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 MA course "Enlargement and the External Governance of the EU", Jens Woelk and Alessandra Russo
Link - II semester 2025-2026

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

"The European Union and its neighbours" - I semester 2025-2026

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

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

Programme lectures Jens Woelk a.y. 2024-2025 Link

Flyers of the guest talks and seminars:

- Enlargement Through the Eyes of EU Political Parties (PDF | 487 KB), 6 May 2026
- The EU enlargement policy in practice, 30 April 2026
- Lavorare alla Commissione europea, 29 April 2026
- Challenge-Based Activity with the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, 22 April 2026
- Case study: Serbia e Kosovo, 25-26  March and 1-2 April, 2026
- The ruleoflaw: principle, crisis, and conditionforEU enlargement, 3 March 2026
- The Rule ofLaw in theEU: Crisis and ConditionforEnlargement,14 January 2026
- EU Values Without EU Flags. A Year of Students’ Protests in Eurosceptic Serbia, 2 December 2025
- The Past, Present and Future of EU-Turkey Relations, 6 November 2025
- Moldova's Geopolitical Moment between External Interferences, Public Consultations and    Elections, 30 October 2025
- Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Practices in the Enlargement Areas, 29 October 2025
- The EU and Russia’s War against Ukraine, 22 October 2025
- Europeanisation and de-Europeanisation: the case of Georgia, 15-16 October 2025
- Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina for divided societies and post-conflict institutional reform, 9 October 2025
- Engaging Citizens in EU Enlargement: Insights from the Western Balkans, 8-9 October 2025
- Le narrazioni dell’UE: L'integrazione europea è solo una storia progressiva?, 29 April 2025
- Challenges for EU’s Security and Stability: Reconstruction, State Capture and Sources of Contestation, 16 April 2025
- Complex Europeanisations: the case of Moldova, 15 April 2025
- Europeanisation and de-Europeanisation: the case of Georgia, 1-2 April 2025
- EU-Ukraine Relations and Europeanisation in Times of War, 25-26 March 2025
- Engaging Citizens in EU Enlargement: Insights from the Western Balkans, 18-19 March   2025
- Keynote lectures on Minority Rights: focus EU enlargement, October/November 2024

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 2025 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 Interns 2026 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. Tornike Kakalashvili is a first-year student in the Master’s Degree in International Security Studies. He holds an Executive Master’s in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action from the University of Siena. He has professional experience as an international affairs journalist at InterPressNews (IPN), one of Georgia’s leading news agencies. Alice Bandera is a second-year student in the Master's Degree in European and International Studies. During both her undergraduate and current studies, she participated in two Erasmus+ exchanges, studying in Germany and in Luxembourg. She has a particular interest in EU Enlargement, Media Freedom, and Social Europe. 

Call for Students-Reporters for “Estival”

On 21 November 2025, the InvigoratEU Youth Lab — an online workshop organised by TEPSA — brought together students from across Europe to exchange ideas and develop concrete policy recommendations on how the EU can reinvigorate its Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy in a changing geopolitical context. Among the participants were Tommaso Colonetti and Muhamet Sow from our BA course "The European Union and its neighbours", who actively contributed to discussions and proposed innovative insights on enhancing European resilience. Their engagement exemplifies our students’ growing role in shaping debates on EU policy and international cooperation.

From March to May 2026, EU-Prox has its own intern! Dafina Aliu is a Master’s student from Kosovo in International Security Studies at the University of Trento. She brings experience from public institutions, civil society, and policy research. In the framework of her internship, she supports coordination with institutional and academic partners, manages communications, assists with event logistics, and drafts reports. She also helps increase the Jean Monnet Module’s visibility by updating website content and preparing social media materials

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

On the 2nd of December 2025, the second EU-Prox lecture will take place at the School of International Studies. Jovan Teokarević, University of Belgrade, will deliver a talk on “EU Values Without EU Flags. A Year of Students’ Protests in Eurosceptic Serbia”. Information here: https://eventi.unitn.it/en/eu-values-without-eu-flags

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.