College of Europe
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The College of Europe (English ) or the Collège d'Europe (French ), unofficially also Dutch. College of Europe, Polish: Kolegium Europejskie or German College of Europe, is an independent postgraduate research University Institute for European Studies, with locations in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin ( part of Warsaw, Poland). It was founded in 1949. The College of Europe is considered the " elite of the European Union ".
Many high-ranking politicians, diplomats and academics have academic degrees at the College of Europe, including the current Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning -Schmidt and the Deputy Prime Minister of Britain Nick Clegg. The students come from over 50 countries and are usually selected by a selection committee, which cooperates with the national foreign ministries, in a highly selective competition. Working languages of the College of Europe are English and French.
Postgraduate courses
The following postgraduate courses are offered at the College of Europe:
- Master of Arts in European Political and Administrative Studies ( Diplôme d' études en approfondies politique et administration Européennes )
- Master of Arts in European Economic Studies ( Diplôme d' études en économie approfondies Européenne)
- Master in European Law (LL.M. ) ( Diplôme d' études en droit européen approfondies )
- Master of Arts in European Interdisciplinary Studies ( Diplôme d' études Européennes interdisciplinaires approfondies )
- Master of Arts in European Union International Relations and Diplomacy ( Diplôme d' études en relations internationales approfondies et de l' Union européenne diplomatiques )
All courses take ten months ( mid-September to mid-June ), the final exams in late May / early June. Most students receive scholarships of their national governments. In Germany, the allocation of university places and scholarships will be made by an independent selection committee and organized by the European Movement. In Austria, the Austrian Exchange Service (OAD ) will select the students.
History
The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 and is the oldest post-graduate institute in the field of European integration. The foundation dates back to the Hague European Congress of the European Movement. The Spanish politician Salvador de Madariaga proposed an appropriate foundation.
Annually do about 400 students from over 50 nations a degree in the fields of law, economics, political science and public administration and international relations and diplomacy. Graduates are then working in the European institutions, associations, companies and national governments, government agencies, law firms and diplomacy.
The College of Europe in Natolin was founded in 1992 as a sister campus of Bruges and is currently attended by approximately 120 students annually. The campus in Natolin offers a broad interdisciplinary studies. The "European Interdisciplinary Studies" can be broken down into four main areas governance in the EU ( governance, decision-making processes ), The European Single Market ( law and business in the internal market ), The EU as a Regional Actor (European Neighbourhood Policy ) and The EU as a Global Actor ( EU foreign policy ).
The College is always looking for the proximity to the celebrities. Thus, visited in November 2010, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the university in Bruges.
Campus & Student Life
The university campus in Belgium is located in the historic city of Bruges. The Polish campus is located in a nature reserve on the southern outskirts of Warsaw ( 30 minutes by metro from the city center). The fees for the study include costs for room and board one on campus; thereby achieved a close co-existence of internationally composed group of students.
Reputation and rankings
According to the Times, the College of Europe is "for the European political elite, what the Harvard Business School is for corporate America ." Der Spiegel writes that the College of Europe "Europe's last bastion " is. For half a century it 'm training in Europe handlebars. A conclusion of the colleges " opens up career opportunities as a well-paid official at the European Commission, the Council, the European Parliament or as a lobbyist for one of the countless associations, for large law firms or corporate offices. Thousands graduates of 1949, founded the College of Europe have shown us that these calculation comes up: Brussels is a hotbed of Bruges graduates ". The infamous " Bruges - Mafia " have been one or the other helped to a good job.
Alumni
Many former students of the college ( called Anciens in French) now work as a minister in their respective national governments in the European and national parliaments, as diplomats or in high-ranking positions in government and business.
A list of the " Anciens " the years 1949 to 1999 is in the book, The College of Europe. Fifty Years of Service to Europe (1999), written by Dieter Mahncke, Léonce Bekemans and Robert Picht.
Important Alumni of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium (since 1949):
- Frans Alphons Maria Alting of Geusau, Dutch jurist and diplomat, professor at MIT, Harvard University, at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Michigan, member of the Dutch delegation at the General Assembly of the United Nations
- Árni Páll Arnason, Icelandic politician, former Minister of Economic Affairs
- Ledi Bianku, Judge at the European Court of Justice
- Franz Ceska, Austrian Ambassador to Belgium and France, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
- Nick Clegg, British politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain and Chairman of the Liberal Democrats, former Member of the European Parliament
- Luc Coene, a Belgian economist and Governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB )
- Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Otto of the Gablentz, German diplomat and scientist
- Margit Hellwig- Bötte, German diplomat, since 2009 German Ambassador to Kenya
- Simon Henry Ward Hughes, British politician and Member of Parliament for the Liberal Democrats
- Marc Jaeger, Judge at the Court of the European Union
- Josef Joffe, editor of Time and a professor of political science at Stanford University
- Claudia Kahr, Justice of the Austrian Constitutional Court
- Helen Keller, Professor of International Law at the University of Zurich, Member of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights since 2011
- Franz Josef Kuglitsch, Austrian Ambassador to Israel
- Jo Leinen, a German member of the European Parliament, President of the European Movement International, former President of the European Union
- Manuel Marín, former President of the European Commission
- Andreas Maurer, EU integration researchers
- Thomas Mayr- Harting, Austrian diplomat
- Ian McIntyre, British journalist
- David McWilliams, Irish economist and journalist
- Andreas Melan, Austrian Ambassador to Peru
- Holger Michael, German Ambassador to Bangladesh
- Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Italian Minister of European Politics
- Jim Oberstar, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Valerie Plame, a former CIA agent
- Plassnik, former Foreign Minister of Austria, member of the Austrian People's Party
- Nikola Poposki, Foreign Minister of Macedonia and former permanent representative of Macedonia to the European Union
- Envoy Albert Rohan, former Secretary General of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and UN
- Saryusz -Wolski, Polish member of the European Parliament
- Thomas Schmid, mayor of Garmisch -Partenkirchen and former member of the Diplomatic Service of the Federal Republic of Germany
- György Schöpflin, Hungarian politician, scientist and politician, Member of the European Parliament
- Alyn Smith, Scottish Member of the European Parliament
- Guy Spitaels, former Belgian politician and Prime Minister of Wallonia
- Alexander Stubb, Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development
- Helle Thorning- Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark and chairman of the Danish Social Democrats
- Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian Ambassador to the Czech Republic
- Helmut Türk, Judge of the International Tribunal, former Austrian ambassador to the U.S.
- Marc van der Woude, Judge at the European Court of Justice
- Adrien Zeller, former French Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac (1986-1988), member of the Union pour un mouvement populaire
- Bernhard Zimburg, Austrian Ambassador to Algeria, Indonesia and Japan
Promotions
Vintages at the College of Europe are called " promotions ". Each promotion is named after a famous European. The French École nationale d'administration (ENA ) has this tradition.
At the opening ceremony of the college every year a famous politician as chairman. This is called Orateur; included in recent years, among other things, Angela Merkel, David Miliband, Jean -Claude Juncker, Javier Solana, José Manuel Barroso, Valéry Giscard d' Estaing, Juan Carlos I, Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand to the Orateur.
Professors and lecturers
The College of Europe is famous for his concept of "Flying Faculty". Few professors are exclusively professor at the College. Rather, the professors come as a " visiting professor " from science, administration and private sector. Thus, a special closeness are guaranteed to practice. The faculty is at least as international as the student body. The College follows the principle of first to develop a program and then look for the best people. During the academic year are, inter alia, Organizes conferences with leading practitioners such as Jean -Claude Juncker or Günter Verheugen and workshops, simulations, discussions and excursions offered.
Well-known current and former professors
- Alyson Bailes, former British diplomat and ambassador to Finland, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI ), a visiting professor at the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department of the College of Europe
- Leszek Balcerowicz, economist, former chairman of the National Bank of Poland and Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
- Stefan Collignon, economist, " Centennial Professor " for European Political Economy at the LSE, visiting professor on the topic "Government" at Harvard University, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Centro Europa Ricerche (CER) in Rome,
- Aleš Debeljak, Slovene writer, poet and editor, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
- Marcell von Donat, German economist and author, former Chief of Cabinet of the German Commissioner Peter Schmidhuber, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe 1989-1991
- Manfred Fuchs, an Austrian economist and political scientist, professor at the Karl- Franzens- University Graz, Referee of the Academy of Management and Editorial Board Member of the European Journal of International Management, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe 1996-1997
- Geremek, Chair Holder of the Chair of European civilization until his death
- Sylvie Goulard, MEP and former President of the European Movement France
- Sieglinde Gstöhl, Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe, former International Institutions Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
- Francis Geoffrey Jacobs, British jurist, 1988-2006 Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Director of the Centre for European Law at King's College London, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
- Michael Köhler, German Islamic scholar, currently Director of European Neighbourhood Policy in the Directorate General for Development and Cooperation, EuropeAid, former Chief of Cabinet at the European Commissioner Günther Oettinger, chairman of the bipartisan European Union Brussels, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
- Juliane Kokott, a visiting professor at the European Legal Studies Department of the College of Europe, the Advocate General at the European Court of Justice ( ECJ), Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Gallen.
- Dominique Moïsi, co-founder of the Institut Français des Relations Internationales ( IFRI ), Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University and professor at the College of Europe in Natolin.
- Ignaz Seidl - Hohenveldern Austrian legal scholar, professor at the University of the Saarland, at the University of Cologne and at the University of Vienna, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe 1956-1974
- Alexander Stubb, Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development
- Gilbert Trausch, Luxembourg historian, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
- Roger François Philippe de Weck, Swiss journalist, currently Director General of the Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (SRG SSR), Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin
- Wolfgang Wessels, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe since 1994, holds the Jean Monnet Chair at the Research Institute for Political Science and European Affairs, University of Cologne, winner of the " Jean Monnet - European Studies GOLD Award" of the European Commission
Rectors of the College of Europe
- Hendrik Brugmans (1906-1997) (1949-1971)
- Jerzy Łukaszewski (° 1924) ( 1972-1990 )
- Werner Ungerer (° 1927) (1990-1993 )
- Gabriel Fragnière (° 1934) ( 1993-1995)
- Otto of the Gablentz (1930-2007) (1996-2001)
- Piet Akkermans (1942-2002) (2001-2002)
- Robert Picht (1937-2008) ( a.i. 2002-2003)
- Paul Demaret (2003 - September 2013 )
- Jörg Monar ( September 2013 -? )