Courses

This international workshop assembled doctoral candidates researching on Europe and the EU from six different EU countries and seven different European Universities. The doctoral students were invited to present their research projects and discuss methods, theory and topics among peers and teachers in an open and cooperative debate. Besides the workshop enabled to discuss the scientific, operational and practical framework of writing a doctorate in an experimental manner among the peers and teachers.

Organisation:

• Jean Monnet Network „Debating Europe“ (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
• Fulda Centre for Transnational Governance

Direction:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesner (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)

9.00h-11.00 Security – Chair: Ana Matan

Dragan Juric, University of Zagreb, THE INFLUENCE OF EU’S CSDP ON CROATIAN FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICY

Leon Runje, University of Zagreb, DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCIAL BURDENSHARING WITHIN NATO AND THE CSDP OF THE EU IN THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD

Chair: Ruzha Smilova

Yael Salomon, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, MAINSTREAMING WHITE POWER MUSIC AND COUNTERTERRORISM IN THE EU

Vivian Seidel, Fulda, REAGAN'S IDEA OF A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS? THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE

11.00h-13.00h, Institutions – Chair: Cecile Robert

Mario Rusinov, Sofia University, APPROACHES TOWARDS STUDYING CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN HE EUROPEAN UNION

Kaloyan Velchev, Sofia University, EUROPEANISATION AND TECHNOCRATISATION: DOES EUROPEAN INTEGRATION LEAD TO MORE TECHNOCRATIC MINISTERS IN BULGARIAN GOVERNMENTS?

Chair: Willy Beauvallet

Nicola Diedrich, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, MICROPOLITICS IN THE EU INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OPPORTUNITIES, DEADLOCKS AND DYNAMICS IN EU ANTI-DISCRIMINATION AND MIGRATION POLICY

Daniel Coronel Crespo, SciencesPo Lyon, ORIGIN AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AS THE EUROPEAN UNION’S ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION POLICY

This international workshop assembled doctoral candidates researching on Europe and the EU from six different EU countries and seven different European Universities. The doctoral students were invited to present their research projects and discuss methods, theory and topics among peers and teachers in an open and cooperative debate. Besides the workshop enabled to discuss the scientific, operational and practical framework of writing a doctorate in an experimental manner among the peers and teachers.

Organisation:

• Jean Monnet Network „Debating Europe“ and  Jean-Monnet-Chair „Bridging the Gap“ (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
• Fulda Centre for Transnational Governance

Direction:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesner (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)

EU-Policies from Macro to micro

9.00h-11.00h // Chair: Meta Novak, University of Ljubljana, Ana Matan, University of Zagreb

• Keller, Maria, Fulda University of Applied Sciences , Beyond the glass ceiling. Female Leadership in the institutions of the European Union
• Diedrich, Nicola, Fulda University of Applied Sciences , Micropolitics in the EU Institutional System. Opportunities, Deadlocks and Dynamics in EU anti- discrimination policy
• Cavic, Vesna, University of Zagreb, The impact of europeanization on changes in higher education policies in Croatia
• Pluschke, Muriel, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Top-down and bottom-up dynamics of the European public in the local

EU-Policies from Macro to micro

11.15h-13.15h // Chair: Cécile Robert, Sciences Po Lyon , Niilo Kauppi, University of Helsinki

• Coronel Crespo, Daniel, Sciences Po LyonThe financialization of the ecological transition policies of the European Union: the emergence of a framework for sustainable finance as an instrument of European public action.
• Baumann, Sara, University of Ljubljana, The impact of focusing events on public policies through the example of man-made disasters
• Bežovan, Mijo, University of Zagreb, Influence of business consultants on the absorption capacity of local self-government units in the use of ESI funds
• Konrad Valentina, University of Ljubljana, The Role of Social Movements in EU Climate Policymaking

This workshop offered on the first day a problem-solving oriented approach and on the second day the opportunity to discuss the scientific, operational and practical framework of writing a doctorate in an experimental manner among the peers and teachers.

Organisation:

• Jean Monnet Network „Debating Europe“ and  Jean-Monnet-Chair „Bridging the Gap“ (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
• Fulda Centre for Transnational Governance

Direction:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesner (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)

Dr. Meike Schmidt-Gleim (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)

Problem oriented workshop

Ph.D. student participants were invited to give short (15 min) presentations of their research projects from a problem-oriented perspective.

Where does Europe begin and end?

09.00 - 10.45 // Chair: Claudia Wiesner Fulda UAS

Commentator: Ana Matan, Zagreb University

• Faris Kocan, University of Ljubljana, Securitization of Europeanisation as a source of Ontological Insecurity of Republika Srpska
• Ekrem Ozyesil, University of Fulda, Securitisation of Migration: Explaining the Social implications
• Tibissai Guevara-Braun, Science Po Lyon           
• Barbara Masic, University of Zagreb, European Union as Protector of National Minorities Rights - case of Croatia

EU democratisation and citizenship

11.00 - 13.00 // Chair: Niilo Kauppi, University of Helsinki

Commentator: Kim Zilliacus, University of Helsinki

• Muriel C. Pluschke, University of Fulda, Top-down and bottom-up dynamics of the European public in the local
• Fjorinda Baholli, University of Bremen, EU Citizens and ECB –  EU citizens' role and perception on ECB policy making and accountability 
• Ermela Gianna, University of Salzburg, European Parliament in times of Covid-19: fast track democracy?
• Jana Bub, University of Fulda, The notion of worker. Possibilities of a precise definition for Germany by using examples of selected Member States of the European Union.
• Maria Keller, University of Fulda, Women in European Politics

EU Policy Fields

14.00 - 15.45 // Chair: Igor Vidacek, Zagreb University

Commentators: Meta Novak, Ljubljana University

• Birgit Schmölz, University of Koblenz-Landau, A Bi-National Case Study on Danish-German Environmental Discourse Making
• Alina Jasmin Felder, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, Towards a Europe of Educational Regions? Patterns of Regional Integration at the Intersections of EU Regional and Higher Education Policy
• Carole Kerduel, Science Po Lyon, Explaining the Commission's failure to liberalize port services: a 20 years legislative saga in three acts
• Birgit Mitter, University of Salzburg, Veins of European Cultural Policy: Awarding, Effects and Sustainability of European Cultural Project Funding

Supranational and global Europe

16.00 - 18.00 // Chair: Ana Matan, Zagreb University

Commentator: Claudia Wiesner, Fulda UAS

• Rafaa Chehoudi, University of Fulda, UN and democratization
• Mariana Mykyliuk, University of Salzburg, Quo vadis, Europe? Border controls within the Schengen area
• Martin Christie, University of Ljubljana, Internal secession, Scotland Case
• Nikica Kolar, University of Zagreb, Renationalization of nation through violence: Ethnic cleansing as a means of reconstruction of national identity