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EUROPEAN UNIONDELEGATION TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Press and Public Diplomacy

EU CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form1

Receipt Deadline June 20, 2011

Project Title: The University of Texas European Union Center of Excellence – Grant Proposal

Start Date and End Date of Project: September 1st, 2011 – August 31st, 2014

Contact Details for Project Principal Investigator:Douglas Biow, DirectorSuperior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial ProfessorCenter for European StudiesThe University of Texas at AustinMEZ 3.1261 University Station A1800Austin, TX 78712Austin, Texas 78713-8925512-232-4311 (Phone)512-232-3470biow@mail.utexas.edu

Signature of Project Principal Investigator:

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Applicants are not required to submit bids for the role of Network/Outreach Coordinator. Those applicants choosing to do so should bid for both roles.

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative

Summary Overview of the Project. Briefly describe the major themes to be addressed, major research, teaching, and outreach activities to be undertaken, and the expected impact of the program upon the university community and external outreach constituencies, and any activities that will be delegated to sub-contractors. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

MAJOR THEMES:

The theme of globalization has dominated the last two decades of post-Cold War era scholarship and policy studies to a point where it has become ubiquitous. With globalization came opportunities for economic growth and prosperity that have been unparalleled in recent modern history. However, globalization has also brought a number of novel challenges such as climate change, terrorism, currency fluctuations, financial crisis contagion, and infectious diseases. Just as the growth opportunities are globalized, so too are the problems of today’s era. These challenges and crises have little respect for the traditional notions of state borders and they resist unilateral solutions. In today’s globalized world, events far beyond one’s borders may have profound consequences for security and prosperity at home.

Policymakers increasingly recognize that global interconnectedness makes cooperation among countries essential, regardless of whether the issue is terrorism or financial regulatory practices. But policymakers are also discovering that views on which issues should take priority and which solutions are most likely to work, vary from capital to capital. Meanwhile, publics around the world increasingly worry that interdependence has gone too far, exposing them to dangers they would rather avoid and undermining their way of life. These citizens know that globalization has eroded national borders, in turn making it impossible for any country, however powerful, to operate in a vacuum. And these people are not sure they like it. Nowhere is this rise of populism more evident than in the revival of the small-government movement in the US and in the renewed vigor for a Euroskepticist rhetoric, which is espoused in Europe from Finland to Germany.

The proposed EU Center of Excellence (“Center”) at the University of Texas at Austin (“UT”) will explore European and American responses to the pressures created by global interconnectedness. The Center will work to spur dialogue on the common challenges facing the EU and the US and to create opportunities for Europeans and Americans to discuss and evaluate contending policy solutions. In doing so, the Center will engage the best minds in academia, government, business, and the not-for-

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profit sectors in its activities. The Center will work strenuously to publicize its events, competitions, and research with an active outreach program that will take full advantage of the powers of the Internet.

As its main overarching theme, the Center will specifically undertake the idea of Trans-National Policy Challenges. The Center will examine policy issues and challenges that eschew national-level policy responses. The EU will serve as an ideal case-study for the purposes of this overarching theme. Its very existence ultimately hinges on the concept that European sovereign states abrogate their sovereignty in order to maximize policy-making effectiveness on a number of policy challenges that are otherwise impossible to limit merely to national government. Since 2008, the world has seen a number of such policy challenges and the consequences of those challenges. The economic crisis is perhaps the most obvious policy challenge, but how to deal with energy dependency in a geopolitically unstable region, or with a regional power seeking nuclear weapons, are just few of the many other challenges that cannot be resolved by one country alone.

Across the board, the economic crisis has created a call for smaller government and for more national level policy responses. In the US, the bailouts of the financial sector in 2008 and mounting budget deficits have revitalized the “small government” movement. In the EU, a number of Eurozone bailouts have caused rancor across the continent—both in the countries being bailed out due to the imposition of austerity measures and in the countries contributing to the bailout due to the perceived costs of the financial rescue. Thus, Euroskepticism is on the rise again. Certain policy responses, however, are impossible to be undertaken at a local and/or national level. Global cooperation and supranationalism are the only way to deal with challenges that necessarily cross borders.

A partnership between the European Commission and the flagship university of the State of Texas to tackle trans-national policy issues makes eminent sense. The EU is the world’s oldest and most successful trans-national, trans-border governance institution. Texas is by nature a frontier state—it has the longest international land border of any state in the US—and it is open to trade and movement of people. UT has both a wide and deep array of talent and expertise on the themes outlined above, especially at its world-renowned professional schools. In short, we have much to learn from each other. An exchange of ideas between Europeans and Texans on trans-national policy challenges such as financial regulation, economic policy, immigration, legal issues, energy security, and trade would greatly enrich the public debate in the US and create possibilities for forging common ground within the transatlantic community.

The Center will address its overarching theme of trans-national policy opportunities and challenges by concentrating on three sub-themes: (1) Post-Recession Policy Challenges, (2) Geopolitics as Trans-National Policy Challenge, and (3) Law and Media.

1. Post-Recession Policy Challenges

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Most policy problems today are transnational in nature. These issues do not stay at home; instead, they cross borders. One major Center initiative, therefore, will focus specifically on trans-border policy problems confronting Europe and what these teach the US. This effort will consist, in part, of sponsoring events and research on how the EU is responding to the transnational challenges it faces. To further focus our thematic research, the Center will concentrate on the Post-Recession Policy Challenges not only in terms of fiscal and monetary policies but also on the social impacts of the economic crisis. The kinds of topics the Center will examine include:

Monetary and fiscal policy Intersections of local and global business practices Austerity implementation and deficit reduction measures Challenges to corporate/household deleveraging Financial sector regulation Exchange rate coordination Challenge of credit rating across continents Role of the investor community in shaping government responses

With these activities the Center will seek to increase understanding within Texas and the US of how Europeans define the economic and fiscal problems they face and why they favor some policy responses over others. Where appropriate, these activities will draw on lessons from the American experience that Europeans might find useful in choosing what steps to take—as well as those to avoid.

The Eurozone sovereign debt crisis has spurred Europe to undergo painful austerity measures and government balance sheet fiscal consolidation efforts—policy responses that have largely been lacking in the US. While investors continue to focus on Europe in a negative light, there is in fact much that Europe, led by the European Commission, has done right. Its statistical body—Eurostat—has begun consolidating new accounting standards, and new enforcement mechanisms for Maastricht criteria have been agreed upon. The US, meanwhile, remains politically divided over the issue of deficit reduction and has largely failed to mobilize a response that even remotely mirrors that of the EU. The Center will look to learn from the EU response to the crisis and to inform the domestic debates in the US with a number of conferences and events.

2. Geopolitics as Trans-National Policy Challenge

The EU has emerged as a critical power in global economics and politics. The EU is the world’s largest market, a critical actor in international trade negotiations, and a major force in shaping commercial and legal regulations worldwide. The Euro, which is now celebrating its eleventh anniversary, is a leading international currency that has weathered a major crisis and continues to be sought as a reserve currency by governments across the globe. The EU as a whole, and its most powerful members individually, wield considerable diplomatic clout on issues ranging from nuclear proliferation, to climate change, to the Middle East peace process. The EU has been at

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the forefront of the ongoing humanitarian intervention in Libya and has played a central role in the evolution of democracy in the Middle East.

Many Americans, and especially many Texans, do not understand or appreciate Europe’s emergence as a global power—a power that in many respects rivals that of the US. They are still wedded to a cold war view in which Europe is a decidedly junior partner to America, despite the roles being reversed to a large extent in the ongoing Libyan intervention. And they certainly do not understand the EU and its crucial role in European life. This tendency to see Europe as it was, rather than as it is and will be, has played a role in many of the trans-Atlantic disputes of recent years.

The Center will address these issues by examining Europe’s evolution and emergence as a major global actor, seeking to understand Europe’s responses to a number of geopolitical issues as instructive case studies. The Center will help UT faculty and students, as well as the broader Central Texas community, to understand the current state of play in Europe’s capacities to respond to geopolitical crises—from the 2008 Russo-Georgian war to the ongoing situation in Libya—as well as the global reach of the EU. The Center will pay special attention to the rich and varied debates within Europe over the future evolution of the EU, including issues such as the EU’s enlargement policy and the development and maturation of its Common Foreign and Security Policy, and to the EU’s critical role in dealing with secessionist regions and frozen conflicts on its borders. In pursuing these efforts, the Center will draw heavily on its professional schools, especially the schools of business, law, and public affairs, all of which have considerable expertise and interest in these areas.

In looking at the evolution of Europe as a geopolitical actor, the Center will examine Europe’s relations with nations of the former Soviet Union and the post-Communist Central/Eastern Europe. There is a divergence within Europe on what role Russia should play in this region. The Central/Eastern European members of the EU have a different perception of Moscow’s interests in the post-Soviet sphere than the West European member states. Indeed, Europe’s growing economic ties with Russia have outpaced its political ties. Further, Russia is Europe’s main supplier of natural gas and a consumer for European exports. But Russian leaders dismiss European concerns about anti-democratic developments in Russia and criticize Europe for being too willing to follow the US. The Center will examine the Russian-European relationship, particularly in the cases of energy security and frozen conflict management, both in the Balkans and in the Caucasus.

The Center’s work on transnational policy challenges will also investigate specific instances of US-European cooperation on so-called out of area issues. One such topic involves the whole constellation of issues subsumed under the umbrella of peacekeeping and post-conflict governance. First in the Balkans, then in Afghanistan, and currently in Libya, US and European governments, both through NATO and independently of it, are working cooperatively to reduce ethnic and sectarian violence and to build lasting structures of peace. These efforts have gone well beyond—indeed, have had to go well-beyond—“ordinary” military deployments to encompass a broad array of diplomatic, economic, social, and judicial initiatives. The Center’s efforts in

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this area will seek to identify what lessons Europeans and Americans have learned over the past decade and to assess what new steps need be taken.

3. Law and Media

Globalization is doing more than simply eroding physical borders. It is also dissolving the boundaries that separate nations and cultures and the norms and morals that bind them. Ideas now traverse political borders with the touch of a button on a computer. Meanwhile, all people, from the poorest migrants to the wealthiest hedge-fund managers, cross borders in ever growing numbers looking for opportunity. These varied people bring different views and attitudes to their new homes, while technology allows them (if they so choose) to remain emotionally and culturally connected to their old homes.

The movement of ideas and people stimulates creativity and innovation. It also challenges traditional notions of group identity. Do (and should) citizens of Denmark think of themselves primarily as Danes or as Europeans? Will Muslim immigrants in Rotterdam and Hamburg and Paris come to see themselves as part of Europe or as separate from it? Do Poles, Bulgarians, and citizens from other new entrants to the EU see the European project in the same way that citizens in Western Europe do?

The Center will examine these questions of identity and citizenship. Identity politics (defined broadly), aided by the trans-border nature of information technology, is of great importance to a frontier state like Texas, which has the second largest foreign-born population in the US. The University of Texas is home to some of the world’s leading researchers on the formation, expression, and evolution of identity. The Center will provide UT students, faculty, and staff—as well as the wider Central Texas community of business people, policymakers, and not-for-profit leaders—with a forum through which to learn about Europe’s experience with identity politics and to share their own experience and knowledge. The US and Europe can learn much from each other about different migrant experiences, and Austin is an ideal vantage point from which to explore changing group identities in a comparative manner.

In exploring culture, citizenship, and identity, the Center will place particular emphasis on the role played by journalists and the media. We will provide a conduit through which practitioners, industry leaders, students, researchers, and faculty at UT’s professional school of Journalism as well as Radio, Television and Film can access and discuss the academic scholarship and practices in Europe. The Center will encourage and support student exchanges and cooperation with universities in the EU. In short, we will provide UT students, faculty, and researchers, as well as European visitors in Austin, with a trans-national platform for the study of new mediums in radio, television, film, and journalism.

The Center will also emphasize how legal practices in Europe and the US are comparable and how the two models can learn from one another. Adhering to the theme of identity politics, we will examine law and sexual citizenship and how these are perceived in Europe and the US. We will also emphasize the European perception

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of humanitarian and international law, particularly in the context of the post-global war on terror.

Finally, the Center will provide the UT community specifically and Central Texas as a whole with information about exhibitions and performances that will highlight the incredible depth and volume of European art and culture. The Center will work with the world-famous Blanton Museum of Art and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center to attract European artists and art works to the UT campus to add to the already significant European art exhibitions and performances these institutions currently offer.

MAJOR RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIESTO BE UNDERTAKEN DURING THE GRANT CYCLE:

The EU Center of Excellence at the University of Texas will use a variety of activities to cover the main themes of Trans-National Policy Challenges and Opportunities. In doing so, the Center will continuously seek to fulfill its main mission of involving the university student, faculty, and researcher community in outreach efforts to the wider community of policy makers, stake holders, diplomats, business people, local institutions of higher education, and educational professionals.

The Center will organize conferences and workshops, sponsor visiting EU scholars, facilitate student exchanges and research projects, support curriculum development on European themes, and disseminate educational and informative publications. We also will involve the local media in all our events, especially those that go beyond the involvement of the academic community. Below is a brief overview of each activity divided into seven sections: (1) conferences; (2) lecture series; (3) workshops and outreach to K-12, institutions of higher learning, and EU Visit Program; (4) visiting EU scholars; (5) student exchanges, graduate student research projects, and faculty research; (6) curriculum development on European and EU themes; and (7) dissemination of information.

Conferences

I. EU Center of Excellence “Learning With Europe” Conference Series:

The Center will organize three “major” conferences (10-15 invited participants) every academic year (typically taking place in November, March, and April) that will seek to involve a large number of researchers, policy makers, and stake holders from both the US and Europe. The broad themes of the three yearly conferences over the grant cycle are as follows:

Year 1 (2011-12):Focus on Monetary Issues:

Austerity, Elites, and the Euro1. “Alternatives to Austerity in the EU and US: Monetary Policies”

(Principal organizers: CES and LBJ)

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2. “The Euro Crisis”(Principal organizers: CES and Law)3. “Elite Policymaking and Financing

in the EU and US: Accountability or Paralysis?”(Principal organizers: CES and Govt.)

Year 2 (2012-13)Focus on Pubic Policy Issues:

Energy, Secession, and Identity1. “EU-US Energy: Comparative Energy Public Policies and Technologies.”

(Principal organizers: CES and Cockrell School of Engineering)2. “Reassessing EU/US Policy on Secession:

The Lessons of Yugoslavia and Georgia” (Principal organizers: CES, LBJ, and CREEES)

3. “Comparative Politics of Identity in the European Union” (Principal organizers: CES, LBJ, Govt., and CREEES)

Year 3 (2013-14)Focus on Human Rights & Citizenship Issues:

Citizenship, Media, and Law1. “Sexual Citizenship and Human Rights:

What Can the US Learn from the EU and European Law?” (Principal organizers: CES, Law, and Rapoport Center for Human Rights)

2. “Comparing European Union and North-American Approaches to International Law and Human Rights”

(Principal organizers: CES, Rapoport Center for Human Rights, Women’s and Gender Studies, and CREEES)

3. “The European Public Sphere: Understanding the Role of Mass Media and Interpersonal Discussion in Shaping Today's European Citizenship”

(CES and the School of Journalism).

The nine conferences, as outlined above, will be organized in collaboration with departments, centers, and colleges across campus, including professional schools, such as LBJ, Law, Journalism, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights, and the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Finally, each conference will be led by a major figure in the field, such as Jamie Galbraith, the noted economist, who will in fact be leading the first conference, which examines austerity measures in select EU nations within the broader comparative context of EU-US relations.

II. EU Center of Excellence “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets” Summit Conference Series:

Hosted in Austin, the annual Texas EU Summit, “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets,” will provide small businesses, policy makers, and economic development professionals with an overview of how to target and expand business opportunities in Europe. The summit will focus on promoting and building the international trade capacity of Texas-based small businesses and

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economic development organizations while creating greater awareness regarding the benefits of exporting to the world’s largest market. The intention of the series will be to connect Texas businesses with their European counterparts to facilitate joint ventures and memorandums of understanding of mutual benefit.

Our target audience is small and medium business firms from throughout Texas, including new-to-export and existing exporters that want to grow their international operations, professionals from international trade assistance organizations, local and EU chambers of commerce, manufacturing associations, agricultural-focused organizations, technology incubators, renewable energy companies, and financial services providers. We have also targeted an attendance of 150-200 small businesses and economic development professionals from throughout Texas

Lecture Series

I. EU Center of Excellence EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series:

CES and the McCombs School of Business’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) will collaborate with LBJ in the form of a three-part lecture series over the grant cycle, with three lectures sponsored each year, for a total of nine lectures. The series will focus on the economies and international relations of the EU and US, and each will have a significant business outreach component to them. The purpose of this series is: (1) to promote student and faculty dialogue on these two important regions and trading partners of the world; (2) to encourage outreach between the university and the broader public, including the Central Texas business community; and (3) to facilitate the establishment of a more permanent intellectual community among Liberal Arts, the McCombs School, and LBJ in the field of EU-US studies. We are targeting 50-75 attendees.

II. EU Center of Excellence Diplomat Speakers Series:

The Center will assist LBJ in bringing in speakers from the EU, former and current diplomats. Speakers will be drawn both from Member State diplomatic corps and the European External Action Service. Indeed, LBJ and the Strauss Center, which is housed within LBJ, regularly bring in diplomats, such as the German Ambassador to the US Klaus Scharioth, who came to UT in December, 2010, and addressed Berlin’s policy response to the Eurozone financial crisis as well as geopolitical matters such as Russian resurgence and US-German collaboration in the Middle East. The series will be held in the prestigious LBJ Presidential Library Presidential Suite. In short, LBJ and the Strauss Center will provide the EU Center of Excellence with prestigious fora for prominent diplomats from the EU institutions and EU member states.

III. EU Center of Excellence “Europe and Islam Speak” Lecture and Seminar Cultural Exchange Series:

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collaborative lecture series and faculty exchange (begun this year) with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), in Paris, which would involve, among other things, during the three-year grant cycle a scholar from the Centre coming to UT once a year to work with students and faculty on the topic of Muslim communities and their histories in Europe and the EU. We anticipate one lecture each year as part of our series on “Europe and Islam Speak.” Our target audience is 50-75 per lecture.

IV. EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology:

CES announces the launching of the EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology. The series will enable the Center to invite distinguished anthropologists and intellectuals invested in matters of contemporary European culture and society, and whose work is related to studies of the EU. We are especially interested in individuals whose research intersects with other fields, including, but not limited to, globalization and transnational studies.

Workshops, Outreach to K-12 and Institutions of Higher Learning,and the EU Visit Program

I. As part of its larger outreach mission, CES will participate in the Euro Challenge, a program launched and sponsored by the Delegation of the EU to the US in Washington, DC. The Euro Challenge provides educational opportunity for high school students to learn about the EU and the euro. Student teams of three to five students are asked to make presentations answering specific questions about the European economy and the single currency, the euro. They are also asked to pick one member country of the “euro area” to examine an economic problem at the country level, and to identify policies for responding to that problem.

II. As part of its overall outreach efforts as a National Resource Center funded through the US Department of Education, in particular with an aim to forging connections with minority institutions in the community, CES will continue to develop as part of an ongoing collaborative project a series of classes on European and EU related topics at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black college in the heart of Austin, Texas.

III. As part of its overall outreach efforts, in particular with an aim to reach K-16 students and provide high school teachers in Texas with useful lesson plans, CES will organize every year the following workshops:

Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and researching on Europe.” Here our focus will be primarily university students.

Workshop 2: “Teaching European Union in Texas High Schools.” Here our focus will be primarily teacher training of high school instructors. We are targeting approximately 30 attendees for each workshop.

IV. The Center will sponsor the participation of three UT undergraduate students and two Texas high school faculty in a visit program to Brussels, the capital of the EU,

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organized by the EU Network Coordinating Center.

Visiting EU Scholar(s)

The Center, in cooperation with the deans of the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Germanic Studies, will provide funds and research assistance for two visiting EU scholars from Germany and Sweden to teach courses that will fall within the themes indicated in the “Major Themes” section. Depending on the skill-set of the scholar, they may teach cross-listed courses in one of the professional schools.

Concentrating on scholars from Germany and Sweden will offer UT students and faculty an important perspective of the EU. As the economic powerhouse of the EU, Berlin has become far more involved in resolving the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Germany is also emerging as an important political leader in Europe and has come to lead a number of important European initiatives, including the recent effort to create an EU-Russia Political and Security Committee.

Sweden is also an EU political and economic leader. While it stands outside of the Eurozone, it has been involved in supporting the efforts of the currency bloc to stabilize peripheral European economies. Sweden is also a geopolitical leader, as demonstrated by its spearheading efforts with Poland of the EU Eastern Partnership initiative. Sweden’s leadership efforts in the Baltic region are considerable, and it is one of the most involved EU nations in Eastern/Central Europe.

Student Exchanges, Graduate Student Research Projects,and Faculty Research Funding

The Center will provide undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities for exchanges and research projects.

The Center will provide information about grants and funding opportunities for students interested in studying or researching in Europe available from UT. The Center will also support the already existing exchange programs within UT’s professional schools.

The Center will also provide grants for faculty and graduate research with a focus on the EU.

Curriculum Development on European and EU Themes

The Center will provide funds through a competitive application for faculty to help them organize and teach an existing course around the themes of the EU.

I. We will fund the creation of a “signature course” on the EU and will hold an open competition to design such a course for the Fall 2012 semester. The Signature Course

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series is the centerpiece of UT’s Curriculum Reform. The signature course program provides all first-year students at UT with a course that helps them transition from promising high school students to good, effective college students. As such, it constitutes an important gateway course that can shape what students will study during their time at UT. Our focus over the three-year grant cycle period will be on “leadership in the EU and/or EU-US Relations.” We have the strong support of Dean Paul Woodruff, who has implemented these required signature courses and integrated them into the curriculum, for this theme related to EU and/or EU-US relations.

II. We will be providing funds for competitive proposals for the development and instruction of courses related to commerce and business in the EU. In doing so, as part of our overall commitment to connecting the humanities with the work of professional schools, we aim to fashion courses that are useful for both business and liberal arts majors. There is a great demand for these sorts of interdisciplinary courses, and we believe that a course that emphasizes transnational aspects of business would be appealing to students of both majors. The course will emphasize not only the business side of the comparative study, but also cultural and historical aspects of establishing successful business relationships in the EU.

III. CES has recently received a competitive award valued at BLAH through LAITS (Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services) to radically develop, enrich, and revise during the grant period its core required introductory course for all majors, of which CES typically has between 60 and 70 in any given year. The course revision of Introduction to European Studies, which focuses primarily on the EU, will involve the creation of new teaching materials and it will be led by Dr. Katie Arens of the Germanic Studies Department, an expert on modern Europe, pedagogy, and curricular development.

Dissemination of Information

The Center will maintain a website on which it will publicize all its events and funding opportunities. The website will also seek to collect all European-related funding opportunities and events put on by all the professional schools, departments, and outside collaborators. We will therefore maintain a thorough calendar of events for European-related events and activities in Central Texas. We will place all of our major events on the website in a downloadable video format.

To disseminate our educational and informative publications, the Center first will create an extensive email list compiled from event participants, interested students, and partners in professional schools and academic departments. Subsequently, a monthly newsletter will be distributed to this email list. The newsletter will:

list all of the upcoming EU Center Events, as well as European-related events put on by other schools and departments, both at UT and at our partner educational institutions in the region;

provide the upcoming deadlines for funding and grants from the EU Center, as well as appropriate funding opportunities from other schools and

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departments within the UT; chronologize upcoming deadlines for funding and grants from non-

University of Texas entities (the EU, US State Department, Council for European Studies, etc.); and

furnish links to the news sources about issues in the EU (such as EU’s Press Room: http://europa.eu/press_room/index_en.htm).

IMPACT OF THE PROGRAM UPON THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND EXTERNAL OUTREACH CONSTITUENCIES:

The EU Center of Excellence will connect the vibrant community of scholars and students on campus and inform them of the opportunities that the campus already provides while increasing awareness of new opportunities that the Center will initiate.

The Center will also involve Austin’s vibrant community of policy makers, stake holders, secondary school teachers/students, and business professionals in its activities. Austin is the capital of Texas and as such it is the nerve center of the government and state policy activity. The Center will become the main source of information for ideas and advice on European affairs, both in the realm of public policy and business. Austin is also a city of “ideas,” home to important high technology and media industries (Dell, 3M, Motorola, etc.). We intend to use UT’s already strong and established links with the Texas State Capitol and the business community to push the Center to the forefront.

We will involve the Texas business community in our events and conferences. Aside from collaborating with entrepreneurs in conference preparation, we also intend to provide the business community with events and information that they will be able to use in their day-to-day activities. We therefore intend to host a large conference summit and a series of workshops for the business community (in conjunction with our professional schools) on how to invest in Europe and how to learn more about European regulatory practices.

We will involve the Governor’s Office as well as the members and staff of the Texas Legislature in our events and activities. We will bring Texas policy makers together with European academics/policy-makers and aim to engender a discussion on how Texas can learn from European policy solutions in the realm of border control, public health, public transportation, urban planning, and educational policy. We intend to illustrate to Texas legislators and policy makers that many of the same problemsthey face are encountered by government officials in Europe, and that, just as threats and problems can cross borders in our contemporary world, so can solutions.

The Center will also reach out to the universities and colleges in the surrounding Central Texas area and thus involve a wider number of students and researchers in its funding opportunities and conference preparations. We intend to collaborate with the entire University of Texas system of schools (nine universities and six health institutions with a total of over 210,000 students) as well as with Central Texas universities and colleges that will form our partnership network: Texas State

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University (San Marcos), Texas Lutheran University (Seguin), Houston-Tillotson University (Austin), Concordia University (Austin), St. Edwards University (Austin), and Austin Community College. Of special importance, in an effort to reach a minority population, we will develop EU content-based classes at Huston-Tillotson, a historically black college in the heart of Austin and not far from UT.

The Center will also create an all-volunteer Advisory Board that will bring together former US Ambassadors to Europe, prominent business people, and academics. We intend to gather all the European-oriented minds of Central Texas in one institutional framework and learn from their ideas and suggestions on how to increase the dialogue between Europe and Texas, and the US in extension.

We will also create, with the help of existing academic links and collaborations, a “University of Texas EU Center Distinguished Fellows”: a contact list of academics from the US, Canada, and Mexico who concentrate on Europe. We will keep these academics informed of our events and hope that they will help us disseminate information about our events and research efforts. The list will be a useful resource for students and researchers seeking advice about their projects.

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Narrative Proposal Form

1. Strategic Support of Host University and Center Visibility. Applicants should explain how their activities will reinforce and benefit from any ongoing university efforts to support international and/or European programs. They should also explain how the university will support the Center with staff and other logistical assistance, and how the Center will ensure high physical and programmatic visibility within the university. Applicants receiving funding during the 2008-2011 period should explain their relative level of success in achieving the above, and also how they will enhance and expand that performance during the 2011-2014 period. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

A. Reinforcing ongoing university efforts:

The University of Texas at Austin has a strong commitment toward scholarship that seeks to expand knowledge of Europe and of Global Affairs. The EU Center of Excellence, which will be housed in the Center for European Studies (currently a National Resource Center), will work in close collaboration with UT’s professional schools, especially LBJ, the School of Law, McCombs School of Business, the School of Journalism, and the Cockrell School of Engineering. The Center will also benefit from close support of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Harry Ransom Research Library, the Blanton Museum, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights, Women’s and Gender Studies, the Government Department, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES). The activities related to Europe of these schools, departments, centers, and programs are vast, as one would expect of one of the largest and most well-endowed universities in the world.

The EU Center of Excellence will reinforce the current undergraduate Major of European Studies. The European scholars and fellows brought in from European universities will help teach courses for the undergraduate major. At the same time, the Center will also work at developing with the professional schools (Law and Business) a joint-degree program that would link the proposed European Studies Masters degree with the professional school degree. The Center will also work through CES to develop further avenues for graduate study in the field of EU and Europe. To this end, CES has already received prior approval from the Deans of CoLA (Randy Diehl) and LBJ (Ambassador Robert Hutchings) to move forward with the creation of an MA in European Studies (see letters of support), with the aim of creating joint European Studies/EU interdisciplinary tracks in allied colleges and schools and establishing joint MA degrees with LBJ during the grant cycle.

The EU Center of Excellence will be a “force multiplier” of these academic units, institutes, museums, and schools, concentrating on disseminating information and facilitating cooperation in the realm of European scholarship amongst and between them. Below is a brief outline of what is only a fraction of ongoing activities to support European research in a number of schools, departments and institutes:

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Center for European Studies –

The Center for European Studies (CES), which is proposing to be the home for the EU Center of Excellence, promotes the study of Europe in the form of: language study; providing courses on European culture, history, economics, business, and politics; creating opportunities for study abroad and internships abroad; and assisting students in pursuing work opportunities connected to Europe. CES also serves civic, nonprofit, and business associations with activities in Europe; academic leaders and institutions from Europe with collaborative agreements with UT; governmental and multilateral agencies dedicated to social and economic betterment in Europe; and the general public in Texas and the US whose world outlook includes Europe.

As a National Resource Center (NRC), CES sponsors major conferences, workshops, faculty interest groups, and scholarly symposia. CES also provides Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to students pursuing graduate and undergraduate degrees relating to Europe in any department or school of the university. From 2011-2014, CES will be awarding FLAS fellowships to graduate and undergraduate students developing language skills in traditional European languages (such as French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) as well as those developing language skills in non-European priority languages (such as Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and Turkish) where those skills would deepen and broaden an understanding of the area studies of Europe and the EU generally.

CES has a firm commitment to developing campus resources and courses that will give students the training they need to participate in an international arena in which the EU plays a key role. By highlighting an interdisciplinary course of study and by offering a degree plan that is not limited by traditional disciplinary boundaries, CES can respond to political and private sector demands for integrated studies that include both academic study and professional training. 

CES is committed to reaching out to the campus community as well as the broader region to provide access to European speakers and activities that will promote interest in Europe and the EU. As part of the largest university in the state of Texas, CES has a special responsibility to support continued international development and to educate students, which can play a fundamental role in an international community in which the EU is a critical player.

Programs, Colleges, and Centers that will contribute to CES’s work as the home for the EU Center of Excellence

and be integrated closely into its activities

Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) –

CREEES offers courses in the languages of the area and in the social sciences, humanities, and professional schools relevant to the study of the former Soviet Union

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and Central and Eastern Europe. CREEES grants BA and MA degrees as well as four dual-degree programs with the professional schools.

CREEES sponsors a variety of scholarly, instructional, and outreach activities during the academic year. Scholarly events include lectures by distinguished visiting speakers, film and photography exhibits, an annual symposium featuring the best current scholarship on the region, and an international symposium in conjunction with other area centers at UT. In addition to regular undergraduate and graduate courses, CREEES sponsors workshops in thesis preparation, grant writing, and career counseling. Throughout the year and during the summer, CREEES sponsors outreach programs for K-12 teachers, including a speakers bureau, K-12 resource pages for students and teachers linked to the center’s homepage, and training institutes to bring the latest scholarship to K-12 teachers.

Jackson School of Geosciences –

The Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy (CIEEP) is a joint venture of the Jackson School of Geosciences, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the College of Engineering. It focuses on the development of national and international energy and environmental policy options with emphasis on the technical perspective that is most commonly lacking in policy efforts at academic institutions distant from the energy industry and educational scene. CIEEP has put on EU-focused conferences before, including bringing in the French Ambassador to the US in the Fall of 2008 to discuss French-US energy issues, bringing together Texas business leaders and policy makers.

UT School of Law –

The Institute for Transnational Law—led by the University of Texas and University College of London Professor Basil Markesinis—fosters close cooperation with a number of eminent Law Schools in Europe. The Institute promotes faculty and student exchanges to Europe (as well as other locations) and organizes international internships with courts, international institutions, and NGO’s in Europe (including a highly successful internship with the ICTY in The Hague).

The Rapoport Center for Human Rights –

The Rapoport Center serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights both locally and globally. It publishes frequent research on human rights and immigration issues.

McCombs School of Business –

The Center for International Business and Education Research (CIBER) offers both undergraduate (BBA) and graduate (MBA) exchange programs in top European business schools.

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The BBA international program office also coordinates semester and summer exchange programs with elite business school partners around the world. Undergraduate business students at McCombs can study abroad while earning credit for their business degree, receiving in-residence credit and paying UT tuition. Special scholarships are available to help students fund their experience, along with any regularly awarded financial aid and scholarships. While language study is possible and encouraged at nearly all our partners, most have classes in English, so foreign language proficiency is not a requirement to limit participation in the programs.

English Language Programs:

Austria (Vienna), Wirtschaftsuniversität WienBelgium (Louvain-la-Neuve), Université Catholique de LouvainCzech Republic (Prague), University of EconomicsDenmark, Copenhagen Business SchoolEngland (Bath), University of BathFrance (Paris), École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, ESCP EuropeFrance (Paris), Hautes Études Commerciales, HECGermany (Vallendar), WHU Otto Beisheim School of ManagementItaly (Milan), Universitá Commerciale Luigi BocconiNetherlands (Rotterdam), Rotterdam School of Management - Erasmus UniversityNorway (Oslo), BI, Norwegian School of ManagementScotland (Edinburgh), University of EdinburghSwitzerland (St. Gallen), St. Gallen Universität

Foreign Language Programs:

Spain (Barcelona), Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas, ESADE

Spain (Bilbao), Universidad de DeustoSpain (Madrid), ICADE

Additionally, the IC² Institute at UT is an interdisciplinary institute focused on wealth creation and economic development. It supports faculty exchanges from Europe as well as research programs for graduate students. The institute has hosted visiting scholars from Germany, Russia, Poland, Portugal, Malta, and other European countries. It also provides business incubation services for a wide variety of businesses from across the world. It has a Global Fellows Program, which is a global community of creative and innovative leaders from academia, business, and government. This global network has existed since 1977 and currently includes about 160 active global fellows; there are also has 18 faculty members of UT who are endowed by the Institute.

The Institute helped create an incubator in Poland a few years ago. And there is a major Portugal program well underway, with UT on one side and 15 Portuguese universities on the other side. The program has four components: mathematics,

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advanced computing, digital media, and technology transfer. The latter component involved Portuguese interns working on commercialization projects in the US.

LBJ School of Public Affairs –

The Center for International Energy and Environmental Research supports a number of research initiatives and collaborations with European institutions. The LBJ School is also a leader in policy research with faculty concentrating on US policy, but also internationally. The Dean, moreover, is noted European/EU specialist Ambasssador Robert Hutchings, who is invested in developing European and EU studies on campus and has been working closely with CES on a number of initiatives, not least of which is the development of a joint Masters in European Studies.

School of Communications –

The School of Communications has programs in Denmark, Spain, and Finland. There are also intensive summer programs in Public Relations in Dublin, Ireland; Spanish Language and Culture in Santander, Spain; Photojournalism in Prague, Czech Republic; Communications in Erfurt, Germany; and Media and Global Change, in Salzburg, Austria.

Robert S. Strauss Center of International Security and Law –

The Strauss Center supports researchers and students on a number of projects involving international and European topics. The Center provides an extensive speaker series of academics, policy makers, and stake holders, with frequent showcases of prominent commentators on European and American foreign policy. The Center is designed so that it can focus and draw upon the vast research programs at the university and bring them together in a coherent whole, multiplying their effect and reach.

Cockrell Engineering School –

The International Engineering Education Office in the Cockrell School of Engineering provides student and research exchanges to Europe (University of Edinburgh, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, INSA-Toulouse, University College of London, and Technical University of Delft) as well as intensive summer programs in Vienna, Santadar, Cordoba, London, and Cambridge.

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Library Holdings. With a total of 9,990,941 volumes, the University of Texas Libraries (UTL) remains one of the top 10 research libraries in North America (ARL Statistics, 2009/10). Through its American approval and selection plans for European countries, UTL acquires significant works published on individual European countries and comparative research for its collection in all the major European Studies languages. Over the past decade, UTL has increased acquisition of non-print materials such as music CDs, DVDs, videos, and e-books to support the teaching and research of Europe across campus, within the UT system, and in distance education courses. Materials from or about Europe and its constituent countries are distributed throughout UTL to support teaching and research in academic programs from BA through post-graduate degrees. The Tarlton Law Library, one of the nation’s largest academic law libraries with over one million volumes, maintains significant collections for the major common-law and Western European jurisdictions, and is an official depository for EU publications. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum holds primary documents for US-European foreign relations from the president’s collection. Of the 100,213 serials to which UTL subscribes, an estimated 9,042 have content related to European Studies. World-renowned collections on Europe are housed in the Harry Ransom Center, with holdings that include manuscripts, correspondence, music scores, books, drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs.

The Blanton Museum of Art -–

The Suida-Manning and Leo Steinberg Collections provide astounding exhibitions of European paintings and prints. Highlights include works by canonical masters from Sebastiano del Piombo, Parmigianino and Veronese, to Rubens, Claude Lorrain, and Guercino and many other works equally as impressive, illuminating the history of European art.

B. University staff/logistical support

Staff/Logistical Support + Programmatic Visibility:

The Executive Board would include the following UT faculty, with additionally one Austin-based representative, who is an expert on the EU and European foreign policy and security:

Dr. Gary Freeman (Director of the Center of the EU Center for Excellence) – Chair and Professor of the Government Department

Dr. Douglas Biow (Chair of the Executive Board and Principal Investigator of the EU Center for Excellence Grant) – Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor and Director of the Center for European Studies

Ambassador Robert Hutchings – Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Dr. Mary Neuburger (Associate Director of the EU Center for Excellence) – Director of the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies

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Dr. Michael Webber – Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy in the Jackson School of Geosciences

Dr. Sabine Hake – Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture Dr. Karen Engle – Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and Director of the

Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Dr. Philippa Levine – Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the

Humanities and Associate Director of British Studies Marko Papic – STRATFOR (Analyst – Europe)

The University will organize all the activities of the EU Center of Excellence through CES, which is currently one of thirteen National Resource Centers for European Studies in the US, as well as the recipient through the US Department of Education of a Foreign Language and Area Studies award for graduate and undergraduate fellowships in the area of European Studies. CES has a Director, Associate Director, and two permanent staff members, as well as allied staff in other academic and college units who assist the Center (see staffing below). Additionally, CES will coordinate all it of its activities with LBJ, Law, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights, the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Government Department, and the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES). In this way, the Center will have a wide network of administrative and logistical support.

We have also established close links with the Austin’s International Hospitality Council, the Texas Governor Office, The Texas Senate Committee on International Relations and Trade, the Texas House Committee on Border and International Affairs, and the Austin High School Academy for Global Studies. We will work with these partners to advertise our events to a wide public as well as to choose speakers and conference invitees that would benefit their needs. We will consult our partners in the strategic planning of activities.

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

2. Cooperation within a US network and with EU partner institutions: Applicants should discuss their existing capacity, and capacity to develop further, links with other academic and research institutions in the US and the EU, including collaboration with universities in at least two EU Member States. Applicants should include discussion of their participation in any other EU or EU-US grant programs, for example those programs within the context of the EU-US Higher Education and Vocational Training Agreement, and the Jean Monnet Action Programs. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

A. Links within the United States (as well as Canada and Mexico)

UT is one of the largest universities in the US with an enrollment of just under fifty thousand students. UT is the flagship of a university system that incorporates nine universities, six health schools, a total enrollment of over 210,000, and a University endowment of 15.6 billion dollars (fifth largest in the world).

The capacity to expand existing links with other academic and research institutions within the US are therefore vast. UT has close links with its sister institutions within the University of Texas System and is continuously developing close links with other institutions of higher learning. Especially important to the activities of the proposed Center of EU Excellence would be links with our regional partners in Central Texas specifically and the Southwest Region of the US as a whole.

For the purposes of the Center of EU Excellence, we would establish a three-part strategy through which to expand the links with Universities on the North American Continent:

1. Collaborate with the established network of EU Centers of Excellence. 2. Disseminate contacts, conference calls, and research with regional partners in

Central Texas, wider Southwest United States and the other units of the University of Texas System.

3. Use UT’s strong links with the institutions of higher learning in Mexico and Canada to further push the collaborative efforts started by the network of EU Centers of Excellence.

a) Creating new and nurturing existing links with the EU Centers of Excellence in Canada (Carleton University, Dalhousie University, Université de Montréal—McGill University, York University, and University of Toronto/University of Victoria) as well as the University of British Columbia’s Institute for European Studies.

b) Further UT’s strong links with Mexican Universities to include research on the EU (such as close collaboration with El Colegio Mexiquense Interdisciplinary Program for European Studies).

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Partner Institutions

For the purposes of the Center we have established links with a number of regional educational institutions. These universities and colleges will form the EU Center’s Partner Institutions Network. We will advertise all of our events to the students and faculty at these institutions and we will open a number of our programs and funding opportunities to their students.

Texas State University (San Marcos) Texas Lutheran University (Seguin) Houston-Tillotson University (Austin) Concordia University (Cedar Park) St. Edwards University (Austin) Austin Community College University of Texas – Arlington University of Texas – Brownsville University of Texas – Dallas University of Texas – Pan American University of Texas – Permian Basin University of Texas - Tyler University of Texas – San Antonio University of Texas – El Paso

B. Links with EU partner institutions

UT has a vast number of links with the academic and research institutions in the EU and select non-EU European countries. Overall, UT has 125 established programs of exchange and cooperation with universities across the globe. UT also has the ninth largest foreign student population and the seventh largest “study abroad” program in the US (with 2,322 students studying abroad in the 2008-09 academic year). There are approximately 5,200 international students representing approximately 120 countries enrolled at UT. The university also hosted over 361 “Visiting Scholars” from Europe alone by 2011.

UT has current partnership agreements with the following universities in the EU (and select non-EU European countries):

Austria: - Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien: Partner University of the McCombs School

of Business (BBA) Belgium:

- Université Catholique de Louvain: Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA)

Czech Republic: - Charles University in Prague: General exchange program- University of Economics, Prague: Partner University of the McCombs

School of Business (BBA)

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Denmark: - Copenhagen Business School: Partner University of the McCombs School

of Business (BBA, MBA)- University of Copenhagen: General exchange program

Finland: - University of Tampere: General exchange program - Aalto University School of Economics: Partner University of the McCombs

School of Business (MBA) - University of Aarhus: Partner University of the School of Communications - Sibelius Academy: Partner University of the College of Fine Arts

France: - ESCP-EAP European School of Management: International Accounting

Program in Paris + Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA)

- Hautes Etudes Commerciales School of Management, HEC: Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA and MBA)

- Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po): General exchange program

- MICEFA, Association des Universités de Paris: General exchange program

- Université Jean Moulin Lyon III: General exchange program - INSA L’Institute National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse: Partner

University with the School of Engineering Germany:

- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: General exchange program - European University Viadrina, Frankfurt on Oder: General exchange

program - University of Würzburg Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität:

General exchange program - WHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management: Partner University of the

McCombs School of Business (MBA) - Universität Erfurt: Partner University of the School of Communications - Bucerius Law School: Partner University of Law School

Greece: - ALBA Graduate Business School: Partner University of the McCombs

School of Business (MBA) Italy:

- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan: Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA)

- European University Institute (EUI): Partner University of Law School The Netherlands:

- Rotterdam School of Management: Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA, MBA)

- University of Leiden: General exchange program - Delft University of Technology: General exchange program - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Partner University of Law School

Norway:

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- BI, Norwegian School of Management: Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA)

Portugal: - Universidade de Lisboa: Partner University with the School of Pharmacy

Spain: - ESADE, Barcelona: Partner University of the McCombs School of

Business (BBA)- Universidad de Valencia: General exchange program - Universidad de Cantabria: General exchange program - Universidad de Jaén: General exchange program - Universidad de Politécnica de Valéncia: General exchange program - Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid: General exchange program and

Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA) - Universidad de Navarra: Partner University with the School of

Communications- Universidad de Barcelona: Partner University with the School of

Pharmacy- Universidad de Deusto, Bibao: Partner University of the McCombs School

of Business (BBA) Sweden:

- University of Uppsala: General exchange program- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: General exchange program - Stockholm School of Economics: Partner University of the McCombs

School of Business (BBA) - Kungliga Teniska Högeskolan (KTH): General exchange program and

Partner University with the School of Engineering Switzerland:

- Universitat St. Gallen: Partner University of the McCombs School of Business (BBA)

- TASSEP-University of Geneva: Partner University with the College of Natural Sciences

UK: - Imperial College London: General exchange program- University of Bristol: General exchange program - University of Sheffield: General exchange program- University of College London: General exchange program - University of Sussex: General exchange program - University of Edinburgh: Partner University of the McCombs School of

Business (BBA) and School of Engineering- University of Nottingham: Full year exchange program with UT School of

Law - University of Bath: Partner University of the McCombs School of

Business (BBA)- University of Warwick, Warwick Business School: Partner University of

the McCombs School of Business (MBA) - Oxford Brookes University: Partner University of College of Education

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Schools and Colleges of UT also maintain regular faculty exchanges with European universities. In the College of Natural Sciences, for instance, Dr. Ulrich Mueller, Professor in Integrative Biology, has an established exchange with Professor Boomsma of the University of Copenhagen, and Dr. Matthew Leibold, Professor in Integrative Biology, has established regular exchanges with Professor Nicolas Loeuille (University of Paris); Professor Luc DeMeester (Katholic University of Leuven - Belgium); and Professor Wolf Mooij (Netherlands Institute for Ecology).

In the College of Liberal Arts, there are official, institutionalized yearly faculty exchanges with the following:

École Normale Supérieure, France Paris III – Sorbonne, France University of Toulouse, France Paris X – Nanterre, France Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France Université Paul Valery, France University of Munich, Germany Stuttgart, Germany University of Wurzburg, Germany Viadrina University, Germany University of Galway, Ireland University of Oslo, Norway Queens University, UK University of Lancaster, UK University of London, UK

The International Study Abroad Office, headed by Heather Barclay-Hamir, has continuous plans to extend collaborations with European Universities, and CES is integral to those plans. Additionally, the EU Center of Excellence through CES will coordinate closely with other academic units (especially with the McCombs School of Business Center for International Business and Education Research and with the UT School of Law International and Comparative Law Program) to create new exchange programs and to provide funding for students and researchers to take advantage of those programs. CES is currently assisting LBJ in exploring the possibility of developing faculty exchanges in Paris and Berlin.

To further the links with European institutions, the Center, in cooperation with CREEES, will look to develop four new formal institutional links with European institutions within the first two years of its existence (along with numerous informal links):

Sofia University Central European University Charles University University College Dublin

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

3. Detailed Timetable. Please specify the planned dates for starting and completing the project (for most EU Center applicants this will be 1 September 2011 to 31 August 2014). Please also provide a timetable for carrying out EACH ACTIVITY of the project, including any dissemination of results. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

Start of the Project: September 1, 2011Year 1 : September 1, 2011 – August 31 st , 2012

*All events in Year 1 will be assessed for impact based on number of applicants/participants and immediate feedback from applicants/participants (to be ascertained through a short email/written survey that all participants will be able to complete on a voluntary basis). We will be coordinating with the UT Center for Learning and Teaching (CTL) throughout the year to implement an objective, outside measurement evaluation report for the three-year grant cycle.

September 1, 2011 – Web Site Development Project: Create a website for the Center under the leadership of the Director and hire appropriate communications staff (see next item) to update the website and upload video material from events.

September 1, 2011 – Call for a 12 hour-a-week contracted position for a communication specialist who has background in European and EU studies and whose work would be devoted exclusively to publicity, website, and newsletter development related to the EU Center of Excellence.

September 1, 2011 – Course Development I: Call for curriculum development and instructional grant for a business course (to be taught in the Spring of 2012) that would focus its empirical case studies on the EU.

September 1, 2011 – Course Development II: Call for a competitive curriculum development grant for a “Signature Course” on issues related to leadership in the EU. The grant will consist of funding to facilitate course development by the faculty member chosen to develop the course.

September 1, 2011 – January 2012 – European Scholar I: Adjunct position for a scholar from Europe (to teach a course on the EU in the context of European Studies).

September 1, 2011 – Summer 2012 – Graduate Travel Stipend: Competition for one stipend of $2,500 for UT School of Law students to take part in European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.

September 1, 2011 – Summer 2012 – PhD Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $2,000 each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

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September 1, 2011 – Summer 2012 – Faculty Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $3,000 each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

September 1, 2011 – Call for one 10 hour-a-week research assistantship positions to facilitate conference, outreach, lecture series, and data collection activities (student worker).

September 1, 2011 – Call for two faculty research grants of $4,000 each with a focus on Business in the EU and Business relations between the EU and US.

September 1, 2011 – Begin working with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at UT for objective outside evaluation of the EU Center of Excellence: defining goals, building databases, articulating data collection strategies, and formulating according to a logic model the input, output, and outcome related to the grant’s goals.

Sept 1, 2011 – December 15, 2011 – Implement course for fall 2011 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “International Politics in Europe and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

September 1, 2011 – Organize course for spring 2012 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “The European Union” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

September 1, 2011 – Euro Challenge: Beginning planning stages. September 1, 2011 – Texas EU Summit 1: Beginning planning stages. October 2011 – Collaborative lecture and seminar exchange with École des

hautes études en sciences sociales on the EU, Europe, and Muslim identity politics. Topic to be determined.

October 2011 – Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and researching on Europe” – One day workshop for students, faculty, and researchers on obtaining grants and fellowships for research on/in Europe.

October 2011 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 1: The Future of the Nuclear Energy Business in Europe and the US, Rex Tillerson Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil Corp.

October 2011 – Information Session for Euro Challenge (2 days) November 2011 – Conference 1: “Alternatives to Austerity in the EU and

US: Monetary Policies,” led by Public Policy and economics Professor James Galbraith and organized by CES in consultation with LBJ.

November 2011 – EU Center of Excellence Anthropology Lecture Series. Speaker: Vincent Crapanzano, the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York, Graduate Center.

January 2012 – May 2012 – European Scholar II: Visiting Scholar position from Sweden (to teach a course on Sweden and the EU).

January 2012 – Texas EU Summit 1: “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets.”

February 2012 – Conference 2: “The Euro Crisis,” led by EU Law Professor Professor Jens Dammann and organized by CES in consultation

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with Law. Proceedings to be published in The Texas Journal of International Law.

February 2012 – Call for applications for EU Visit Program Competition. March 2012 – First Round of Euro Challenge. March 2012 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 2:

Reshoring in the US and Europe: The End of the Outsourcing Era? Caspar Hunsche, Senior Director, The Supply Chain Council, Inc.

March (mid to late), 2012 – Applications for EU Visit Program Competition due and selection committee deliberates.

April 2012 – Conference 3: “Elite Policymaking and Financing in the EU and US: Accountability or Paralysis?” led by the former Chair of Government, Professor John Higley, and organized by CES in consultation with the Department of Government, CREEES, and LBJ.

April 2012 – Finals of Euro Challenge, NY. April 2012 – Award notifications of EU Visit Program Competition and

planning stage for sending 3 UT students and 2 High School faculty to Brussels, coordinated with EU Network Coordinating Center.

April 2012 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 3: Interdependencies in the Global Downturn and the Risks of Protectionism, Pankaj Ghemawat, Professor of Global Strategy, IESE Business School, Barcelona, and author of World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It.

Summer 2012 – Workshop 2: Teaching the European Union in Texas High Schools.

Summer 2012 – Coordination Meeting for the Creation of a Masters of Arts in European Studies.

PREPARING FOR YEAR TWO OF THE GRANT:

June-August, 2012 – Euro Challenge: Beginning planning stage. June-August, 2012 – Summit 2: Beginning planning state. July 2012 (preparing for Year 2 of the grant) – Course Development I: Call

for curriculum development and instructional grant for a business course (to be taught in the Spring of 2013) that would focus its empirical case studies on the EU.

July 2012 (preparing for Year 2 of the grant) – Course Development II: Call for a competitive curriculum development grant for a “Signature Course” on issues related to leadership in the EU. The grant will consist of funding to facilitate course development by the faculty member chosen to develop the course.

July 2012 (preparing for Year 2 of the grant) Organize course for at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on (1) “Comparative Government with a focus on Europe and the EU” for Fall 2012 and “Modern European History and the EU” for spring 2013, and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

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Year 2 : September 1, 2012 – August 31 st , 2013

*All events in Year 2 will be assessed for impact based on number of applicants/participants and immediate feedback from applicants/participants (to be ascertained through a short email/written survey that all participants will be able to complete on a voluntary basis). We will be coordinating with CTL throughout the year to develop and implement an objective, outside measurement evaluation report for the three-year grant cycle.

September 1, 2012 – January 2013 – European Scholar I: Adjunct position for a scholar from Europe (Topic of course to be determined).

September 1, 2012 – Summer 2013 – Graduate Travel Stipend: Competition for one stipend of $2,500 for UT School of Law students to take part in European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.

September 1, 2012 – Summer 2013 – PhD Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $2,000 each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

September 1, 2012 – Summer 2013 – Faculty Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $4,000 each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

September 1, 2012 – Call for one 10 hour-a-week research assistantship positions to facilitate conference, outreach, lecture series, and data collection activities (1 student worker).

September 1, 2012 – Call for two faculty research grants of $4,000 each with a focus on Business in the EU and Business relations between the EU and US.

Sept 1, 2012 – December 15, 2012 – Implement course for fall 2012 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “Comparative Government with a focus on Europe and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

September 1, 2012 – Euro Challenge: Prepare for first round in March. October 1, 2012 – Collaborative lecture and seminar exchange with École

des hautes études en sciences sociales on the EU, Europe, and Muslim identity politics. Topic to be determined.

October 2012 – Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and researching on Europe” – One day workshop for students, faculty and researchers on obtaining grants and fellowships for research on/in Europe.

October 2012 – Information Session for Euro Challenge (2 days) October 2012 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series

1. Topic to be determined. November 2012 – Conference 1: “EU-US Energy: Comparative Energy

Public Policies and Technologies,” led by Professor Michael Webber and organized by CES in consultation with LBJ and the Cockrell School of Engineering.

November 2012 – EU Center of Excellence Anthropology Lecture Series. Speaker: To be determined.

January 2013 – May 2013 – European Scholar II: Visiting Scholar position from Sweden (EU-related course to be determined).

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January 2013 – May 2013 – Implement course for spring 2013 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “Modern European History and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

January 2013 – Texas EU Summit 2: “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets.”

February 2013 – Call for applications for EU Visit Program Competition. March 2013 – First Round of Euro Challenge. March 2013 – Conference 2: “Reassessing EU/US Policy on Secession: The

Lessons of Yugoslavia and Georgia,” led by Alan Kuperman and organized by CES in consultation with LBJ.

March 2013 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 2. Topic to be determined.

March (mid to late), 2013 – Applications for EU Visit Program Competition due and selection committee deliberates.

April 2013 – Conference 3: “Comparative Politics of Identity in the European Union” led by Mary Neuburger and Robert Moser, and organized by CES in consultation with the Department of Government, CREEES, and LBJ.

April 2013 – Award notifications of EU Visit Program Competition and planning stage for sending 3 UT students and 2 High School faculty to Brussels, coordinated with EU Network Coordinating Center.

April 2013 – Finals of Euro Challenge, NY. April 2013 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 3.

Topic to be determined. Summer 2013 – Workshop 2: Teaching European Union in Texas High

Schools.

PREPARING FOR YEAR THREE OF THE GRANT:

June-August, 2013 – Euro Challenge: Beginning planning stage. June-August, 2013 – Summit 3: Beginning planning state. July 2013 (preparing for Year 3 of the grant) – Call for curriculum

development and instructional grant for a business course (to be taught in the Spring of 2014) that would focus its empirical case studies on the EU.

July 2013 (preparing for Year 3 of the grant) – Course Development II: Call for a competitive curriculum development grant for a “Signature Course” on leadership in the EU.

July 2013 (preparing for Year 3 of the grant) Organize course for at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on (1) “European Politics and the EU” for Fall 2013 and “War and Peace in Europe and the EU” for spring 2014, and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

Year 3 : September 1, 2013 – August 31 st , 2014

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ascertained through a short email/written survey that all participants will be able to complete on a voluntary basis). We will be coordinating with CTL throughout the year to develop and implement an objective, outside measurement evaluation report for the three-year grant cycle.

September 1, 2013 – January 2014 – European Scholar I: Adjunct position for a scholar from Europe (Topic of course to be determined).

September 1, 2013 – Summer 2014 – Graduate Travel Stipend: Competition for one stipend of $2,500 for UT School of Law students to take part in European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.

September 1, 2013 – Summer 2014 – PhD Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $2,000 each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

September 1, 2013 – Summer 2014 – Faculty Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $4,000 each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

September 1, 2013 – Call for one 10 hour-a-week research assistantship positions to facilitate conference, outreach, lecture series, and data collection activities (1 student worker).

September 1, 2013 – Call for two faculty research grants of $4,000 each with a focus on Business in the EU and Business relations between the EU and US.

September 1, 2013 – Euro Challenge: Prepare for first round in March. Sept 1, 2013 – December 15, 2013 - Implement course for fall 2013 at

Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “European Politics and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

October 2013 – Collaborative lecture and seminar exchange with École des hautes études en sciences sociales on the EU, Europe, and Muslim identity politics. Topic to be determined.

October 2013 – Information Session for Euro Challenge (2 days). October 2013 – Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and

researching on Europe” – One day workshop for students, faculty and researchers on obtaining grants and fellowships for research on/in Europe.

October 2013 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 1. Topic to be determined.

November 2013 – Conference 1: “Sexual Citizenship and Human Rights: What Can the US Learn from the EU and European Law?” led by Professor Thomas Hubbard and organized by CES in consultation with Women’s and Gender Study, the Rapoport Center, and CREEES.

November 2013 – EU Center of Excellence Anthropology Lecture Series. Speaker: To be determined.

January 2014 – May 2014 – European Scholar II: Visiting Scholar position from Sweden (Topic of course to be determined).

January 2014 – May 2014 – Implement course for spring 2014 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “Modern European History and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.

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January 2014 – Texas EU Summit 3: “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets.”

February 2012 – Call for applications for EU Visit Program Competition. March 2014 – Conference 2: “EU and US Legal Approaches to Citizenship

and Human Rights,” led by Karen Engle and organized by CES in consultation with LBJ, Law, Women’s and Gender Studies, and CREEES.

March 2014 – First Round of Euro Challenge. March 2014 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 2.

Topic to be determined. March (mid to late), 2014 – Applications for EU Visit Program

Competition due and selection committee deliberates.

April 2014 – Conference 3: “The European Public Sphere: Understanding the Role of Mass Media and Interpersonal Discussion in Shaping Today's European Citizenship,” led by Homero Gil De Zuniga and organized by CES in consultation with the School of Journalism.

April 2014 – Award notifications of EU Visit Program Competition and planning stage for sending 3 UT students and 2 High School faculty to Brussels, coordinated with EU Network Coordinating Center.

April 2014 – Finals of Euro Challenge, NY. April 2014 – EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 3.

Topic to be determined. Summer 2014 – Workshop 2: Teaching European Union in Texas High

Schools.

End of the Project: August 31, 2014

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

4. Detailed Description of Proposed Activities

4.A.1. Activities: Conferences and Workshops. Provide a summary of all conferences and workshops planned during each academic year of the entire 2011-14 grant period. For each, indicate themes to be addressed, the number and nature of expected attendees, any resulting information products, means of dissemination. Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

CONFERENCES I (these conference events will vary by year)

The Center will organize three “major” conferences (10-15 invited participants) every academic year (typically taking place in November, March, and April) that will seek to involve a large number of researchers, policy makers, and stake holders from both the US and Europe.

YEAR 1:

November DATE, 2011 – Conference 1:

Alternatives to Austerity

The conference will bring together specialists from the US, Europeans working in the US, and selected specialists from Europe, especially from those countries hardest hit by the economic crisis. The purpose of the conference will be to compare conditions and analyses, and to discuss alternatives to a prolonged economic decline, high unemployment, and sustained assaults on public institutions and the welfare state.

Proposed participants:

Europeans: Andor Laszlo, Hungary: European Commissioner for Employment John Eatwell, UK, President, Queens College, Cambridge (Senior Adviser,

British Labour Party) Christian Chavagneux, France, Editor, Alternatives Economiques Hugo Sousa, Portugal, Ministry of Economics Alessandro Roncaglia, Italy, University of Rome Bruno Amoroso, Italy, Roskilde University (Denmark) and Federico Caffé

Society, Rome Theodore Pelagidis, Greece, University of Piraeus

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Anatole Kaletsky, UK, Journalist and author Aurore Lalucq, France, Initiative for Rethinking the Economy

Americans: Jan Kregel, Levy Economics Institute (formerly University of Bologna) Randall Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City Robert Guttman, Hofstra University and University of Paris Steven Cohen, University of California, Berkeley Norman Birnbaum, Georgetown University Law Center Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston Robert Blecker, American University

February DATE 2012 – Conference 2:

Conference on the Euro Crisis

In 2010, the EU experienced its first sovereign debt crisis as investors grew fearful that several of the Eurozone members might be unable to repay their government debts. Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain, and Belgium saw their government bonds downgraded and had to watch helplessly as the bond yield spreads between their own government bonds and those of more solvent member states such as Germany rose to new heights. The crisis soon became most acute in Greece, and on May 2, 2010, the International Monetary Fund and the remaining Eurozone countries agreed to a bailout in the form of a €110 billion loan. A week later, the member states of the EU and the International Monetary Fund went even further and pledged to make available as much as €750 billion to secure the solvency of the less stable Eurozone countries. While these measures have so far succeeded in averting sovereign defaults, the threat that the Euro Crisis poses is far from over.

The Euro Crisis has profound implications for law and policy in the EU and raises numerous questions of fundamental importance. Should the Treaty on the EU be amended to provide a clearer basis for financial rescue measures, and, if so, how should such amendments be designed? Should the Eurozone states move toward closer economic and fiscal integration? Should the EU at least be able to interfere in the economic and fiscal policy of individual member states if such interference becomes necessary to preserve the stability of the Euro? Should the EU consider the introduction of insolvency proceedings for member states? Does the Euro Crisis call for a redefinition of the role of the European Central Bank?

To discuss these and other questions, we plan to organize a conference on the Euro Crisis at the UT School of Law. The Texas Journal of International Law has agreed in advance to publish the main contributions.

Proposed Participants:

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John Armour, Oxford University, United Kingdom (bankruptcy) Anu Bradford, Chicago Law School (EU law) Dr. Armin von Bogdandy, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public

Law and International Law (EU constitutional law) Grainne de Burca, Harvard Law School (EU constitutional law) Stavros Gadinis, Berkeley (regulation of financial markets) Dr. Gerard Hertig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,

Switzerland (banking and financial services) Luis Miguel Poiares Maduro, European University Institute, Florence,

Italy (EU constitutional law) Dr. Wolfgang Schön, Max-Planck-Institut for Tax Law and Public Finance

(taxation) Dr. Chiara Zilioli, Deputy General Counsel of the European Central Bank

(EU law)

April DATE, 2012 – Conference 3:

Elite Policymaking and Financing in the EU and US: Accountability or Paralysis?

A central question in EU countries and the US today is the extent to which policymaking latitudes of government, state administrative, business, trade union, and other key elite groups are being constricted by globalization, climate change, resource costs, weak economic growth, high unemployment, ethnic communal tensions, and many other difficulties. Enthusiasts of unfettered democracy applaud and seek more constricted elite latitudes, believing this increases accountability to citizens’ needs and wishes. Others see in constricted latitudes a creeping paralysis of policymaking that will produce protracted economic stagnation and heightened social conflict. These competing views are abiding themes in theories and research about political elites in EU countries and the US: selectivity in recruitment, forms of social distinctiveness; rates of circulation; structures of policy networks; magnitudes of accord and discord on major policy questions; in short, the policymaking capacities and qualities of political elites in these countries. Relevant theories are, however, diverse, and research findings tend to be piecemeal. It is therefore proposed to convene a symposium at the UT in early April 2012 to aggregate and assess what we know and do not know about the capacities and qualities of elite policymaking. A dozen senior scholars who have long studied political elites in EU countries and the US, augmented by several prominent media observers, will be assembled. The symposium will be organized by the Center for European Studies and Department of Government at the UT in collaboration with the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on Political Elites, whose current chair, Prof. John Higley, is a UT faculty member. Prof. Higley will later edit a volume containing symposium papers and discussions. Strong efforts to attract coverage of the symposium by National Public Radio, Deutsche Welle, The Economist, The New York Times, Financial Times, etc. will be made.

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EU Scholars: Heinrich Best, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Collaborative

Research Center, University of Jena, and an expert on European parliamentary elites

Maurizio Cotta, Professor of Political Science, University of Siena, and Director of the 17-country EU-funded project on elite and citizen views of European integration

Jean-Pascal Daloz, Professor & Research Director, C.N.R.S., France, and an authority on the social distinctiveness of historical and contemporary European elites

Patrick Dumont, Professor of Political Science, Univ. of Luxembourg, and a specialist on the recruitment and circulation of cabinet ministers in EU countries

William Genieys, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Latin European Studies, Univ. of Montpellier, and an expert on French policymaking elites

Ursula Hoffmann-Lange, Professor of Political Science, Univ. of Frankfurt, leader of three studies of German policymaking elites and a fourth study now being launched

Miguel Jerez-Mir, Professor of Political Science, Univ. of Granada, and a leading student of Spanish ministerial and parliamentary elites.

György Lengyel, Professor of Sociology, Corvinus University, Budapest, and a leading scholar of East European business elites

US Scholars: Michael Burton, Professor of Sociology, Loyola Univ. Maryland, and co-

author of Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy (2006) G. William Domhoff, Professor of Sociology, Univ. of California Santa Cruz,

and author of six editions of Who Rules America? Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon University, Boston, and director of a

large new survey study of US elites Gwen Moore, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, State Univ. of New York

Albany, and an expert on the networks and gender compositions of US and European political elites.

EU and US Observers: A senior EU official in the US to be chosen in consultation with the EU

Commission One commentator on elite policymaking in Europe. One commentator on elite policymaking in the US.

YEAR 2:

November DATE, 2012 – Conference 1:

EU-US Energy: Comparative Energy Public Policies and Technologies

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This conference will bring together representatives from European and American academia and industry for a collaborative conference on a variety of energy policies and technologies. We will focus on France as a partner country for a variety of historical, technical, and intellectual reasons. The central thesis is that France and the US both share a similar set of concerns related to the abundance, safety, reliability, and cleanliness of energy. However, we have taken very different approaches to achieving our goals. Consequently, each country has different positive and negative results to share. This conference would seek to share best practices for solutions to the energy problem while educating participants about the problems and solutions and establishing a collaborative relationship with our European peers. Future versions of this conference might focus on other countries (UK, Serbia, etc.) whose energy challenges are different.

Areas of 13 speakers:

One representative from GDF Suez (world-leading gas company) One representative from EDF (world-leading electricity utility) One representative from Total Petrochemical (5th largest oil/gas company in

the world) One representative from Areva (world-leading nuclear company) Three academics and policymakers from French institutions. Three academics from across the US (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Rice, etc.) Three representatives from US industry, labor unions, and environmental

groups to the conference. 

March DATE, 2013 – Conference 2:

Reassessing EU/US Policy on Secession: The Lessons of Yugoslavia and Georgia

Several EU states and EU candidates face secessionist movements, violent or otherwise. It is vital and timely, therefore, to assess the lessons learned from recent US and EU policy on unilateral secession in two countries: the former Yugoslavia and Georgia. In 2008, the US and a large majority of EU states recognized the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. Later that year, Russia and a small handful of allies, but not the US or any EU states, recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia. In both cases, most of the international community did not recognize the unilateral secessions, resulting in ambiguous sovereignty that inhibits regional integration, economic growth, and stability. These events also raise dangerous precedents for ongoing secessionist conflicts in EU states, including Spain, and potential EU candidates, including Moldova.

CES proposes a conference of scholars and practitioners from the US and EU, comprising three panels: 1) Serbia/Kosovo; 2) Georgia; 3) US/EU policy lessons learned.

Participants will include (tentative):

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UT faculty: Alan J. Kuperman of the LBJ School of Public Affairs Mary C. Neuburger of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian

Studies (CREEES) Zoltan Barany of the Government Department Zachary Elkins of the School of Law

Invited participants: Gerard Gallucci, retired US diplomat Gordon N. Bardos, Columbia University Nicholas Burns, Harvard University Prof. Julie George, Queens College Matthew J. Bryza, US State Department Prof. Cory Welt, Georgetown University Rafael Garranzo, Foreign Ministry of Spain Jason Sorens, University at Buffalo Neophytos G. Loizides, Queens’s University Belfast One additional EU expert from Europe

April DATE, 2013 – Conference 3:

Comparative Politics of Identity in the European Union

This conference will explore models of identity politics, with a focus on ethnicity, race, and religion, in the EU, as well as in the US. In the broadest sense, the conference will draw on scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines and professionals from both Europe and the US in an effort to examine and compare models of state policy and political engagement as related to issues of identity. More specifically, we will see how widely divergent state policies translate into differing modes of political engagement by ethnic, religious, and other social groupings in these various contexts. Participants will address such questions as: how effective are American, Western or Eastern models or structures of political participation by ethnic or religious groups in ameliorating tensions among majority/minority populations? From the point of view of minority populations, which models have allowed for the greatest latitude in preserving ethnic or religious identities through education, media, etc.? Finally, which state or grass roots models of political involvement tend to provoke minority or majority radicalism or tensions between various constituents? In short, the American melting pot model, as well as model of grass roots political engagement, will provide a point of comparison for the very different models that continue to evolve in the European setting, particularly as it expands East into contexts where historical and contemporary models are quite different.

Participants will include (tentative):

From UT and Austin: Rob Moser, UT Government Department

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Zoltan Barany, UT Government Department Mary Neuburger, UT History Department Marko Papic, Stratfor

From Europe: Member of the EU Commission, preferably from the office of Viviane Reding,

DG Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship. Dr. David Chadwick, University of Kent Wilfried Loth, University of Duisburg Thomas Risse, Freie Universitat Berlin One policy maker from the EU

From the US: Mathias Kaelberer, University of Memphis Benjamin Cohen, UC Santa Barbara Benedict Anderson, Cornell University Two policy makers from the US State Department, yet to be determined.

YEAR 3:

November DATE, 2013 – Conference 1:

Sexual Citizenship and Human Rights: What Can the US Learn from the EU and European Law?

This conference will confront several areas of legal dispute in both the US and Europe: (1) extension of marital and adoption rights to non-traditional families, (2) anti-discrimination laws protecting sexual minorities in housing and employment, (3) transgender rights, (4) age of consent and the sexual rights of minors, (5) regulation and protection of sex workers, (6) definition of child pornography, and (7) punishment and treatment of sex offenders. We will bring to UT experts in these areas from various European countries who can speak about the evolving legal situation in Europe and/or sexological, sociological, or criminological research pertaining to European practices that may differ significantly from those in the US. In addition, we will seek the participation of several American scholars who work on these questions. Participants will include:

We have so far secured the interest of: Noted sexologist Dr. Erwin Haeberle of the Magnus Hirschfeld Institut in

Berlin Prominent human rights attorney Dr. Helmut Graupner of Vienna, president of

Rechtskommittee Lambda, the leading gay rights organization in Austria Former British MP Peter Tatchell Dr. Laura Agustin of Sweden (recently Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies

at the University of Geneva in Switzerland)

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Overall we anticipate inviting 5 European authorities, and the same number of American counterparts.

March DATE, 2014 – Conference 2:

Comparing European Union and North-American Approaches to International Law and Human Rights

The objective of the conference is to bring experts from Europe and the US to discuss the differences and convergences in the approaches to human rights and international legal issues in the legal and political institutions of the EU and the US. The conference will pair scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and discuss their different perspectives on similar themes. It will be tied to a workshop seminar taught at the law school, though the talks will be open to the public.

Possible Topics and Speakers (to be narrowed down when the conference is to take place, based on the availability of the scholar and paired commentators from Europe and the US):

From Europe: Women’s Rights in the EU: Christine Chinkin (London School of

Economics) European Harmonization of Private Law: Horatia Muir Watt (University

of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) The EU as an International Actor in the Fight against Terrorism: Martin

Scheinin (European University Institute, Italy) The Rights of Migrant Workers in the EU: Gregor Noll (Lund University,

Sweden) The EU and Refugees: Patricia Tuitt (Birkbeck School of Law, University

of London)

From the US: Judging in the EU and US: Mitchel Lasser (Cornell Law School) Governance and Legitimacy in the EU: Joseph Weiler (New York

University School of Law) The Limits of Integration in European Governance: David Kennedy

(Harvard Law School) European Family Law: Philomila Tsoukala (Georgetown University) European Contract Law in Comparative Perspective: Daniela Caruso

(Boston University School of Law)

April DATE, 2014 – Conference 3:

European Public Sphere: Understanding the Role of Mass Media and Interpersonal Discussion in Shaping Today’s European Citizenship.

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This conference seeks to advance the understanding of today’s European citizenship. And it does so in a particular way: it takes up the challenge to explore the role of the mass media and people’s interpersonal discussion habits about politics in explaining civic and political participatory behaviors that foster an European citizenship.

For years researchers have inquired about the mechanisms that elicit today’s EU. There seems to be a consensus in the academic community that points to certain aspects as being central for the advancement of the EU. Social identity features, cultural traits, a strong and deliberative public sphere, and sociopolitical elements have all been theorized to provide a healthier, more cohesive, and more participatory EU. Some authors argue that the key to solidifying the EU is for it to be accepted by the large variety of cultures within the EU as well as it is to promote political engagement among its citizens. In fact, Article 109 of the Treaty on EU addresses this issue and regards particular nations’ cultural legacies as basic pillars in constructing the new Europe as citizens get involved with their governing institutions at all levels. Nevertheless, how Europeans participate and get involved in the political process is largely mediated, and this aspect has been somewhat overlooked. That is, the ways in which European citizens engage in civic and political activities greatly depend on the effects of the mass media and the ways in which citizens discuss important public issues among themselves. Hence, the importance of studying the role of the mass media and how people discuss relevant issues for public life, perhaps generating a European public sphere. The communication mediation model has provided evidence that interpersonal networks of political discussion and informational uses of media result in increased community integration and civic participation. Similarly, communication practices have a direct effect on participatory behaviors, but they also have indirect effects through gains in political knowledge and political efficacy that also result in participation.

Drawing from the expertise provided by academics, professionals, and media experts from the US and the EU, this conference aims to shed light over all these processes as they shape today’s European citizenship.

Participants will include (tentative):

From Europe: Jacob Groshek, Rotterdam University Gumersindo Lafuente, Director El Pais Jose Madariaga, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I Claes De Vrees, Director AsCOR, Amsterdam University Begoña González Cuesta, IE University at Segovia Marion Demossier, University of Bath at United Kingdom

From the US: Dhavan Shah, University of Wisconsin at Madison Bruce Bimber, University of California at Santa Barbara Markus Thiel, Florida International University Hernando Rojas, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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Homero Gil de Zúñiga, University of Texas at Austin

Fulfillment of Objectives for Conferences I:

Common threads:

1. All Conferences will have in common the Information, Dissemination and Measurable Criteria Aspect:

The conference will be open to the public. The Center will inform its partner educational institutions in Austin and Central Texas to send their students and faculty. The Center will invite State government officials, business leaders, and non-governmental organizations to the event. Local Austin media will be informed of the event and invited to cover it.

The conference lectures will be available online in video format. Participants will be asked to fill out a satisfaction survey that will help the

Center improve future conferences. All conferences will be evaluated through continuous feedback and adaptation and monitored by CES’s Outreach Coordinator in consultation with UT’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), which will oversee our measurement and evaluation.

Policy-makers from the State Capitol and Governor’s Office will be asked to provide their input on how to improve the conferences to better fit their needs and policy concerns.

All conferences will target having 75-100 attendees. All conferences will dovetail with more general curricula courses taught not

only in the professional schools but also the humanities. For example, Karen Engle, Director of the Rapoport Center, has structured her conference (see below, Year 3) to dovetail with a workshop in the Law School on Human Rights in the EU.

2. All Conferences will have in common that they will fulfill Objective 1 : “Develop centers of academic excellence in EU studies with a view to broadening and deepening the base of European Union studies, and increasing awareness of the Union’s policies.”

Conferences will all fit the description of “academic research conferences devoted to issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies, and also encourage interaction between researchers and practitioners.” All of our conferences will have a heavy emphasis on invited practitioners, business leaders, and policy makers.

The conferences will have the effect of increasing the “numbers of university faculty and other scholars, including professional school faculty and graduate students” who will become interested in “conducting research on issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies.” As is evident from the topics we have chosen for our conferences with our partners in the professional schools, the emphasis is squarely on “issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies.”

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We will aim with the conferences to produce “informed books, articles, and briefing papers devoted to issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies published.” For instance, we have already received confirmation that The Texas Journal of International Law has agreed to publish the main contributions of our conference in year one on “The Euro Crisis.” We will work to disseminate the results of our conferences through other such publications.

3. All Conferences will have in common that they will fulfill Objective 2 : “Promote greater understanding of the EU and EU-US relations among regional outreach constituencies.”

By being open to the public and by being advertised with the regional universities and colleges, which will form our core partner institutions, the conferences will create effective outreach in the regional community.

The Center will also target business leaders and State officials (who are conveniently located mere blocks away from the Center location and conference facilities) and make sure that they are aware and present at our events.

Media will be informed of the Center events and encouraged by facilitating their presence.

Speakers from EU institutions and EU member states will be invited to all of the below listed conferences.

4. All Conferences will have in common that they will fulfill Objective 5: “Attract additional support for Center activities.”

The Center will organize a wide array of policy relevant conferences that will tie into the already well-developed, policy-focused research community within UT.

The Center will cooperate with a number of other academic and research units on campus, raising its profile and building strong partnerships.

5. All Conferences will have a consistent and robust participation by the UT’s academic community, which will be informed of planned events and involved in the planning.

CONFERENCES II (these conferences do not vary year by year)

The Center will organize two sets of conferences related to outreach in business and secondary education.

January 2012/2013/2014 - Conference 1:

Texas EU SUMMIT, 1, 2, & 3: EU Center of Excellence “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets”

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Texas is the second largest exporting state to the EU. Total Texas export to the EU in 2010 exceeded $26.5 billion. The UK, Germany, and France are the leading FDI sources in Texas. The existing trade relationship between Texas/US and the EU will be highlighted for new-to-export and established firms as well as exposing small businesses to the growing trade opportunities in emerging markets within the EU.

The Texas EU Summit will include plenary sessions led by international trade policy experts and political and business leaders, as well as EU chambers of commerce, which will set the stage for the focused breakout sessions. The focused breakout sessions will provide attendees with the hands-on information that they will need in order to successfully do business with the EU. This will include much information on international marketing and sales, understanding the legal requirements and risks, how to ship products into foreign markets, payment methods and export financing alternatives. There will also be a session focused on investment opportunities and incentives. We project that 150 to 200 small businesses, economic development entities, and government officials from throughout Texas and the EU will attend this event.

Partnering Organizations will include: US Department of CommerceGreater Austin Chamber of CommerceSmall Business Development Center, The State of TexasInternational Business Institute, Austin Community CollegeGerman American Chamber of CommerceFrench American Chamber of CommerceItaly American Chamber of CommerceGerman Consulate Office in TexasItalian Consulate office in TexasFrench Consulate Office in TexasHungarian  Consulate/Swedish  American Chamber of Commerce

Fulfillment of Objectives for Texas Summit:

Information, Dissemination, and Measurable Criteria Aspect: We will involve the local media in these business summits. The Center will use the contacts with local and State business partners that

the McCombs School of Business has developed in order to attract a wide audience for these summits.

All participants will be asked to fill out a satisfaction survey and offer suggestions on how the summits could be more useful for their needs. All conferences will be evaluated through continuous feedback and adaptation and monitored by CES’s Outreach Coordinator in consultation with UT’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), which will oversee our measurement and evaluation.

Objective 2:

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These summits will “promote greater understanding of the EU and EU-US relations among regional outreach constituencies,” which in this case is the business community.

These summits will provide a venue for trade representatives of the various EU Member States to make the case for increased investment in Europe by the Texas business community.

Objective 5: The summits will continue a long tradition of the McCombs School of

Business working closely with the Texas business community in developing strategies for investment.

The summits will raise the profile of the Center in the business community, leading to new sources of funding.

All Business workshops will have a consistent and robust participation by the UT’s academic community, especially those from the McCombs School of Business and the UT School of Law.

March and April 2012/2013/2014 – Conference 2 :

Euro Challenge

The Euro Challenge program introduces students of global studies, world history, European studies, and beyond to the field of economics, and offers a unique learning experience that moves them out of the classroom into the real world. For the competition, students research problems and solutions to Europe’s economic challenges. A team of three to five students presents its findings in a competition format in a conference setting.

Overall Goals:

• Increase students’ knowledge and understanding of the EU and the euro.• Promote an understanding of economic challenges facing EU member

nations.• Support local learning standards related to global studies and economics.• Foster economic and financial literacy and understanding of economic

policy issues.• Develop communication, critical thinking, and cooperative skills.• Encourage students to participate in a conference setting and learn to share

knowledge in a conference setting.

Fulfillment of Objectives for Euro Challenge:

Objective 2: Promote greater understanding of the EU and EU-US relations among regional outreach constituencies.

This event will involve secondary school teachers by allowing them to prepare their students for an exciting and inter-school event.

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This conference will directly involve high school students and will promote the Center and UT as a viable career path to pursue their interest of global affairs in general and of the EU in particular.

WORKSHOPS ((workshops do not vary year by year)

The Center will organize two sets of workshops.

October 2011, 2012, 2013 – Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and researching on Europe” – One day workshop for students, faculty, and researchers on obtaining grants and fellowships for research on/in Europe.

Attendees: Entire university community as well as the researchers, faculty, and students from our regional partner universities and colleges in Austin and Central Texas. We are targeting approximately

Fulfillment of Objectives for Workshop 1:

Information, Dissemination and Measurable Criteria Aspect: The Center will conduct a university-wide information campaign to

maximize attendance at this event. We will measure the success of our workshop both in terms of numbers of

attendance and in terms of satisfaction, measured by a survey voluntarily completed by those attending.

Our external evaluator, CTL, will oversee the measurement and evaluation process to determine the efficacy of these workshops and suggest how to improve on them through continuous monitoring and adaptation.

Objective 1: These annual workshops will increase the numbers of doctoral students who

focus their dissertation research on EU and EU-US relations by opening up new research grant avenues.

The workshops should also increase the number of faculty conducting research on EU issues.

Objective 2: The Center will make sure that participation from regional partner

universities and colleges is high by advertising the workshop event year round.

Objective 3: The workshops will “encourage greater synergies with other programs

sponsored by the European Commission, including the Jean Monnet Action and other elements of Erasmus Mundus, and the EU-US Higher Education and Vocational Training Agreement.”

Objective 4:

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By stressing external funding opportunities, the workshops will also foster networking and coordination with other EU Centers of Excellence

Summer 2012, 2013, 2014 – Workshop 2: “Teaching the EU in Texas High Schools.”

The Center will sponsor annual workshops for secondary school (high school) teachers on how to integrate EU issues in their curriculums. The Center will provide administrative support as well as the venue. We are targeting approximately 30 high school teachers.

Attendees: Secondary school teachers of all disciplines. The workshop will vary from year to year. All high school teachers from Texas are eligible and will be encouraged to attend.

Fulfillment of Objectives for Workshop 2:

Information, Dissemination and Measurable Criteria Aspect: All workshop materials will be available on the internet so that the

secondary school teachers can use the information throughout their school year.

We will measure the success of these workshops both on the number of participants and on their satisfaction. All participants will be asked to take a voluntary survey indicating the level of satisfaction with the project.

Our external evaluator, CTL, will oversee the measurement and evaluation process to determine the efficacy of these workshops and suggest how to improve on them through continuous monitoring and adaptation.

Objective 2: Promote greater understanding of the EU and EU-US relations among regional outreach constituencies.

This event will involve secondary school teachers by allowing them to prepare their classes in a way that involves EU issues.

The workshops will provide curriculum development exercises. The workshops will provide information materials on the EU.

EU Visit Program

The EU Visit Program, which takes place typically in mid June and will be organized by the designated Network Coordinator, will focus on the dynamic changes taking place in today’s integrating Europe and the future of the transatlantic relationship. Three UT undergraduate students and two Texas high school faculty will be selected to participate in the visit program, and they will join students and faculty from across the US for a four-day visit in Brussels where they will meet both US and EU officials, touring the city and the major EU and international institutions based there. The itinerary will include site visits to the European Commission, NATO headquarters, the US Mission to the EU, and the European Parliament. All UT undergraduate students and faculty in Texas high schools in fields of study related to the EU and contemporary Europe will be eligible to apply to the EU Visit Program. UT

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undergraduates who can demonstrate in their letter of applications that their senior capstone projects or senior theses will focus on the EU or EU-US relations will receive priority. In this way, the Center aims to strategically tie the EU Visit Program to curricular development and overall undergraduate degree planning focused on Europe.

All UT undergraduate students and Texas high school teachers will be required to submit a “Statement of Purpose,” an approximately two-page statement addressing why it is important for them to study the EU and how a visit to Brussels will enhance the applicant’s undergraduate education or high school teaching practices in the area of contemporary Europe, transatlantic relations, and the EU. All UT undergraduate students must also submit with the application an unofficial UT transcript, as well as official transcripts from any other colleges or universities attended before transferring to UT. Furthermore, all UT undergraduate students must have one academic letter of recommendation from a UT instructor; all Texas high school teachers must have a letter of support from the principal. Applications are due by mid March with notification of results from the EU Center of Excellence committee in April. Our external evaluator, CTL, will oversee the measurement and evaluation process of the program to determine its efficacy and ways to improve on it.

Fulfillment of Objectives for EU Visit Program:

Objective 2: Promote greater understanding of the EU and EU-US relations among regional outreach constituencies and increase awareness of the EU among undergraduates.

High school teachers will experience Europe and EU in a manner that will allow them to renovate their classes in light of their observations.

The visit will allow secondary school teachers to develop information materials on the EU.

The visit will target undergraduate students who focus on the EU in their overall degree plans, as evidenced particularly in plans for final senior capstone projects and/or senior theses, and in a manner that supports curricular development.

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

4.A.2. Activities: Scholars in Residence and Other Visitors. Indicate all visitors (either specific individuals or ‘profiles’) planned during each academic year for the entire 2011-14 grant period, including the timing of their stay and the likely nature and impact of their activities. Where relevant, indicate the means of selecting visitors via a competitive process. Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

European Scholar I and II

The Center will work with the Department of Germanic Studies and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts to invite two European scholars each year—one from Germany (in connection with the distinguished DAAD program housed at UT), the other from Sweden (in connection with UT’s commitment to Swedish studies in the broader context of Europe studies)—to teach one course in one semester. Potential topics would be EU human rights, media, government, foreign policy, defense policy, immigration policy, journalism, law, business, and public health.

All courses are regularly evaluated at UT, but, additionally, our external evaluator, CTL, will also oversee the measurement and evaluation process to help determine the efficacy of these new courses implemented for continuous adaptation and improvement.

Fulfillment of Objectives for European Scholars I and II:

Objective 1: This program will lead to the development of new courses and increase the number of faculty and students researching the EU. Objective 2: We will encourage the visiting scholars to give talks, thus making their expertise available to the wider public and allowing them to establish contacts with the non-academic community of Texas.Objective 5: The visiting scholar program will allow the Center to become even further embedded in ongoing UT programs by increasing its visibility and value.

Lecture Series

CES plans to hold three lecture series and co-ordinate on a third with the Strauss Center and LBJ. They are as follows: (1) The EU Center of Excellence EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series; (2) The EU Center of Excellence “Europe and Islam Speak” Lecture and Seminar Cultural Exchange Series; (3) The EU Center of Excellence Diplomat Speakers Series; and (4) The EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology.

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What follows are details regarding the lecture series and relevant target objectives.

I. EU Center of Excellence EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series

We propose a series of presentations that address contemporary developments in the economies and international relations of the EU and US. The lecture series will bring in a number of speakers to UT. This series will be widely advertised and open to the public as well as our partner educational institutions in Austin and Central Texas. We will work closely with these partners as well as with the Austin’s International Hospitality Council, the Texas Governor Office, The Texas Senate Committee on International Relations and Trade, the Texas House Committee on Border and International Affairs, and the Austin Chamber of Congress to choose the speakers who would most effectively contribute to the policy debate in Texas. We will also contact the Central Texas business community when organizing the series. Our overarching theme for the lecture series will fall under the title of “Shared Prosperity? The Common Economic Interests of the US and the EU.” The term “shared prosperity” comes from a famous FDR quote and was applied specifically to the US and Europe by Averill Herriman, Truman’s commerce secretary, in the context of the Marshall Plan. The phrase is both historically interesting and also something of a challenge to consider whether it still holds true in the present global economy in the context of the EU and EU-US relations.

We have already identified the first year’s speakers and the topics of their talks for the series. They will be:

The Future of the Nuclear Energy Business in Europe and the US Rex Tillerson Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil Corp.

Reshoring in the US and Europe: The End of the Outsourcing Era?Caspar Hunsche, Senior Director, The Supply Chain Council, Inc.

Interdependencies in the Global Downturn and the Risks of ProtectionismPankaj Ghemawat, Professor of Global Strategy, IESE Business School, Barcelona and Author of World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It.

The lecture series events are also highly structured and will be incorporated into our outreach efforts. To this end, each invited speaker will be asked to participate in a series of events, organized as follows:

DAY 15:00pm: Public lecture (45 minutes) plus question and answer period (30-minutes)

Free to faculty and students. Broadcast of lecture posted on UT-sponsor websites/ University Channel.

6:15pm: 45-minute reception for attendees.

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7:15pm: Private dinner and discussion session with invited faculty, university and local VIPs, and corporate sponsors. Discussions off the record. (Max. 20 guests.)

DAY 28:00am: (Time flexible) Breakfast meeting in partnership with International Center of Austin for business community and public.

Fulfillment of Objectives for Business and Politics Lecture Series:

Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies on campus. Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Furthermore, we intend to work closely with our regional educational, business, and institutional partners in order to plan the Lecture Series in a way that is most beneficial to them. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them. Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs. The Lecture Series will continue a long tradition of the McCombs School of Business working closely with the Texas business community in developing strategies for investment. Furthermore, the Lecture Series will raise the profile of the Center in the business community, leading to new sources of funding.

Information, Dissemination and Measurable Criteria aspect: We will involve the local media in these lectures. The Center will use the contacts with local and State business partners that

the McCombs School of Business has developed in order to attract a wide audience for these lectures, as well as the vast contacts of the LBJ School.

All participants will be asked to fill out a satisfaction survey and offer suggestions on how the lectures series could be more useful for their needs.

II. EU Center of Excellence “Europe and Islam Speak” Lecture and Seminar Cultural Exchange Series

Islam has unquestionably “globalized” itself in the last 30 years. Immigration and new technologies of communication such as the Internet have favored the establishment of Muslim communities in Europe and the EU. The consequences of this change are felt strongest in France, the western European country with the highest population of Muslims and with one of Europe’s oldest shared histories with Islam. Today, France’s Muslims number 5-6 million. They have been at the forefront of efforts to rethink Islam and its place in the world, either looking within Europe and the EU for a “Euro-Islam” (the Europeanization of Islam) or to pan-Islamic movements that identify outwards towards the global community of believers (ummah). These in turn have been confronted by both France’s leftist traditions of secularism (laicïté), which see Islam as an existential threat to cherished Republican institutions, and the right-wing’s integralist nationalism that construes Islam as essentially alien to the Catholic France

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they support. Understanding the historical, sociological, and cultural dimensions of Islam and French national identity is a difficult task, and it is central to a nuanced understanding of Islam in Europe and the EU. As a National Resource Center funded through the US Department of Education, our ongoing institutional affiliation and cooperation between the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, which began in 2010-11, marks an important link forward for scholarship. It brings together researchers representing many different fields of study in the US and France to clearly identify the core issues at stake in these events and chart their broader historical importance as they relate to the US, Europe, and the EU. We will continue to organize through the exchange three such lectures/seminars over the course of the grant cycle.

Fulfillment of Objectives for the EU/Islam Lecture Series:

Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies towards Islam on campus. Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Furthermore, we intend to work closely with our regional educational and institutional partners in order to plan the Lecture Series in a way that is most beneficial to them. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them. Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs. To this end, we have asked both Dr. Benjamin Bowers, an expert in French and Muslim relations in the History Department, and Dr. Terri Givens, an expert in the EU and Immigration policy in the Government Department, to organize this series to ensure that they dovetail with existing and planned curricula over the three-year grant period.

III. EU Center of Excellence Diplomat Speakers Series

The Center will cooperate with the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Strauss Center to continue to bring high level and senior policy makers and diplomats from Europe to UT. The two institutes will offer their speakers as an “in-kind” contribution to the Center and CES will help them with the selection of speakers.

Fulfillment of Objectives for the Diplomat Lecture:

Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies on campus. Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them. Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs.

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IV. EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology

The Center for European Studies at UT announces the launching of the EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology. The series will enable the Center to invite distinguished anthropologists and intellectuals invested in matters of contemporary European culture and society, and whose work is related to studies of the EU. We are especially interested in individuals whose respective research intersects with other fields, including, but not limited to, globalization and transnational studies.

We aim to start the series with Vincent Crapanzano, Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His research interests include symbolic and interpretive anthropology, ethno-psychology, anthropology and literature, and theories of interpretation. His newest book, The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals, is a haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, in which the author examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria’s war of independence. The focus of Prof. Crapanzano’s lecture, however, will be on the children of the Harkis who, living in France today, still suffer from their parents’ wounds. Many have become activists, lobbying for recognition of their parents’ sacrifices, compensation, and an apology. In examining the offspring of the Harkis, Prof. Crapanzano will show how children bear responsibility for the choices their parents make, how personal identity is shaped by the impersonal forces of history, and how violence insinuates itself into every facet of human life. He will also demonstrate how events of the past have legal resonances in the present and how the matter of the Harkis and their descendants needs to be understood within the broader context of postcolonial migration and identity politics in the EU today.

Fulfillment of Objectives for the Anthropology Lecture Series:

Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies on campus. Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Furthermore, we intend to work closely with our regional educational and institutional partners in order to plan the Lecture Series in a way that is most beneficial to them. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them. Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs. To this end, we are working closely with the new Chair of Anthropology, Dr. Katie Stewart, on this project and have her full support, and we will be integrating these lectures into the activities and classes of the Department of French and Italian.

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

4.A.3. Activities: Faculty and Student Research Grants. Indicate all faculty and research grants planned during each academic year for the entire 2011-14 grant period, including the likely nature and impact of grant recipients’ activities. All grants in this category must be made by competitive process, and none can be awarded to EU Center staff (see section III of the Call for Proposals). Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

All research and travel grants will be awarded through a competitive process and will not be open to the EU Center of Excellence staff, the Director, or members of the Executive Board. Furthermore, students working as research assistants for the faculty members sitting on the Executive Board or the Director will also not be able to apply for the research grants.

We hope to evaluate our research grant program by requiring the recipients to produce a report of activities following the conclusion of their grant. The report will be read by the members of the Executive Board and the Director and taken into consideration for the next round of the grants.

The EU center will offer the following 4 grant programs in each of the three years of its program:

September 1 – Summer – European Court Graduate Travel Stipend: Competition for one stipend of $2,500 for UT School of Law students to take part in the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.

September 1– Summer – PhD Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $2,000 each for research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

September 1– Summer – Faculty Research Grant: Competition for two grants of $4,000 each for research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.

September 1 – Summer – Business Studies Stipend: Competition for two faculty research grants of $4,000 each with a focus on Business in the EU and Business relations between the EU and US.

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1. European Court Graduate Travel Stipend. The School of Law, currently ranked 14 in the US (US News World & Report, 2011), has made a major investment in the expansion and enhancement of its international and comparative law programs. In the core law faculty, five scholars concentrate significantly on Europe, and two are among the foremost leading authorities in their fields: Inga Markovits and Basil S. Markesinis. President Powers, previously dean of the Law School, has himself been an impressive leader in this regard. In 2009, President Powers was in fact appointed to the rank of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, the prestigious order created by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, for his work in establishing the French Judicial Visiting Fellowship program at UT. Thanks to President Powers’s efforts, UT law students now spend more time overseas than ever before in the school’s history as a result of an opening in exchanges around the world and new internship opportunities. The Graduate Travel Stipend program here proposed will intensify and deepen UT’s commitment to exposing law students to Europe through practical experiences by assisting one student each year to attend the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.

2. EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations PhD Research Grant. The overall aim of this grant is to ensure that EU public policy ideas and best practices are widely understood in the US by both academia and policy makers alike. To this effect, this research grant will award graduate students at UT the opportunity to conduct field research in Europe and meet with key policy makers at the supranational and Member State national level.

4. EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations Faculty Research Grant. The overall aim of this grant is to ensure that EU public policy ideas and best practices are widely understood in the US by both academia and policy makers alike. To this effect, this research grant will award faculty at UT the opportunity to conduct field research in Europe and meet with key policy makers at the supranational and Member State national level.

4. Business Studies Stipend . Business School faculty, as well as faculty in other disciplines (such as Economics, Government, and LBJ) who are researching business-related topics, recognize that the US and EU share many economic and business interests. Nevertheless, researchers’ interests have shifted disproportionately toward Asia in the past decade, following the general drift of attention in the business media. CIBER, a program housed in the McCombs School of Business, understands this well, and to this end it will fund every year beginning next year two $4,000 faculty stipends for research on topics dedicated to the EU, or to support collaborative research between researchers at our university and their colleagues in the EU in an effort to promote increased dialogue about important topics of common interest. CES will be responsible for promoting, selecting, and administering the awards.

Fulfillment of Objectives for Faculty and Student Research Grants:

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school faculty and graduate students, conducting research on issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies) and Objective 4 (embedding Center activities in ongoing University programs). We are also confident that it will meet the goals of Objective 1 by assisting students and faculty with research funds that will ultimately permit them to produce “Informed books, articles, and briefing papers devoted to issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies.”

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

4.A.4. Activities: Curriculum Development. Indicate all faculty curriculum development grants or other curricular activities to be implemented during each academic year for the entire 2011-14 grant period. Describe likely course or program themes and the likely number of students impacted. Any faculty grants in this category must be made by competitive process and none can be awarded to EU Center staff (see section III of the Call for Proposals). Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

All curriculum development grants for teaching at UT will be made available through a competitive process open to all UT Faculty. The Center staff, Director, and members of the Executive Board will not be allowed to participate.

We will evaluate the implementation of the program through feedback from the faculty member receiving the grant, a voluntary survey completed by the students enrolled in the developed courses, and a quantitative measure of the interest in the course in comparison to other courses at UT. All courses are regularly evaluated at UT, but, additionally, our external evaluator, CTL, will also oversee the measurement and evaluation process to help determine the efficacy of these new courses implemented and how we can improve upon them through continuous monitoring and adaptation.

Course Development Plans

CES is proposing three “course development” projects, and including information here about an important ongoing outreach project with a local institution of higher learning. We will be encouraging the faculty applying for the Curriculum Development grants to incorporate our Conferences, Workshops, and Colloquium Series in their syllabus (again pending that the research topics match).

What follows are details regarding the three course development projects and information about the fourth, which focuses on the EU and Europe:

Course Development I: We are committed to increasing the number of EU courses that bridge the business and humanities curriculum, as well as to making those courses available to both Liberal Arts majors and Business majors. To that end, we will be providing funds for competitive proposals for the development and instruction of writing-intensive courses related to commerce and business in the EU in the following five areas, with the aim of funding at least three of the best course proposals submitted: (1) The Commercial Environment in the EU; (2) Culture and the Fashion Industry in the EU; (3) The EU as a Single Market: Potential and Prospects; (4)

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Corporate Governance and Competitive Policy in the EU; and (5) The Euro and European Financial Markets.

Course Development II: The second objective is to allow one faculty member to create a new “Signature Course” on the topic of “leadership” in the EU widely construed. The signature course program provides all first-year students at UT with a course that helps them make the transition from promising high school students to worldly, knowledge-driven college students. As such it constitutes an important gateway course that can shape what students will study during their time at UT. By offering such a course, we aim to capture the attention of students early on, in their first year of study, and thereby foster interests for many in Europe and the EU throughout their entire college career.

Course Development I II : CES has recently received an award valued at BLAH through LAITS (Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services) to radically develop, enrich, and revise during the grant period its core required introductory course for all European Studies majors (of which there are roughly 60 to 70 in any given year). The proposed revision of the Introduction to European Studies (EUS 305), which focuses primarily on the EU, offers an innovative approach to constructing an expanded, interdisciplinary gateway course at UT.

The broad aim of this grant, which will involve a team of faculty experts led by Dr. Katherine Arens in Germanic Studies, will help create a standard framework of teaching and learning for faculty coming to teach this course, with new appropriate introductory teaching materials made available to all instructors. Moreover, it will allow CES to meet the needs of a large group of students (we are planning to expand the course through these revisions to 100 students) while still remaining true to EUS 305’s essential function as a key gateway course for its majors with task-oriented, learning-based activities.

On the national scale, such course models do not exist for large class environments, for content-based and criterion-referenced learning scenarios, and for teaching assistant (TA) training. The data that can be produced in assessing this innovation will be without parallel and critically important for teaching models for the next generation of interdisciplinary work dedicated to European Studies and the EU. Our plan is to make these teaching and class materials available through the web as part of an Open Access Initiative. The instructional project will be evaluated through continuous feedback and adaptation and monitored by LAITS and our external evaluator, CTL.

Finally, by significantly enlarging the class, we aim to bring EU studies to a broader population of students at UT—not only to the 60 to 70 majors in European Studies, that is, but also to the roughly 1,650 majors in the Government Department and the roughly 500 majors in the newly implemented IRG (International Relations and Global Studies) major, which counts Europe as one of its fields for the major.

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Course Development IV: As part of its overall outreach efforts as a National Resource Center, and in particular with an aim to forging connections with minority institutions in the community, CES will continue to develop a series of classes on European and EU-related topics at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black college in the heart of Austin, Texas. Indeed, we feel it is central to our mission as not only a National Resource Center of European Studies but also as the flagship university of the state of Texas to actively bring our formidable resources—both monetary and pedagogical—to the less privileged and less well-endowed institutions of higher learning in our state. To this end, we anticipate funding as an NRC and teaching the following courses over the grant cycle at Huston-Tillotson:

Fall 2012 - International Politics with a focus on Europe and the EU Spring 2012 - The European Union Fall 2012 - Comparative Government with a focus on Europe and the EU Spring 2013 - Modern European History and the EU Fall 2013 - European Politics and the EU Spring 2014 - War and Peace in Europe and the EU

Fulfillment of Objectives for Course Developments Projects:

Objective 1: Course development will fulfill the objective of developing centers of academic excellence in EU studies. It will also create new EU teaching materials, many of them adaptable for hybrid educational purposes, which will benefit programs invested in EU studies not only at UT but also nationwide. Furthermore, by increasing the size of the classes, the project will have a multiplying effect: it will increase opportunities for students from all over campus to take our core class and thus “allow access to EU courses not only to a small group of students focusing on EU studies, but also to a wider number of students who follow another main curriculum and have a more targeted interest in specific aspects of the EU.”

Objective 2: The course development with Huston-Tillotson will allow UT to bring knowledge about the EU to “regional universities and colleges (four year and two year).” It will also draw that local university into EU Center activities at UT.

Objective 3: The course development projects will markedly strengthen “people-to-people links” between university faculty, students and their host institutions in the EU and US.

Post-Baccalaureate Degree Development Plans

Creating a Masters of European Studies:

CES has approval from both the dean of the College of Liberal Arts (Randy Diehl) and the dean of LBJ (Ambassador Robert Hutchings) to move forward with the creation and implementation of a joint MA in European Studies that would concentrate on the EU. In fashioning this MA, we also intend to work closely with the

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Center for East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies (CREEES), which already has an MA, and the UT School of Law. Our plan is to submit the MA proposal for review in fall 2012. Since it usually takes six months for the proposal to move through the university administrative channels and then receive final approval from the UT-wide system Coordinating Board, we expect that we can begin receiving applications by late 2013, with the plan of admitting our first group of students in fall 2014. 

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

4.A.5. Activities: Working Papers, Newsletters, and Other Publications. Indicate all working papers, newsletters and any other publications not described under ‘Conferences and Workshops’ to be implemented during each academic year of the 2011-14 grant period. Be sure to include targeted audience(s), likely number of recipients, and planned means of dissemination. Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

Newsletter

The Center will have a monthly newsletter through which we intend to disseminate the following:

A list of the upcoming EU Center events, as well as European related events put on by other schools and departments both at UT and our partner educational institutions in the region,

To provide the upcoming deadlines for funding and grants from the EU Center, as well as funding opportunities from other schools and departments within UT,

To list the upcoming deadlines for funding and grants from non-University of Texas entities (EU, US State Department, Council for European Studies, etc.), and

To provide links to the news sources about issues in the EU (such as the EU’s Press Room: http://europa.eu/press_room/index_en.htm).

To disseminate our newsletter, the Center will create an extensive email list compiled from participants to our events, interested students, and partners in professional schools and academic departments. We will also work closely with our partners in the Texas State government and local businesses to increase our email list and thus the readership of our newsletter. We will have a user-friendly portal for outreach access, with links to Hemispheres, the international outreach consortium at UT, of which CES is a vital member, along with the Center for East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies (CREEES).

We will also use our newsletter to advertise our fellow US and Canadian Centers of EU Excellence. We will have links to their websites embedded in the newsletter and will inform our readership of their upcoming events.

To assess the success of our newsletter we will primarily look at the statistics of our readership. We will also have an email link in our newsletter for suggestions on how we can improve it.

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With the newsletter we hope to fulfill the expected outcomes of all the proposed Objectives. We hope that it will increase awareness of our educational events, that it will constitute an important strategy in our public outreach, that it will strengthen “people-to-people” links, that it will consolidate and enhance the effectiveness of the network of EU Centers of excellence, and that it will center our activities in ongoing UT programs through increased visibility and advertising.

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

4.A.6. Activities: Website. Describe the likely content and design of your proposed EU Center of Excellence web site, or any planned modifications to the current structure and/or content of an existing EUCE web site. Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

The website will provide the Center with an outreach and informative capacity. We intend to put all of our events and programs on the website. We will also create direct links to the existing EUCE website as well as to all other American and Canadian EU Centers of Excellence. We will also provide links to research grants and funds available through non-UT external institutions.

The Center will also use the website as a portal for EU related information and news in the broadest sense. It will maintain an overview of open source information on the EU, both in terms of links to EU institutional websites and in terms of the best media, blogs, and academic sites that are useful to researchers and policy makers.

We will place all of our conferences and major events on the website in a video format, available for either download or viewing through streaming “tube” technology.

All the conference reports and papers will be available for download through the website.

As such, we believe that our website will fulfill all of the expected outcomes listed in Objectives section of the Call for Proposals.

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EU CENTERS 2011-14Proposal Narrative Form

4.A.7. Any Other Activity Costs Not Listed Above. Describe and explain the timing and impact of any additional activities to be included in your planned activities, for each academic year of the 2011-14 grant period. Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

Measurement and EvaluationTo ensure objectively that CES is meeting its stated objects and continuously improving on the quality of its project plan, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will serve as the external program evaluator and develop the evaluation plan for the 2011-2014 grant application for the EU Center for Excellence (EUCE) grant.

Purpose:The purpose for the evaluation will be to assess the quality of CES programs based on the attainment of their stated project objectives with continuous reporting and feedback from partners and participants. CTL will create a table in which each objective is accompanied by the inputs/outputs, outcomes, performance measures, indicators, and data sources that will be used to assess it.

Data Collection Methods:For each objective, CES will collect both quantitative and qualitative data over the three-year period, beginning in Fall 2011. All data collections will be incorporated into regular program procedures. Sources for data include tracking, program databases, and program surveys,

Analysis:For each reporting period, CTL will obtain the evaluation data, analyze it according to the performance measures, and write up a report of the results. Findings will be expressed in narrative, tables, and graphs as appropriate.

Reporting of Results:CTL will develop yearly evaluation reports that (a) summarize data and feedback collected for each objective; (b) indicate the extent to which performance measures are on target; and (c) document any changes to inputs/outputs, indicators, and/or data sources that were made during the reporting period. Reports will be submitted by Douglas Biow, the CES grant Project Director and the Principal Investigator for EUCE.

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4.A.8. Network/Outreach Coordinator (optional) Centers may apply to serve as the Network/Outreach Coordinator for EU Centers of Excellence operating in the United States, receiving up to €125,000 total towards approved costs for the 2008-9, 2009-10, and 2010-11 academic years, beyond the €300,000 maximum for core Center activities.

Network Coordinator responsibilities will include hosting the annual meeting of EU Center of Excellence directors, and hosting and maintaining the EU Centers Network web site. For planning purposes, as many as 30 individuals may participate in the annual EUCE Directors meeting, with the Network/Outreach Coordinator financially responsible for all meeting room, staffing, and catering costs. The Coordinator will also identify a suitable hotel for individual accommodations. Meeting participants will be required to pay for their own travel and accommodations.

On the outreach side, responsibilities will include liaising with all EU Centers of Excellence regarding their outreach activities, identifying and encouraging the sharing of best practices among Centers in reaching specific outreach constituencies, and creating a database for potential sharing of visiting speakers. Applicants are also free to suggest other activities which will promote more effective outreach activities among the EU Centers of Excellence, and should provide measurable criteria for evaluating the Network/Outreach Coordinator’s performance.

Interested applicants should describe their planning for the hosting, maintenance and expansion of the Network web site (see www.euce.org), and arrangements for hosting the annual meeting of Center Directors. Applicants are also free to suggest other activities to promote networking among the EU Centers of Excellence, and should provide measurable criteria for evaluating the Network/Outreach Coordinator’s performance. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.

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4.B. Staff Assigned to the Operation. Explain the duties and indicate the effort required (hours worked per week) of all staff devoted to the project for each academic year during the period of the grant (2011-2014).

The College of Liberal Arts is absolutely committed to ensuring that CES is sufficiently staffed to meet all the challenges that it will face during the grant cycle. To this end, the direct critical staff of the Center will include:

1. Director of the EU Center of Excellence, Gary Freeman . Professor Freeman will will be devoting 20% of his effort to the EU Center of Excellence.

Professor Freeman is currently the Chair of the Government Department and has extensive experience in administration at UT.

His main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: increasing the awareness of the university community (and administration) of the Center’s activities and needs; attending yearly EU Center of Excellence meetings; fundraising with the College of Liberal Arts and Central Administration; serving as liaison with directors of EU Centers of Excellence in the US; serving as liaison with business community leaders and deans and faculty of partner institutions of higher learning; and serving as liaison with UT deans, center directors, chairs, and faculty.

2. Director of CES, Douglas Biow. Professor Biow, who will be the Principal Investigator of the grant, will be devoting 20% of his effort to the EU Center of Excellence.

Professor Biow is currently the Principal Investigator of CES’s NRC and FLAS program awarded by the Department of Education, and has extensive experience in administration at UT.

His main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: Principal Investigator of grant; Chair of EU Center for Excellence Executive Board; fundraising with the College of Liberal Arts and Central Administration; serving as liaison with UT deans, center directors, chairs, and faculty; serving as liaison with visiting speakers, lecturers, and adjunct professors; serving as liaison with business community leaders and deans and faculty of partner institutions of higher learning; serving as liaison with directors of EU Centers of Excellence in the US; developing exchange programs; developing and implementing the MA in European Studies with LBJ; developing new classes; overseeing staff work and management; developing and assisting in the funding of library acquisitions in EU materials.

3. Program and Outreach Coordinator, Sally Dickson . Ms. Dickson is a full-time staff member of CES and will be devoting 20% of her effort to the EU Center of Excellence. She has worked for CES for 6 years and is the recipient in the

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past three years of two major UT awards: the College of Liberal Arts Staff Excellence Award and, most recently, the Presidential Staff Excellence Award.

Her main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: all outreach events; conference, workshop, and lecture series organization, coordination, and implementation; all scheduling of events and activities; office staff oversight; oversight of office and student workers; and liaison with staff of other EU Centers of Excellence.

4. Administrative Associate, Charlotte Harris . Ms. Harris is a full-time staff member of CES and will be devoting 20% of her effort to the EU Center of Excellence. Ms. Harris has extensive experience working in administration at UT. Prior to joining CES, she worked for the College of Engineering.

Her main duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: all billing and processing of paperwork; assistance in conference, workshop, and lecture series organization, coordination, and implementation; data collection for measurement and evaluation; tracking; process all reports related to the EU Center of Excellence grant.

5. Communications specialist , who will be hired 10 hours a week by contract and devote his or her work entirely to EU Center of Excellence. We will be looking for someone with an MA in European and EU Studies.

His or her duties with regard to the EU Center of Excellence grant would include: writing and updating material for the website and newsletter; general publicity for all EU Center of Excellence events, managing and updating listservs; ensuring that the conferences, workshops, and lectures are video-taped and uploaded onto the website; and ensuring that the website functions as a window that opens onto the intellectual life of the Center.

In addition, of Liberal Arts Instructional and Technology Services (LAITS) and the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) will provide collaborative support for the Center in terms of: accounting, student advising, video and teleconferencing technology, event coordinating, and processing and organizing professor visits.

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4.C. Staff Travel and Related Subsistence. Explain the planned date(s) and purpose(s) of all staff travel for each academic year during the period of the grant (2011-2014).

The Director of the Center will travel to the annual meeting of the US EU Centers of excellence. The Principal Investigator will make a yearly trip to one EU Center of Excellence in the US to explore on site how to improve existing practices at UT and to facilitate coordinating activities and sharing “best practices” among EU Centers of Excellence. Three representatives from the Center will participate in a worldwide meeting of EU Centers during the grant cycle.

These visits will ensure that we meet all goals of Objective 4: “Consolidate and enhance the effectiveness of the network of EU Centers of excellence.”

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4.D. Cost/Rental of Equipment and Rental of facilities (e.g. conference facilities). Explain the timing and purpose of any expenses in this category for each academic year during the period of the grant (2011-2014). Rental expenses must involve external payments to third parties, and not inter-university transfers.

The cost/rental of equipment and rental of facilities (e.g. conference facilities) listed in the budget are our estimate of the annual needs of an academic unit the size of the proposed EU Center.

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4.E. Costs of Consumables and Supplies. Explain the timing and purpose of any expenses in this category for each academic year during the period of the grant (2011-2014). Note this category relates to e.g. office stationery and telephones not food or catering products.

The consumables and supplies listed in the budget are our estimate of the annual needs of an academic unit the size of the proposed EU Center.

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