Teams from across Europe will race under the Ponte Vecchio in this year’s De Gasperi Schuman Cup.  In the sixth year of this closely-fought rowing competition, six teams will race each other on the Arno on Saturday the 13th of April from 9.00 – 16.00. The teams competing will be: the Società Canottagio di Firenze, JRC-Ispra, Maastrichtsche Watersportclub, ESCP […]

As Bar Fiasco turns 40, EUI Life charts the history of the Institute’s most unique institution.

Professor Thomas Piketty, has delivered his Max Weber Lecture to a packed room at the EUI. Piketty’s bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, was first published in 2013 and examines historic trends in wealth and income inequality in American and Europe since the 18th century. When Capital was first translated translated into English it sparked a global debate after […]

The Nobel Week Dialog will be streamed live on 9 December. The event, to be held in Stockholm will include a contribution from the EUI’s Professor Martin Kohli, who will take part in a panel on the economics of ageing entitled ‘Implications of an older world.’ The Dialog will then culminate with the laureates receiving their […]

The seventh conference of the European Graduate Network in political science will be hosted by European University Institute (EUI) and Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Florence from 4th to 6th March 2015. The conference gives PhD students of the network universities the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects and to refine their theoretical […]

The EUI will host a meeting for the Club de Madrid and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center) in Florence on the 24th-25th of November. The theme of the meeting will be ‘’Democracy and Human Rights in Decline? – New ideas for the Next Generation Democracy” and will involve 40 Club de Madrid members along with academic experts from around the world.

Romania will participate in the EUI High Council for the first time in the meeting of 6 June

To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, a series of events at the end of May and the beginning of June will be held in the Department of History with the participation of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Max Weber Programme. On 29 May at 14.00 […]

The Department of Economics has issued a call for papers ahead of their 2nd Alumni Conference this September

This year’s State of the Union conference will feature a televised debate between the candidates for the Presidency of the European Commission