor Wim van den Doel, University of Leiden (History / International Relations) Professor Carel Stolker (Law) (from November 2005)Dr Martin Conway, University of Oxford (History) (from October 2005)Professor Michael Freeden, University of Oxford (Politics) (until October 2005)Professor Carlo Guarnieri, University of Bologna (Politics)Professor Tizianno Bonazzi, University of Bologna (History / Politics)Professor Uwe Holtz, University of Bonn (Politics)Professor Wolfram Kinzig, University of Bonn (Theology)Professor Slobodan Djajic, HEI, Geneva (International Economics) (from November 2005)Professor André Liebich, HEI, Geneva (International History)Professor Robert Frank, University of Paris I (History / International Relations)Professor Annie Cot, University of Paris I (Economic History) (until January 2006)Professor Lenka Rovná, Charles University, Prague (from October 2005)Professor Farhad Amelic, University of Paris I (Law) (from January 2006)Professor Luboš Tichý, Charles University, Prague (European Law)Professor Javier Montero de Juan, Complutense University, Madrid (Mathematics)Professor Lucila González Pazos, Complutense University, Madrid (Philosophy of Sci-ence) (from November 2005)Dr Teija Tiilikainen, University of Helsinki (Political Science) (until May 2007)Professor Thomas Wilhelmsson, Vice-Rector, University of Helsinki (Law)Professor Zdzisław Mach, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (European Studies)Professor Grazyna Skąpska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Sociology)Secretary: Dr Paul Flather, Secretary-General, the Europaeum

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Chairman: The Chancellor, University of Oxford, ex officio (Lord Patten of Barnes)The Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford, ex officioThe Rector, Leiden University, ex officioThe Rector, University of Bologna, ex officioThe Rector, University of Bonn, ex officioThe Director, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, ex officioThe President, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, ex officioThe Rector, Charles University, Prague, ex officioThe Rector, Complutense University, Madrid, ex officioThe Rector, University of Helsinki, ex officioThe Rector, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, ex officioHSH Prince Hans Adam of LiechtensteinSir Keith Clark, Senior Partner, Clifford ChanceGräfin Madeleine DouglasMr Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Chairman, SHV Holdings NVSir Ronald Grierson, Chairman, Blackstone EuropeDr Michael Jochum, Senior Manager, DaimlerChrysler Services AGM. Pierre Keller, Senior Partner, Banque Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & CieMr Claas Kleyboldt, Chairman, Supervisory Board AXA Konzern AGMr Henry Kravis, Managing Partner, Kohlberg, Karvis, Roberts (KKR)Frau Maja OetkerProfessor Fabio Roversi Monaco, former Rector, University of BolognaMr Wafic Saïd, Karim Rida Saïd FoundationMr Guy Ullens, Guy and Miriam Ullens FoundationLord Weidenfeld, Chairman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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Co-ordinator: Dr Paul Flather, Secretary-General, the EuropaeumMrs Beverly Potts, University of OxfordDr Joost van Asten, Leiden UniversityDr Giovanna Filippini, University of BolognaDr Hartmut Ihne, University of BonnDr Daniel Warner, Graduate Institute of International Studies, GenevaProfessor Farhad Ameli, University of Paris IMrs Ivana Halašková, Charles University, PragueMrs Juana Amorós, Complutense University, MadridMr Markus Laitinen, and Ms Märtha Norrback, University of HelsinkiDr Grzegorz Pozarlik, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

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BolognaDr Giovanna FilippiniRelazioni InternazionaliUniversità di BolognaVia Zamboni 3340126 Bologna, Italy

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BonnDr Hartmut IhneDirector, ZEFConsultCenter for Development Studies (ZEF)University of BonnWalter-Flex-Str. 353113 Bonn, Germany

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GenèveDr Daniel WarnerDeputy to the DirectorGraduate Institute of International StudiesRue de Lausanne 1321211 Genève 21Switzerland


Central SecretariatSecretary GeneralDr Paul Flather

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Programme OfficerChristina Bevir (Acting)Katherine Fletcher (Maternity Leave)

Publications and Website OfficerChad FrischmannTel.: +44 1865 284482Fax: +44 1865 284481

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OxfordMrs Beverly PottsInternational OfficeUniversity of OxfordUniversity OfficesWellington SquareOX1 2JD Oxford, UK

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LeidenDr Joost van AstenDirector of International RelationsUniversiteit LeidenUniversity OfficeRapenburg 70, PO Box 95002311 EZ Leiden, The Netherlands


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Documents

Annual Report Accounts 2005 - 2006 2004 - 2005 · Annual Report 2005 - 2006 Classics Colloquia Tears in the Ancient World was the theme of the fourth Europaeum graduate Clas- sics