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1. The Faculty
Thanks to its position in Brussels, and its insertion in international networks of research Centres, the Institute of European Studies has an international Faculty, bringing together more than 50 high-level academics and first-rank civil servants of EU institutions and other international organisations.
2. The Students
About 200 students, coming from a dozen different countries, follow the full-time Masters of the Institute each year. Admission, based on strictly academic criteria, is decided by the Institute’s selection committee.
Most of our former students work in European, national and international institutions and in law firms and research centres specialised in EU matters.
The Part-time Masters and programmes organised by the Institute are dedicated
to lawyers, civil servants, diplomats and business executive working in
Brussels-based international institutions and companies.
3. Full-time Masters
The Institute organises four full-time Masters, that can be followed in one or two years.
The programme of each Master is made of a dozen courses and half a dozen seminars, taught in English and French.
Application form can be printed on : http://www.ulb.ac.be/iee/2_enseignement_futurs_etudiants.html
4. Part-time Masters and programmes
The Institute also organises part-time Masters and programmes for professionally active students.
These programmes are fully taught in English (with French translation in some cases), and courses are given on evenings and week-ends.
The Faculty gathers internationally renowned academics and members of international organisations and companies based in Brussels.
MA The International Dimension of the European Union (MIDE)
A one-year part-time programme for busy executives. Seven core courses on the major issues of the EU’s external role and six optional seminars. Information on the website : http://www.ulb.ac.be/iee/ma. Administrative coordinator : Françoise Vanden Broeck : Tel : + 32 2 650 34 99 - E-mail : fvandenbroeck@admin.ulb.ac.be.
European Programme on International Economic Law (EPIEL)
Two cycles of seminars based on major topics of international economic
law.
(due to start in September 2005– Information :Françoise Vanden
Broeck : Tel : + 32 2 650 34 99 - E-mail : fvandenbroeck@admin.ulb.ac.be
).
The European Union and Developing Countries
A one semester programme, reserved for ACP diplomats, based on a series of conferences on major topics of EU and international law. Courses are taught in French and English with translation (due to start in 2006– Information : Véronique Dimier : + 32 2 650 30 78 – vdimier@ulb.ac.be).
Programme on Competition Law
A one-year series of evening conferences on issues of competition law
in the EU.
(Information : Gustave Debeys : + 32 2 650 40 52 – gdebeys@admin.ulb.ac.be)
5. International exchanges
The Institute is part of an international consortium of European and US universities dedicated to the study of comparative federalism.
Students of these six Universities (ULB, Birmingham, Sciences-Po Paris, NYU, Seattle and Pittsburgh) are offered the opportunity to follow a semester or courses in one of the other Universities of the consortium (a EU one for American students, and a US one for EU students) (see the website : http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/comfed/index.html)
Other transatlantic consortiums are under construction. The Institute is also very active in the creation of Euro masters that should become operational in 2005.
It also supports MA in European Studies in other continents, notably a Master of European Studies in Macau.
6. Summer schools
The Institute organises international summer schools each year, in cooperation with European and/or American Universities. In addition to rotating Summer schools of international networks, the IES organises two permanent Summer schools :
The Annual Brussels Seminar on Law & Institutions of the European Union, organised with the University of Georgia Law School, a three weeks seminar with the aim to provide a group of interested law students studying at law schools in the United States with intensive exposure to the law and institutions of the European Community within the new European Union.
The International Summer School « External Relations of the European Union ». The aim of this seminar is to provide its participants with an extensive understanding of the external relations of the European Union (EU) put into context. The program is jointly organized with the Faculty of Social, Political and Economic Sciences of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and James Madison College of Michigan State University (MSU). Programme and information
The first Summer School on the EU Criminal Area
took place in Brussels on 5-16 July 2004. This training programme
will be proposed in the future each first two weeks of July. The Summer
School is particularly dedicated to actors of police and judicial cooperation
(magistrates, police officers, ...), to EU or national civil servants
as well as to researchers and students intetested in EU Justice and Security
policies.Visit the website :
http://www.ulb.ac.be/iee/penal-summerschool2005/
The Summer school "European Union Law and Policy on Immigration
and Asylum", taking place each year first 15 days of July.
The aim of the Summer School is to provide its participants with an extensive
understanding of the immigration and asylum policy of the European Union
(EU) from a legal point of view. The programme is organised by the "Academic
Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe", founded
with the financial support of the Odysseus Programme of the European Commission
and co-ordinated by the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The course
provides both the opportunity to live in a unique European environment,
as Brussels hosts numerous European and international organisations and
their research facilities, and to take part in an intellectually stimulating
experience in groups of several tens of participants specialised in the
area of asylum and immigration from all over Europe. The classes are conducted
by academics from the universities co-operating in the Network which is
represented in each of the fifteen member states of the European Union,
in collaboration with high ranking officials from international organisations,
particularly the European Commission. Each class is given both in French
and in English. Participation in the Summer School is rewarded with a
certificate of attendance.The classes which are of legal character offer
both theoretical and practical elements, and tackle the most recent developments
in the field. The latest preparatory work by the European Commission and
legislative projects from the Council and Parliament are integrated into
the teaching, thanks in particular to the participation of European officials
as lecturers at the summer school. Each participant will receive extensive
relevant up-to-date documentation. visit the website : http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/odysseus/
7. Ph.D programmes
Two Doctoral Schools supported by the Institute offer programmes for Ph. D students in economics, law and political sciences.
The Doctoral School in European Studies, organises full academic programmes and more flexible forms of supervision. These programmes are open to Ph. D. students and scholars in social and political sciences, economics, law, philosophy, history, communication and cultural studies (Information : Janine Lowy : + 32 2 650 33 74 – jlowy@ulb.ac.be)
The Doctoral school at ECARES (European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics) offers advanced courses in economics, econometrics and statistics as well as three weekly seminars, two in economics and one in statistics/econometrics. The courses, taught by ECARES fellows and visitors from other universities, are part of the curriculum of the doctoral program in economics and statistics (DPES) and the doctoral program in economics granted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (website : http://www.ecares.ulb.ac.be/ecare/doctschool/introduction.htm).
Several public and private funds offer grants and scholarship to Ph.
D. students.
8. Taylor-made formations
With the support of European institutions and embassies, the Institute
also organises each year shorter taylor-made programmes for diplomats,
lawyers and other professionally active publics.
Contact : Aline De Walsche : + 32 2 650 49 69 - adewalsche@admin.ulb.ac.be
