Are you a young researcher working on sustainability aspects of the EU trade policy or want to learn more about them? Then join these 10 two-hour sessions held from Wednesday 3 May to Thursday 25 May 2023 from 1 to 3 PM (CET).
You can join either online (link to Teams meeting here) or in person in Aula V (Palazzo Poggi, Via Zamboni 33) and Aula L (Complesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8, Bologna). All participants are welcome, prior knowledge of basic matters of EU law, WTO law and investment law is helpful.
The course is offered within the framework of the ImprovEUorGlobe project led by our University. It is delivered by the ImprovEUorGlobe Chair, Dr Filippo Fontanelli from the University of Edinburgh. The ImprovEUorGlobe Coordinator is Prof. Elisa Baroncini from the University of Bologna. Beyond Coordinator and Chair, the ImprovEUorGlobe Academic Leads are Dr. Ana Maria Daza Vargas (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Reetta Toivanen (The University of Helsinki), Prof. Piotr Szwedo (Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie), and Prof. Raquel Regueiro Dubra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
The primary aim of this course is to take stock of the EU repositioning taking into account sustainability and other core values in the trade ecosystem. Moreover, it aims to observe in particular all the plans made by the EU to attain the sustainable development goals through its external actions in trade and investment matters. This ‘charting’ exercise will also allow you to assess and gauge the design and effects of these tools (severally and collectively), and estimate their genuine connection with their putative goals. At the end of the course, you will have have an informed and insightful view of the EU’s contemporary track record in the field of external economic action, and judge its correspondence to the EU’s SDG agenda.
Read more about the programme in the file attached below.
Read more about the ImprovEUorGlobe project here.
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