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Overall Report GEM Board of Directors Meeting 2013 Hosted by LUISS-Guido Carli, Rome Part 1 - OVERALL REPORT EMJD-GEM Central Executive Office - Institut d'Etudes Européennes (ULB) 39, av. F. D. Roosevelt B (CP 172) 1050 Bruxelles BELGIUM T. + 32 (0)2 650 33 85 // F. + 32 (0)2 650 30 68 Mail: [email protected] GR:EEN – GEM PHD SUMMER SCHOOL SQUARING MULTILATERALISM & MULTIPOLARITY Multilateralizing the emerging Multipolar World: Trends & Challenges AUGUST 20-24th 2012 FUDAN UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI (PRC) This activity acknowledges the support of the FP7 large-scale integrated research project GR:EEN - Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks European Commission Project Number: 266809 and the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate GEM- Globalisation, the EU, and Multilateralism Project Number 2010-0010 Contents FORMAT ...................................................... 2 RULES ......................................................... 3 RESOURCES .................................................. 4 PARTICIPANTS ............................................... 7 PRESENTATIONS .......................................... 10 GREEN-GEM WORKING PAPERS .................. 12 EMJD-GEM Central Executive Office - Institut d'Etudes Européennes (ULB) 39, av. F. D. Roosevelt B (CP 172) 1050 Bruxelles BELGIUM T. + 32 (0)2 650 33 85 // F. + 32 (0)2 650 30 68 secretariat Mail: [email protected] FORMAT The GREEN-GEM PhD Summer School is an annual week-long event designed to meet the needs of up to 25 internationally selected PhD students. It is divided into a series of half day thematic sessions. Each session includes both lectures by participating high-profile academics on their on-going research; as well as, paper presentations by selected doctoral students rooted in their own research agendas. The GREEN-GEM PhD Summer School offers attending doctoral students a unique opportunity to gather valuable feedback on their research as presented papers are discussed by all attending researchers and specifically commented on by at least two previously designated discussants, amongst which one academic and one fellow doctoral student. The GREEN-GEM PhD Summer School also provides paper-givers with the opportunity to publish their contribution as a GEM-GREEN working paper, an online series widely publicized through the GREEN website. The GREEN-GEM PhD Summer School thus continues the tradition of excellence build up by the GARNET PhD School, by taking over its format geared towards gathering promising doctoral researchers from across a variety of disciplines and epistemic communities. The GREEN-GEM PhD Summer School also provides a list of practical, organizational and financial provisions aimed at facilitating interaction amongst the highly cosmopolitan community in attendance. Amongst other, participants must: be fluent in both in spoken and written English to ensure a shared working language; attend all sessions and auxiliary events to encourage interaction; and provide all scheduled materials beforehand with an eye on allowing for ample preparation. Furthermore, the programme foresees a Mobility Fund it can use to provide a limited number of selected students with financial support towards the Travel & Housing Costs incurred. EMJD-GEM Central Executive Office - Institut d'Etudes Européennes (ULB) 39, av. F. D. Roosevelt B (CP 172) 1050 Bruxelles BELGIUM T. + 32 (0)2 650 33 85 // F. + 32 (0)2 650 30 68 secretariat Mail: [email protected] RULES All selected and participating PhD Students did: Offer Written Comments on a specific Fellow PhD Student's Presented Paper Participants were thus given the name of one of the paper-giving students for whom they were to fulfil the role of “Doctoral Discussant”. To this effect, all student papers were made available 5-days prior to the Summer School. Discussants prepared a set of written comments which they presented during a 10-min time slot following the discussed student’s own presentation Prepare a short presentation of one of the attending Academics Each participant was expected to compile a standard Poster summarily presenting a given Academic in question. Furthermore, in most cases, on the basis of their background check, tudents were asked to introduce the attending Academics before they gave their scheduled lecture. Prepare a short presentation of one of the attending PhD Student Besides the presentation of an attending Academic, participants were also expected to prepare a standard Poster summarily presenting the given PhD student whose paper they are expected to comment on. Actively Participate Selected students had to attend all scheduled sessions, and actively contribute during the various exchanges, discussion tables and Q&As. To encourage active student participation a set of “Prizes” were awarded at the end of the Summer School based on a peer-review exercises aim at identifying the top three participating students. All attending PhD Students selected as Paper-Givers were held to: Submit a first full draft of the Paper they were scheduled to discuss Present their Paper To the full Attendance of the Summer School during a 30min presentation Engage with the Comments on their Presentation offered by • A participating Academic (10min) • A fellow attending PhD students (10min) • An open-round table (10min) EMJD-GEM Central Executive Office - Institut d'Etudes Européennes (ULB) 39, av. F. D. Roosevelt B (CP 172) 1050 Bruxelles BELGIUM T. + 32 (0)2 650 33 85 // F. + 32 (0)2 650 30 68 secretariat Mail: [email protected] RESOURCES Summer School Web Platform A dedicated web platform was set up with an eye on guaranteeing: easy information flow; minimal printing; and optimal interaction between the participants before, during and after the Summer School. (See www.greenfp7.eu/summerschool) The Summer School’s webpage allowed both Academics and PhD Students users to: access up-to- date information; download a host of documents; and interact with the other participants. The different elements made available to the Summer School's Community, were included: History A quick overview of the decade long expertise upon which the summer school can rely when hosting an event Rules & Principles General Format and Type of Contributions typifying the Summer School 2012 Program Detailed Schedule and list of contribution by Academics Useful Documents Templates of Reference Documents Forum A protected and Shared Space where to interact with other Summer School Participants Useful Links References and Links to Partners' Institutions Draft Papers & Presentations (Available Online) Upon reception, all papers, documents and presentations were posted online. Registered participants could access these documents through the Summer School's online Program (See www.greenfp7.eu/summerschool/programme/). Scheduled Contributions included: Students Papers Short Presentation of attending Academics & Students Written Comments by 'Doctoral Discussant' Power Point Presentations EMJD-GEM Central Executive Office - Institut d'Etudes Européennes (ULB) 39, av. F. D. Roosevelt B (CP 172) 1050 Bruxelles BELGIUM T. + 32 (0)2 650 33 85 // F. + 32 (0)2 650 30 68 secretariat Mail: [email protected] Paper Lay Out With an eye on facilitating subsequent publication in the GREEN-GEM Working Papers Series, paper- givers were requested to edited and format their submission in line with the series broad principles. Further information on the GREEN-GEM Working Papers Series can be found on its dedicated webpage. Concretely, submitted papers were to: Meet all requirements of a scientific publication (research question & demonstration) Be a qualitative research paper (incl. references and a bibliography) Be in Publishable English (No English language proofreading is foreseen) Preferably using the Harvard Referencing System Count between 7000 and 10.000 Words Be formatted in accordance with the series layout (Template provided on website) Fully reference the authors institutional affiliation and the GREEN/GEM support GREEN-GEM Working Papers Series The GREEN-GEM Doctoral Working Papers Series publishes research product from Erasmus Mundus GEM scholars or any other doctoral candidate involved in GEM or GREEN sponsored activities. Either academic communities will be involved in the review process of the submitted scientific product; the GEM PhD School’s Central executive Office in Brussels will be charged with the initial follow up, whereas GR:EEN’s Project Management Office in Warwick will take on the finalization and initial publication of the approved product. The GREEN-GEM PhD Working Papers series is above all an electronic online format. Accordingly, all published papers are first and foremost posted on either of the associated programme’s webpages – on pages specifically devoted to the Doctoral Working Papers Series in question on both: GR:EEN Public Website & GEM Public Website Academics’ Posters Through the Summer School’s online platform, the programme provides the students with a template of the Presentation Posters they were held to make. At the start of each session about 10min was set aside to allow for these introductions to be orally presented by their author before the relevant Academic’s lecture. Suggested information included: Name & Surname Function and Affiliation A Photo Log(s) of Affiliate Institution(s) Research Areas (& Theoretical Outlook) Relevant Publication(s) Award(s) & Title(s) Key Words (Describing Individual) Interesting Fact(s) (of your choice) An Illustrative Quote
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