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REGISTRATION AND PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION TOPICS

ADDRESSED TO:

Universities, Research and Investigation Centers, from the private and public sectors of the European Union and CELAC member states

(Open to all the institutions, even without having previously attended the other reunions or the Academic Summit)

PRIMARY AIMS OF THIS REUNION: 

• Further debating and analyzing the provisions emcompassed by the Santiago Declaration, agreed upon during the 1st Academic Summit ALC-UE ( 22^nd  and 23^rd of January 2013).  (http://www.cumbreacademica-alcue.cl/en/)
• Exchanging opinions and ideas regarding the EU’s new research and education programmes entitled Horizon 2020 and Erasmus Plus
•  Discussing and analyzing the progress of the Joint Initiative for Research, Science and Technology CELAC-EU, according to the CELAC-EU Action Plan 2013-2015
• Developping ideas and proposals regarding the current and future cooperation within the Euro-Latin American space, in fields such as higher education, science and technology, that will be later discussed during the Second Academic Summit from 2015

PARTICIPATION

1. The participation to this event is open to all universities, research centers and scientific networks from member countries of the European Union and CELAC (Community of Latin America and the Caribbean).
2.  Each participant institution is expected to cover the expenses related to travel, accomodation and internal transfers
3.  The Organizing Committee from Romania will ensure the logistic and administrative support, good coordination of the event’s activities and finance the expenses related to all the above
4.   The Seminar enjoys the support of the Romanian Ministry of Education, the EU-LAC Foundation, the Americas Institute from France, CELARE and other European and Latin American institutions

 

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

 The topics will be addressed during the first day of the Reunion in panels comprising specialists from both regions and different countries, while in the second day the same issues will be discussed in working groups with all participants

 

TOPICS

1.  The proposals of the 1^st Academic Summit and the Action Plan of the Permanent Academic EU-LAC Forum: pathways for follow-up and implementation
2.  Preliminary analysis of the EU’s Erasmus Plus and H2020 programmes
3. Analysis of the progress of the Joint Initiative according to the CELAC-EU Action Plan 2013-2015

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REGISTRATION AND PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION TOPICS

On the 14^th and the 15^th of November, 2013, the Jean Monnet Conference “The political implications of European economic integration towards a political union” took place in Brussels. Professor Iordan Gh. Bărbulescu, Ph.D., Director of ISLA, President of the Romanian Association of International Relations and European Studies (ECSA Romania) attended it, as same as the ECSA General Assembly and workshop organized with this occasion on the 15^th and the 16^th of November.

This year’s Jean Monnet Conference focused on the economic and financial crisis and the way in which it can lead to a deepening of economic integration and to a further political convergence in the European Union, or even a political Union. This subject is presently being discussed at both the European and Member States levels, as well as in different dedicated fora.

The question of the possible further political convergence must be extensively analysed. Europe’s history, culture and social realities raise potential obstacles to – and offer great opportunities for – further political convergence. All these aspects should be considered in their economic, political and societal perspectives.

Among the speakers were José Manuel BARROSO, President of the European Commission; Jan TRUSZCZYŃSKI, European Commission, Director-General for Education and Culture; John Mc Cormick, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Politics in the Department of Political Science at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University in the United States; Maximiliano BERNAD Y ÁLVAREZ DE EULATE, the Director of the Master on European Union (Zaragoza, Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Madrid and Frankfurt); Wolfgang WESSELS, who was Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges and was awarded the Jean Monnet Award in gold; Dusan SIDJANSKI, Honorary President of the European Cultural Centre and special adviser to the President of the European commission, and other renowned Professors, MEPs and officials from the European Commission.

More information can be found here: http://www.rise.org.ro/2013/11/professor-iordan-gh-b%C4%83rbulescu-ph-d-president-of-arrise-ecsa-romania-attended-this-years-jean-monnet-conference-and-ecsa-world-reunion/?lang=en

The MA Program in Latin American studies is an initiative of the Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Department of International Relations and European Integration within the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration and is the first of its kind in Romania.

Currently the MA Program is undergoing accreditation and is expected to welcome its first generation of students in Latin American Studies for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Summit of the Peoples of Latin America, the Carribean and Europe  25-27 January 2013, Santiago, Chile  http://www.ong-ngo.org/en/event/summit-of-the-peoples-of-latin-america-the-caribbean-and-europe-2013/