Activities

The Module's activities include:

1. Teaching activities: 
84 hours of teaching activities each year, distributed across undergraduate and graduate courses, in the fields of study of International Relations and European Studies, European Union Law, Security Studies, Human Rights. Interdisciplinary classes will be especially designed to expose the students to multi-faceted and multi-level approaches to the study of EU’s foreign policy issues and external governance. Guest lectures will be organised for the university community.

Syllabus for the BA course "The European Union and its neighbours":

"The European Union and its neighbours" - II semestre 2024-2025

Flyers of the guest talks and seminars:

Engaging Citizens in EU Enlargement: Insights from the Western Balkans, 18-19 March 2025
EU-Ukraine Relations and Europeanisation in Times of War, 25-26 March 2025
Europeanisation and de-Europeanisation: the case of Georgia, 1-2 April 2025
Complex Europeanisations: the case of Moldova, 15 April 2025
Challenges for EU’s Security and Stability: Reconstruction, State Capture and Sources of Contestation, 16 April 2025
 
2. Workshops and vocational training for students on: 
1. Research design and methods in European Studies; 
2. Access of primary documents and sources of the EU; 
3. Policy writing;
4. Dissemination and communication strategies and campaigns; 
5. Advocacy and lobbying activities (in collaboration with Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa, a Trento-based think tank and media center).
 
For the academic year 2024-2025, EU-Prox has sponsored the organisation of one of the School of International Studies’ Applied Workshops on Global Affairs.
Advocacy tools and strategies to safeguard media freedom in Europe, 17-18 February

3. Students' career development: active participation and internships.

Call for Interns at Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT)

In the framework of the first call, two students have been selected to start their internship at OBCT. Maryna Svitlychna is a II-year student from the Master's Degree in European and International Studies. She has participated in a numer of mobility programs, including at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Tartu and she has volunteered for the Italian Red Cross in Trento. Eleonora Lingua is a I-year student from the Master's Degree in European and International Studies. Before her university studies, she attended one year of high school at Rondine Cittadella della Pace. At UniTrento, she took advantage of our university's participation in the European Consortium of Innovative Universities and joined a training initiative on "Intercultural Competences: Guiding Practical Insights from Citizen Science.

Call for Students-Reporters for “Estival”

4. Other activities for the university community:
On the 15th of April 2025 the first EU-Prox Annual Lecture will take place at the School of International Studies. Davide La Cecilia, the Special Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will deliver a talk on "Resilience, recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine: Policy perspectives from the donors". Information here: https://eventi.unitn.it/en/resilience-recovery-and-reconstruction-ukraine

5. Debating EU enlargement outside university: Co-organisation of a festival on Eastern Europe and the Balkans (with a series of UNITN's partners) bringing together citizens, journalists, activists, experts from research institutes and universities, open to the general public.

For the academic year 2024-2025, EU-Prox has promoted and co-organised "Estival", a public event that is going to take place in different venues in Trento on the 9th and 10th of May. ESTIVAL shines a spotlight on the politics, society, and culture of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and the Western Balkans. The program can be found here

Estival has been widely covered by the local media. Selected media review:

Announcements of Estival by Il T Quotidiano, Radio Radicale, L'Adige, Memorial;

Article by Riccardo Eger on L'Adige, with an interview to Alessandra Russo;

TV debate with an interview with Jens Woelk on the program Trentino Più;

News report on TGR.