Conferences & events
The Department of European Political and Governance Studies organizes various conferences and numerous guest lectures on the future of Europe.
With a continued commitment to academic excellence and community engagement, the department recently organized a series of noteworthy events:

Conferences
- 01/12/2025
Title: European Night roundtable discussion on European-American relations in and after 2025
Organiser: The event is held under the patronage of the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana) and within the research programme "Slovenia and its actors in international relations and European integration" (P5-0177), and within the research project "Growing cultural distance and stereotyping in small transition countries: the case of the countries of the former Yugoslavia" (J5-50173), both funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) and the Department of European Political and Governance Studies (collaborator).
- 20/11/2025
Title: Women at the peace table: a conversation with Francesca Albanese
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
- 17/11/2025
Title: 30 years in the EU: Looking back into the future
Organiser:Permanent Representations of Austria, Finland and Sweden in collaboration with ECFR, SIEPS, and the Department of European Political and Governance Studies (collaborator)
- 02-03/10/2025
Title: The POL Simgame Anniversary Conference: Simulations of EU decision-making, from the origins to the digital world
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
- 10/09/2025
Title: Debate on the State of the Union Address 2025
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies & College of Europe Library
05/04/2025
Title: High-Level Conference | Rotating Presidency in Action
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
06/03/2025
Title: The European Council 50 years On: Explaining the Rise of the EU's (Im)Perfect Lead Institution
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
11/02/2025
Title: Conférence Justice sans Frontières
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies + CEA, Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace
11/02/2025
Title: Conférence du Rhin supérieur
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies + CEA, Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace
04/02/2025 – 05/02/2025
Title: Delors Conference - 75th Anniversary Event
Organiser: College of Europe (All departments)
30/01/2025
Title: Someone is watching: Debating the proposal on transparency of third country interest representation in the internal market
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
- 14/11/2024
Title: Guide or Guise: How Theory Shapes European Integration
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies

Roundtables
30/04/2025
Title: TellUs - Plenary Roundtable
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies + DG RTD
19/03/2025
Title: POL Career Perspectives Series: POL Alumni Working in European Political Economy
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
19/03/2025
Title: POL Career Perspectives Series: POL Alumni Working in EU Institutions
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
11/02/2025
Title: EU Voices: MEPs in Dialogue with the College of Europe
Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
Book Presentations
- 18/02/2026 (Forthcoming)
Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Michael Kaeding and Prof. Didier Georgakakis
Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
- 08/10/2025
Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Martin Westlake and Prof. Didier Georgakakis
Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
- 01/10/2025
Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Hussein Kassim
Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
- 28/04/2025
Title: EU Council Presidencies in Times of Crises
Location: Council of the EU Library