Announcement!

MERCURY Conference 3rd September 2010 "CHALLENGES FOR GLOBAL EUROPE"

MERCURY and the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh are pleased to announce a half-day conference on the European Union's role in the evolving global order. The financial crisis, climate change talks, migration, the rise of China and other issues present a host of challenges, and leading figures will reflect on the EU's priorities and capabilities given post-Lisbon restructuring of external policy. For more information and registration, please click here.

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30 October 2009: Offer for young researchers: Training network EXACT in the field of EU external action

MERCURY's partner project EXACT - a Marie Curie Initial Training Network in the field of EU external action - has published its call for application.

EXACT invites applications for 12 fully-funded (3 years) PhD studentships on subjects related to EU external action.

The successful applicants will have the opportunity to:

  • Receive research training from a European team of universities – the Universities of Cologne, Edinburgh and Charles University (Prague) – and think tanks such as IAI;
  • Gain practical experience of professional policy analysis at 2 European think tanks preoccupied with EU foreign policy;
  • Have the possibility of contributing to MERCURY;
  • Pursue a bi-national (‘co-tutelle’) PhD issued by 2 universities.

With the University of Edinburgh, the University of Cologne, Charles University Prague and Istituto Affari Internazionali, four partner institutions of MERCURY are members of the EXACT training network.

Click here for more information and visit www.exact-training.net.

 

News archive

Calendar of major MERCURY events

30 January 2009 MERCURY Lecture by Dr. Nathalie Tocci, Edinburgh
12 and 13 March 2009 Kick-off conference, Edinburgh
12 March 2009 MERCURY Lecture by Prof. Chen Zhimin, Edinburgh
30 April 2009 Launch of project website www.mercury-fp7.net
15 May 2009 MECURY Lecture by Prof. David Camroux, Fudan University Shanghai
9 July 2009 MERCURY Lecture by Prof. John Peterson, Cologne
9 and 10 July 2009 Joint workshop Work Packages I (“Mapping Modes of Multilateralism”) and II (“Architecture of EU External Relations”), Cologne
3 and 4 March 2010 Plenary meeting plus joint workshop Work Packages II (“Architecture of EU External Relations”) and III (“Multilateralism in Practice”), Brussels
3 September 2010 MERCURY Conference "Challenges for Global Europe", Brussels
February 2011 Plenary meeting plus workshops of Work Package III (“Multilateralism in Practice”) and Work Package IV (“Organised Multilateralism”), Prague
October 2011 MERCURY joint conference with the projects EU4SEAS and EU-GRASP, together with Stakeholder conference, Brussels
   
  This list of events will be continuously updated during the project lifetime.

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PDF July 2009: issue no. 1

PDF December 2009: issue no. 2

PDF June 2010: issue no. 3