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Professor Richard Bellamy, founding Director of the UCL European Institute and Professor of Political Science in the UCL School of Public Policy, has been appointed Director of the Max Weber programme at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence.

UCL has been awarded its first ever HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) grant.

Cultural historians and digital humanists at UCL – led by Ulrich Tiedau (UCL Dutch / Digital Humanities) – and the universities of Utrecht and Trier, will address the question of how the large and cultural powerful countries Britain, France, and Germany influenced public debates in smaller countries like the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in the past two centuries.

Watch the first performance of Daniel’s tragedy in at least four hundred years.

Contrary to popular belief, Muslim migration is making Europe more secular, not less.

"The European relationship between religion, law and politics is a strange creature. Religious influence over political life is weaker in Europe than in almost any other part of the world. To adapt the phrase first used by Alastair Campbell when he was spokesman for the British prime minister Tony Blair, politicians in Europe generally ‘don’t do God’. The EU’s Eurobarometer surveys of public opinion suggest that religion has a very limited impact on the political values and behaviour of European voters. Europe has no equivalent to the politically powerful religious right in America, nor to the theological debates in the political arena that one sees in many Islamic countries.

Congratulations to Prof Albert Weale, Prof Sir Malcom Grant, and several others.

Albert Weale, Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy at UCL since 2010, and frequent collaborator with the UCL European Institute, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to Political Science.

The EI Director addressed the Commission on "Britain’s Global Role".

This body deals with issues relating to foreign policy, defence, international aid and development, and is responsible for examining how the Labour is to address the future challenges in these areas. It is an integral part of the party's policy development in the run-up to the next General Election.

Dr Basak Cali was interviewed by John Sopel on Thursday 6th June, on BBC World News, commenting on the protests that have hit Turkey for the past week. 

Congratulations to UCLU European Society for winning the Best UCLU Publication Award 2013 for their Eureka magazine!

Read Philippe Marlière's article in The Guardian.

New opportunity!

We would like to draw your attention to a new, exciting and wide-ranging opportunity for postgraduate secondments to Whitehall that is now being facilitated by UCL Public Policy through the Office of the Vice-Provost for Research.

Workshop 2013

The Eurocode 7 and New Design Challenges workshop was held at UCL on the 19th of March 2013. The workshop was excellently successful with more than 100 attendees from different countries of Europe, the great majority students, graduates and young geotechnical engineers with a genuine interest in Eurocode 7 design. Among the event highlights were the 4 keynote lectures from the eminent members of the EC7 Evolution Groups:

Recent output from an EU research study - an animation of the future public transport journey 2030.

Student Conference, 12th June 2013, University College London (UCL).

As we turn further into the twenty-first century, our ways of making sense of the world are becoming increasingly compromised. Shifting causes and patterns of human movement are encouraging a reassessment of perspectives and practices towards migration. In terms of forced migration studies, factors such as climate change, food security and the economic crisis, as well as the continuation of existing pressures, like protracted refugee situations and internal displacement, have dramatically altered the field. If people are not forced by the violent or persecutory actions of others to seek protection but feel compelled to leave their home due to natural disasters or poverty, to what extent can they be considered forced migrants?

Professor Philippe Marlière (UCL French) says that the core difference in an all-women race is that there will be no temptation from male commentators to ask: is the female candidate fit for the job?

Professor Helen Hackett, English Department and Centre for Early Modern Exchanges report on Samuel Daniel’s The Tragedie of Cleopatra.

UCLU's European Society put on a photo competition based on the theme  ‘Europe in London’.

UCL EI organised a volunteer to attend a Q&A with Hillary Clinton.

We will be live streaming the upcoming EU & European Careers Event which is now sold out!!

The workshop was held at UCL's Department of History in September 2012 with funding received from UCL European Institute.

Video recording of Mélenchon's talk: 'For an alternative to austerity in Europe' is now now available with English subtitles!

Closing date 1st March 2013.  An historical opportunity is now available!

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) has advertised up to 150 positions of contractual agents with five-year contracts for PhDs (or researchers without a doctorate but who can prove five years of experience in the fields of social and human sciences).

"In union there is strength." Aesop

"You cannot conceive the many without the one." Plato "The principle of contradiction makes the thought of unity the measure of heterogeneity." Theodor W. Adorno "In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance." Jeanette Winterson

A UCL Laws alumnus was elected President of Cyprus on Sunday 24 February.

It was a clear victory: President  Nicos Anastasiades took 57.5 percent of the vote, 15 points ahead of his rival Stavros Malas, who campaigned on an anti-austerity platform. The Guardian commented that: “With the ex-British colony facing financial meltdown in the wake of the huge losses sustained by its banking system when Greece restructured its debt, the election had assumed a significance not seen since independence in 1960. Foreign lenders at the EU and IMF had hoped Anastasiades would win, seeing the 66-year-old lawyer as a pair of safe hands in what could be tortuous times ahead as both try to finalise a rescue programme to keep the island's recession-hit economy afloat.”

Check out European Society’s Award Winning Publication

EUREKA magazine deals in the politics, arts and culture of modern Europe, showcasing some of the finest journalistic and photographic talent on UCL campus. Having received the UCLU award for Best Publication 2010/11, we are looking forward to another year of high quality student comment and debate.

In 2008 the European Commission launched the “Raw Materials Initiative” (RMI) 

Its aim was to establish an integrated strategy to respond to the challenges of sustainable access to and supply of raw materials, both outside and within the EU.