Dissemination Conference

Dissemination Conference, 16-17th January 2017, Europäische Akademie Berlin

Spreading Knowledge and Fostering Research about a Key Institution

SUMMIT's closing conference gathered leading EU-practitioners and academics, practitioners producing study material, students and an interested public. The aim was to disseminate the project's results, identify the institution's present and future role and how to spread knowledge on this. These topics were addressed with the sessions listed below: > pictures > conference program

Keynote Speech: Jim Cloos, Deputy Director-General in the General Secretariat of the European Council
Session 1: The European Council and the Future of the EU

(Speakers: Michael Kaeding, University of Duisburg/Essen; Uta Stäsche, Freie Universität Berlin; Sophie Vanhoonacker, Maastricht University; Andrew Duff, European Policy Centre; John Erik Fossum, ARENA/University of Oslo; Peter-Christian Müller-Graf, Heidelberg University; Uwe Puetter; Central European University)

Session 2: Teaching the European Council : Approaches and tools

(Speakers: Hartmut Marhold, Centre international de formation européenne; Miriam Vogel, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung; Susana Muñoz, University of Luxembourg; Marieke Eckhard, CETEUS/University of Cologne; Jürgen Mittag, German Sport University Cologne; Lenka Curillova, Comenius University, Bratislava; Wulf Reiners, Turkish-German University)

Session 3: A practitioners’ perspective: The role of the European Council for national decision-maker

(Speakers: Funda Tekin, CETEUS/University of Cologne, Centre international de formation européenne; Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, University of Glasgow; Thomas Westphal, Federal Ministry of Finance; Klemens H. Fischer, Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union, University of Cologne; Yvonne Nasshoven, Federal Foreign Office)

Session 4: The European Council in times of crises

(Speakers: Mathias Jopp, Institut für Europäische Politik; Ralf Drachenberg, Parliamentary Research Services/European Parliament; Jan Werts (Clingendael Internationale Spectator and Montesquieu Institute); Yann-Sven Rittelmeyer, European Policy Centre; Ebru Turhan, Turkish-German University, Petya Alexandrova, University of Oxford)

Session 5: The European Council: Centre of the institutional architecture?

(Speakers: Christine Neuhold, Maastricht University; Sebastiaan Princen, Utrecht University;Christophe Hillion, Universities of Leiden, Gothenburg and Oslo; David Schäfer, London School of Economics and Political Science;Sergio Fabbrini, LUISS, Rome)

Session 6: The European Council: What to take away for research and teaching?

(Speakers: Wolfgang Wessels, CETEUS/University of Cologne;Lenka Curillova, Comenius University, Bratislava; Mathias Jopp, Institut für Europäische Politik;Christine Neuhold, Maastricht University;Funda Tekin, CETEUS/University of Cologne, Centre international de formation européenne;Sophie Vanhoonacker; Maastricht University)