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'As a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the Vrije

Universiteit Brussel, the IES aims to provide research,

education and academic services that are focused on the

European Union in an international setting and recognised

for their quality, multidisciplinarity and policy relevance'.

MISSION STATEMENT CONTENTSIntroduction 5

- A message from the president 5

Executive Summary 7

Research Portfolio 11

- Research 11

- Strategic Goals 12

- List of our Own Funded

Projects 13

- List of Externally Funded

Projects 15

- Environment and Sustainable

Development 20

- Migration, Diversity and

Justice 24

- European Foreign and Security

Policy 26

- European Economic

Governance 28

- Educational Development Unit 30

Teaching Portfolio 33

- Education 33

- Strategic Goals 33

- LL.M. International and

European Law 35

- MSc. European Integration 38

- PostgraduateCertificatein

EU Policy Making 42

- Summer School European

Policy Making 43

- Brussels Programme on

European Foreign Policy 44

- Brussels Study Abroad

Programme 45

- PhDs 47

Publications 49

- Policy Briefs 50

IES in the Media 53

- Media Appearances in 2016 53

Academic Services 57

- IES Public Events in 2016 57

- IES Research Colloquia 2016 67

- IES Webinars & External

Conferences 70

Management 73

- Structure and Management 73

Gender and Diversity 77

Outreach 79

Academic Collaboration 81

- Collaboration based on MOU 81

- Collaboration based on

long-standing relationship 81

- Project-based collaboration 83

Personnel 85

- Personnel Management 85

Quality Assurance 89

Financial Report 93

Annex: List of publications 95

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Karel De Gucht, IES President

Europe is facing enormous challenges. On the eve of its 60th anniversary, the EU’s structures are being thoroughly tested, both from within and from outside. Fear, combined with a renewed nationalism is shaping politics in the nation states, causing cracks in the cement of European unity and solidarity. The first official intention to leave the European Union, Brexit, is but a symptom of problems underpinning our contemporary society – symptoms which history has taught us are indicators of very dangerous situations.

It is in this context that the role of education cannot be overestimated. Instructing people – especially the younger generation – and giving them the tools to critically analyse the world in which we live, is a vital medecine against growing populism and ‘alternative truths’ that risk to become mainstream.

This is why the Institute for European Studies is increasingly relevant – not only to the academic environ-ment in which it operates, but also at the policy level and to the public at large. With the Institute, we indi-cated the risks of Brexit and calculated its impact on various levels of policy. We scrutinized transatlantic relations after the US elections, evaluated European migration policy in the light of the Syrian refugee crisis, and played a leading role in the policy shaping and policy analysis of climate change – to name but a few of the important research initiatives that were taken in 2016.

From the 60+ conferences and colloquia that we organised in 2016, the EU in International Affairs Confer-ence is by far the most renowned. This Jean Monnet-funded IES initiative successfully ran for the fifth time and again attracted over 300 scholars from five continents – testimony to the Institute’s interna-tional recognition.

I am therefore very proud of the outcome of the efforts of our staff last year. Their policy output and teach-ing efforts, based on thorough academic research, have strengthened the Institute’s leading position in Brussels and Flanders – proof of which is given by the national and international recognition that was bestowed on us in obtaining the prestigious Korea Chair, several EU grants including a Jean Monnet Chair and an H2020 project and a total of 31 externally funded projects by various governments and NGOs. The IES was also instrumental in preparing, defending and obtaining the government-initiated bid to incorpo-rate the United Nations University in Bruges (UNU-CRIS) in the VUB-UGent Alliance.

It is therefore with great enthusiasm that we look towards the future. On the basis of past achievements, and strengthened by the support of the Flemish government, we anticipate further growth that will allow us to provide even more and better policy relevant output for Flanders and for the world. In these darker times, our research can make a difference, or to put it in the slogan of our university: scientia vincere tenebras.

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Anthony Antoine, Executive Director

2016 was an exceptionally good year for the Institute. Not only did our new Academic Director take office, ensuring guidance and continu-ity of the Institute’s academic legacy, the IES also excelled in acquiring externally funded projects. IES Staff members engaged in no less than 44 research projects, including several prestigious European FP7 and H2020 projects. For the first time in its history, the Institute also took on the role as coordinator of a European research project, involving several partners in different countries. It therefore accommodated one of the appeals of the most recent government audit committee, who already predicted that the IES was ready to take up this role. Two other major projects came to fruition by the end of 2016: the close collaboration with the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) and the obtaining of the first Korea Chair in Europe. The Institute was also successful in organising the 5th edition of the EU in International Affairs conference. This international conference has become a bi-ennial milestone for researchers worldwide who devote their scholarly work to European issues. With more than 300 paper presenters, and with a large policy and stakeholder interest, this conference was a major success. Needless to say that all these initiatives and projects resulted in a lot of output (64 high level publications, 21 policy briefs, more than 75 media appearances).

In the field of education, the IES was able to provide a total of 47 diploma’s to its Advanced Master students. Having had to face a sharp decline in its student population in 2015 due to increased competition but also due to technical problems with the registration system, student numbers were insufficient to obtain the average of 50 as required in the Government Agree-ment. The Institute took the necessary precautions and meas-urements at the end of 2015 and during 2016 to attract more

students. Amongst other things, it changed the curriculum of the programme, invested in publicity and changed its admission procedures. It also took back the registration of students from the university at large in order to ensure a swift and personalised follow-up.

Through these measures, and despite the terrorist attacks of November 2015 in Paris and March 2016 in Brussels (that had a major impact on attracting foreign students), the Institute was able to slightly increase student numbers, so that the average of 50 diplomas as requested in the Government Agreement is more likely to be obtained next year.

IES staff members engaged in no less than 44 research projects, including several pres-

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Two new major projects came to fruition by the end of 2016: The close collaboration with the

United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) and the obtaining of the first Korea Chair in Europe.

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Through the respective faculties the IES also awarded three PhDs: Lisanne Groen successfully defended her PhD in Political Science on the impact the EU has had in multilateral climate and biodiversity negotiations. Esther Marijnen also obtained a PhD in Political Science with her thesis on multi-scalar politics of conservation and conflict in the Virunga National Park, DR Congo. Irene Wieczorek was awarded a PhD in Law for her work on legitimacy of EU criminal law (What Role for Normative and Instrumental Justifications?). The three left the IES by the end of 2016 to take up profes-sorship functions at the United Nations University in Tokyo, the University of Sheffield and the University of Cambridge respectively.

In the research field, the Institute boomed with 9 self-funded, 4 VUB funded and 31 externally funded projects. Next to the already existing FP7 pro-jects in which the IES was already involved over the past years (SOURCE, BIOFUELS), the Institute obtained a large H2020 project on Science and Cul-tural Diplomacy (EL CSID), an INNOVIRIS project on the European integration of smart (electricity) meters and a Jean Monnet Chair. Next to numerous smaller projects for NGOs, governments and agencies it is also involved in another H2020 project on Climate Change that is to start at the be-ginning of 2017. In addition, it also got involved in the embedding of the United Nations University following a call launched by the Flemish Government in 2015. The IES took the lead to write a project for the VUB/UGent Alliance and to spearhead the research agenda for UNU-CRIS. By the end of 2016, the Government signed the MOU between UNU, VUB and UGent so that UNU-CRIS will henceforth be supported by and embedded in the alliance.

As mentioned, the IES was similarly successful in obtaining the Korea Chair, a prestigious project funded by the Korea Foundation, based in Seoul. It will look into EU-Korea issues, most notably in the security and diplomatic field and is the first of its kind in Europe. Three other Korea Chair centres

exist in the US (i.e. at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies CSIS, the Brookings Institu-tion and Bloomington, Indiana University).

Next to the EUIA conference, the Institute also organised a number of other activities: two topical conferences, a mini lecture series, several policy forums and biweekly research colloquia resulted in a total of 39 successful activities that were open to scholars and to the public at large.

In 2016, the Institute employed 87 people (45 men and 42 women), amounting to a total of 38.5 full time equivalents. With an additional 34 people associated with the IES (26 associate researchers, six visiting fellows and two resident advisors), the number of people directly linked to the IES in 2016 amounts to 121.

Financially, the Institute is doing well. With a turnover of approximately EUR 3,850,000, it generated a surplus of approx. EUR 70,000 in 2016. This is largely due to the successful attaining of externally funded projects, but also due to various teaching initiatives and the outsourcing of staff and premises.

We may therefore provisionally and in all modesty conclude that, on the verge of its 15th birthday, the Institute has matured to become one of the leading and internationally renowned research centres of European Studies. The investment of the Flemish Government is definitely paying off: for each euro in-vested in the Institute, the IES has been able to obtain one euro extra, enabling top level researchers to provide policy-relevant research output.

The Institute was successful in organising the 5th edition of the EU in International Affairs

conference. This international conference has become a biennial milestone for researchers worldwide devoted to European issues.

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On the verge of its 15th birthday, the Institute has matured to become one of the leading and interna-

tionally renowned research centres of European Studies.

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Our aim in 2016 has been, as always, to continue our relent-less work on becoming the leading hub for European Studies research in Brussels. IES research focuses on Europe in an in-ternational context, exploring geopolitical and European actors, states and EU institutions, policies and law within the context of globalisation and international law and politics. All senior faculty members have been engaged in world leading peer reviewed scholarship of the highest academic rigour. This includes notably (1) outstanding peer-reviewed scholarship; (2) significant research funding generation; (3) very notable supervision of a sig-nificant number of PhD students; and (4) external recognition and awards (see the list of our achievements in this report). Our team in 2016 has been particularly successful in all four di-mensions of excellence! Through study clusters with ample critical mass, the IES produces avant garde policy-oriented research that is recognised internationally, notably within:

1. Migration, Diversity and Justice2. Environment and Sustainable Development3. International Security4. European Economic Governance5. Educational Development

However, 2016 has been a special year for Europe (and the Western World more generally). As European Studies scholars of repute we have aimed at explaining the progress of EU integration by focusing primarily on key (internal) EU factors, such as supranational actors, national lead-ers, national interests, and institutional structures. This focus is called increasingly into ques-tion by the EU crisis, including: the Euro crisis (and the ensuing debt crisis); the 2015/16 refugee and migration crisis in the European Union, and the Brexit crisis following the decision by the UK in June 2016 to leave the EU. These crises have led to a sense of profound crisis of meaning, direction and orientation within the EU. As a result, we also need to question our own analytical prowess and tools. Notably, the current situation in our view calls for a more systematic con-sideration of the EU’s external environment (Russia, the USA, but also general trends such as the crisis of Western representative democracy), as well as political rationality as opposed to 'rational utility maximisation' (taking into account factors including emotions, psychology and ideology). We welcome 2017 to sharpen our analytical tools and achieve an every greater under-standing of European integration in its many forms, positive as well as negative!

Christian Kaunert, Academic Director

The current situation in our view calls for a more systematic consideration of the EU’s external environment, as well as political rationality as

opposed to 'rational utility maximisation'

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The IES Strategic Plan 2016-2020 describes the following research objectives:

• Successful completion of at least 15 PhDs projects (i.e. an av-erage of three per year) and launching of at least 25 PhD pro-jects (of which ten funded on own resources)

In 2016, the IES initiated several new PhD projects (of which two are funded on own resources), and was able to deliver three doctoral diplomas.

• Strengthening IES involvement in national and international re-search networks

The IES continued to build on its existing networks through the organisation of joint events (Summer School, EUIA con-ference, ...) and was involved in numerous EU projects. See the Academic Collaboration section for an overview of the IES's global reach in terms of collaboration based on MoUs, on long-standing relationships, and on project consortia.

• Consolidation and strengthening of academic focus areas with thorough review of existing cluster structure

Already in 2012, the IES restructured into four clusters and one Educational Development Unit. It continued to strengthen these clusters throughout 2016 (e.g. by ap-pointing at least one postdoctoral researcher per cluster, while adding PhD researchers in other clusters on a rota-tional basis).

• Implementation and further development of Guidelines for IES Academic Staff (including guidelines for PhD projects, cluster arrangements at the IES, benchmarking approach for postdoc-

toral staff)

The guidelines were finalised in 2012. Benchmark talks with research staff are done on an annual basis.

• Consolidation/ increase of external project funding (for re-search projects and scientific services)

The Institute was able to attract over 1.1 million EUR exter-nal funding, an increase of 5% over last year.

• Fostering cross-cluster collaboration and integration (e.g. by prioritisation of cross-cluster projects)

The Institute fostered cross-cluster publishing and has several of its researchers involved in cross-cluster pro-jects. Prominent examples are is the Policy Brief series on Brexit that the IES produced, and the PARENT project.

• Enhance PhD guidance through the creation of the position of a

Director of PhD studies

The Institute created this new post and appointed Prof. Dr. Sebastian Oberthür as the first post holder.

• Publication of 40-50 articles in recognised international jour-nals or their equivalent in major book publications per year, on average (with the share of peer-review level publications reach-ing at least 50%); Publication of 1-2 books per year (on aver-age); Publication of up to 15 Policy Briefs per year (on average).

The Institute's members published six books and 21 Policy Briefs in 2016. They authored 13 book chapters, 32 peer-reviewed articles, two articles in scientific journals without international peer review, nine other publications aimed at the scientific community, 33 papers presented at confer-ences, 12 commissioned research and policy work and 19 newspaper op-eds and online commentary.

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Next to the individual research projects of our senior academic staff described in the cluster reports (see infra), the IES funds several PhD projects on its own resources. Stemming from the obligations in the government agreement, the Institute launches a minimum of two calls for projects every year. In 2016, the Institute funded the following projects:

• EUROPE'S DEFENCE INDUSTRY AND THE POLITICS OF EUROPEAN

DEFENCE-INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION Daniel Fiott, October 2014 with planned defence for May 2017

• THE LEGITIMACY OF GLOBAL CLIMATE/ENERGY PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN DELIVERING SD OUTCOMES

Laura Iozelli, October 2015 - September 2019

• UNDERSTANDING CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE EU’S PER-FORMANCE AS AN INTERNATIONAL ACTOR

Stephan Klose, October 2014 - September 2018

• THE LEGAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EU COMPETITION LAW, DATA PROTECTION LAW AND PRIVACY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EU DIGITAL MARKET

Klaudia Majcher, Ocober 2014 - September 2018

• ‘EXPLAINING THE RESPONSE OF THE EU AND OF NATO TO THE UKRAINE CRISIS’

Elie Perot, October 2016-September 2020

• ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENER-GIES IN THE EU'S MARITIME SPACES

Carlos Soria Rodriguez, October 2013 - September 2017

• THE EUROPEAN UNION AT THE INTERSECTION OF STATE AID RULES AND TAX REGIMES FOR MULTINATIONALS

Fausta Todhe, October 2016-September 2020

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LIST OF EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS

RESEARCH NETWORK ON REGIME COMPLEXES AND FRAGMENTATION (REFRACT)January 2015 - December 2019

The 'Research network on Fragmentation and Complexity in Global Governance' is a five-year project sponsored by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The aim of the research net-work is to foster international scientific exchanges and dialogues and to sustain and expand inter-disciplinary research into regime complexes and institutional fragmentation.

DE STAAT, DE FIRMA EN EUROPA: DE GORDIAANSE KNOOP VAN DE EUROPESE INDUSTRIËLE EN TECHNOLOGISCHE BASIS VOOR DEFEN-SIE? (FWO)January 2014 - December 2016

With the support of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO), doctoral researcher Daniel Fiott continued his work on the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base. Daniel was awarded a prestigious FWO PhD fellowship in 2014 for his innovative research.

DE VERANDERENDE PRESTATIE VAN DE EU IN HET INTERNATIONALE MILIEU- EN KLIMAATBELEID (FWO2)2012-2016 ext.

'Understanding the Changing Performance of the European Union in International Environmen-tal and Climate Governance' is a 4-year research project funded by the Research Foundation-Flanders and conducted by PhD Researcher Lisanne Groen.

EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP IN CULTURAL, SCIENCE, AND INNOVATION DIPLOMACY (EL-CSID)March 2016 - February 2019

The 'European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy' project (EL-CSID) has the ambition to articulate the relevance of cultural, science and innovation diplomacy for EU external relations as part of a systematic and strategic approach. The project aims to identify how the Union and its member states can collectively and individually develop

GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH

INTERNATIONAL ORGANS AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

• GOVERNING DIVERSITY IN EUROPE: COLOUR-BLIND VS. COLOUR-CONSCIOUS POLICYMAK-ING IN BELGIUM, GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS

Laura Westerveen, October 2015 - September 2019

• BEYOND REBELS AND GORILLAS: THE MULTI-SCALAR POLITICS OF CONSERVATION AND CON-FLICT IN THE VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, DR CONGO

Esther Marijnen, October 2013 - September 2017

Next to these own funded projects, the IES also hosted and contributed to projects from other faculties • A POLICY TO COMMIT ATROCITY. UNDERSTANDING THE ‘POLICY ELEMENT’ FOR THE PURPOSE

OF DEFINING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Matthias Holvoet, September 2012 – June 2017

• THE LEGITIMACY OF EU CRIMINAL LAW: WHAT ROLE FOR NORMATIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL JUSTIFICATIONS?

Irene Wieczorek, October 2012 - November 2016

• BELONGING TO THE WEST: GEOPOLITICAL DISCOURSE AND FOREIGN POLICY IN MODERN GREECE, FROM THE GREEK ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE EURO-CRISIS

Antonios Nestoras, April 2014 – November 2017

• MUTUAL TRUST AS A CORE PRINCIPLE OF EU CRIMINAL LAW. CONCEPTUALISING THE PRINCI-PLE WITH A VIEW TO FACILITATE MUTUAL RECOGNITION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE MATTERS

Auke Willems, January 2013 – April 2017

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a successful institutional and strategic policy environment for extra-regional science, cultural and innovation diplomacy.

PARTICIPATORY PLATFORM FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT (PARENT)March 2016 - February 2019

The 'Participatory platform for sustainable energy management' (PARENT) project aims to increase engagement of individuals in the responsible management of their own electricity usage. PAR-ENT is executed in constant and close dialogue with stakeholders and develops an innovative and marketable platform for participa-tory energy management, fuelled by novel analytics, visualisation and gamification techniques. The project intends to understand how we can stimulate behavioural change in the area of energy consumption in households and to offer guidelines for reducing household energy consumption at multiple levels in Europe.

VIRTUAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR RE-SEARCH SUPPORT AND COORDINATION ON SOCIETAL SECURITY (SOURCE)January 2014 - December 2018

The aim of the 'Virtual Centre of Excellence for Research Sup-port and Coordination on Societal Security' (SOURCE) is to create a robust and sustainable virtual centre of excellence capable of exploring and advancing societal issues in security research and development. The SOURCE project aims at defining the notion of Societal Security and investigates how this notion can be spread to target groups. Within the project, the IES focuses on delivering educational materials and is responsible for the development of the web platform. It also contributes to the academic publications that are derived from the project.

COP21: RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PATH-WAYS AND POLICIES FOR LOW EMISSIONS EU-ROPEAN SOCIETIES (COP21 - RIPPLES)December 2016 - November 2019

This project provides interdisciplinary analysis of the conditions of EU climate policy in the new strategic context of the Paris climate change agreement concluded in 2015. The IES shares coordina-tion of the project’s Work Package 4 that assesses the adequacy of the Paris outcomes for effective international climate govern-ance and the EU’s role therein. COP21-RIPPLES has four objec-tives: 1) Assess the adequacy of national climate action plans submitted under the Paris Agreement, 2) Assess the implications of national climate action plans and their strengthening on other European socio-economic objectives, 3) Assess the adequacy of the outcomes of Paris, and the implications and opportunities emerging from ongoing UN climate negotiations, and 4) Provide recommendations for EU climate policy and climate diplomacy.

PRODUCTION OF FULLY SYNTHETIC PARAFFINIC JET FUEL FROM WOOD AND OTHER BIOMASS (BSFJ)January 2015 - December 2019

The BFSJ project aims at advancing technical and legal research in order to enable extensive use of biofuels in the aviation sec-tor. Bio-jet fuel currently constitutes the most viable solution for drastically reducing GHG emissions from the aviation sector in the medium to long term, as it constitutes a drop-in replacement to fossil-based kerosene and does not require any major infrastruc-tural modifications to current jet engines or fuel supply to airport systems.

INNOVATING TEACHING AND LEARNING OF EUROPEAN STUDIES (TEMPUS INOTLES)January 2014 - December 2016

The INOTLES project contributes to curricular reform and modernisation of higher education in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, by implementing innovative pedagogies in European Studies courses at MA level. Building on a systematic review of pedagogies in European Studies, INOT-LES will bring together Eastern partners with EU university centres of excellence in assorted approaches (including e-learning, problem-based learning, and simulations) to create flexible resources for use in the full range of European Studies provision.

PROJECT FOR ADVANCING CLIMATE TRANSPARENCY (PACT)October 2016 - December 2018

The objective of this project is to support the implementation of the transparency and account-ability regime under the Paris Agreement, through a) the elaboration of details for a regime that is robust, effective and applicable to all Parties; and b) the enhancement of capacity within those developing countries that need it. Through the project, the consortium facilitates the de-velopment of options and approaches, delivers relevant and timely inputs to the UNFCCC nego-tiations, and provides space to build consensus among the Parties.

BLENDED LEARNING AND SEMINAL DEBATES AT THE IES (ONLINE MOD-ULES, AUTUMN LECTURE SERIES, POSTGRADUATE SUMMER SCHOOL)Jean Monnet Instituting Excellence, September 2013 - August 2016

The IES has since 2004 operated as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence that focuses on the role of the European Union in international affairs. In terms of contributing to research, the Institute advances academic education, cutting-edge, policy-driven research drawn from a variety of po-litical, economic, legal, social, and cultural dimensions.

RECONCILE - RETHINKING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY, ECOLOGY, AND THEIR INTERACTIONSJean Monnet Chair, September 2016 - August 2018

The rECOncile Jean Monnet Chair contributes to EU Studies in two intertwined policy areas that remain fundamental to the success of the Union: the internal market and the envi-ronment. The reconciliation of ECOnomic and ECOlogical values is of vital importance


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given the strategic initiatives that have been re-launched in both fields by the Juncker Commission and the important interlinkages between these areas. The project involves an international cross-section of doctoral, post-graduate and graduate students, and aims at advancing cutting-edge blended learning formats, strong inter-disciplinarity, inter-generationality and policy relevance.

EUROPE EXPLAINED – INTER-UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL ON EU POLICY-MAKINGJean Monnet Module, September 2016 - August 2019

For more details, we refer to the Teaching Portfolio section.

TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ONLINE PLATFORM FOR THE GLOBAL INTERNAL POLICY OBSERVATORY (GIPO)January 2015 - January 2018

The Global Internet Policy Observatory (GIPO) monitors Internet-related policy, regulatory, and technological developments across the world. A dedicated GIPO tool gathers all relevant information to improve and share knowledge among all interested parties across the world.

DESIGNING THE 2015 GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT (WRI ACT 2015)August 2013 - March 2016

The Agreement on Climate Transformation 2015 (ACT 2015) consor-tium is a group of the world’s top climate experts from developing and developed countries that came together to catalyse discussion and build momentum toward reaching a global climate agreement at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in 2015. To this end, the consortium developed three potential agreement propositions that were presented at a series of workshops around the world.

REVISING THE NATIONAL RENEWABLES POLICY MIX: THE ROLE OF STATE AID AND OTHER KEY EU POLICIES (REMIX)May 2015 - July 2018

The REMIX project focuses on a select group of EU and European Economic Agreement (EEA) countries, asking: to what extent and how have national renewables policy portfolios been shaping the EU policy mix, and what are the main prospects ahead? By improv-ing policy-mix foresight, the REMIX project helps Nordic energy actors make wise strategic decisions and profitable investment decisions.

FRAMEWORK CONTRACTS (ECF)June 2016 - August 2016October 2016 - December 2016Extended in 2017

The IES continued its collaboration with the European Climate Foundation through several framework contracts in 2016. For the first follow-up contract, the IES supports the ECF in writing an ‘executable regulatory plan’ aiming at the decarbonisation of the cement sector as part of the development of an industrial car-bon performance strategy. The second follow-up contract aims at designing EU and national public procurement rules and provid-ing support on the assessment of techniques and technologies to produce concrete with low CO2/clinker content.

CONSULTANCY CONTRACTS (UCAM)February 2016 - December 2016

In 2016, the IES extended its consultancy contracts with the Cambridge University Corporate Leaders Group (UCLG). For this particular project, the IES helped the Cambridge Institute for Sus-

tainable Leadership (CISL) to continue to build on the Green Growth Platform Advisory Council II discussions, namely by helping set up an energy intensive sector strategy; providing inputs on specific energy intensive-related issues, and supporting outreach activities vis-à-vis other energy intensive groups and stakeholders.

RECHTLICHE UND INSTITUTIONELLE ASPEKTE EINES ZUKÜNFTIGEN INTERNATIONALEN KLIMAREGIMES (FWC ECOLOGIC)October 2015 - March 2019

This project aims at providing regular advice to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment on legal and institutional aspects of the Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015. The provi-sion of advice is dependent on the international agenda.

OPTIONS FOR TACKLING KEY CHALLENGES IN THE 2030 EU FRAME-WORK FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES (AGORA)November 2015 - June 2016

Expert advisor for a project by Agora Energiewende on the legal re-design of EU renewable ener-gy legislation. This involves the publication of two papers and review of papers by other experts.

BLUEPRINT FOR POST 2020 EU CLIMATE/ENERGY POLICY (DIW)October 2015 - February 2016

The main goal of this project was to publish a paper and policy briefs that outline a blue-print of post 2020 EU energy and climate law with the emphasis on streamlining, REFIT and effective-ness.

DECARBONISATION OF ENERGY INTENSIVE SECTORS IN EUROPE AND THE DESIGN OF THE EU ETS 'INNOVATION FUND' (CMW CONTRACT)February 2016 - May 2016

The research aims to establish the options and opportunities for Europe’s energy intensive in-dustries to decarbonise by 2050 through process, product and business model changes and innovations, while at the same time maintaining or enhancing (international) competitiveness. Specific attention is devoted to the design options of the forthcoming EU ETS innovation fund.

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EU CRISIS AND EU CLIMATE AND ENERGY POLI-CIES - BREXIT, REFUGEES, FINANCIAL CRISIS, POPULISM ON THE RISE (ECOLOGIC)July 2016 - December 2016

This project aims to address the various crises the EU is faced with today, including the refugee crisis, the Euro crisis, the Brexit and – above all – the rise of EU-sceptical parties and nationalist sentiment across Europe. Specific objectives of this project are: 1) to understand better how the different concurrent crises affect the EU’s capacity for climate and energy leadership; 2) to bring together views from committed climate and energy experts from different Member States; 3) to strengthen the case for a strong EU, as a driver for ambitious climate and energy policies at a defining moment in international climate policy; and 4) to start developing ideas on how to address the crisis and its implications for climate and energy policy.

CAHIER DES CHARGES POUR LA RÉALISATION D’UNE ÉTUDE SUR LES COMMUNAUTÉS BELGO-CONGOLAISES, BELGO-BURUNDAISES ET BEL-GO-RWANDAISES (POMBE)February 2016 - March 2017

POMBE is a follow-up project to the former research project on the integration of Turkish and Moroccan migrants in Belgium. IES advisory tasks consist in providing guidance on the qualitative analytical framework of the research, interview guide and final report. Partners in this endeavour are the Université Catholique de Louvain, Université de Liège and Université Libre de Bruxelles.

PLATFORM FOR BEST PRACTICES (EWOB)January 2013 - December 2017

This project aims at developing a European Women on Boards Platform for Best Practices. It includes setting up

and launching the platform as well as developing and maintain-ing it.

EU NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY (INSTITUTE FOR STATECRAFT)March 2016 - February 2017

The EU Neighbourhood Policy project focuses on the relations be-tween the EU and its eastern partners, i.e. countries of the former Soviet Union.

EVALUATING DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN EUROPE (SRP EDGE)January 2013 - December 2017

EDGE is a joint IES-Political Science department (VUB) strate-gic research programme. The main research themes of the pro-gramme cover political representation; political parties, elections and electoral behaviour; EU policy and decision-making; multi-level governance; and theoretical and normative reflections. The programme aims to analyse the major changes and challenges to democratic governance in Europe.

CUI BONOJanuary 2016 - December 2016

The aim of this project is to be able to provide a meta-analysis of interviews by VUB students with migrants that have followed mandatory integration courses in Antwerp. This analysis will be compared with the analysis, already conducted at ULB, which or-ganised a similar student exercise through interviews at the Flem-ish integration office in Brussels.

STILL LEADING? THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL IN EU-ROPEAN CLIMATE POLICYDecember 2015 - May 2016

The aim of this project is to analyse conclusions of the Council of Environment ministers, Coun-cil of Energy ministers and the European Council between 2009 and 2015. The objective is to extract conclusions on climate change from each of these bodies and to assess how or whether their messages have changed over the period 2009-2015. These extracts were coded and com-piled into a database – a source of data that can provide multiple angles for analysis.

EUROPEAN SECURITY POLICY (SUMMER SCHOOL)January 2015 - December 2019

For more details, please see the Teaching Portfolio section.

EUROPEAN POLICY (STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMME)January 2015 - December 2019

For more details, please see the Teaching Portfolio section.

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The cluster analyses relevant developments in EU and interna-tional climate, environmental and energy law and policy, compares domestic law and policy, and explores governance arrangements and institutions.

PERSONNEL

In 2016, Senior Research Fellows Sebastian Oberthür and Harri Kalimo, post-doctoral researcher Claire Dupont, project research-ers Ólöf Söebech, Arianna Khatchadourian and Matilda Axelson, and eight pre-doctoral IES researchers contributed to the cluster. One of the latter successfully concluded her PhD: In October 2016, Lisanne Groen defended her PhD on The Importance of Fitting Ac-tivities to Context: The EU in Multilateral Climate and Biodiversity Negotiations. Thuy Van Tran submitted his PhD thesis on EU poli-cies in marine environmental protection. Ernesto Roessing Neto continued to analyse the legal aspects of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Max Salomon Jansson, who is also a part of the European Economic Govern-ance cluster, analyses the reconciliation of economic and environ-mental values in law. Carlos Soria Rodríguez continued his project on the interface of EU and international (environmental) law in

the use of renewable energy in European marine spaces. Filip Sedefov continued his work on renewable energy poli-cies and international economic law. Project and doctoral

researcher Tomas Wyns focuses on European and international climate and energy policy, including industrial and innovation pol-icy. Laura Iozzelli investigates the legitimacy and effectiveness of PPPs in international climate and energy governance.

Associates who contributed to the cluster in 2016 include: Dr. Katja Biedenkopf, Dr. Justyna Pożarowska, Dr. Armelle Gouritin, Dr. Lisanne Groen, Dr. Radostina Primova, Dr. Tony Zamparutti and Dr. Koen Van Den Bossche.

PUBLICATIONS

Books: 1 Articles in scientific journal with international peer review: 7Book chapters: 2All other publications aimed at the scientific community: 5Papers presented at conferences: 5Commissioned research and policy work: 2

EVENTS

The IES hosted three lunchtime Environmental Policy Forums on topical issues of European environmental politics and law in 2016. It also organised two lecture evenings.

TEACHING

Sebastian Oberthür and Harri Kalimo continued to jointly give the course 'European environmen-tal law in an international context' and Harri gave, together with Filip Sedefov, the 'Case Study on Public International/EU Law', as a part of the IES’s LL.M programme. Harri’s course 'EU and the Stakeholders of the Economy' in the IES's Euromaster programme deals with environmental policies from the perspective of the internal market and interest representation. In addition, the researchers guest-lectured in other training and teaching programmes.

VISIBILITY

Cluster members made many public appearances as keynote speakers, panellists and confer-ence participants and appeared in Flemish, national and international media. Keynote speeches were, among others, given in the European and Flemish Parliaments.

PROJECTS

• VUB Strategic Research Programme 'Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe' (EDGE) • Research project 'Understanding the Changing Performance of the European Union in Interna-

tional Environmental and Climate Governance' funded by the FWO (2012-2016) • Research project 'COP21: Results, Implications, Pathways and Policies for Low-Emissions Euro-

pean Societies' (COP21–RIPPLES ) with funding by the European Commission (Horizon 2020).• Research projects 'Agreement for Climate Transformation 2015' (ACT 2015) and 'Project for

Advancing Climate Transparency' (PACT), both with funding from the European Commission.• Research project 'Revising the National Renewables Policy Mix: The role of state aid and other

key EU policies (REMIX)' coordinated by CICERO and funded by the Norwegian Research Coun-cil.

• Research Network on Regime Complexes and Fragmentation (REFRACT) funded by the (FWO) and coordinated by UGent.

• Research on European energy governance funded by Deutsches Institut für Wirtschafts-forschung (DIW), Climate Strategies, and Agora Energiewende.

• The Cost Action ‘Innovations in Climate Governance’ (INOGOV)• Research on industrial decarbonisation in the EU• Research Project 'Production of fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel from wood and other bio-

mass' ('Aviation Biofuels') with European Commission FP7 funding • Research project 'eCoherence' with the University of Turku on the balancing of non-

economic (i.e. environmental) values in EU economic law funded by the Academy of Finland.

2016 OUTPUT AT A GLANCE

13 MEMBERS • 1 BOOK • 7 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES 14 OTHER PUBLICATIONS • 3 POLICY FORA • 1 PHD DIPLOMA

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The Migration, Diversity and Justice cluster focuses on migration, immigrant integration, justice and home affairs as well as diversity policies (from the local level to the EU and UN). We concentrate in particular on the following sub-themes:• The contestation of the free movement regime in Europe.• The politics of refugee protection and migration control• Justice and equality policies in an increasingly diverse Europe

Several members of the cluster are dynamic members of RHEA, the VUB expert centre on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality.

PERSONNEL

Prof. Dr. Ilke Adam, Prof. Dr. Christof Roos and Prof. Dr. Florian Trauner jointly lead the cluster. Richard Lewis who was the originator of cluster, continues on a non-contractual basis to act as adviser and a contact point with the European institutions. The cluster included six doctoral candidates: Neepa Acharya, Mathias Holvoet, Irene Wieczorek, Auke Willems, Serena D’Agostino and Laura Westerveen as well as associate researchers. Prof. Dr. Alison Woodward (emeritus at the VUB political science department, and IES senior associate researcher) is closely linked to the cluster in terms of PhD supervision and general advice.

In 2016, the cluster also benefited greatly from the presence of three visiting researchers and four job students.

PUBLICATIONS

In 2016, one book, eight peer-reviewed articles, four book chapters, ten policy briefs and four other types of publications were published. Furthermore, several articles and book chapters were submitted or reviewed for publication. Special issue projects and a handbook are also in the making.

EVENTS

In 2016, the cluster organised three policy fora: One on the role of the EU’s home affairs agencies in the context of the EU’s ‘migration crisis’; on ‘EU identity in crisis: what role for the EU’, and an ‘author meets critics’ event on ‘EU Enlargement and Gay Politics in Central and Eastern Europe’. All three policy fora were organised as panel discussions with speakers from the European institutions, academia and civil society. The cluster also co-organised a very successful session on Migration and Diversity in the 2016 ‘European Union in International Affairs’ (EUIA) Conference.

The cluster also contributed greatly to the structure and content of an intersectoral dialogue between the ULB (IEE) and the VUB on the topic of EU Justice and Home Affairs. A full day of presentations and discussions was organised for and with around 100 officials of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice (DG Just). RE

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For the second year, Prof. Dr. Ilke Adam and Prof. Dr. Christof Roos taught the course 'Diversity Politics in the European Union' in the IES's MSc in European Integration (Euromaster). In the Spring of 2016 Professor Woodward offered the course ‘Civil Society Representation and Diversity in the European Union’ in the context of the Euromaster programme. Members of the cluster also taught in the IES's LLM programme, the IES's Summer Schools and the IES's Study Abroad programme, the Interdisciplinary Master on Gender and Diversity, and supervised master theses of several VUB programmes. The cluster’s senior academic personnel is member of several PhD committees beyond the VUB.

VISIBILITY

The cluster's research themes 'Migration and Diversity' are more in the news than ever. Cluster members are invited to lecture, speak at policy events, advise policy makers and provide commentary for the media (See IES in the Media section for further details). The members of the cluster have been involved in conference presentations and/or guest lectures in many international and national venues.

PROJECTS

• EU FP 7 Project SOURCE on the creation of a virtual centre of excellence for societal security.• SRP EDGE - Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe.• In 2016, the cluster was part of a successful application for Connect-Innoviris funding and became

a beneficiary and the Work Package Leader of the EU H2020-project ‘MINDb4ACT’ on radicalisation.• It was also awarded a new project by the King Boudewijn Foundation on the Integration, Citizenship

and Belonging of Post-Colonial Migrants in Belgium (with the Universities of Liège and Louvain-la-Neuve).

(see Externally Funded Projects section for more information on these projects)

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EUROPEAN FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY

This cluster operates on the crossroads of geopolitical analysis, strategic studies and European Studies. In keeping with an in-creasingly turbulent international landscape, cluster researchers analyse the on-going re-ordering of the European political archi-tecture and how it relates to the wider world. In doing so, they pay particular attention to geopolitical competition between Russia and the West, instability in the broader Middle East, the rise of Asia and its implications for Europe and the transatlantic relationship, the changing face of international diplomacy and the exigencies of modern warfare.

PERSONNEL

In 2016 the EFSP team consisted of two assistant professors (Alexander Mattelaer and Luis Simon), one senior researcher (Luk Van Langenhove), and five doctoral researchers (Daniel Fi-ott, Stephan Klose, Esther Marijnen, Antonios Nestoras, and Elie Perot, who joined in October 2016). In addition, the cluster was supported by six associate researchers from within and beyond the IES-VUB: Caterina Carta, Richard Higgott, Isabelle Ioannides, Joanna Kaminska, Joachim Koops, and Anna Stahl.

PUBLICATIONS

EFSP researchers published a total of ten articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Survival, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Pa-rameters and other reputable journals), one book chapter, and more than a dozen policy briefs. They also authored numerous commentary and opinion pieces, including for high-visibility out-lets such as War on the Rocks, deredactie.be and the EU Institute for Security Studies. For his essay entitled ‘Modernising NATO’s Defence Infrastructure with EU Funds’ Daniel Fiott was awarded the prestigious Michael Palliser Prize by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

EVENTS

EFSP staff were involved in the organisation of numerous events in 2016, both internal and external. Highlights include the fifth edi-tion of the EU in International Affairs conference, of which Luis Simon was the conference chair, the organisation of a high-level conference on the NATO summit agenda on 22 November, and the PhD defence of Esther Marijnen (Beyond Rebels and Gorillas: The Multi-Scalar Politics of Conservation and Conflict in the Virunga National Park, DR Congo) on 16 December 2016.

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The educational portfolio of the EFSP cluster covers a broad array of courses at all levels of high-er education. This includes a course on EU Foreign Policy within the IES Euromaster programme, bachelor and master courses within various VUB programmes, and the IES Brussels Programme on European Foreign Policy. In addition, several cluster members are regular speakers at the European Security and Defence College, the NATO Defense College and various national defence colleges. Within the context of its teaching programmes the cluster welcomed several high-level speakers.

VISIBILITY

Throughout 2016, EFSP researchers were frequently invited to share their expertise in domestic and international media. In Flanders, Alexander and Daniel shared their insights with De Morgen, De Standaard, De Tijd, Knack, Mo* Magazine and the public broadcaster VRT. Esther, Daniel and Luis also reached a global audience through their appearances on Defense News, Euronews, EU Today, Le Matin, Malta Today, Newsweek, NPO Radio 1, Real Clear Defense and Space Daily. EFSP research-ers also delivered several keynote presentations and public lectures, inter alia at the Global Model NATO Summit 2016 in Vancouver, U.S. Air Forces in Europe & Africa (Ramstein Air Base), NATO Special Operations Headquarters, the Korean Institute for National Unification in Seoul and the 24th World Congress of Political Science.

By taking on additional roles outside of the IES, EFSP staff significantly increased their domestic and international visibility. During the spring semester of 2016, Alexander Mattelaer joined Harvard Uni-versity and the National Defense University and served as Fulbright Schuman visiting fellow. Also in 2016, Luis Simon became the director of the Brussels office of Elcano Royal Institute on a part-time basis, Daniel Fiott joined the EU Institute for Security Studies as Security and Defence Editor, and, Alexander Mattelaer started on a part-time-basis as European Affairs Director at Egmont – the Royal Institute of International relations. After defending her PhD at the IES in December, Esther Marijnen joined the University of Sheffield as a Max Batley Postdoctoral Fellow.

PROJECTS

The EFSP cluster provided the platform for several research projects. Most notably, senior research-er Luk Van Langenhove and associates Richard Higgott, Joachim Koops, Caterina Carta all con-tributed work to the H2020 EL CSID project. The cluster also participated in a collaborative project on the contemporary use of disinformation in international relations, which resulted in the publication of ten IES Policy Briefs throughout 2016. See the Externally Funded Pro-jects section for more information on these projects.

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The EEG cluster works on economic law and policy and democratic governance along four intertwined lines of research: 1) The Digital Economy, 2) The Greening Economy, 3) Governance of the Internet; Governance on the Internet, 4) Governance of European Economies and Markets

PERSONNEL

In 2016 the cluster consisted of ten researchers, five associates and a visiting researcher. Harri Kalimo, Marie Lamensch, Trisha Meyer and Jamal Shahin are senior/post-doctoral scholars. Max Salomon Jansson is approaching the final parts of his PhD work on value balancing tests in international trade and public procurement law. Ferran Davesa continued his exploration of the impact of Internet-based participation activities on EU governance (EDGE). Daniel Acquah is finalising a joint PhD with Turku University on EU’s IPR policy in developing country trade agreements (eCoherence). Ólöf Söebech continued her research on SOURCE, Aviation Biofuels, and PARENT. Klaudia Majcher started the third year of her PhD project on the interrelationships between EU competition and data protection law. Filip Sedefov moved to the second year of his PhD on international economic law and renewable energy policies

(Aviation Biofuels). Fausta Todhe began her PhD studies on the intersection between fiscal law and state aid. Marta Ottanelli contributed to the cluster as a visiting researcher on competition law. EEG (Senior) Associates included David

Anderson (BLP LLP), Dr. Julia Glidden (IBM), Dr. Karim Hamza (Cairo Governor Advisor), Dr. Assimakis Komninos (White & Case LLP) and IES PhD and VUB professor Ben Van Rompuy. The cluster had a diligent intern: Catalina Capatina from the VUB New Media in Society MA programme.

PUBLICATIONS

Books: 1Articles in scientific journal with international peer review: 7Book chapters: 6All other publications aimed at the scientific community: 4Papers presented at conferences: 3

EVENTS

The EEG cluster (co-)organised a variety of ad hoc events in 2016, including high-level events with Commissioner Bieńkowska on EU Single Market reform; with the European Commission on the future of the EMU; and with e.g. Yale and Cambridge on the Circular Economy. The cluster also set up two full-day symposia under the eCoherence project on value reconciliation, GIPO ran an international workshop on multistakeholderism in Internet governance. The cluster organised policy forums on copyright, competition law and regulation, circular economy and aviation biofuels. RE

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The EEG cluster teaches actively at the IES and beyond. Marie Lamensch was the Professor for International and European Taxation in the IES’s LLM programme and taught at the KU Leuven (Principles of Taxation) and at the UCL (Advanced VAT). She is also regular lecturer in the International Tax Academy of IBFD. Trisha Meyer taught as Assistant Professor at Vesalius College (Mass Communication Theories and European Communication Policies) and continued to coordinate the IES’s Brussels Study Abroad programme. Harri Kalimo continued as the Director of the LLM and EuroMaster Programmes, and professor in EuroMaster (‘EU and the Stakeholders of the Economy’) and LLM ‘Public International Law’ (assisted by Filip Sedefov). He also teaches EU law in Tampere University as an Adjunct Professor. Jamal Shahin taught as Assistant Professor in European Studies (tenured, part-time) at University of Amsterdam, and was involved in the IES’s Summer School alongside Trisha. Marie, Jamal and Harri were opponents, chairmen and/or members in PhD committees/juries in Belgium and abroad. Together, they supervise 12 PhD theses in the cluster (8), IES (1) and beyond (3). One of Jamal’s supervisees (Reneta Shipkova) graduated in June 2016.

VISIBILITY

Cluster members made public appearances as keynote speakers, invited moderators, panellists and conference participants and appeared in international media. EEG members also acted as opponents in academic defences. Marie became a member of the VAT Expert Group (European Commission) and of the World Customs Organisation Working Group on e-commerce. Jamal was appointed Auditor for the European International Studies Association for 2015 and 2016, alongside Jan Orbie from Ghent University.

PROJECTS

• Aviation Biofuels• eCoherence• rECOncile Jean Monnet Chair• EUPERFORM• GIPO• JPI Urban Europe PARENT (see Externally Funded Projects section for more information on these projects)

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PERSONNEL

In 2016 the composition of the cluster saw significant changes. The departure of Laraine D’Antin in March and of Alexandra Mihai in September meant the reduction of the cluster to just one FTE: Silviu Piros. At the same time, Léonie Maes provided help on the Postgraduate Certificate and Summer School administration, and Dr. Irina Van Der Vet delivered one course in the Postgraduate Cer-tificate (European Union Institutions).

TEACHING

Postgraduate Certificate in EU Policy Making (25 ECTS) & Sum-mer School on EU Policy Making (5 ECTS). (See the Teaching Port-folio section)

INOTLES Inter-university Course (9 ECTS)The IES-led blended learning course in EU Policy Making kicked-off online in the autumn of 2015 and included 50 students and their professors from six countries and nine different universities across the EU and Eastern Partnership countries. Following six months of intense virtual collaboration and the completion of three online courses, participants were tasked with collaborating on a project paper that was publicly defended in Brussels. As the feedback of this online exchange was tremendously positive, the cluster is exploring ways of continuing the course in 2017.

CanvasIn 2016 the EDU made an important shift in terms of e-learning infrastructure, as the cluster moved from the VUB-developed Chamilo platform to Instructure’s CANVAS

online environment. This state of the art ecosystem allows the IES to take its digital learning endeavours to the next level and make significant gains in both student numbers and quality of output.

EVENTS / RESEARCH

EuroTLC 2016The EDU organised between 9 – 10 June 2016 the 2nd ‘European Conference on Teaching & Learning Politics, International Rela-tions and European Studies’ – EuroTLC (www.eurotlc.eu) at the Institute for European Studies. This biennial conference was kindly supported by BISA, PSA, ECPR, CERIM and UACES and brought together academics interested in active learning from across Europe.

PhD researchAlexandra Mihai continued her research on the relation between technology and pedagogy in teaching political science, and Silviu Piros on the role and relevance of the European Union’s external initiatives in the field of higher education as instruments of for-eign policy. They presented their research at the ECPR conference in Prague (Alexandra) and at the UACES conference in London (Silviu). Alexandra is expected to continue her research project with the IES.

PROJECTS

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development of the PGC programme, as well as delivering three Autumn Lecture Series between 2013 and 2016. The EDU was in charge of implementing some of its activities and the overall oversight of the project. The cluster is delighted to report a successful end of the project: the resulting Postgraduate Certificate in EU Policy Making will continue to be a permanent educa-tional offer of the IES after the completion of the project.

‘rECOncile’ Jean Monnet Chair 2016 – 2019The EDU joined forces with Prof. Harri Kalimo in 2016 on a successful proposal to host a Jean Monnet Chair for the next three years. The project includes a series of inter-disciplinary blended learning formats, putting the EDU in charge of the online educational design and support.

Jean Monnet Module Inter-University Summer School 2016 – 2019In 2016 the cluster was awarded a new Jean Monnet Module for the Inter-University Summer School (see Education section for more details).

INOTLES‘Innovating Teaching and Learning of European Studies’ – INOTLES was a 2014 – 2016 TEM-PUS project aimed at bringing a solid contribution to curricular reform and modernisation of higher education in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, by implementing innovative pedagogies in European Studies courses at MA level. In 2016 the EDU was leader in two key working packages.

• Brussels ColloquiumBetween 16 and 18 March the EDU organised the 'Brussels Colloquium' as the final part of the INOTLES Inter-University course (9 ECTS). For more information about this, see the Event section.

• Monitoring Mission to Moldova, Ukraine and GeorgiaBetween 31 October and 6 November, Silviu Piros travelled to Moldova, Ukraine and Geor-gia as part of the INOTLES CES monitoring mission. Accompanied by IES Executive Direc-tor, Anthony Antoine in Chisinau and Bart De Schutter in Kiev, their main task was to assess the functioning and sustainability of three newly established Centres for European Studies, as well as to evaluate the applicability of innovative teaching and learning methods as part of their curricula. Individual reports concerning each partner’s CES were presented to the funding authorities.

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EDUCATION - STRATEGIC GOALS

• Delivering of 50 diplomas per year on average (as required by Government Agreement) while paying attention to quality control;

In the academic year 2015-2016, 16 students graduated from our LLM programme and 31 from our EuroMaster programme. The Institute realises that this number is below the envisaged average of 50 diploma’s per year, but has taken measures to increase this number significantly over the next years. The low number stems from the sharp decline in students of 2015; meanwhile that number has increased again.

• Ensuring attractiveness of programmes (through programme reviews, enhanced recruitment, quality control, etc.);

In 2016, a reform of the EuroMaster programme was approved. The purpose of the re-form is to re-align this programme with the EU’s economic and policy environment. The updated curriculum (effective 2017-2018) will make the EuroMaster more coherent, topi-cal and policy-relevant. It will also offer greater choice by allowing students to special-ise in two of four study streams, which each focus on key European policy fields (EU economy, external relations and security, migration and environment).

EDUCATIONEducation is at the heart of the IES's strategy and plays out on a number of fronts. Formally, the Institute is required to issue 50 diplomas per year for its two Master-after-Master Programmes (LL.M. International and European Law and MSc European Integration and Development), which the IES has comfortably achieved since its inception. The IES also organises an annual Summer School on European Policy-Making (together with the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna), five online EU-Modules courses, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Euro-pean Policy-Making.

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The LL.M. in International and European Law ('PILC') is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe, and has over the years educated over 1200 graduates of 108 nationalities. The programme is tailored for demanding global careers in law, and the PILC alumni attest to that objective. The Flemish educational authorities (VLUHR) confirmed its very positive assessment of the PILC Programme in June 2016, rating its educational process as 'excellent' and the targeted and achieved outcome levels as 'good'. The assessment of the VUB Educational services on PILC re-mains equally very positive. The Programme needs however to remain vigilant in the fast evolv-ing policy context: the European crises on migration, economy and security, the terror attacks in Brussels, as well as the dramatic Brexit and shift in American politics. These trends together with stiffening competition in Brussels may affect the general interest and financial means of students to participate in programmes such as PILC.

TEACHING AND STAFF

Excellence in teaching is a core part of PILC’s vision: a highly dedicated staff of outstanding international standards in an environment characterised by high interaction. The IES staff teaching in the programme were professors Kalimo, Lamensch and Oberthür. The Programme was delighted to appoint IES President Karel De Gucht as the Professor for External Relations, replacing Prof. Martenczuk after years of outstanding work in PILC. Kalimo continued as the Director of the programme (Prof. Joris Co-Director), assisted by IES PhD researcher and PILC alumnus Filip Sedefov and by Marleen Van Impe as the Programme Secretary. Professor Stefaan Smis was re-appointed to give the course in international law. PILC was also delighted to welcome back Prof. Van Thiel from his leave for the Globalisation course.PROGRAMME

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• Ensuring financial viability (through increase in tuition fees, search for external funding, etc.);

In 2016 the IES had a very successful year in terms of searching for external funding. The number of externally funded projects increased substantially and now amounts to 50% of the IES's total funding (as opposed to 45% in 2015).

• Enhancing the link between research and teaching (through the development of courses within research clusters and themes that can be offered in the curriculum);

The IES has taken concrete measures by appointing four of its researchers as professors for new courses in the Eu-roMaster programme. These courses will kick off in aca-demic year 2017-18.

• Investigate the development of Executive Master programmes and Research Master programmes at the IES;

The thinking process to prepare this development has been initiated.

• Annual organisation of the IES Summer School and (at least one) Postgraduate Certificate; developing pedagogical exper-tise and exploiting research capacity to further develop educa-tional offers; regular review of contents and consider trans-forming Postgraduate programmes into Executive Masters;

Both the Inter-University Summer School & Postgraduate Certificate in EU Policy Making were organised in 2015-16. As to the development of educational offers, we have several pedagogical projects in the pipeline: Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Postgraduate Certificate in EU VAT. The content review of the Postgraduate Certificate has led to two new courses on European Public Policy Analysis & European Union Foreign Affairs in this programme.

• E-learning modules: Updating the platform (2016); integration into existing programmes.

The platform previously used was built in-house and was replaced in 2016 by state-of-the-art technology provided by market leader Canvas. This platform was subsequently integrated into our Study Abroad Programme, in the shape of an EU online course on European Public Policy Analy-sis jointly taken by IES Postgraduate Certificate and Study Abroad students.

EDUCATION STRATEGIC GOALS

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COMPULSORYCOURSES

EU institutional Framework and Judicial Protection

- Prof. Y. Devuyst and D. Arts

International and Comparative Law - Prof. S. Smis and Prof. R. Gosalbo Bono

Globalisation, International Law

& Sustainable Development - Prof. S. van Thiel

International and European Protection of Human Rights - Prof. S. Gutwirth

EU Economic Law - Prof. T. Joris

International Economic Law and Organisations - Prof. F. Hoffmeister

International and EU Competition Law - Prof. B. Smulders

EU External Relations - Prof. B. Martenczuk

OPTIONALCOURSES

Public Law Option:

Case Study on Public International/EU law - Prof. S. Oberthür

EU Environmental Law in an International Context - Prof. S. Oberthür and H. Kalimo

International and European Criminal Law - Prof. P. De Hert

Business Law option:

Case Study on European Competition Law - Prof. T. Joris

European and International Private Law - Prof. A. Nuyts

International and European Taxation - Prof. M. Lamensch

MASTER'S THESIS

Thesis: compulsory legal research within one of the fields covered by

the Programme (first and second semester)

The philosophy of the LL.M. in 2016 remained that of a demanding, carefully designed programme that combines European and inter-national law. The curriculum consists of compulsory courses, two specialisation options (Public Law or Business Law) and a Master’s thesis on the subject of the student’s choice.

The LL.M. has also retained the philosophy of a limited class size to ensure high interaction amongst students and professors – a bond that lasts. The alumni and professors offer the students a wide global network to find a future career – this aspect has been receiving specific attention in the programme's activities over the past years.


As a recent law graduate, I felt the need to pursue an advanced LLM pro-gramme, which will equip me with an international perspective and the chal-lenges of working in an increasing global legal

environment. The LLM at the IES offers this and more. Some of the professors are EU practitioners or in major international law firms, which creates great networking op-portunities.'

Pauline Nguru, LLM alumna, European Parliament

STUDENTS

In the academic year 2015-2016, 16 students graduated from the programme. Four students graduated with great-est distinction, six with great distinction, three with distinc-tion and four with satisfaction. The Programme awarded five theses the grade of Summa Cum Laude, which entitles the students in question to the Outstanding Master Thesis Award. They were Benjamin Magnus, Tony Pitesa, Carmen Puscas, Emily Steinmeyer and Shannon Zeigler.

PILC continued a number of traditions in 2016. An Inaugu-ral lecture by Belgian Secretary of State Philippe De Backer opened the academic year 2016-17. The PILC students’ team played again in the fun event IES Ice Hockey cham-pionships in October, while in November two of the PILC students joined a delegation to meet with Philippe, the King of Belgians. PILC made the field trip to the Court of Justice of the EU on 13 December. After attending a hearing, the group met with President Lenaerts in person and were given a presentation on the inner workings of the CJEU – the kind of insights that are rare to come by. Over lunch, the PILC students met the first PILC alumnus to serve at the bench of the CJEU: the Irish judge Eugene Regan. He was delighted to see PILC thriving, and reflected on his PILC year and how the Programme had helped prepare him for a very exciting career. The year also included the traditional career lunches with PILC alumni and career services to ensure the students’ smooth shift (back) to the work life after the Programme.

On Wednesday 19 October 2016, a del-egation of our LLM and EuroMaster stu-dents got the opportunity to share their ideas on the future of Europe with H.M. King Philippe of Belgium. They were part of a group of VUB students who were invited to attend the Journées de Bruxelles. The event was held at Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels.

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Male Femalesummer 2013 Professor Kalimo has been the acting Co-director (together with Prof. Marc Jegers), with Lynn Tytgat coordinating the programme.

PROGRAMME

The EuroMaster Programme has been designed to allow students to combine studies with pro-fessional activities. EuroMaster classes are organised in the evenings. Students can comlete the programme on a full-time (1 year) or part-time (2 year) basis. The EuroMaster comprises 60 ECTS, with courses ranging from 3 to 6 ECTS, and a 15,000-word thesis worth 15 ECTS. The the-sis gives the students the possibility to engage in an exciting intellectual journey on the topic of their choice. The Programme starts by a common core of four courses on the essential features of European Integration. Students can then choose between two specialisation streams: Politi-cal and Social Integration (EPSI) and Economic Integration (EI).

STUDENTS

A total of 31 students graduated from the 2015-16 Programme. The EuroMaster Programme has always boasted a versatile, international selection of students from all around the world, and taken into account a balanced representation of geographic regions, including, when possible, the legal advancement of developing countries. For the academic year 2016-2017, 49 students enrolled in the Programme. 31 new students started, and 18 students re-enrolled from previous academic years to continue their part-time studies. Out of the 49 students, 30 opted for the EPSI and 19 for the EI stream.


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AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND DEVELOPMENTS

The Advanced Master in European Integration (‘EuroMaster’) is the spearhead of IES’ post-graduate educational offerings in the field of political science and economics. The EuroMaster is an advanced interdisciplinary programme that is geared towards an international range of young and mid-level professionals as well as advanced students with a political science background. The programme has for over 15 years been providing students with advanced academic training across a wide range of EU policies in order to offer a thorough understanding of the process of Europe-an integration in both its economic and political dimensions. The IES has been in charge of organising the EuroMaster for the past 4 years, and does so in collaboration with the VUB Faculty of Eco-nomic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School. In 2016, a reform of the EuroMaster programme was approved, taking effect as of the academic year 2017-18. The purpose of the reform is to re-align the programme with the EU’s changing economic and

policy environment. See the Education – Strategic goals section for more details on this.

TEACHING AND STAFF

The EuroMaster teaching staff is a unique mixture of renowned EU scholars and top-level EU practitioners who combine academic excellence with the latest practical insights on EU policy-making. Drawn from across different parts of Europe as well as North America, the international staff gives students a great opportu-nity to experience a range of different academic traditions. Lim-ited class size ensures a high interaction between the students and professors – and creates a bond that lasts. The alumni and professors offer a wide global network that will help graduating students find interesting international careers.

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'The mixed faculty in-cludes specialised aca-demics as well as experi-enced practitioners from the EU institutions. This, combined with the inter-national student body and the proximity of the EU's

headquarters, makes for a truly enriching study experience, both on and off campus.'

Steven Engels, EuroMaster alumnus

ALUMNI

The Institute continues its investment in alum-ni. It contacted students of last year’s gradua-tion (2015-2016) in order to find out what pro-fessional activity they had undertaken since their studies at the IES. Graduates are currently working in a variety of institutions, such as the European Commission, Permanent Represen-tations to the EU and NATO, as well as private companies.

COMPULSORY COURSES

Students are given a broad overview (24

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OPTIONAL COURSES

Students specialise in either the economics or po-litical and social integration

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MASTER'S THESIS

Students finish the Pro-gramme with a Masters’ thesis, worth 15 credits.

The History and Law of European Integration

The Economics of European Integration

The Political Aspects of European Integration

The EU and the Stakeholders of the Economy

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Competition Policy and State Aid

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For the 13th time, the IES joined forces with the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the University of Vienna to organ-ise the Inter-University Summer School on EU Policy Mak-ing in Brussels and Vienna. From Monday 4 to Friday 15 July 2016, the intensive two-week summer school aimed at providing students and young professionals with an interest in the European Union with a crash course in EU Policy Making Programme. The first week in Brussels in-troduced participants to the functioning and structure of the main EU institutions, their role in the decision-making process and their interactions with stakeholders. It also addressed key aspects of EU internal and external policy

such as the EU internal market and EU migration policy. Lectures by senior academics were complemented with study visits to the Brussels-based insti-tutions. The second week in Vienna fur-ther examined a select set of EU policy issues. It discussed the principles and implications of the European Monetary Union and addressed a number of key constitutional and legal issues, includ-ing in the context of Brexit. The empha-sis on EU foreign affairs was reflected both in the lectures – on the EU Com-mon Foreign and Security Policy, the role and functioning of the European External Action Service and the institu-tional relationship between the EU and the United Nations system – and in the visits to the UN, the OSCE and the EU delegation in Vienna. Each week of the Summer School concludes with a simu-lation game during which the students experience the negotiation environment of the European Union.


The Postgraduate Certificate (PGC) in EU Policy Making combines five online courses with the Inter-University Summer School on EU Policy Making, using the blended learning method. This academic programme aims to provide students and young professionals with sound knowledge on the history and theories of Euro-pean integration, the functioning of the main EU institutions and their role in the decision-mak-ing process, the principles and characteristics of EU law, and the main aspects of EU internal and external policies.

The online courses run from September to May, covering the following topics: • History and Theories of European Integration;• European Union Institutions;• EU Decision Making and Law; • European Union Public Policy Analysis;• European Union Foreign Affairs.

The blended learning method perfected by the IES combines the asynchronous aspects of on-line learning with interactive assignments and live webinars. Moreover, each student is as-signed a tutor, ready to guide him or her through the learning process.

The online courses are complemented with the two-week interactive Inter-University Summer School on EU Policy Making, which takes place in July (see separate section for further details).

DEVELOPMENTS & STUDENT STATISTICS IN 2016

In 2016, nine students of seven different na-tionalities completed their training in EU Pol-icy Making. Nine students from five European countries enrolled in the Programme in the aca-demic year 2016-2017.

STAFF

In terms of human resources, Alexandra Mihai and Silviu Piros handled the academic side and Laraine D’Antin the administrative side of the programme in 2015-16. The departure of Laraine D’Antin in March was accompanied by the arrival of Léonie Maes, who is currently in charge of the administration of the programme. In September, Alexandra Mihai was replaced by Irina van der Vet who took over the European Union Institutions course.

2016 students visiting the UN in Vienna in the context of the Summer School / Postgraduate Certificate

'The combination of high level lectures on Euro-pean politics, eye-opening study visits and challeng-ing simulation exercises made the two weeks Sum-mer School in Brussels/

Vienna a very valuable and memorable aca-demic experience'

Martin Traußnigg, 2016 student

2016 Summer School students visiting the European Council

SUMMER SCHOOL EUROPEAN POLICY MAKING

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In 2016 the IES upgraded its platform for online courses. Whereas the previous platform used to be based on technol-ogy built in-house, the new state-of-the-art technology used for the online courses is now provided by market leader Canvas.


From the first week of June to the first week of July included, the EFSP cluster hosted the eighth edition of the Brussels Programme on European Foreign Policy with students from the University of Southern California (USC).

DEVELOPMENTS IN 2016

Over the years, the programme has managed to annually attract a steady stream of students. In 2016, 14 USC students participated in this sum-mer programme. The group of students took internship positions at Brussels-based think-tanks and organisations and had an intensive lecture programme on European Foreign and Security Policy, taught by high-level European academics and policy-makers from leading uni-versities, think-tanks and international organi-sations. Programme lecturers not only brought their academic expertise to lectures but also a wealth of policy experience, which only added to the programme's learning experience. During their stay, the students also visited internation-al organisations and institutions such as the European Parliament and NATO as well as the Airbus Group.

PROGRAMME

Week one of the programme began with an orientation visit to the IES and students then spent the rest of the week working full-time at their internship hosts. Week two started with an overall introduction to European integra-tion and foreign policy, and students acquired an understanding of the EU’s key foreign policy institutions, its foreign policy decision-making processes and the policies of the key EU mem-ber states. Week three focused on the US-EU Transatlantic Partnership. Week four looked at some of the EU’s key international relations with players such as China and Russia. Stu-dents ended the programme in week five with a focus on Europe and global relations, and in this context students analysed issues such as climate change and migration. From weeks two to five, after lunch until the end of the working day, students continued and finalised their in-ternships.

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PROGRAMME

The programme includes four main academic components. The EU Redux course focuses on the basics of EU institutions and decision-making, as well as policy developments in topical areas such as data protection, defense, migration and climate change. Students also research an EU topic of interest with an IES super-visor, culminating in a final paper and presentation. Furthermore, in order to gather first hand knowledge on EU affairs, students are offered an internship in EU politics, research and/or educa-tion. Examples of placement organisations are Carnegie Europe, the Global Governance Institute and UNICA. Finally, students take a course of choice with our partner institution Vesalius Col-lege. If living in Brussels for five months and travelling across Europe isn’t enough, the international learning environment of Vesalius College provides a cross-cultural experience in itself.

In all this, we try to ensure that Brussels feels like a home away from home by introducing students to the city’s varied social life. This year’s social activities included a movie night featuring 'The Agreement', a documentary on Kosovo and Serbia's first post-independence agreement negotiated under the auspices of the European Union, a visit to the avant-garde art exhibition on 'Theo van Doesburg: A New Expression of Life, Art and Technology', bowling and karaoke! It was a pleasure to witness, as in each year, that the students had absorbed and thoroughly processed the great amount of information they received on the complexi-ties of the EU.

BRUSSELS STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMME

'My first morning home from the programme, I was reading the paper and I was ecstatic to see how much more I under-stood about International Relations and how much

my own opinions had developed as well! What an incredibly welcoming and ener-getic group of people this me has intro-duced me to - I have not only made count-less connections for my future career, but also friendships I will carry with me for years!'

Sarah Belle Selig, 2016 student

Brussels Study Abroad Programme Students

The Institute's loca-tion within the political and diplomatic heart of Europe enabled me to take advantage of unique networking and professional experi-ences. I would highly

recommend the IES internship experi-ence to any student of European affairs seeking a welcoming, energetic and col-laborative environment.'

Cameron Meek, student

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LISANNE GROEN Doctor in Political Science • Oct 2016On Thursday 13 October 2016, Lisanne Groen successfully de-fended her PhD thesis on the impact the EU has had in multi-lateral climate and biodiversity negotiations. In front of a jury of 6 people (Prof. Edith Drieskens - KU Leuven, Prof. Tom Delreux - UCL, Prof. Joachim Koops - Vesalius College and IES-VUB, Prof. Jamal Shahin - IES-VUB and University of Amsterdam, Prof. Ilke Adam - IES-VUB (chair), and promoter Prof. Sebastian Oberthür - IES-VUB) Lisanne elaborated on the subject, methodology and main findings of her research.Dr. Groen left the Institute in September 2016 to take up a job as researcher at the United Nations University in Tokyo.

IRENE WIECZOREK Doctor of Law • Nov 2016On Tuesday 15 November 2016, Irene Wieczorek successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled ‘The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law: What Role for Normative and Instrumental Justifications?’. Irene’s PhD promoters were Prof. Dr. P. De Hert and Prof. Dr. Wey-embergh while members of her exam commitee were Prof. Dr. F. Trauner (VUB), Prof. Dr. M. Dony (ULB), Prof. Dr. E. Herlin-Karnell (VUB) and Prof. Dr. J. Spencer (University of Cambridge). Dr. Wieczorek left at the end of the year to become a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

ESTHER MARIJNEN Doctor in Political Science • Dec 2016On Friday 16 December 2016, Esther Marijnen defended her PhD thesis entitled 'Beyond Rebels and Gorillas: The Multi-Scalar Pol-itics of Conservation and Conflict in the Virunga National Park, DR Congo'. Her promoter was Prof. Dr. Patrick Stouthuysen. The doctoral committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Koen Vlassenroot (UGent) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Mattelaer (IES-VUB). Dr. Mari-jnen left at the end of the year after having been granted a Max Batley fellowship at the University of Sheffield.TE

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ANDERSSON, J.J., FIOTT, D. and MISSIROLI, A. (eds.). 2016 After the EU Global Strategy: Security and Defence – Consulting the Experts. Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies.

DUPONT, C. 2016. Climate Policy Integration into EU Energy Policy: Progress and Prospects. London: Routledge.

LEONARD, S. and KAUNERT, C. (eds.). 2016. Searching for a Strategy for the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, London: Routledge.

LEONARD, S. and KAUNERT, C. 2016. Beyond Stockholm: In Search of a Strategy for the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Special Issue of European Politics and Society, Vol. 17, No. 2.

KALIMO, H. and JANSSON, M. (eds.). 2016, EU Economic Law in a Time of Crisis, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

SACCO, M., TORREKENS, C. and ADAM, I. (eds.). 2016. Circulation des idées et des modèles. La transformation de l'action publique en question.: Les case des politiques d'intégration, Paris/Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia/L'Harmattan.

For a complete overview of IES publications in 2016, see the Annex to this Annual Report.

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2016 PUBLICATIONS AT A GLANCE

• Books and special issues: 6• Book chapters: 13• Full articles in scientific journals with international peer review: 32• Full articles in scientific journals without international peer review: 2• All other publications aimed at the scientific community: 9• Papers presented at conferences: 33• Commissioned research and policy work: 12• Newspaper op-eds and online commentary: 19

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POLICY BRIEFS

16. Russia and the European Far Right after Brexit: Shifting Gears in the European Parliament by Antonios Nestoras

17. Reporting on the Minsk II Agreement: the Effect of Russian Narratives in French and German Media by Svitlana Kobzar

18. The European Union in Crisis: What Future for the EU in International Climate Policy? by Sebastian Oberthür

19. Will Bio-Jet Fly? Towards a Carbon Neutral Aviation Sector by Filip Sedefov, Harri Kalimo, Ólöf Söebech

20. Building better multistakeholderism: GIPO's role in promoting debates on internet governance by Catalina Capatina, Katarzyna Jakimowicz, Trisha Meyer and Jamal Shahin

21. Western Intelligence and Counter-intelligence in a Time of Russian Disinformation by Alexander Lanoszka

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POLICY BRIEFS

1. Identifying disinformation: an ABC approach by Ben Nimmo

2. Confuse, Divide and Rule - How Russia Drives Europe Apart by Sijbren de Jong

3. Mind the Gap: interpreting the Minsk II Agreement by Svitlana Kobzar

4. Introducing the IES Brexit-Proj-ect by Claire Dupont and Florian Trauner

5. Looking back to Look Forward: the UK's relationship with the European Union by Richard Lewis

6. The UK in Justice and Home Affairs: the engaged outsider by Ilke Adam, Jana Berg, Florian Trauner, Marie Tuley & Laura Westerveen

7. The Brexit and EU freedom of movement: legal uncertainty on both sides of the 'border' by Christof Roos

8. The UK in EU External Represen-tation: a principled, yet pragmatic intergovernmentalist by Jamal Shahin

9. The United Kingdom and the (Digital) Single Market by Harri Kalimo, Trisha Meyer, Jamal Sha-hin, Fausta Todhe

10. The UK in EU Environmental Policy: common responses to common problems by Claire Dupont, Lisanne Groen, Sebas-tian Oberthür and Carlos Soria Rodríguez

11. New Developments in North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Pro-gramme: Implications for Euro-pean Security by Mason Richey

12. Is Information Warfare Breach-ing the European Parliament? by Antonios Nestoras

13. Dismiss, Distort, Distract, and Dismay: Continuity and Change in Russian Disinformation by Jon White

14. Five years of EU Roma Integra-tion Policies: Vanishing Gender Awareness? by Serena D'Agosti-no

15. When Decarbonisation meets Disinformation: EU-Russia Ener-gy Relations by Claire Dupont50

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1. 8 January in: MO*, Alexander Mattelaer & Daniel Fiott: Groenere legers hebben strategisch voordeel

2. 24 January in: Brussel Nieuws, Ilke Adam: Waarom veel Belgische Marokkanen en nauwelijks Turken naar Syrië trekken

3. 26 January in: NPO Radio 1, Esther Marijnen: Olievondst bedreigt Virungapark

4. 26 January in: Knack, Daniel Fiott: Eén jaar Tsipras: 'Als het deze keer mislukt, zal hij nooit meer herkozen worden'

5. 29 January in: Magyar Nemzet, Florian Trauner: Útban a többsebességes Európa felé? ('Towards a multi-speed Europe?')

6. 2 February in: De Standaard, Alexander Mattelaer: 'De totale ineenstorting van Defensie dreigt al langer'

7. 3 February in: Politheor European Policy Network, Florian Trauner: The integrative power of the threat of disintegration

8. 6 February in: De Morgen, Alexander Mattelaer: Para's worden rangers: Defensieminister Vandeput wil elitesoldaten anders inzetten

9. 8 February in: Climate Home, Sebastian Oberthür: EU faces two-year wrangle to ratify Paris climate deal

10. 9 February in: De Morgen, Alison Woodward: Vrouwen kiezen voor Hillary. Als ze al wat ouder zijn toch

11. 10 February in: De Standaard, Alexander Mattelaer: Obama's laatste defensiebegroting wil technologische voorsprong VS vergroten 'Begroting voor de toekomst'

12. 15 February in: German Broadcasting Cooperation ARD, Florian Trauner: TV Interview on the EU's refugee crisis

13. 16 February in: Knack.be, Leo Van Hove: 'Schaf ook het biljet van 200 euro af'

14. 17 February in: Brussel Nieuws, Alison Woodward: Feministisch archief moet op zoek naar nieuwe stek door besparingen

15. 17 February in: Defense News, Luis Simón: Japan Seeks More Prominent Role in 'Global Defense and Security'

16. 18 February in: EU today, Luis Simón: Japan set to become a bigger player in global security

17. 18 February in: Levif.be,, Leo Van Hove: 'Ce n'est pas un hasard si le billet de 500 est si populaire dans les milieux criminels...'

18. 19 February in: Space Daily, Luis Simón: Tokyo Rising: Japan Seeks Expanded Role in 'Global Defense and Security'

19. 19 February in: Knack.be, Leo Van Hove: 'Cash geld heeft stevig prijskaartje: ecologisch, financieel en qua veiligheid'

20. 3 March 2016 in: Politalk.nl, Karel De Gucht: Architect van verdrag EU-Oekraïne: ‘Hopelijk negeert de Nederlandse regering de uitslag van het referendum’

21. 22 March in: Der Tagesspiegel, Christof Roos: Das Morgengrauen von Brüssel

22. 11 April in: Newsweek, Daniel Fiott: Trump's Trash-Talking Our NATO Allies Pleases Putin

23. 11 April in: Carnegie Europe, Daniel Fiott: Trump, NATO, and Europe's Security

24. 19 April in: Libération, Ilke Adam: Une intégration de plus en plus forte

25. 2 May in: The New York Times, Richard Lewis: Incomplete Portrayal of Belgium

26. 3 May in: Real Clear Defense, Luis Simón: A European Perspective on

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27. 3 May in: War on The Rocks, Luis Simón: A European Perspective on Anti-Access/Area Denial and the Third Offset Strategy

28. 4 May in: Le Matin, Daniel Fiott: Un nouveau chef pour une OTAN en pleine mue

29. 4 May in: Indian Stategic Studies, Luis Simón: The 'Third' US Offset Strategy and Europe's 'Anti-access' Challenge

30. 5 May in: Capital Madrid, Daniel Fiott: La UE debe contemplar la utilidad militar de sus infraestructuras

31. 6 May in: Terzake, Daniel Fiott: Khan weerspiegelt de diversiteit

32. 18 May in: Knack, Daniel Fiott: Moeten wij hier bang zijn voor president Donald Trump?

33. 27 May in: Bruzz, Hannelore Goeman: Hannelore Goeman legt eed af in Brussels Parlement

34. 28 May in: Het Laatste Nieuws, Karel De Gucht: Een opiniestuk door Karel De Gucht

35. 9 June in: Small Wars Journal, Luis Simón: the A2/AD Predicament Challenges NATO's Paradigm of 'Reassurance Through Readiness'

36. 12 June in: Real Clear Defense, Luis Simón: A2/AD Predicament Challenges NATO

37. 12 June in: Der Standard, Florian Trauner: Die möglichen Wege aus der Flüchtlingskrise

38. 18 June in: La Liberté, Jamal Shahin: Vers une campagne plus apaisée

39. 20 June in: Korean Radio 'Busan e-FM', Joachim Koops: Live Radio Interview on 'Brexit'

40. 21 June in: TV3, Richard Lewis: Com se surt de la UE?

41. 22 June in: NPO Radio 1, Esther Marijnen: Record aantal milieuactivisten vermoord in 2015

42. Sebastian Oberthür: How would a Brexit affect the environment? (23 June in: EUROPP)

43. 24 June in: Bergens Tidende, Jamal Shahin: Brexit will have a domino effect

44. 24 June in: DeRedactie.Be, Karel De Gucht: Moeilijk om buitenlanders te overtuigen van belang van EU

45. 24 June in: Bloomberg, Tomas Wyns: EU Carbon Slumps Most Since 2014 as Brexit Sparks Doubts

46. 27 June in: Mainichi, Alison E. Woodward: EU and Russia-China approach is continuing

47. 27 June in: Bloomberg, Tomas Wyns: U.K. Said to Prepare to Adopt Carbon Pollution Target This Week

48. 2 July 2016 in: UTV News, Medlir Mema: Medlir Mema dhe Ilir Kalemaj ne UTV News

49. 8 September in: RTVS, Slovak public broadcaster, Alexander Mattelaer: Bratislava Summit

50. 15 September in: Global Government Forum, Alexander Mattelaer: EU needs minister of foreign affairs and defence HQ, says European Commission president

51. 17 September in: De Morgen, Alexander Mattelaer: De tank blaast 100 kaarsjes weg

52. 20 September in: Terzake, Karel De Gucht: Interview on TTIP

53. 20 September in: Radio 1, Leo Van Hove: 'Haal de sociale kost van ons betaalverkeer naar beneden'

54. 23 September in: Prospect Magazine, Alison E. Woodward: Big question: are we heading towards a 'hard Brexit'?

55. 3 October in: Radio 1 via Radioplus, Leo van Hove: Interview in De Nieuwe Wereld

56. 7 October 2016 in: Mainichi, Christian Kaunert: Hungarian referendum

57. 24 October in: War on the Rocks, Luis Simón: Britain and the Fate of the Europe We Know

58. 25 October 2016 in: Politico, Karel De Gucht: Belgian deputy PM lashes out at Wallonia trade deal block

59. 28 October in: VRT programme 'De vrije markt', Karel De Gucht: Oud-handelscommissaris Karel De Gucht over toekomst handelsverdragen

60. 30 October in: The Bulletin, Alison Woodward: US Elections: We meet the expat voters in Belgium


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62. 5 November in: De Standaard, Karel De Gucht: De Grauwe: 'We hebben te veel de flexibiliteit gepredikt. Niemand zegt van zichzelf dat hij rigide is' De Gucht: 'Ik wel. Ik ben rigide'

63. 7 November in: Radioplus.be, Sebastian Oberthür: Interview for the VRT radio news

64. 8 November in: EUROPP, Alexander Mattelaer: Seven paradoxes of NATO's revival as Europe's primary security institution

65. 10 November in: VRT Radio 1, Alexander Mattelaer: De Ochtend: Alexander Mattelaer on implications of Trump election for NATO

66. 10 November in: Euronews, Alexander Mattelaer: Europe frets over Trump's NATO stance

67. 13 November in: The National, Tomas Wyns: Trump has several ways to scuttle US climate pledges

68. 17 November in: De Tijd, Leo Van Hove: Zweedse centrale bank bestudeert uitgifte van eigen digitaal geld

69. 14 November in: Fair Observer, Joachim Koops: Donald Trump and the End of Liberal History

70. 15 November in: Salamanca 24 horas, Florian Trauner: La Cátedra Jean Monet continúa con el estudio de la crisis de los refugiados

71. 24 November in: Správy RTVS, Florian Trauner: Interview on the Commission’s new initiative for a European-style ESTA system called ETIAS

72. 19 November in: De Tijd, Alexander Mattelaer: NAVO opnieuw onder vuur

73. 22 November in: El Cronista, Leo Van Hove: Suecia sigue a Ecuador con su anuncio de moneda virtual

74. 28 November in: RTVS, Florian Trauner: Dublin is dead, long live Dublin! The EU's struggle for paradigmatic change in EU asylum policy

75. 29 November in: Liberation, Leo Van Hove: Liquider ses espèces, la Suède hésite

76. 2 December in: Luxembourger Wort, Sebastian Oberthür, Tomas Wyns & Claire Dupont: Alles nicht so schlecht

77. 4 December 2016 in: De Tijd, Karel De Gucht: De Gucht: 'Denk niet dat Renzi het haalt'

78. 9 December 2016 in: Nieuwe Feiten – Radio 1, Karel De Gucht: "Het kan niet zijn dat de rechtstaat capituleert voor dit soort populisten"

79. 20 December 2016 in: De Afspraak – Canvas, Karel De Gucht: De glazen bol van Karel De Gucht


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EUROPEAN UNION IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (EUIA)

From the 11th to the 13th of May 2016, scholars from all over the globe came together in Brussels, the heart of the Euro-pean Union, to discuss topical issues at the fifth biennial Eu-ropean Union in International Affairs conference (#EUIA16). Organised by the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES-VUB), the Institut d’études europée-nnes at the Université libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Inte-gration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Egmont - the Royal Institute for International Relations, the conference again featured as the unique major stopover of the European Studies confer-ence circuit at the Academy Palace in Brussels.

#EUIA16 was organised with the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. It brought together over 400 scholars and policy practitioners from over 40 countries and 140 different academic and policy-related institutes. #EUIA16 proved itself to be a truly diverse conference focus-ing on the role and place of the European Union in interna-tional affairs in several policy areas, including but not limited to security, foreign policy, migration, the environment and economic governance.

The conference featured a staggering 57 academic panels spread across seven parallel tracks lasting for two-and-a-half days in total, alongside four policy link panels that provided a space for discussion and exchange between policy practi-tioners and senior academics. In addition, we had the pleas-ure of listening to Gilles de Kerchove, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, as the opening keynote speaker, and Koen Len-aerts, President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), pro-

The conference was opened with a keynote speech by Gilles de Kerchove, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

The closing keynote speech of the con-ference was given by Koen Lenaerts, President of the European Court of Jus-tice. Both opening and closing keynote speeches were also broadcasted on-line via livestream.

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viding the closing keynote address. De Kerchove, introduced by IEE-ULB President Prof. Anne Weyemberg, concentrated on the terrorist threat that Europe faces and the EU response. He highlighted that EUROPOL plays an important role in ‘connecting the dots’ by bringing all data together and that it should strengthen its cooperation with the US. He also held that cultural diplomacy (such as an Erasmus programme with the Middle East and North Africa region) could be critical in preventing radicalisation.

In addition to the academic panels, keynotes and policy link panels, the conference included several novelties. All of these new initiatives led to valuable knowledge exchange:

• a panel on teaching European Studies and International Relations with researchers from the United States, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands;

• three Young Reseachers’ Masterclasses for PhD researchers and early post-docs focusing on economic governance and the environment, foreign and security policy and migration;

• a Think Tank Roundtable in which senior representatives from leading think tanks in Brus-sels (The German Marshall Fund of the United States; the European Union Institute for Secu-rity Studies and Ifri Brussels) discussed the new EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy;

• two book (series) presentations, of the Palgrave ‘EU in International Affairs’ book series and the GEM book series title ‘Interregionalism and the European Union’;

• for the first time, scholars were able to submit panel proposals.

#EUIA16 included, like previous editions, a ‘Brussels-Seoul Security Forum’, consisting of three academic panels on EU-Korea relations including high-level academics and policy practitioners from the Republic of Korea, the US and Europe. We were honoured to welcome two Ambas-sadors among the panelists: his Excellency Ahn Chong Ghee, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU and his Excellency Masafumi Ishii, Ambassador of Japan to Belgium and NATO. Moreover, the conference featured an excellent dinner at the Ko-rean Cultural Center in Brussels, with speeches from his Excellency Ahn Chong Ghee, Korean Ambassador, and IES-VUB President Karel De Gucht.

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6 January 2016: Burden Sharing - Defence spending in times ofausterity

20 January 2016: The Paris Climate Agreement: Implications forthe European Union

22 January 2016: Turning the Circular Economy strategy intoworkable reality

26 January 2016: Insights in measuring EU performance in inter-national institutions from young scholars

28 January 2016: Europe-Japan relations : shaping the future

6 February 2016: EU Studies Fair

11 February 2016: LLM in International & European Law: Q&Awebinar session

16 March 2016: INOTLES Brussels Colloquium

7 April 2016: The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Transat-lantic Perspectives

25 April 2016: Industrial Ecology: Science, the Environment and the Circular Economy

26 April 2016: Internal Market Commissioner Bieńkowska on Single Market Strategy

11-14 May 2016: The European Union in International Affairs V

19 May 2016: The Refugee Crisis and the EU-Turkey Deal: Which Role for the EU's Home Affairs Agencies?

23 May 2016: Brexit and the Environment: EU and UK Environ-mental Policies after 23 June

3 June 2016: Debate on the future of EMU: Enhanced market discipline, centralised governance or somewhere in between?

28 September 2016: Academic Year inaugural event

13 October 2016: Public PhD Defence of Lisanne Groen: The Importance of Fitting Activities to Context: The EU in Multilateral Climate and Biodiversity Negotiations

19 October 2016: Sustainable Advanced Fuels in Emission Re-duction for Aviation: what are EU policy options?

20 October 2016: COP 22 and CMA 1 in Marrakesh - Towards Implementation of the Paris Agreement

24 October 2016: Copyright in the Era of Big Data

15 November 2016: Public PhD Defence of Irene Wieczorek: The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law: what role for normative and instrumental justifications

22 November 2016: Tracking NATO's Revival: From Warsaw to Brussels

23 November 2016: Trump triumph: Critically catastrophic or overly ominous for the EU?

1 December 2016: A science diplomacy approach for Belgium?!

2 December 2016: SOURCE project conference: Managing Soci-etal Security in the European Union: policy-makers as securitizing actors

7 December 2016: Europan identity in crisis: What role for the EU?

14 December 2016: The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

16 December 2016: Public PhD defence by Esther Marijnen: 'Be-yond Rebels and Gorillas: The Multi-Scalar Politics of Conderva-tion and Conflict in the Virunga National Park, DR Congo'

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TURNING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGY INTO WORKABLE REALITY 22 January

This IES Policy Forum on the circular economy engaged top experts from policy, environmental and industry with the knowl-edge to move the debate beyond the high level policy slogans. The panel offered a closer look at selected issues that are decisive in turning the circular economy strategy into workable reality. Speakers:• Hugo Schally, Head of Unit (Eco-innovation and circular econ-

omy), European Commission, DG ENV• Stephane Arditi, Products & Waste Policy Manager, European

Environmental Bureau EEB• Salla Ahonen, Senior Adviser (Confederation of Finnish Indus-

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THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE: TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES 7 April

Professor David Wirth of Boston College Law School explored, from a US perspective, at what cost this accommodation was reached, as measured by the durability of the US economy-wide emissions reduction pledge for 2025 (minus 26-28% from 2005 levels) and the likelihood of its effective implementation. This presentation thoroughly explained the domestic legal and politi-cal constraints, unique to the US legal system, at work behind the scenes in shaping the form and content of the US position on the Paris Agreement. It analysed the role of the Congress, especially the US Senate, and the courts, and examined the extent to which the Obama Adminis-tration has fully utilised its executive power both domestically and internationally. Jacob Werks-man, Principal Adviser, DG-CLIMA, European Commission, had set the stage for the discussion by responding with a European perspective on the legal character of the Paris outcome and on next steps for the EU and for the US in implementing the Paris Agreement.

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THE REFUGEE CRISIS AND THE EU-TURKEY DEAL: WHICH ROLE FOR THE EU’S HOME AFFAIRS AGENCIES?19 May

The Policy Forum brought together panellists from the EU’s agencies, civil society and academia in order to discuss the changing roles of Frontex, Europol and EASO. It took a look at how the crisis changed the ways in which these agencies interact and function. It also discussed the future development of these agencies, notably in view of the reoccurring calls to further enlarge their competences and powers.

BREXIT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: EU AND UK ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AFTER 23 JUNE 23 May

Brexit raised the prospect of considerable change in the future for UK and EU policies in these areas. The Policy Forum debated the role played by environmental policy in the UK referendum debate and the possible and plausible post-Referendum scenarios for UK and EU environmental policy.

THE INTERFACE BETWEEN EU COMPETITION LAW AND REGULATION: CHALLENGES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS 13 October

The Policy Forum aimed to address substantive and procedural developments as well as contentious aspects that surface in the context of this interrelationship.

SUSTAINABLE ADVANCED FUELS IN EMISSION REDUCTION FOR AVIATION: WHAT ARE EU POLICY OPTIONS 19 October

This Policy Forum offered the opportunity to debate and explore various aspects related to the development and market uptake of Sustainable Advanced Fuels for aviation with EU policy makers and industry professionals. It was the first in a series of two.

Speakers:• Peter Vis, Advisor on decarbonisation of transport, European Commission• Thierry Nowaczyk, EU Environmental Affairs Director, Airbus Group• Sini Eräjää, Policy Officer on EU Bioenergy, European Environmental Bureau, BirdLife Europe• Filip Sedefov, Researcher, Institute for European Studies – VUB (moderator)

COP 22 AND CMA 1 IN MARRAKESH – TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT20 October

The Policy Forum discussed the prospects for the Marrakesh conference in the context of in-ternational climate policy more generally. It also reflected on the role of the European Union and its member states in this context.

TRUMP TRIUMPH: CRITICALLY CATASTROPHIC OR OVERLY OMINOUS FOR THE EU?23 November

The election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States came as a shock to the world. This Policy Forum discussed some potential scenarios of what might happen to the EU, the consequences of Trump’s triumph for the transatlantic security relationship and the geopolitical role of Europe and the global struggle against climate change.

Elina Bardram, European Commission, DG Climate Action

Prof. Dr. Alexander Mattelaer, Prof. Dr. Christian Kaunert, Karel De Gucht and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Oberthür

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EUROPEAN IDENTITY IN CRISIS: WHAT ROLE FOR THE EU?7 December

This Policy Forum brought together panellists from academia and EU institutions, and proceeded from a recognition of the need for scholarly approaches that seek to examine the question of European identity in its multiple dimensions, both theoretical and empirical and within institutional and socio-spatial fields alike.

THE EU ENLARGEMENT AND GAY POLITICS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE14 December

LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual) rights have acquired symbolic value in EU politics and discourse, both in its internal and foreign policies. Yet such symbolic politics stand in sharp contrast with the limited amount of actual EU powers and legislation in the field. The policy forum constituted the closing lecture of the ‘Diversity Politics in the European Union’ course in the Master Programme in European Integration of the Institute for European Studies at VUB.

THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION20 January

The IES contributed through several activities in January to exploring the implications of the climate agreement adopted on 12 December 2015 in Paris. On 20 January, the IES hosted a keynote lecture on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the EU by Jos Delbeke, Director-General Climate Action of the European Commission.

INSIGHTS IN MEASURING EU PERFORMANCE IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FROM YOUNG SCHOLARS26 Jan

This lecture series was launched with a discussion about the challenges for the development of a multidisciplinary research agenda for the emerging field of EU performance studies. This event brought together a panel of young researchers who are ac-

Jos Delbeke, Director General, Dg Clima, European Commission

tively contributing to the theoretical and empirical development of the study of EU performance in international institutions. They addressed the challenges that they have undergone during their research: defining their research questions, methodological concerns, and specifically the use of common, understandable terminology.

(Joint Event IES-Egmont) EUROPE-JAPAN RELATIONS: SHAPING THE FUTURE28 January

This event addressed a number of questions relating to the strategic cooperation and security issues between Europe and Japan. The discussion featured Prof. Kazuya Sakamoto, of Osaka University, ECFR Council member and former German Ambassador to Japan and China, Dr. Volker Stanzel and Dr. Mathieu Duchâtel of ECFR’s Asia Programme. The event was chaired by Mr. Thomas Renard of the Egmont Institute.

INOTLES BRUSSELS COLLOQUIUM 16 March

Between 16 and 18 March the EDU organised the 'Brussels Colloquium' as the final part of the INOTLES Inter-University course (9 ECTS). Nine final project papers were publicly defended in Brussels on the first day of the event. The colloquium included two parallel simulation games and thematic visits to the European Parliament and the European Commission’s DG NEAR, spe-cifically aimed at bringing at the same table EU experts and students. The group met once more to discuss the results at a conference in Kiev from 16-18 June.

INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY: SCIENCE, THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY 25 April

Scientists at the IES, Yale University, the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian Univer-sity of Science & Technology and INSEAD under the auspices of the International Society

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The IES Research Colloquia are coor-dinated by the IES Academic Direc-tor and usually take place twice per month (currently: first and third Tues-day of the month, 3PM). It serves as a forum to present and discuss IES re-search projects and to address select-ed scientific issues of general interest (methodological approaches, etc.).

26 Jan2016

Social Interaction in EU-East Asia Relations: How the EU (re)invests itself as an international security actorResearch Colloquium Speaker: Stephan KloseResearch Colloquium Chair: Alexander Mattelaer

9 Feb2016

The European Commission and its quest to save nature in Central Africa; 'crisis', securitarisation and the invisibility of violenceResearch Colloquium Speaker: Esther MarijnenResearch Colloquium Chair: Christof Roos

22 Mar 2016

Teaching politics with technology? The interface between technology and pedagogy in political scienceResearch Colloquium Speaker: Alexandra MihaiResearch Colloquium Chair: Alison E. Woodward

12 Apr2016

Immigrant integration in Europe. Towards the mainstreaming of ethnic equality?Research Colloquium Speaker: Laura WesterveenResearch Colloquium Chair: Luis Simón

for Industrial Ecology organised a day-long event to explore environmental and resource dimensions of the circular economy. The event presented examples of research—along with commentary by stakeholders—that illuminated what industrial ecology can contribute to the beneficial development of the circular economy.

COMMISSIONER BIENKOWSKA ON SINGLE MARKET STRATEGY 26 April

Elżbieta Bieńkowska, the EU Commissioner in charge of the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, spoke at the IES on Tuesday 26 April. She talked about the Commission's approach to the Single Market.

ACADEMIC OPENING EVENT28 Sept

On Wednesday 28 September we had the honour of welcoming Belgian Sec-retary of State Philippe De Backer, who joined us in greeting a new generation of LLM and EuroMaster students. Our alumni in the audience witnessed an extremely interesting inaugural lecture on the Digital Economy, Digital Single Market and Privacy.

(Guest Lecture)COPYRIGHT IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA24 Oct

The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, the Institute for European Studies and Vesalius College at the VUB and the Institute for German Studies / Literary and Media Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen organised an evening lecture with Prof. Michael Madison (University of Pittsburgh) on copyright in the era of big data. Professor Madison is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

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17 May 2016

EDGE roundtable on methods: recruitment and selection of participantsModerator: Claire DupontSpeakers: Kris Deschouwer (survey research), Ilke Adam (focus group research)Didier Caluwaerts (experimental research), Eline Severs (elite interviews)

24 May2016

European and International law governing species protection against marine renewable energy installationsResearch Colloquium Speaker: Carlos Soria RodríguezResearch Colloquium Chair: Joachim A. Koops

31 May 2016

International cooperative initiatives on climate: exploring their effectiveness and legitimacy Research Colloquium Speaker: Laura IozzelliResearch Colloquium Chair: Ilke Adam

14 June2016

Intersection of EU competition law and data protection in the digital marketResearch Colloquium Speaker: Klaudia MajcherResearch Colloquium Chair: Florian Trauner

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The Europeanisation of intersectional mobilisation: manifold opportunities or manifold barriers? Romani women activism in central and eastern European member states.Research Colloquium Speaker: Serena D'AgostinoResearch Colloquium Chair: Claire Dupont

25 Oct2016

Participation in EU policy-making: Which approach for youth? Research Colloquium Speaker: Ferran DavesaResearch Colloquium Chair: Alexander Mattelaer

29 Nov2016

Understanding European defence-industrial cooperationResearch Colloquium Speaker: Daniel FiottResearch Colloquium Chair: Harri Kalimo

13 Dec 2016

Conceptualising the relations between world regions and external actors: towards an interactionist role theory framework Research Colloquium Speaker: Stephan KloseResearch Colloquium Chair: Christof Roos

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WEBINAR ON LLM IN INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAW11 Feb

On 11 February 2016 the IES held a webinar during which Prof. Dr. Harri Kalimo and alumni Filip Sedefov and Sheila Wilkinson spoke with prospective students about what it is like to study at the IES. 29 people registered for this webinar. This event proved to be very useful to students and more will be planned in the future.

CONFERENCE DEBATE ON THE FUTURE OF EMU: ENHANCED MARKET DISCIPLINE, CENTRALISED GOVERNANCE OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN? 3 Jun

The IES and the Representation of the European Commission in Belgium organised an Expert conference on the Future of EMU. The conference brought together academics and students interested in EMU governance, policy makers and other stakeholders from social partner organisations, government administrations and civil society.

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TRACKING NATO’S REVIVAL: FROM WARSAW TO BRUSSELS22 Nov

On 22nd November 2016 the Institute for European Studies, in cooperation with the Baltic Defence Col-lege, and with the financial support of NATO’s Pub-lic Diplomacy Division, organised a public roundta-ble with a view to assessing the outcomes of the Warsaw Summit and paving the way forward to the Brussels Summit in the spring of 2017. The discus-sions reviewed the evolution from the assurance measures of the Newport Summit to the deterrence measures of the Warsaw Summit; the challenges encountered when countering hybrid or non-linear warfare; and the implications of the rise of Asia for the transatlantic relationship.

MANAGING SOCIETAL SECURITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: POLICY-MAKERS AS SECURITIZING ACTORS2 Dec

This conference brought together academics and policy makers working in various fields of societal security. The event aimed to provide an overview on the complexity and interlinkages among various areas of societal security, societal resilience and policy-making, with a special emphasis on the actors involved. This event was organised by the IES under the auspices of the SOURCE project and the SOURCE network of excellence.

Prof. Dr. Luis Simón, Lieutenant General Esa Pulkkinen and Prof. Dr. Alexander Mattelaer

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Following the recommendations of the management audit carried out in 2014, the Institute changed its statutes to increase the involvement of own faculty and to improve communication between the dif-ferent stakeholders. From 2016 the IES Board includes three additional ob-servers: one representative from the senior academics, one from the junior researchers and one from the administration. The new statutes also clarify the responsibilities between the Board and the Executive Board, which had become blurred since the adoption of IES ZAP in 2012. The Execu-tive Board was renamed to Academic Board, and was enlarged to include three IES representatives. Both Boards operate under the chairmanship of President Karel De Gucht.

As announced in 2015, the Institute welcomed a new Academic Director in 2016. Prof. Dr. Christian Kaunert officially started his mandate in Septem-ber, although he had already been invited to Board and Executive Board meetings since March. Prior to his appointment at the IES, Dr. Kaunert served as Jean Monnet professor at the University of Dundee.

The management structures of the Institute are the following: a. The IES Board The IES Board is responsible for approving the general strategy, policy plan, budget, and annual report. The Board also decides on the research strategy and gives its final approval to the appointment of senior staff. It is the highest management authority of the Institute. In particular, and without prejudice to any other of its responsibilities, the Board is competent to define the general guidelines and to approve the general regulations of the IES, to define and approve the policy plan, to define, approve and if necessary adapt the budget, the annual accounts and the an-nual report, to establish staff training, to appoint directors and senior research fellows, and to take framework decisions in relation to postgraduate educational initiatives. Following the adoption of the Service Level Agreements between the IES and the faculties in 2010 (renewed in 2015), the Institute is also competent to decide on matters of teaching (i.e. in the Advanced Master programmes that the faculties previously managed). The Board consists of 12 members: 5 externals (to the VUB), 5 VUB faculty, the Rector (or her representative) and the Academic Director. Since fall 2016, three observers from the IES staff join the Board meetings (one senior academic, one junior researcher and one secretariat staff). Mark Vanheukelen left the Board due to his new professional position as EU Ambassador. He has not been replaced yet in the IES Board.

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Members of the IES Academic Board

Karel De Gucht (Chair)Professor of European Law, President of the InstituteIlke AdamIES Professor, Representative of the IES SeniorAcademic StaffCaroline ButsProfessor of Economics,Representative of the ES FacultyPaul De HertProfessor of Law, Representative of the RC FacultyMarijke DejongheExternal memberErik FranckxProfessor of Law, Representative of the RC FacultyTony JorisProfessor of LawRepresentative of the IES BoardHarri KalimoIES Professor, Director of the LL.M. and Euromaster ProgrammeChristian KaunertIES Academic DirectorStephen SpinksExternal memberFlorian TraunerProfessor of Political Science, Representative of the ES FacultyLynn TygatIES Teaching Programme Coordinator, Representative of the IES SecretariatLeo VanaudenhoveProfessor of Communication Science,Representative of the IES BoardLaura WesterveenIES Researcher, Representative of theIES Junior Academic Staff

Members of the IES Board

Karel De Gucht (Chair)Professor of European Law, President of the InstituteFabienne BrisonProfessor of Law VUBJean Claude BurgelmanDirector at EC DG RTDJonathan FaullDirector-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets UnionCaroline GennezMember of the Flemish ParliamentTony JorisProfessor of European Law VUBAnnemie Neytsformer Member of the European ParliamentGerard Van AckerMember of Board of GovernorsLeo VanaudenhoveProfessor of Communication Science VUBFreddy Van den SpiegelProfessor of Economics & Finances VUB

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b. The IES Academic Board The Academic Board (previously: Executive Board) is responsible for Human Resources and education at the IES. It deals with appointments, promotion dossiers and, if applicable, renewal of appointments of members of staff, approval of research awards, appointment of researchers, defining the duties of researcher staff and considering proposals concerning educational matters (including changes to Programme curricula). In all these matters, the Academic Board obtained exclusivity in the new statutes, albeit that certain decisions may still be revoked (but not altered) by the Board. The Academic Board consists of 15 members: two representatives of the ES Faculty, two representatives of the RC Faculty, two representatives of the IES Board, three representatives of IES staff, the programme directors of the Advanced Master Programmes, the Academic Director and the President of the Board. It also includes by two external members (alumni of the IES programmes). c. Daily management Daily management is the responsibility of the Academic and Executive Directors, in accordance with the President of the Institute. In 2016, they were assisted by a deputy Academic Director. In the absence of the latter at the beginning of 2016, and awaiting the formal start of the new Aca-demic Director, the tasks of the Academic Director were shared by two members of IES senior academic staff. From February to September, Prof. Dr. Ilke Adam and Prof. Dr. Harri Kalimo shared most of these tasks. d. Operational Clusters Research management at the IES is primarily done through thematic clusters with a certain degree of managerial capacity. Members of each cluster meet at least monthly, and their findings / suggestions / activity reports are communicated in overall staff meetings, which take place once per month. These research clusters are led by senior academic staff. All members of the academic staff belong to one or more clusters where they report and organise their activities. Senior researchers meet once per month in a postdoc meeting to discuss academic and organisational issues, and to coordinate activities. Since 2012, the Institute has four research clusters: (1) International Security (formerly European Foreign Security Policy), (2) Environment and Sustainable Development, (3) Migration, Diversity and Justice, and (4) European Economic Governance, as well as one Educational Development Unit. e. Strategic Away Days As in previous years, the IES organised strategic ‘away days’ in October - two-day strategy meetings of management and postdoctoral research-ers, and representatives of all staff. The outcome of the strategic away days serves as a basis for further decision-making. In 2016 these strategy

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regarded as ‘best practice’ by the VUB as its aims go beyond the work of all institutions and departments at the University, including the Gender Action Plan launched by the VUB in February 2014. The IES Diversity and Gender Task Force (DIVGEN) has attempted to address issues of gender and diversity on multiple levels. The IES confidential counsellor, Ms Anne Sterckx, followed several training courses on HR policy and practice throughout 2016. No incidents were reported over the past year.

During 2016, IES Management implemented gender equality measures in its governing boards. The IES statutes were changed in March to include a paragraph on gender and diversity, now reading: 'a minimum of one third of the members [of the Board and of the Academic Board] need to be of a different gender'. With this article, the IES went further than the VUB policy, which only 'strives' to have one third of its members from the opposite sex. With the election of new respresentatives in the Academic Board, this policy was implemented fully, resulting in a relative balance of 36% women, against 64% men, as opposed to 9% and 91% respectively in its previous composition. The IES sought a gender balance at the time of the appointment of new members in its evaluation and promotion committee.

Overall, the Institute employs 87 people (43 women and 44 men), but there is a difference between the categories of personnel (see the tables below). In Management, both the Academic and the Executive Director are men. Only one female professor teaches in the IES LL.M. programme. The opening of an assistant management position at the beginning of 2017 (approved by the Board in December 2016) may open opportunities to help build gender balance, while upcoming vacancies in the LL.M. programme may lead to a more gender-balanced teaching staff. Balance is difficult to obtain, as most teaching staff have long-term or tenured contracts. IES Management however recognises the issue and will take measures to help achieve this balance wherever possible.

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The IES communicates with the outside world by targeting Brussels-based public and policy-makers, academics and researchers interested in the EU, as well as potential students (both students and pro-fessionals) for its various educational programmes. Below are some of the highlights in the Institute’s outreach in 2016. WEBSITES 2016 saw a change in the visual identity of VUB university. The IES now applies this across its main website as well as on its websites dedicated to its LLM, EuroMaster, Summer School, and Postgradu-ate Certificate programmes. NEWSLETTERS The monthly newsletter is sent at the start of the month to the IES mailing lists. The main list has over 4,000 recipients and continues to grow. Moreover, in 2016 the IES launched its IES Alumni Newsletter, a quarterly issue sent to some 600 recipients. SOCIAL MEDIA Below are some 2016 statistics on the main IES social media channels. The number of followers / fans went up for all channels (+18% followers on Twitter, +42% on Facebook, approx. +10% on LinkedIn). In the autumn the IES also stepped up its Instagram activity.

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The IES collaborates on a daily basis with a vast number of universities and institutions around the world, in the context of its academic programmes and research activities. In this report we identify three dominant types of interactions: Memoranda of Understanding, Long-standing relationships in both education and research, and Project-based collaboration.

The IES has developed a range of formal Memoranda of Understanding with various research and educational institutions. These MoUs are signed as a result of enhanced cooperation between the IES and partner institutions. They allow us to forge global partnerships, encouraging exchange of knowledge between these institutions. The following list of agreements highlights our global reach. • Hendrix College (Arkansas, USA)• University of Vienna and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (Austria)• UNU-CRIS – United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies

(Belgium / Japan)• USC – University of Southern California (USA)

Long-standing relationships form the basis for many of the Institute’s collaborative activities. Our sen-ior and junior staff have developed and carefully nurtured a range of different relationships with various academic partners across Belgium, Europe, and beyond. In terms of education, these relationships have taken the form of visiting lectures, courses, and roles as members of examination committees. In Belgium, this interaction has involved the VUB, Vesalius College, KU Leuven, Kent University, the ULB, UCL, and the Universities of Antwerp and Ghent. In Europe, long-standing educational collaboration is seen in seven countries from Austria to the Netherlands, and also the United States of America. Similar collaboration is taking place between the IES and EU-wide or global institutions, such as the European Security and Defence College and NATO Defense College.

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NIES researchers are engaged with other institutes and organisations on an individual basis as well as at a more formalised level. These informal partnerships have been established for many years and concretely they take the shape of participation in seminars and panel discussions, acting as (keynote) speaker, co-organising workshops, co-authorship of publications, etc. Across our various clusters, we have such partnerships with universities and institutes in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, UK and USA. In terms of formal thematic networks in research, the IES is participant in a variety of institutionalised networks. These include: APSA Migration and Citizenship Network; CES (Council for European Studies) Migration network; EANRS (European Academic Network for Romani Studies); Expert network on Value Reconciliation; IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion Network), covering 18 coun-tries; INOGOV (Innovations in climate governance), a network of excellence including researchers from 27 European countries; INSEAD network on circular economy; Lund University network on industrial ecology; REFRACT (Research Network on Regime Complexes and Fragmentation); Research Network Political Sociology of ESA (European Sociological Association); etc.

The Institute has deeply integrated projects into its 'DNA.' As shown in the Externally Funded Projects section of this report, some 30 projects operated in 2016. The international networks established by our individual staff members continue to be used to great effect to contribute to the internationalisation of the Flemish research landscape. In this section, we highlight the aca-demic collaboration that has stimulated and flowed from these projects. The IES participates in a range of different types of projects, from policy support (service contracts) to fundamental re-search projects. The IES is also active in educational projects, and some of these have entailed the creation of formal networks, such as the INOTLES Project.

All of these projects have entailed international collaboration, with some (COP21-RIPPLES, PACT, ACT2015 and EL-CSID) going far beyond the EU’s boundaries. However, the majority of IES project-based collaboration remains within (or close to) the EU’s boundaries. Even so, the projects may have global reach.

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As indicated in the chapter on ‘Organisation and Structure’, the IES Academic Board is responsible for the appointment of all staff at the IES. Senior Academic staff appointments must be confirmed by the Board. Appointments of administrative staff are undertaken by daily management.

Selected at the end of 2015, Prof. Dr. Christian Kaunert took up his function as Academic Director of the Institute in September 2016.Following the grant award by the European Commission for the H2020 project on Science and Cul-tural Diplomacy (EL-CSID), three new senior academics started research at the Institute: Prof. Dr. Luk Van Langenhove (70%), Prof. Dr. Caterina Carta (20%) and Prof. Dr. George Terzis (20%) all took up office in March 2016.The IES also launched two new calls for projects in the course of 2016. Consequently, two new researchers, Fausta Todhe and Eli Perot, started as PhD researchers at the Institute in October. In addition, Dr. Irina Van Der Vet started as project researcher in February 2016. In order to follow up the increasing number of projects (most notably the H2020 project EL CSID), the secretariat welcomed Léonie Maes, who started as project officer in March. Jurgen Smet started as the new Communica-tions Officer in June 2016.

Several IES members left the Institute in 2016:• Dr. Lisanne Groen, who finalised her PhD in the course of 2016, left the Institute in September to

take up a job as researcher at the United Nations University in Tokyo; • Dr. Esther Marijnen, who finalised her PhD in the fall of 2016, left at the end of the year after having

been granted a Max Batley fellowship at the University of Sheffield;• Dr. Irene Wieczorek, who finalised her PhD in the fall of 2016, left at the end of the year to become

a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge and the Université Libre de Bruxelles;• Laraine d’Antin, who worked as learning technologist at the IES Educational Development Unit,

returned to the UK;• Marie Tuley ended her communications function at the Institute in May 2016 to continue a career

in research elsewhere;• Alexandra Mihai’s contract was temporarily suspended (for 1 year) taking effect 1

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16 different job students helped with basic research tasks and ad-ministration in 2016. With these personnel changes, the total number of people directly paid by the IES amounted to 38.5 full-time equivalents (as opposed to 36.2 FTE last year). The total number of IES staff, including those not paid directly by the IES (e.g. the President, the Advisor, one Senior Academic, and all VUB-paid teaching and support staff) amounted to 89.An additional 30 people were associated with the Institute (as either senior associate fellow or visiting fellow).

President Karel De Gucht*Academic Director Christian Kaunert (since September 2016)Acting Academic Director Harri Kalimo (from February – September 2016)Assistant Academic Director Alexander Mattelaer 50%Executive Director Anthony Antoine 100%

Ilke Adam 100% Claire Dupont 100%Harri Kalimo 100%Marie Lamensch (60% until September 2016, 30% afterwards)Richard Lewis*Alexander Mattelaer 50%Trisha Meyer 60%

Sebastian Oberthür 100%Christof Roos 100% Luis Simon 90%

Jamal Shahin 60%Florian Trauner 70%

Alexandra Mihai 100%Silviu Piros 100%Irina Van Der Vet 40%

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTLisanne Groen 100 % (until September 2016)Tran Van Tuy*Ernesto Roessing Neto*Carlos Soria Rodriguez 100%Laura Iozzelli 100%

EUROPEAN FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICYDaniel Fiott*Esther Marijnen 100%Stephan Klose 100%Antonios Nestoras*Elie Perot 100% (since October 2016)

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Ferran Davesa 100%Max Jansson*Filip Sedefov 100%Fausta Todhe 100% (since October 2016)

MIGRATION, DIVERSITY & JUSTICESerena D’Agostino 100%Neepa Acharya*Matthias Holvoet*

Auke Willems*Laura Westerveen 100%

PROJECT RESEARCHERSTomas Wyns 100%Olof Soebech 100%Irina van der Vet 40%Ewout Ramon 100%

Management Assistant & Projects Jacintha Liem 100%Finance & HR Manager Anne Sterckx 90%Communication & Marketing Jurgen Smet 100% (since June 2016)Events & Communication Anamaria Bacsin 100%EuroMaster & Education Lynn Tytgat 100%LL.M. Secretariat Marleen Van Impe 80%IT Klaas Chielens 100%General Secretariat Hilde Vanderheyden 80%Learning Technologist Laraine D’Antin 100% (until March 2016)EL-CSID Project, Postgraduate Certificate & Summer School Léonie Maes 100%

LL.M. IN INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAWDirk Arts 5%Karel De Gucht 10% (since October 2016)

Youri Devuyst 10%Ricardo Gosalbo Bono 5%Frank Hoffmeister 10%Harri Kalimo*Marie Lamensch 10%Bernd Martenczuk 10% (until September 2016)Arnaud Nuyts 10%Sebastian Oberthür*Ben Smulders 10%Servatius van Thiel 10%

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Ilke Adam*Manuela Alfe 10%Youri Devuyst 10% Doris Hildebrand 10% Harri Kalimo 10%Andrea Mairate 10%Christof Roos*Irina Tanasescu 10%

LL.M. IN INTERNATIONAL & EUROPEAN LAWPaul De Hert 10% Serge Gutwirth 10%Stefaan Smis 10%Tony Joris 25%

MSC EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Caroline Buts 10%Leo van Hove 10%Luis Simon 10%

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Management applies quality control measures ex ante as well as ex post. In attracting academic personnel, the IES applies the highest standards. Likewise in its financial management, the IES implements both internal and external control; equally in its services, the IES delivers the best possible services and tries to improve them through feedback from its clients.

For all relevant major activities organised at the IES, an evaluation form is distributed to partici-pants to assess the quality of the rendered services. After each major event/activity, manage-ment and organising staff jointly assess the strengths and weaknesses of the outcomes in order to identify potential for improvement.

All personnel are hired through a quality control procedure, which, as a general rule, begins with the publication of an external vacancy. These vacancies are published internationally through relevant Internet sources, specialised e-mail distribution lists, newspapers and/or journals. The files of candidates are scrutinised by (external) evaluators, with top-ranked individuals invited for an interview with management, senior IES researchers and experts in the field, as appropri-ate. In the case of recruitment for teaching staff, the incumbents present a guest/test lecture that is assessed by both colleagues and students. Teaching staff is further assessed by the Academic Council of the university before a final appointment is made. Candidates for profes-sorships (ZAP) also follow VUB university appointment procedures.

PhD students are recruited through international calls for projects. In 2016, the IES launched two of these calls: one in the field of European Economic Governance and one on International Security. All attracted a large number of candidates, which were scrutinised by a diverse team of scholars. After interviews with the most promising candidates by the cluster coordinators and a team of scholars and staff, two PhD researchers were appointed by the IES Academic Board and awarded a scholarship for a maximum duration of four years.

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The quality of personnel is further monitored through periodical evaluations. PhD researchers are to meet their promoter and su-pervisory committee at least twice per year, while all other aca-demic personnel is assessed on a yearly basis, using standard benchmark sheets. Such assessment did not take place in 2016 due to the change in academic management. Within the secretar-iat, IES personnel are evaluated twice per year through an internal assessment procedure, using standard evaluation forms. In 2016, two such evaluations took place (one in April and one in Novem-ber). These six-monthly IES evaluations serve as benchmarking for the upcoming six months.

Administrative personnel are also supported in the development of personal or work-related skills. In the framework of lifelong learning, a modest budget foresees the support for individual or collective training sessions and/or extra courses. Several such trainings took place in 2016 for the staff responsible for IT, Com-munications, Projects and HR.

The financial officer is supervised by the Executive Director, who in turn reports to the Board of the IES. An external auditor annually controls the overall finances (currently BDO Auditors). Following EC rules, European-funded projects of a certain magnitude (FP7 and H2020) are scrutinised by an auditor prior to submitting the periodic financial figures to the Commission.

Teaching staff are recruited through international vacancies, sub-ject to external scrutiny, interviews and test lectures. Students an-

nually assess the quality of the teacher / course through feedback forms. Both the Dean, the Academic Director

as well as the Programme Director of the respective Master Pro-gramme oversee the follow-up of Programme questions relating to teaching, learning and the overall learning objectives of both mod-ules and programmes. The IES Academic Board further refined the Education and Exam regulations, based on the overall university rules on this theme. In order to enhance the quality of the pro-gramme, the Academic Board also adapted the programme of the MSc. in European Integration. The programme changes will allow for a four-stream programme, based on relevant thematic clusters that link back to IES research. In this way, the Institute hopes to even better meet the research-based quality standards that are required by the Flemish Government at Master-after-Master level.

Students in the Advanced Master programmes, the Postgraduate programmes and in the IES Summer School are carefully selected, based on their study background and results, their command of English, their suitability and motivation, as well as two recommen-dation letters from current or former professors.

PhD and senior researchers are appointed after a thorough se-lection procedure involving an international call for applications, including external scrutiny and interviews (see above). Research progress of PhD students is monitored continuously by the pro-moter, the doctoral committee (twice per year), the responsible senior IES researcher, and the Academic Director in accordance with the IES PhD Guidelines (incorporated in the Guidelines for Academic Staff). In the process of this quality control, junior re-searchers present a state of affairs of their findings at least once per year at a research colloquium (held biweekly). In order to fur-ther enhance the quality of the research, and to streamline the dif-

ferent applicable procedures, the IES Board appointed Prof. Dr. Sebastian Oberthür as Director of PhD Studies – a position it recently created. The Director of PhD Studies will form the pivotal connection between the researchers, IES Management and the university structures. He will collaborate closely with the Doctoral School in Social Sciences, organised by the university at large.

Postdoctoral IES researchers and senior academic staff are monitored by the Academic Director and IES Management in the context of establishing and reviewing ‘benchmarks’.

In order to enhance the quality of overall management, the IES Board changed the composition and prerogatives of the Institute’s governing boards. From October 2016 onwards, the Academic Board (formerly Executive Board) includes IES academic staff while observers were added to the Board. This enhances the involvement of the Institute’s staff and the transparency of the decision-making process. The tasks and functions of both governing boards are also better defined so that overlap is avoided.

To enhance the skills and portfolio of daily management, annual training sessions are usually organised for IES management and senior academic staff. Due to the changes in academic management, these trainings were postponed to 2017.

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The IES is in good financial health. 2016 marks the first year in which the Institute has been able to match its core government funding with income from other sources. For the first time in its history, the Institute obtained more than EUR 1.1 million of funding through externally financed projects. A large majority of these funds are linked to European research projects (FP7 and H2020) but the Institute was also successful in obtaining smaller scale projects from NGOs, national foundations and governments. The Institute also rents out its premises (mainly its conference facilities), which helped generate extra income.

On the expenses side, the Institute’s largest costs are – not surprisingly – personnel costs. With 38.5 FTE personnel, it is quite normal that 70% of its expenses are HR-related. With the remaining 30%, the Institute financed its investments, its running costs and the organisation of its events. Most notably, the Institute organised a major international conference – the 5th of its kind, the EU in International Affairs conference (EUIA16) in May 2016. Naturally, the EUIA16 accounted for the bulk of our event organisation budget.

The IES surpassed the total revenue of 2015, generating a total turnover of EUR 3.85 million, which is EUR 340,000 more than last year. It ends the year with a slight surplus, maintaining the break-even situation it has been achieving over the past years.

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BOOK CHAPTERS

ACQUAH, D, and HE, K. 2016, Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property in Europe and China, in: LEE, N., BRUUN, N. and LI, M. (eds.), Governance of Intellectual Property Rights in China and Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

BURGESS, J.P. and MARTIN-MAZÉ, M. 2016, An Ethics of Security. In: DAASE, C., JUNK, J. and SCHLAG, G. (eds.), Transformations of Security Studies: Dialogues, Diversity and Discipline, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 94-108.

JANSSON, M. and ROMPPANEN, S. 2016. Biofuels, in: MORGERA, E. and KULOVESI, K. (eds.), Handbook on International Law and Natural Resources: Edward Elgar.

KALIMO,. and JANSSON, M.S. 2016, Assessing Economic Law under Crisis - An Analytical Framework, in: KALIMO, H. and JANSSON, M.S. (eds.), EU Economic Law in a Time of Crisis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-12.

KALIMO, H. and JANSSON, M.S. 2016. A Wasted Crisis?, in: KALIMO, H. and JANSSON, M.S. (eds.), EU Economic Law in a Time of Crisis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 167-190.

KALIMO, H., OLKKONEN, K. and VAARIO, J. 2016. Intellectual Property Rights Law – Driving Innovation or Stifling the Digital Single Market?, in: KALIMO, H. and JANSSON, M.S. (eds.), EU Economic Law in a Time of Crisis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 151-163.

LAMENSCH, M. 2016, The Use of Soft Law by the European VAT Legislator, and What the CJEU Makes of It, in: LANG, M. (ed.), CJEU – Recent Developments in Value Added Tax 2015, Vienna: Linde Verlag, pp. 21-51.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. After the EU Global Strategy - Consulting the Experts, in: ANDERSSON, J.J., FIOTT, D. and MISSIROLI, A. (eds.), After the EU Global Strategy - Consulting the Experts, Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies, pp. 35-37.

OBERTHÜR, S. 2016. Compliance under the Evolving Climate Change Regime, in: CARLARNE, C.P., GRAY, K.R. and TARASOFSKY, R.G. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook

of International Climate Change Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 120-136.

OBERTHÜR, S. 2016. Regime-interplay Management: Lessons from Environmental Policy and Law, in: BLOME, K., FISCHER-LESCANO, A., FRANZKI, H., MARKARD, N. and OETER, S. (eds.), Contested Regime Collisions: Norm Fragmentation in World Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 88-108.

WESTERVEEN, L. and THYS, R. 2016, De integratie van personen met een migratieachtergrond op de Belgische arbeidsmarkt, in: PANNECOUCKE, I., LAHAYE, W., VRANKEN, J. and VAN ROSSEM, R. (eds.), Armoede in België: Jaarboek 2016, Gent: Academia Press, pp. 271-295. (French Version published as: WESTERVEEN, L. and THYS, R. 2016. L’intégration des personnes issues de l’immigration sur le marché du travail en Belgique, in:, PANNECOUCKE, I., LAHAYE, W., VRANKEN, J. and VAN ROSSEM, R. (eds.), Pauvreté en Belgique : Annuaire 2016, Gent: Academia Press, pp. 271-295.)

VAN LANGENHOVE L. , ZWARTJES M., and PAPANAGNOU, G. 2016. “Conceptualising Regional Leadership: The Positioning Theory Angle”, in: Stephen Kingah and Cintia Quiliconi (eds). Global and Regional Leadership of BRICS Countries, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 13-27.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L. and KINGAH, S. 2016. “Conditions for Effective Regional Social (Health) Policies: The EU and Unasur Compared”, in: Andrea Bianculli and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, “Regional Organizatons and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America”, Palgrave, pp. 231-250.

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ADAM, I. and DESCHOUWER, K. 2016. Nationalist Parties and Immigration in Flanders: From Volksunie to Spirit and N-VA, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 1290-1303.

CASAS-SALLERAS, A., DAVESA, F. and CONGOSTO, M. 2016. La cobertura mediática de una acción 'conectiva': la interacción entre el movimiento 15-M y los medios de comunicación' REIS, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Vol./No. 155, pp. 73-96.

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FIOTT, D. 2016. Review of Charles C Mann's '1493', Global Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 102-103.

FUNK, M. and TRAUNER, F. 2016. Transatlantic Counter-terrorism Cooperation, Alert Nr. 15, Paris: Eu-ropean Union Institute for Security Studies.

KINGAH S., B. Amaya, A., and VAN LANGENHOVE, L. 2016.: “Requirements for Effective European Union Leadership in Science and Cultural Diplomacy on (Inter)Regionalism in the South”, UNU-CRIS Working Paper, 3.

LEONARD, S. and KAUNERT, C. 2016. The Extra-terri-torial Processing of Asylum Claims, Forced Migration Review, Issue 51, January 2016, pp. 48-50.

MIHAI, A. 2016. Book review: Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations, Journal of Contemporary European Re-search, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 934-6.

ROOS, C. 2016. What Justifies Open or Closed Bor-ders in the Liberal Polity? Global. Kring voor Interna-tionale betrekkingen, Vol. 20, No.1, p. 10-12.

TRAUNER, F. and WILLEMS, A. 2016. The Internal-ex-ternal Nexus: Cross-border Criminal Justice, Brief No. 29, Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies.

TRAUNER, F. 2016. New Kids on the CFSP Block: The JHA Agencies, Brief No. 7, Paris: European Union In-stitute for Security Studies.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L. 2016. “Multilateral EU Action through Science Diplomacy” in: Balazs Ujvari (ed.), The EU Global Strategy: Going Beyond Effective Mul-tilateralism?, European Policy Centre: Brussels, June, pp. 27-30.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES

ADAM, I., BRACKE, S., CELIS, K., COENE, G., LEYE, E.M., MEIER, P. and WITHAECKX, S. 2016. Imple-menting Gender Equality in Belgium: Just a Matter of Adopting Laws?' Paper presented at ECPR Joint Sessions. Workshop Gendering Equality in Practice, Pisa, 22-24 April 2016.

DUPONT, C. and OBERTHÜR, S. 2016, Understanding Catch-Up Governance in EU Climate and Energy Poli-cy, conference paper.

KALIMO, H. and JANSSON, M.S. 2016. Deeper, fairer, stronger – the EU Single Market law during and after the economic crisis’, European Union in International Affairs V Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 11-13 May.

KAUNERT, C. 2016. Counter-Terrorism, Crisis, and Supranational Policy Entrepreneurship in the EU: In-stitute for European Studies, University of Berkeley, California, USA, 10-16 December 2016.

KAUNERT, C. 2016. The Collective Securitisation of Terrorism, Governing the European Security Space: The EU as an Agent of Collective Securitisation, Uni-versity of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 17-19 October 2016.

KAUNERT, C. 2016. Supranational governance and EU Justice and Home Affairs - Exogenous shocks, policy entrepreneurs and 9/11, UACES Annual Conference, London, 5-7 September 2016.

KAUNERT, C. and LEONARD, S. 2016. Transgovern-mental Networks and EU Counter-Terrorism, Security Policy Coordination in North America and Europe, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 26-27 August 2016.

KAUNERT C. and LEONARD, S. 2016. Refugees, Se-curity and the European Union, British International Studies Association (BISA) 41st Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 15-17 June 2016.

KAUNERT, C. 2016. The EU, Justice and Home Affairs and the Brexit Referendum, ESRC Workshop on Eu-rope and the UK Brexit Referendum, Aston University, 10 June 2016.

KAUNERT, C. and LEONARD, S. 2016. Norm transfer for surveillance: from transatlantic Passenger Name Records to PNR in the EU, Reacting to Surveillance by Security Agencies in the Age of Big Data – What is the role of the European Union?, Berlin School of Eco-nomics and Law, Berlin, Germany, 13-14 May 2016.

KAUNERT, C. 2016. Regional Security Complexes, North Africa and the European Union', University of Cairo, Egypt, 11-12 May 2016.

KLOSE, S. 2016. External Actors in Regional Security Complexes: How the EU and US shape regional se-curity networks in East Asia, ISA Asia-Pacific Conference, Hong Kong, China, 25-27 June.

KLOSE, S. 2016. Conceptualizing the Rela-tions between World Regions and External PU

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FIOTT, D. 2016. The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Defence, Industry and Strategy, The International Spectator, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 119-130.

FIOTT, D. 2016, Europe and the Pentagon's Third Offset Strategy, The RUSI Journal, Vol. 161, No. 1, pp. 22-27.

FIOTT, D. 2016. Modernising NATO's Defence Infrastructure with EU Fund, Survival, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 77-94.

JANSSON, M. 2016. Extraterritoriality, Externalities and Cross-Border Trade-Some Lessons from the U.S., the EU and the WTO, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 437-475.

JANSSON, M. 2016. Public Procurement and Biofuels Sustainability Criteria – Is There a Link?, Climate Law, Vol. 6, No. 3-4, pp. 296-313.

KOOPS, J. and TERCOVICH, G. 2016. A European Return to United Nations Peacekeeping? Opportunities, Challenges and Ways Ahead, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 597-609.

KOOPS, J. 2016. Germany and United Nations Peacekeeping: The Cautiously Evolving Contributor, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 652-680.

LAMENSCH, M. 2016. EU VAT Neutrality in Question, International VAT Monitor, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 236-237.

LAMENSCH, M. 2016. Is There Any Future for the Vendor Collection Model in the 21st Century Economy?, International VAT Monitor, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 182-185.

LAMENSCH, M. 2016. Soft Law and EU VAT: From Informal to Inclusive Governance?, World Journal of VAT/GST Law, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 9-31.

LAMENSCH, M. 2016. The OECD International VAT/GST Guidelines: Completion of a (First) Major Step towards Global Coordination of Value-Added-Tax Systems, Intertax, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 360-373.

LEONARD, S. and KAUNERT, C. 2016. Beyond Stockholm: In Search of a Strategy for the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, European Politics and Society, Vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 143-149.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. Revisiting the Principles of NATO Burden-Sharing, Parameters, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 25-33.

OBERTHÜR, S. and BODLE, R. 2016. Legal Form and Nature of the Paris Outcome, Climate Law, Vol. 6, No. 1-2, pp. 40-57.

OBERTHÜR, S. 2016. Perspectives on EU Implementation of the Paris Outcome, Carbon and Climate Law Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 34-45.

OBERTHÜR, S. 2016, Reflections on Global Climate Politics Post Paris: Power, Interests and Polycentricity, The International Spectator, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 80-94.

OBERTHÜR, S. 2016. Where to Go from Paris? The European Union in Climate Geopolitics, Global Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 119-130.

ROESSING NETO, E. 2016. California y la dimensión internacional de políticas subestatales para el cambio climático, Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 1-26.

ROOS, C. and ZAUN, N. 2016. Editorial to Special Issue: The Global Economic Crisis as a Critical Juncture? The Crisis's Impact on Migration Movements and Policies in Europe and the US, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 42, No. 10, 1579-1589.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Balancing Priorities in America's European Strategy, Parameters, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 13-24.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Seapower and US Forward Presence in the Middle East: Retrenchment in Perspective, Journal of Geopolitics, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 115-147.

SIMÓN, L. 2016, The 'Third' US Offset Strategy and Europe's 'Anti-Access' Challenge, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 417-445.

SIMÓN, L. and KLOSE, S. 2016. European Perspectives towards the Rise of Asia: Contextualising the Debate, Asia-Europe Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 239-260.

SORIA RODRIGUEZ, C. 2016. Marine Renewable Energies and the European Regional Seas Conventions, Climate Law, Vol. 6, No. 3-4, pp. 314-335.

TRAUNER, F. and RIPOLL SERVENT, A. 2016. The Communitarisation of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Why Institutional Change Does not Translate into Policy Change, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1417-1432.

TRAUNER, F. 2016. Asylum Policy - the EU’s ‘Crises’ and the Looming Policy Regime Failure, Journal of European Integration, Vol. 38, No 3, pp. 311-325.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L. 2016. “Global Science Diplomacy as a New Tool for Global Governance”, Pensament: Federació d’Organitzacions Catalanes Internacionalment Reconegudes (FOCIR), (3): 28.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L. 2016. "Global Science Diplomacy for Multilateralism 2.0" Science and Diplomacy:5(3): 8.

ZAUN, N., ROOS, C. and GÜLZAU, F. 2016. Circumventing Deadlock through Venue-shopping: Why There is More than Just Talk in US Immigration Politics in Times of Economic Crisis, Journal of Ethnic and Migration studies, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 1590-1609.

WYNS, T., and KHATCHADOURIAN, A. 2016. Situational Analysis of EU Renewable Energy Legislation, Climate Policy, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 568-85.

FULL ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS WITHOUT INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEW

TRAUNER, F. 2016. Wie sollen Flüchtlinge in Europa verteilt werden? Der Streit um einen Paradigmenwechsel in der EU-Asylpolitik, Integration, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 93-106.

TRAUNER, F. 2016: ‘The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: EU Jus-tice and Home Affairs in Croatia and Macedonia’ (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011): a response to Georgi Dimitrov and Marko Kmezić. In: Southeastern Europe (debate section).

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International Cultural Relations: An Initial, Critical but Constructive Analysis" by Richard Higgott and Luk Van Langenhove, EL-CSID Policy Brief 2016/1.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. The NATO Warsaw Summit: How to Strengthen Alliance Cohesion, Strategic Fo-rum No. 296, National Defense University, Washing-ton DC.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. Why Belgium Needs a Special Operations Command, Security Policy Briefs, No. 70, Egmont Institute.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Off-Setting NATO's 'Anti-Access', Challenge, March 2016, The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Securing the 'Middle Spaces': Geog-raphy, Strategy and the Future of European Power. Egmont Institute.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Beyond Brexit: the future of the Span-ish-British relationship, Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano 71/2016.

WYNS, T. and AXELSON, M. 2016. Decarbonising Eu-rope’s Energy Intensive Industries: The Final Frontier. Report. Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universi-teit Brussel, June 2016.

NEWSPAPER OP-EDS AND ONLINE COMMENTARY

FIOTT, D. 2016. Malta’s Unlikely Responsibility…, Malta Today, 20 July.

FIOTT, D. 2016. Europe's Richelieu Moment? EU Bor-der Security and the CSDP, European Geostrategy, 17 February.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. Seven paradoxes of NATO’s revival as Europe’s primary security institution, LSE EUROPP blog, 07 November.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. Three plus one: a military level of ambition for Europeans, European Geostrategy, 13 March.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. Wat met België na de brexit?, deredactie.be, 29 June.

MATTELAER, A. 2016. Wat meer ambitie voor onze troepen, De Standaard, 07 July.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Britain and the Fate of the Europe We Know, War on the Rocks, 24 October 2016.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. A European Perspective on Anti-Ac-

cess/Area Denial and the Third Offset Strategy. War on the Rocks, 3 May 2016.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. European Strategy in Times of Geo-political Interdependence, European Defence Matters, Issue 11, pp. 14-15.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Brexit: What now for Europe?, De-fence Matters, 20 July 2016.

SIMÓN, L. 2016. Brexit: Eastern Flank Consequenc-es and NATO's Next Steps, Defence Matters, 22 July 2016.

TRAUNER, F. 2016. Contributing to the discussion of the statements of politicians from an academic per-spective, ‘Füchtlingsforschung gegen Mythen 3. Wis-senschaftlerInnen diskutieren Behauptungen aus der Flüchtlingsdebatte’, Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung, 23 May 2016.

TRAUNER, F. 2016. Rückführung mit Prädikat frag-würdig, op-ed in the Austrian daily ‘Der Standard’ 26 February (with Sieglinde Rosenberger).

TRAUNER, F. 2016. The integrative power of the threat of disintegration, Op-ed first published by Politheor European Policy Network and then by EurActiv.com, 5 February.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L., 2016. “Towards an EU Strat-egy for Cultural and Science Diplomacy that is inte-grated in the Wider Foreign and Security Policy”, 22 March, Available at El-CSID website.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L., 2016. “Science Diplomacy: New Global Challenges, New Trend”, 12 April, Avail-able at RSIS and El-CSID website.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L., 2016. “UN and EU: Partners in Security Governance”, 4 May, Available at RSIS.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L., 2016. “UN and EU: Partners in Security Governance”, 9 May, Available at Eurasia Review.

WYNS, T. and AXELSON, M. 2016. New Industrial Pol-icy for Europe: Safeguard for a Competitive Low Car-bon Transition of the Steel Industry, Euractiv blog, 7 October 2016.

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PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS

Actors: How the EU Re-imagines its Role in East Asia, ISA Asia-Pacific Confer-ence, Hong Kong, China, 25-27 June.

KLOSE, S. 2016. The Internalisation of Norms in EU-East Asia Relations: How the EU (Re)invents itself as an International Security Actor. European Union in International Affairs V Conference, Brussels, 11-13 May.

KLOSE, S. 2016. Conceptualizing the Relations between World Regions and External Actors: How the EU Re-imagines its Role in East Asia, 23rd Interna-tional Conference of Europeanists, Philadelphia, USA, 14-16 April.

LEONARD, S. and KAUNERT, C. 2016. Frontex and Border Controls: Between Securitisation and Regional Security Complexes, British International Studies Association (BISA) 41st Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 15-17 June 2016.

MEYER, T. and SHAHIN, J. 2016. The historical legacy of the internet: ten-sions between multiple institutional frameworks, European Union in Interna-tional Affairs V Conference, Brussels, 11-13 May.

MEYER, T. and VETULANI-CEGIEL, A. 2016. From ACTA to TTIP: Lessons learned on Democratic Process and Balancing of Rights, CPDP2016 Comput-ers, Privacy and Data Protection, Brussels, 27-29 January 2016.

OBERTHÜR, S. and GROEN, L. 2016. EU Performance in International Negoti-ations: The Paris Agreement on Climate Change, International Studies Asso-ciation Annual Convention, Atlanta, 19 March 2016.

OBERTHÜR, S. and GROEN, L. 2016. Explaining Success in International Ne-gotiations: The EU and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, EU in Inter-national Affairs conference, Brussels, 11 May 2016.

PRINZ, L. and GROEN, L. 2016. Participant Observation in Multilateral Negoti-ations – Lessons Learnt from Observing the European Union in the UNFCCC and CBD, EU in International Affairs conference, Brussels, 11 May 2016.

ROOS, C. 2016. Voting or Consensus in the JHA Council? An Exploration of Member State motivations for contestation of EU legislation, 46th UACES Conference 2016, Queen Mary University of London, 5-7 September 2016.

ROOS, C. 2016. Council Decision Making in JHA. Exploring the Meaning of Public Dissent of Member States in the Council, SGEU - ECPR, 8th Pan Euro-pean Conference on the European Union, Trento, 16-18 June 2016.

ROOS, C. 2016. Keynote: Kooperationskrise und Normenkonflikte. Warum Ef-fektivität und Legitimität des EU-Grenzregimes untergraben werden, Flucht, Migration und gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse, Interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 28-30 April 2016.

ROOS, C. 2016. The (de-) politicisation of EU freedom of movement: Policy change and its effects in Germany and the UK, Council for European Studies,

Philadelphia, 14-17 April 2016.

SORIA RODRIGUEZ, C. 2016. European and International Law Gov-erning Species Protection against Marine Renewable Energy Instal-lations, The European Union in International Affairs V Conference,

Brussels, 11-13 May 2016.

TRAUNER, F. 2016. Asylum policy – the EU’s ‘crises’ and the looming policy regime failure, 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Council of Eu-ropean Studies (CES), Philadelphia, 13-16 April 2016.

TRAUNER, F. and SLOMINSKI, P. 2016. The migration crisis and EU return pol-icy – playing tough within the law? Politicologenetmaal, Brussels, 2-3 June 2016.

TRAUNER, F. 2016: The reaction of third countries to the EU’s external migra-tion agenda, Presentation made for a consortium meeting preparing a Hori-zon 2020 application, University of Nijmegen, 8-9 September 2016.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L. 2016: “Positioning Theory and the Study of Moral Or-ders" at the Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe, Linköping University, Sweden, 20 April.

VAN LANGENHOVE, L., 2016.: “‘The Practice Turn’: Towards a New Theory of Cultural and Science Diplomacy in the Early 21st Century”, Academic Pan-el T2E European Cultural and Science Diplomacy: An Agenda for Research, Presentation at the “EU in International Affairs IV” conference, Brussels, with Richard Higgott, 12 May.

WOLFF, S. and TRAUNER, F. 2016. Conceptualising the Geopolitical Gover-nance of EU Migration, 46th UACES Annual Conference, London, 5-7 Septem-ber 2016.

WESTERVEEN, L. and ADAM, I. 2016. Monitoring the impact of doing nothing: New trends in immigrant integration policy, The European Union in Interna-tional Affairs Conference, Brussels, 11-13 May 2016 and Politicologenetmaal, Brussels, 2-3 June 2016.

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH AND POLICY WORK

BURNS, C., JORDAN, A., GRAVEY, V., BERNY, N., BULMER, S., CARTER, N., COWELL, R., DUTTON, J., MOORE, B., OBERTHÜR, S., OWENS, S., RAYNER, T., SCOTT, J. and STEWART, B. 2016. The EU Referendum and the UK Environ-ment: An Expert Review: How has EU membership affected the UK and what might change in the event of a vote to Remain or Leave?, available at: http://environmentEUref.blogspot.co.uk/.

FIOTT, D. 2016. EU Defence Research In Development, EUISS Policy Alert 43, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris.

FIOTT, D. and MISSIROLI, A. 2016. Making Europe and Europeans Safer, EUISS Policy Alert 39, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris.

FIOTT, D. 2016. After the EU Global Strategy: Connecting the Dots, EUISS Pol-icy Alert 33, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris.

FIOTT, D. 2016. A 'Game Changer'? The EU's Preparatory Action on Defence Research. Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Paris.

HIGGOTT R., and VAN LANGENHOVE, L. 2016. "Towards an EU Strategy for

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