The EUTOPIA Learning Community “Europe in the World” offers students from partner Universities the possibility to access live 2 online lectures from the course Governance and Public Policies: Challenges and opportunities in the European Union delivered by the Faculty of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in collaboration with the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Governance and the Barcelona Center for European Studies.

Both lectures are included in the course Governance and Public Policies: Challenges and opportunities in the European Union, a course for 3th and 4th years undergraduate students. The main objective of the course is to broaden and deepen the knowledge about the international dimension of the EU as well as some of EU internal policies.

Lecture 1 – Wednesday, 5th of May from 9,30 to 11.00 a.m.

The future of the common security and defense policy: the EU as a global military actor

Professor LUIS SIMON, IR Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Director of the Elcano Brussles Office

Lecture 2 – Wednesday, 19th of May from 9,30 to 11.00 a.m.

Jobs, economic growth and investment – The EU Horizon Programme

Dr. INGA ULNICANE, Research Fellow and DE Montfort University, UK

Students will not be enrolled in the course and will not have access to course materials but will be able to listen to and interact with the lecturers and other students.

Students at EUTOPIA partner Universities can participate in both live online lectures of the course.

The host University (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) makes the Collaborate link available to the EUTOPIA network for each individual lecture. Students should always register for these lectures with their full names and attend lectures on time.