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The ‘ EUI Effect ’ : How it has Affected my Life
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mény, Yves |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | The first post-doctoral fellowships at the EUI were offered in the late 1980s, thanks to a financial contribution from the European Union. At the time, it was a fellowship scheme open to any academic. Some indeed did fit a postdoc profile but most of the fellows were actually rather senior academics, some of them close to retirement! A first step to redress this was taken when the Robert Schuman Centre decided to set an age limit and to reserve the fellowships to promising young academics from all over the world. This major change immediately attracted the interest of PhD students or lecturers at the beginning of their careers. Many of them had recently defended their PhD in the US (some were Americans, but most of them were Europeans or foreigners wishing to complete their training in a European environment). There was no master plan behind this initiative, but instead the happy outcome of the decision to attract young scholars rather than to offer the fellowships in an indiscriminate way to academics at any stage of their career. These positive developments convinced the Institute that there was an important and crucial need which was barely recognised in Europe, contrary to the US where the 60,000 annual post-doc fellows superseded the 40,000 PhD diplomas awarded every year. Even more striking was the fact that two-thirds of the fellows studying in America were foreigners and that many of them would stay in the US because of this stimulating experience and thanks to the opportunities offered by the American academic market. On this side of the Atlantic, by contrast, the fellowships were very few (so few that no statistics are available) and there Inside 03 The ‘EUI’ Effect 05 The European Constitution 07 Energy Security in Europe 09 Conversions to Islam 11 A Microeconomist on Sabbatical 13 Travels with my Aunt 16 Examining Normative Interaction 18 A Higher Stand and a Broader Outlook 20 An Academic Pilgrim at Villa La Fonte 22 Monetary Sovereignty, etc. 24 The EU(I) Discovers Asia 26 Productive Discussions 28 European Common Values 30 Anti-trusting Europe 32 Arab Representations of Europe 34 The Protection of Cultural Heritage 36 A Wonderful Year 38 Intellectual Property Rights 40 Getting to Grips with Inequality 42 Europe and Colonialism 44 Faith and Economics 46 A New Open Access Legal Journal Summer 2007 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.eui.eu/Documents/Research/EUIPublications/EUIReview/EUIReviewSummer2007.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
