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The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) invites pre-applications from scholars who wish to spend 12-24 months at ELIAMEP, as part of the “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship” Programme (MSCA-IF-2018), funded by the European Commission.

Applicants can be of any nationality but they must not have spent more than 12 months in the last 3 years in Greece (mobility rule).

ELIAMEP welcomes project proposals from doctorate holders, interested in submitting a proposal in the area of social sciences and humanities. However, priority will be given to those projects that fit best with ELIAMEP’s existing research interests and orientations and gain the support of at least one ELIAMEP senior researcher.

Fellowships take form of European Fellowships or Global Fellowships.

– European Fellowships are open to researchers either coming to Europe from any country in the world or moving within Europe. The researcher must comply with the rules of mobility.

– Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a third country and a mandatory 12 month return period to a European host. The researcher must comply with the rules of mobility in the country where the Global Fellowship secondment takes place, not for the country of the return phase.

Researchers receiving an Individual Fellowship may opt to include a secondment phase in Europe, notably in the non-academic sector, within the overall duration of their fellowship.

ELIAMEP has an extensive and prestigious record of hosting international doctoral and postdoctoral fellows. Over the last years, it was host organisation in three Intra-European Marie Curie fellows, all of whom have made significant advances in their careers. Currently, ELIAMEP hosts the REPLICIAS project (Architectural replicas in the scramble for the past: Politics of identity in Istanbul, Athens, Skopje), funded by the 2016 call of the “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship” Programme.

Researchers who wish to cooperate with ELIAMEP for the submission of a proposal should check that they fulfill the respective eligibility criteria and then send an expression of interest, consisting of a short CV and a two-page summary presentation of their research proposal, to development@eliamep.gr . Expressions of interest may be submitted up to 30 June 2018.

Proposals will be pre-selected on the basis of internal evaluation and the availability of suitable supervision. Candidates will be informed of the results of the pre-selection well before the call deadline.

Further information on the call “Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions- Individual Fellowships” :

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/msca-if-2018.html

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The Grassrootsmobilise Research Programme funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and hosted at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) invites you to a discussion on:

“Religion and Secularism: does the Court go too far – or not far enough?”

on Thursday 3rd May 2018 at 17.30, at the Amphitheatre of the Acropolis Museum.

 

Participants:

Professor Eva Brems, Professor of Human Rights Law, Ghent University

Judge Ann Power-Forde, Former Judge at the European Court of Human Rights

Judge Christos Rozakis, Professor Emeritus of Public International Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Former Judge and Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights

Professor Joseph H. H. Weiler, Joseph Straus Professor of Law, European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor, New York University (NYU)

 

Chair:  Effie Fokas, Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

The event will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into Greek.

Certificates of participation will be available upon request.

The Public Event will be followed by a Conference on:

 “Between state and citizen: Religion at the ECtHR”

 on Friday 4th May 2018 at 09.30-19.00, at Aigli Zappeiou.

 

REGISTRATION required for conference participation by 27 April 2018.

FULL PROGRAMME

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The recent finalization of Basel III completes, theoretically, the regulatory framework introduced after the 2007/8 crisis. According to the official declarations, the Agreement aims to strengthen the financial sector’ stability. However, its regulations and the levels of capital requirements it sets are not a radical change compared to the pre-crisis status quo. The previous two Agreements were more imbalanced, placing more emphasis either on the protection of the competitive advantage of (mainly) the American banks (Basel I) or on financial stability, but in the form of market self-regulation (Basel II). Basel III can be described as an effort to balance the need for stability on the one hand and protect the competitive advantage of the banking sector on the other.

Please find the Working Paper here.

Report on ELIAMEP’s Event of March 30th, 2018,“The name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: The role of public opinion and civil society, and the prospects for the future”

Τhe South-East Europe Programme of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) organized a public event entitled “The name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: The role of public opinion and civil society, and the prospects for the future.” The debate took place in Electra Palace Athens Hotel on 21 March 2018 with the participation of the representatives of foreign embassies, academia, media and civil society. The aim of the event was a) to present the findings of the 2018 opinion poll on the Greek public attitudes towards the so-called “name dispute” between Greece and FYROM; the poll was carried out by researchers of the South-East Europe Programme of ELIAMEP in cooperation with the Public Opinon Unit of the University of Macedonia; and b) to present recent developments on civil society cooperation between Greece and FYROM.

The event was opened by a welcome speech of Dr. Thanos P. Dokos, Director General of ELIAMEP, who underlined the significance of the topic under investigation, summarized the character of prior engagement and scientific contributions of ELIAMEP to this specific research topic. Dr. Dokos also introduced individual speakers.

The first speaker, Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, Assistant Professor at the University of Macedonia, ‘Stavros Costopoulos’ Research Fellow and Head of South-East Europe Programme at ELIAMEP presented the findings of the 2018 opinion poll about the “name dispute”. A similar survey was also realized in 2016, thus, enabling ELIAMEP researchers to compare the findings of the two polls. Moreover, the knowledge of public opinion ongoing negotiations with FYROM is of crucial importance as the attitudes of the Greek public towards reaching a possible compromise remain overwhelmingly negative. The public opinion, therefore, represents a major challenge in finding a long-term solution.

The 2018 public poll offers several remarkable results. First of all, it showed that the political representatives of Greece have failed to inform the Greek public about the new dynamics of the name dipsute and also that the Greek public is not well-informed about the substance of the political problem related to FYROM and the name issue. Secondly, the overwhelming majority of respondents consider the issue as important and, at the same time, are not willing to accept a compromise solution that would include the word “Macedonia” in the official name of FYROM. These stances are shared by respondents across all social groups except for the ideological divisions where leftist and centre-left oriented voters who are inclined towards less rejectionist attitudes. Finally, although the Greek public opinion does not perceive FYROM as a security threat, it still believes that the country could become a threat in the future in case the negotiations would not be solved in a way that would comply with the Greek interests.

The second speaker of the public debate was Dr. David Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, and Head of the Southeast Europe Dialogue Project. Dr. Phillips talked about the cross-border civil society cooperation initiatives between Greece and FYROM. Since the establishment of the Southeast Europe Dialogue Project in March 2015, this initiative initiated a number of activities in various areas including academia, business, media and civil society and, thus, contributed significantly to the development of cooperation between both states at different social and professional levels.

The role of a discussant was assumed by Mr. Alexandros Mallias, Ambassador ad Honorem, who presented his insightful evaluation of the ongoing diplomatic negotiations between Greece and FYROM. He commented on the current possibilities of finding a solution acceptable by both sides while drawing attention to the international setting and the plausibility of constitutional amendments in FYROM.

The presentations of individual speakers were followed by a lively debate reacting to numerous questions asked by the audience. Questions pertained to issues such as what the future developments in the name dispute will be, Greece-FYROM foreign relations from the international, domestic and legal perspective, the implications of the name dispute for the possible accession of FYROM to NATO, and the role of Russia in the region.

The new report of ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme is entitled ‘Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: The experience of Cooperation in the Fields of EU-funded Cross-Border Projects and Higher Education and What Does it Mean for the Future’. The study examined a number of past cooperation initiatives between the two countries with a particular focus on the implementation of EU projects and the higher education. The authors evaluate the merits, strengths and weaknesses of the above initiatives and draw conclusions as to the factors that facilitate cooperation between the two countries that are entangled in the name dispute. The authors of the report are ELIAMEP research associates Yorgos Christidis and Panagiotis Paschalidis. The report was generously funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden as part of a joint project with Skopje-based think tank Analytika.

You can access the full report here

The latest report of ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme is entitled “What’s in a Name? Greek Public Attitudes towards the ‘Name Dispute’ and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2018”. It is a comprehensive examination of all the major issues pertaining to the name dispute and bilateral relations between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It also devles deeper into various dimensions that allow the reader to understand the complexity of the Greek public attitudes about the issue. The report provides also comparative perspectives with the previous poll on the name issue that was conducted by ELIAMEP in 2016. Our two polls (2018 and 2016) are the only ones in Greece that focus entirely on the name dispute and Greece-FYROM relations. Both polls were implemented with the cooperation of the Public Opinion Research Unit of the University of Macedonia and were financed by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, New York.

The full text of the report can be accessed here.

Τhe South-East Europe Programme of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) has the pleasure to invite you to an event on:

“The name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: The role of public opinion and civil society, and the prospects for the future”

The event will be held in English on Friday 30 March 2018, from 11:00 to 13:00 at the Electra Palace Athens Hotel, Meeting Room Alkioni  (18- 20, N. Nikodimou Str., 10557 Athens)

Speakers

Ioannis Armakolas, Assistant Professor  and ‘Stavros Costopoulos’ Research Fellow and Head of South-East Europe Programme, ELIAMEP

Presentation of the findings of opinion poll about  the name dispute

 David Phillips, Director,Program on Peace-buidling and Rights, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, Head, Southeast Europe Dialogue Project

Cross border civil society cooperation initiatives between Greece and FYROM

 

Discussants

Alexandros Mallias, Ambassador (ad hon.)

Angelos Athanasopoulos, Foreing Policy Editor, “To VIMA” (tbc)

 

Dr. Thanos Dokos, Director General of ELIAMEP, will moderate the discussion

 

Students will receive a certificate of attendance.

Registration is required to attend the event.

RSVP by  28 Martch 2108

Ms. Nina Papaioannou,

Τ: 210 7257111, F: 210 7257114,

E-mail: nina@eliamep.gr

The collapse of the talks in Crans-Montana caused significant concerns to the Turkish Cypriots that believe in the Federal solution of the Cyprus issue. These segments of the community, which hope that the establishment of a united federal Cyprus will lead to the resolution of all their socio-political and economic problems are searching for a political framework through which they will channel their dissatisfaction and their aspirations. At the same time, the Turkish Cypriot community, being cut off from the international scene, depends solely on Turkey and the Anatolian economy which is currently facing systemic problems. Within this context, the Turkish Cypriots understand that the need for the social, political and economic reconstruction of “TRNC” is urgent.

Please find the Working Paper here.

Voting in America: What does the future hold?Wednesday, March 14, 6:30 PM
Museum of Cycladic Art, AthensPlease RSVP here

There are more than half a million elected officials in America, from the dog catcher of Duxbury, Vermont, to the President of the United States. Americans are called upon to vote more frequently and amply than in any other democratic country in history.

Yet voting in America has come to be plagued by a growing number of woes, from perennial voter disaffection to an allegedly outmoded electoral regime, from an excessively decentralized approach nation-wide to election administration to a widespread reliance on shoddy technology and a singular lack of security against hacking, meddling, and malevolent interference by external actors.

2018 is another election year, and the stakes are high. Can citizens cast their ballots with confidence? Are elections safe from outside intervention? Are there any signs of improvement in how Americans administer their elections? How drastic is the current state of affairs?

In collaboration with the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the Dukakis Center will convene a panel of experts to share their thoughts on the future of voting in America. The present event is a follow up to a round table on “Voting in America” staged in Thessaloniki in October 2016.”The Future of Voting in America”

• Michael Ertel, Supervisor of Elections, Seminole County (Florida)
• Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Aristides N. Hatzis, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law & Theory of Institutions,University of Athens
• Moderator: Athanasios Ellis. Editor in Chief, Kathimerini English Edition

The event will be in English

The closed event “Tour d’ Europe” about “Europe’s research and Innovation Policy”, co-organised by RISE (Research, Innovation, Science Experts group) & ELIAMEP  was held in Athens on February 12th 2018.

It was hosted by the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and Professor Achilleas Mitsos on its behalf. The participants from the Greek side included Patricia Kyprianidou, secretary general of R&D, as well as representatives from the private sector, universities, public research organisations, foundations and policy advisers to the government. The RISE delegation was headed by Mary Ritter, with Teresa Riera Madurell, Luke Georghiou, the RISE book authors Andrea Bonaccorsi, Lena Tsipouri, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, and the EU expert Ester Martinez-Ros.

Main messages from the event:

1. Openness can help in this transformation. Open to society, open to newcomers, an open flow of knowledge and people between universities and firms, in trans-European networks. But openness needs a frame, to create circular, non-linear flows. Researchers should have incentives to return, and the value created from open data should be shared between the researcher and the entrepreneur.
2. Use under-utilised resources.  Build a system allowing the optimal utilisation of resources in Europe. Foster meetings between excellent research and the capacity to innovate. This should not be two separate worlds. The knowledge-innovation nexus is broken, in particular in many Southern and Eastern European countries.
3. Shift from a rule-based to a people-focused policy. Create incentives for research and a culture of “knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship”. The regulatory framework must be simplified and recognize that R&I require risk taking and trust.
4. FP and Structural Funds are two separate policies but the implementation needs synergies. They are two different policies with different objectives. However, synergies could be strengthened in the implementation. Smart specialisation strategies have been positive to create long-term visions and gather actors in new platforms. But they are limited by existing firm structures, by a lack of critical mass and limited networking across regions. Synergies are also hampered by a heavy bureaucracy, double audit requirements and contradicting rules for the exploitation of R&I outcomes. For Greece, these legal constraints are worsened by specific austerity measures.
5. The next Framework Programme should combine continuity with renewal. Investing in innovative firms with the EIC is needed through long-term finance, independent from the crisis-stricken banks.  Mission-oriented R&I is also a very useful idea to connect to citizens, work across policies in a systemic way, and scale-up national missions. The missions should be selected carefully, so they respond to the needs of all European countries. Finally, Open Science and Open Data should be promoted to increase the use of the outcomes of the FP projects. However, openness should always be sensitive to the question: “For whom is it open?”

About the “Tour d’Europe”: In autumn 2017 and winter 2018, the RISE group (Research, Innovation, Science Experts group) will meet with independent Think Tanks in European capitals. The reflections will focus on where EU R&I policy should be heading and their role in the future of Europe.  The Tour d’Europe is conceived in the context of the President Juncker’ initiative to have a wide and open reflection in Europe on the future direction of the European project. The Tour d’Europe will focus on the field of research and innovation and its role in the wider European policy. It is a dialogue with among independent Think Tanks, not directly connected to national administration. The main interlocutors are policy advisers, economists, academics, and intellectuals, organised in well-recognised platforms. National authorities, as well as the EU representation, should be informed from the very beginning of the organisation.

 

  

The paper takes as starting point the call by President Vucic of Serbia for a dialogue on the future of Kosovo with a view to reaching a historic agreement between Serbs and Albanians that would help his country deal with the Kosovo issue and would make it possible for it to secure a future in the European Union. The author attempts an assessment of various efforts for settling the dispute between Serbia and Kosovo, including the Ahtisaari Plan of 2007 and the Brussels Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina currently going on, and tries to clarify some ambiguities and misunderstandings still prevailing about basic parameters of the conflict and of the European integration of the two sides. An analysis of the principles set by Mr. Vucic to guide the debate between Serbs and Albanians, namely that (a) Serbia does not covet what doesn’t belong to her and will not relinquish what belongs to her, and (b) the protection of the Serbian religious and cultural heritage in Kosovo is of paramount importance to Serbia, leads to the conclusion that the envisaged agreement should have (a) Serbia recognize that it does not own Kosovo’s statehood, which rightfully belongs to Kosovo, and (b) Kosovo accord an exceptionalism status to the Serbian religious and cultural heritage in its territory. The author further argues that the ideal agreement between the two sides turns out to also be a possible one.

You can read the Working Paper here

“The Institution of Justice” was the topic of the speech by Mr. Giorgos Pagoulatos, Professor of European Policy and Economy at the Economic University of Athens, during the 10th Conference of Transparency International under the title “Why the institutions do not work”, held at the Divani Caravel Hotel on December 8th, 2017. In his speech Professor Pagoulatos underlined that more guarantees are needed for politicians in order for Justice to function properly.

To read the full speech in Greek please, click here

ELIAMEP organized a round-table discussion on “Labor Market and Integration of Refugees: Reality and Opportunities”, which was held on 31 January 2018. The aim of the discussion was to map out the absorption capacities in the labor market as well as to identify the steps that would make the efforts to integrate refugees into the labor market operational and effective.

For the purpose of this meeting, representatives from the Ministry of Migration Policy, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Labor, representatives of companies and businesses, non-governmental organizations aiming at the connection of refugees with the labor market and representatives of professional confederations were invited to participate. The event aimed at networking among the stakeholders and highlighting good practices from the point of view of integration.

The event was initiated and organised by the National Coordinator for the European Web Site on Integration (EWSI), Mrs Marina Nikolova, and, the discussion was moderated by Prof. Dia Anagnostou, Assistant Professor of Politics at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP.

Speakers:

• Mrs. Panayota Dionyssopoulou, General Director of the Higher Education Department, Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs
• Mrs. Maria Fassari, International Relations Department, Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs (Presentation of the European Qualifications Passport for Refugees)
• Mr. Athanasios Vitsentzatos, Director of the Social Integration Department, Ministry of Migration Policy
• Mr. Vaios Kotsios, Research Assossiate of the National Institute of Labour and Human Resources
• Mr. Lefteris Papayannakis, Vice Mayor of Athens
• Presentations of project carried out by small enterprises and NGOs targeting the integration into the labour market for refugees and migrants: Mrs. Katerina Kapnisi – Career Counsellor – Coordinator at Generation 2.0, Mrs. Fiori Zafeiropoulou – Founder and CEO SOFFA Social Fashion Factory, Mr. Andreas Stefanidis – Founder, Academy of entrepreneurship

Other participants:

Mrs. Anastasia Sikiaridi – Livelihoods Officer, International Rescue Committee,Mrs. Ilektra Simitsi – Livelihoods Manager, International Rescue Committee, Mrs. Ioanna Porfyri – Research Fellow at Small Enterprises’ Institute of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (IME GSEVEE), Representative of the Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity and Representative of the Greek Council of Refugees (GCR)

The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) under the Mercator European Dialogue (MED) program, successfully organized the “Energy Security Nexus” workshop in Brussels on 29-30 January 2018. European MPs and researchers attended the event, who had the opportunity to exchange views on the subject and visit the CORESO offices, a company in the field of energy. This exchange has been initiated under the framework of the Mercator European Dialogue, a project organised by the German Marshall Fund of the United States in cooperation with the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens and is funded by Stiftung Mercator and since 2017 also by the King Baudouin Foundation

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Within this volume, researchers from three countries have made an assessment of the different steps that economic and humanitarian migrants experience during their journey across Europe. The volume presents the results of a research programme developed by FEPS and SOLIDAR on the topic of migration and integration.

With three outstanding contributions covering the cases of Greece, Italy and Germany, the volume aims to assess the procedures in place from first reception at arrival to the integration in society and labour market of asylum seekers and migrants, with a focus on women and minors. The level of involvement of NGOs in the reception system and integration policies in the three countries is also explored and assessed in the volume. The book also includes a photographic project which complements the assessment made by the authors with visual testimonies of the situations faced by migrants on their journey across Europe.

The case study on Greece, titled “The Long Road to Integration- Possibilities and Obstacles for Newly Arrived Asylum Seekers in Greece” was written by Dr. Angeliki Dimitriadi.

The book is available to download here

After many years of virtual inaction, the dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is again attracting political attention in Athens, Skopje and important Western capitals. In the latest issue of ELIAMEP’s Strategic Analyses series, prominent analysts offer their views on the latest developments in the diplomatic relations between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.