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SUMMARY:FRANCE - ESPE CLERMONT FERRAND (UBP) - Eva QUISTORP
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe Blaise Pascal University organised a conference about:“Europe and Sustainable Developpement”. \nEva QUISTORP\, FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nMission report: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STUDIES \nIt was a very good experience to participate in the university event in Clermond Ferrand\, which was very well prepared by Professor Diemer\, who is an expert in sustainable studies and has built a cooperation with Professor Vala Ragnarsdottir from Island\, who is an expert in resource studies. The city is a nice provincial place\, which integrates old and modern architecture in a human way\, with good public transport near to an interesting historical volcano area and an impressive historical center with places friendly for pedestrians and families\, a world wide known jazz and short film festival\, as well as Michelin industry. The event was supported by the young green vicemayor of the city. With wonderful meals we became part of the city life with many students in social work and from French speaking Africa. \nThe lunch talk gave us some hard questions from students from all around Europe\, from Turkey and Libanon. The knowledge about the EU\, the succes of the EP in the field of environmental politics\, was not the same. Female students from Kirgistan and Ukraine impressed me by their interest to learn for sustainable politics for their countries in the field of energy and water. The debate with French politicians was lively and included critics to the EU neoliberal and global trade politics and the lack of a common social policy. For me as a co-founder of the German Greens it was impressive to see that the environmental debate in France has really improved in the follow-up of the Rio-Conference for cities\, agriculture and cooperation with African countries. We found a common language in the debate about indicators about energy and ressource efficiency and alternatives for a neo- colonial extract policy with oil and Coltan and other important minerals for the digitalisation with the global IT companies. How migrants can be better integrated in environmental consciousness and sustainable politics was an interesting lecture from a student from Australia. A Swedish lecturer described the tragic situation of Syrian refugees on Greek islands and the reasons of great hospitality of the Greek islanders. I learned how the Erasmus programmes support forms of cooperation of young scientists\, who hopefully get an active part in European democracy buildung. But many students are only interested in their project and not many get involved in debates how to overcome the crisis. The EU and the EP play an important part in the global debate on sustainable development goals for 2030 decided by the UN\, which should be better known by many students. The 17 sustainable development goals of the UN have some link with the equality for women and girls\, women as leaders for change. \nThis was not enough included in the debate. Furthermore I was asking for a better control of the financial global oligarchies\, which are part of the financial and debt crisis. This has to be more in the center of the debate for sustainable development. The demands of the European Parliament related to Luxleaks and financial havens\, taxing google and other multinationals should be better known at universities\, too. The conference was a good learning process and I will try to keep friendship to the interesting Erasmus plus study project of Prof Diemer in Clermond Ferrand. I am thankful to the FMA to facilitate such meetings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/france-espe-clermont-ferrand-ubp-17-19-october-2016-2/
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SUMMARY:FRANCE - ESPE CLERMONT FERRAND (UBP) - Birgit DAIBER
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe Blaise Pascal University organised a conference about:“Europe and Sustainable Developpement”. \nBirgit DAIBER FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nMission report: JEAN-MONNET-SEMINAR IN CLERMONT-FERRAND \nBlaise-Pascal-University in Clermont- Ferrand organized from 19-21 October 2016 a high-level Seminar to discuss the outcomes of the ‘Adapt- Econ II’ research-project (funded by EU-FP8) with experts from various European universities (from Iceland to Romania) and Jean-Monnet-Students working as young researchers in the project\, preparing their PhD. Besides the very impressive research-findings the participants were interested to discuss the role of the European Parliament in decision-making on sustainable development and degrowth – especially decarbonisation and resourcemanagement – and by this reason my colleague Eva Quistorp and I were invited to give an insight related to our specific experience: Already in the 1980’s debates on sustainability started in the European Parliament\, the concept of ‘sustainable development’ was included for the first time into the Maastricht-Treaty 1991 and became one of the prior goals of the Union in 1999 with the Amsterdam-Treaty. Since 2001 the EU-Commission has been presenting strategies to reach this goal – not to forget that the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) wasfounded in 1974 – so one may conclude the record of the European Union in sustainable development strategies is not so bad– at least compared with strategies on national levels. \nIn nine thematic sessions and twodebates with politicians the experts and young researchers discussed issues as macroeconomics\, inclusive wealth indices\, climate change\, propositions for decarbonisation and environmental efficiency of industrial ecology. They presented their ‘world 6’ dynamic model on metal resources\, showing scenarios on the finite nature of metals (especially copper and iron). In a public debate Former MEPs and French politicians pointed out the difference between the good purposes of European sustainable development initiatives\, circle economy and decarbonisation and the still very limited practice. What the young researchers wanted to know especially from the Former MEPs was ‘how can we develop paths to communicate our findings with the European Parliament – and how could a Forum for such an exchange be initiated?’ Unfortunately\, we as former MEPs couldn’t give an answer to this demand. But wouldn’t this be an idea to follow – for example as Forum or a ‘Structured Dialogue’ (well experienced by the EU-Commission in various fields of activities) between the parliamentary Committee for Research and young European researchers?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/france-espe-clermont-ferrand-ubp-17-19-october-2016/
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SUMMARY:ROMANIA - BABES BOLYAI UNIVERSITY - Astrid THORS
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The University of Babes Bolyai\, in Romania\, organized an event about the European construction\, its history and future strategy. \nThus\, it wished to involve a former MEP as a keynote speaker\, with whom it also organized more informal meetings with students. \nAstrid THORS FMA Member\, participated in this event. \nMission report: THE YOUTHFUL TOWN OF CLUJ NAPOCA \nCertainly\, if you want to see a vibrant town\, the rule is – go to a university town. And Cluj Napoca\, the second biggest town in Romania\, is no exception with its many NGOs\, art galleries\, festivals\, start ups and the demand for personnel in the IT sector. There is even a bit of anxiety that the recruitment\, the much higher salaries than the average and the impact on the real estate market might be a bubble\, so rapid has been the developments. About 300 000 persons are residents in the town and it is host to roughly 80 000 students in all the universities. Also taking into account the increasing costs for accommodation a proportion of students commute to the universities from a long distance. The Babes-Bolyai university itself has 42 000 students in 21 faculties\, 118 masters and BA programmes. \nOut of the students\, 1000 are foreign students\, and the university maintains a wide range of MoUs with universities in other countries\, in total 1500 MoUs. In university rankings B-B has scored very well\, often best in the country\, and fields like mathematics\, social science and psychology are areas were performance is especially strong. Also public private partnerships are important and the co-operation between Porsche and the University was mentioned as a source of pride. During past centuries the town has been part of many empires and also been the capital of Transylvania. But it has also had a high influence of Germans/Saxons and a vibrant Jewish community\, which was severely hit by the Holocaust. There is also a Roma population but the real size of it is difficult to tell. Hungarians account for roughly 15 % and one deputy Mayor belongs to a Hungarian party -the Mayor being now Emil Boc\, a PNL politician and Prime minister from 2008-2012. \nAt times the relations between the linguistic groups have been tense also in the University and the way the university is administered has popped up intense discussions. There are Hungarian lines of studies in 16 departments and some German lines as well; however there are difficulties in recruiting personnel to the latter. I was not really able to get an insight into the current state of play. The programme and the lectures I was giving were organised in the Faculty of History and Philosophy\, by the Department of Political Science and International Relations. The university also has other entities were EU law is studied\, as there are separate European studies conducted. I gave lectures about the EU’s current crisis and around questions of migration\, drawing on my experience as a Minister of Migration and European affairs. I think it should be noted that several EU presidencie and programmes for the Justice and Home Affairs like the Stockholm programme tried to have a broad perspective on migration supporting the Global Approach – where both promoting legal forms of migration\, circular migration and combatting illegal migration formed a package. Also efforts were made to have migration partnership\, but as such partnerships were not developed with big countries of origin. In 2015 Babes-Bolyai was the youth capital of Europe and the hopes were high that it could be one of the cultural capitals in 2021 – but lost after a very close vote. Still I hope that the new ideas developed for that project will prosper in the town in one way or another. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/romania-babes-bolyai-university-22-23-october-2016/
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SUMMARY:UNITED KINGDOM - De MONTFORT UNIVERSITY IN LEICESTER - José María GIL ROBLES
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]De Montfort University in Leicester\, United Kingdom held a conference event with high school class on “European integration”\, lunch and network meetings\, classes with law\, politics and economic students and evening “European Question Time debate” attended by members of the public\, University staff and students. The topics of interest were trade\, human rights\, foreign policy\, monetary union and austerity.The attendees were high school students\, BA and MA students\, but also PhD students\, academics and journalists. \nJosé María GIL ROBLES participated in this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/uk-de-montfort-leicester-25-27-october-2016/
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SUMMARY:United Kingdom - UNIVERSITY OF De MONTFORT - LEICESTER - Gay MITCHELL
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nDe Montfort University in Leicester\, United Kingdom held a conference event with high school class on “European integration”\, lunch and network meetings\, classes with law\, politics and economic students and evening “European Question Time debate” attended by members of the public\, University staff and students. The topics of interest were trade\, human rights\, foreign policy\, monetary union and austerity.The attendees were high school students\, BA and MA students\, but also PhD students\, academics and journalists. \n Gay MITCHELL\, FMA Member\, participated in this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”VISIT TO DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23002191″ google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:800%20bold%20regular%3A800%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Leicester is a market town of about 300\,000 people located in the South Midlands of England. A one hour fast train journey from London but much nearer to Birmingham. It is the resting place of the recovered remains of King Richard lll. \nIt has two centre-city located universities. De Montfort\, named after Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester\, is a public research and teaching University. \nIt might be noted that Leicester voted Yes to Remain in the EU referendum. This issue continually arose during our visit and especially in Question and Answer sessions. \nOur delegation of former members was: José María Gil-Roberts Gil-Delgado\, (EPP Spain) former President of Parliament\, and of the FMA; Barbara Weiler\, former SD Member for Germany; and Gay Mitchell former Minister for Europe and MEP for Ireland. \nAs well as attending a variety of University classes where Questions and Answer sessions were usually the norm\, we also met 44 local children\, aged 14 – 16\, with their teachers and had lively and José María Gil – Robles\, Barbara Weiler and Gay Mitchell during their visit at De Montfort University interesting exchanges with them. The visit was organised by Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of Politics and Public Policy\, Alasdair Blair. \nThe issue of referenda as an instrument of public policy was raised and the pros and cons discussed. Other questions raised included: \n• Travel\, work and settlement arrangements within the EU after Brexit. \n• Is Brexit the beginning of the disintegration of the European Union or is it bringing other members closer together? \n• Would it make sense now to create a formal ‘two-tier’ European Union? \n• Other than Brexit\, what do you see as being the biggest challenges now for the EU and its Institutions and agencies? \n• How can the EU improve economic growth\, living standards and employment so as to retain popular support and avoid other EU nations following the Brexit route? \n• Could immigration and customs controls function successfully in the island of Ireland without a ‘border’ – and would other EU nations\, such as Spain\, accept an independent Scotland as an EU member? \nPost-graduate diplomacy and world order students\, and politics students were interested in: Competition Policy\, Communicating Europe\, implications of Brexit for stability in Europe\, how the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and European External Action Service works\, how national and EU ambassadors cooperate abroad and how embassies to the EU network. The different forms of diplomacy – national\, intranational were raised. While Business post-grad students raised Foreign Trade and relocation of business. Some of these questions arose in exchanges with students\, but some of the most interesting and lively exchanges took place on Wednesday evening when students and staff were joined by invited members of the public. The attitude of most was one of sorrow for the Brexit decision and hope that a solution could be found as quickly as possible\, and certainly before the two-year negotiating period allowed when Article 50 is triggered this March. \nThe three person delegation was broadly in agreement in our responses\, though with different emphasis on some of the issues. Overall we came away with the view that those we met are not\, in the main\, happy with the Brexit referendum outcome and\, at the very least\, want continued strong relations with the EU and an end to uncertainty. The future involvement in the Erasmus programme for the Britain and its students was also raised. In discussions we had with academics over lunch and dinner similar concerns were discussed. This was a very useful visit\, both an opportunity to inform people of how the EU\, warts and all\, actually works\, and to hear their very reasonable questions and concerns.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/united-kingdom-university-of-de-montfort-leicester-gay-mitchell/
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SUMMARY:United Kingdom - UNIVERSITY DE MONTFORT - LEICESTER - Bárbara WEILER
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nDe Montfort University in Leicester\, United Kingdom held a conference event with high school class on “European integration”\, lunch and network meetings\, classes with law\, politics and economic students and evening “European Question Time debate” attended by members of the public\, University staff and students. The topics of interest were trade\, human rights\, foreign policy\, monetary union and austerity.The attendees were high school students\, BA and MA students\, but also PhD students\, academics and journalists. \nBárbara WEILER\, FMA Member\, participated in this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:http://www.formermembers.eu/event/united-kingdom-university-de-montfort-leicester-barbara-weiler/
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