The Excellent Paper Competition 2022 is now open! Please check the eligibility criteria and procedures to apply: With regards to eligible candidates, the following applies: is currently enrolled in a PhD programme or has obtained PhD after 1 January 2018; is the Sole or Lead Author in the paper + the paper is topically relevant for … Excellent Paper Award Competition 2022
It was particular joy to meet again in person at the General Conference of the European Consortium of Politics Research (ECPR) last week 22-26 August. After two years of virtual conferences due to Covid, this time the ECPR General Conference took place in beautiful city of Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps. It brought together more … ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies in 2022
By Anna-Lena Rüland The world has seen a fair share of democratic backsliding in recent years, for example in countries like Turkey, the Philippines and Russia. Science diplomacy is often seen as a means to continue some sort of engagement with such regimes. Although it sounds great in theory, we do not yet know how … Learning from Rivals: The Role of Science Diplomacy
Mitchell Young While, as the name of this blog reflects, knowledge has become a central concern in European policymaking internally, it has not made the same inroads into the EU’s external policy discourses. This neglect of knowledge in the field of international relations is not limited to the EU, but given the European policy context, … Knowledge Power Europe
Inga Ulnicane ‘… Europe is a unique aspiration. […] It is an aspiration of a world full of new technologies and age-old values’, Ursula von der Leyen, then incoming President of the European Commission, wrote in her political guidelines in 2019. Since then questions of new technologies and European values have been at the forefront … Artificial Intelligence and Europe: New tech & old vibes
By Marina Cino Pagliarello The implementation of a common Higher Education policy has been a long-standing objective of the European Union (Corbett, 2005). The launch of the Bologna Process in 1999 with its aim of creating a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the establishment of the European Research Area (ERA) have been important drivers … The European Universities initiative: a game-changer for higher education in Europe?
By Kasja Weenink The study ‘We’re stubborn enough to create our own world’ (Weenink, Aarts, & Jacobs, 2021) addresses how directors of educational programs understand and enact higher education quality in interdependence with its environment. It reveals that the directors’ room to play out their quality views depends on their position within the academic hierarchy … How programme directors frame higher education quality in interdependence
By Martina Vukasovic In 2015 the Norwegian government launched a large-scale re-organisation in higher education. The policy solution proposed, like in many other cases, involved mergers of higher education institutions. There were several formal policy goals, such as robust academic environments, good access to education and expertise, contribution to regional development and effective use of … (In)voluntary mergers in higher education: a story from Norway
What is resilience and how do different disciplines and fields approach it? What does resilience mean in different sectors? And what does resilience involve in times of global pandemic? These are some of the questions addressed in a new open access book Towards resilient organizations and societies. A cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary perspective, edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, … Towards resilient organizations and societies. A cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary perspective
Dear colleagues, It is with great pleasure we are announcing the call for applications for the Excellent Paper Award of the ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies Standing Group. In order to be eligible for consideration for the award: You need to be currently enrolled in a PhD programme or have obtained your PhD after August 2018; … Best Paper Award of the Knowledge Politics and Policies ECPR Standing Group
