robert schuman centre for advanced studies - European University ...

IntroductIon
The European University Institute was founded in 1972 by
the original Member States of the European Community,
now the European Union, in order to provide advanced
academic training for Ph.D. students and to promote
research at the highest level. The Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) was created in 1992 to
develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and
to promote work on the major issues facing the process of
integration and European society. I have been Director of
the Centre since 2006.
The academic staff of the Centre includes joint chair holders
who are also professors in the teaching departments of the
Institute (Law, Economics, History and Civilization, and
Political and Social Sciences); programme directors, who
are responsible for large-scale programmes; part-time
professors and research fellows and academic assistants
working on the projects and programmes of the Centre. In
addition to its own faculty, the Centre hosts a large postdoctoral
fellowship programme including Jean Monnet
and Marie Curie fellows as well as other publicly and
privately funded fellows, and academic and non-academic
visiting fellows. The Centre has a core administrative staff
and is funded from a variety of sources, including various
EU programmes, national agencies, private foundations
and the business community.
Our main objectives are to produce high quality research;
to collaborate with other centres of research excellence;
to provide opportunities for young scholars working in
our core research areas; to provide high-level training in
our core research areas; and to promote dialogue with the
world of practice. To this end, the Centre hosts research
programmes and projects, and a range of working groups
and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised
around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving,
reflecting the changing agenda of European integration
and the expanding membership of the European Union.
Currently, the core themes are:
European Institutions, Governance and Democracy
Migration
Economic and Monetary Policy
Competition Policy and Market Regulation
Energy Policy and Climate Policy
Global Governance
International and Transnational Relations of the EU
The details of the Centre’s research agenda are set out in the
following pages, while the most up-to-date information
can be found on our web site.
Stefano Bartolini
Director of the RSCAS