Hawke Eu Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

HAWKE EU JEAN MONNET CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE PROFESSOR HIS EXCELLENCY THE HONOURABLE DAVID LLOYD, DR MICHAEL PULCH, MR BOB HAWKE AC, VICE CHANCELLOR AMBASSADOR AND FORMER LABOR PRIME AND PRESIDENT OF HEAD OF THE MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA THE UNIVERSITY OF DELEGATION OF EUROPE SOUTH AUSTRALIA TO AUSTRALIA AND Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, a joint initiative of the NEW ZEALAND European Union and the University of The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of South Australia, is set to tackle some of Excellence is a place that brings the most critical human rights issues The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of together a global community of people facing us as a nation and facing the Excellence is a focal point for EU from both Australia and the EU: world at large. We live in an uncertain Australia relations. With the signing of a global community of scholars and century. An age when our societal fault the EU-Australia Framework Agreement policy makers, experts, specialists, lines have never been more apparent in August 2017 and the forthcoming local and national government nor more global in their reach and negotiations for a Free Trade groups as well as the wider public. impact. The 21st century has seen the Agreement, as well as the involvement rise of new disasters that threaten of European Industry in Australia’s future social solidarity and fan the Defence capabilities, there has never problems inherited from the political been a better time to focus on the catastrophes of the last century. EU-Australian relationship. The Centre will encourage innovative thinking and PROFESSOR LORD creative approaches to the future ANTHONY GIDDENS, challenges faced by the EU and Australia. LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, UK

The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is the most innovative body of its type in Australia and is now influencing policy-making debates all over the world.

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The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of South Australia (UniSA), is dedicated to the development of education, research and outreach programs aimed at promoting a deeper understanding of European Union integration, and especially EU-Australia relations. The Centre is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and the University of South Australia. The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence focuses in particular on the digital revolution and the global consequences of Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence and accelerating automation. The Centre will do this by: (1) promoting EU-Australia relations through public diplomacy initiatives, including novel public forums advancing EU integration studies; (2) conducting EU interdisciplinary research, sponsoring Division and graduate research on Europe and nurturing early career researchers; and (3) supporting education initiatives in European thought and methodologies across UniSA.

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PROFESSOR ANTHONY ELLIOTT

Professor Anthony Elliott is Executive Director of the In the broad context of European social theory, his He is the author and editor of some 40 books, which Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the research has focused on the transformed relationship have been translated or are forthcoming in over a Jean Monnet Network. He is also Dean of External between globalization and identity. Internationally dozen languages. His recent books include Identity Engagement and Research Professor of Sociology at acclaimed for his writings on identity studies, he has (4 volumes), Contemporary Social Theory: An the University of South Australia. pioneered an original account of how globalization, Introduction, The New Individualism (with Charles mobilities and the digital revolution are transforming Lemert), Mobile Lives (with John Urry), On Society Professor Elliott is a specialist in European social the contemporary world. (with Bryan S. Turner), Reinvention, Identity Troubles, theory, and holds a PhD from Cambridge University – and The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital where he studied with Lord Anthony Giddens – and a Professor Elliott is currently also Super-Global Revolution. He is best known for Concepts of the Self, BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. Professor of Sociology at Keio University, Japan and which has been in continuous print for more than 25 Visiting Professor of Sociology at University College Through awards from the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet years and across three editions. Dublin, Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Programme, the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Cambridge Professor Elliott contributes to media worldwide: Toyota Foundation, Professor Elliott currently leads Commonwealth Trust, and a Senior Member of King’s among others, he has recently been interviewed by an international team – working across Australia, College, Cambridge. He has held visiting Fellowships the BBC World Service, The Sunday Times, ABC Radio New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Finland, and Professorships at universities in the UK, Ireland, National, The Australian, BBC Radio 4, GMTV Sunday, Ireland, the UK and Japan – investigating the social France, USA, and Japan, and most recently was a as well as European and North American radio and impact of digital technologies, robotics and Visiting Fellow at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College television networks. artificial intelligence. Dublin, Ireland, and a Visiting Professor at the Universite Pantheon Assas, Paris II, France.

04 HAWKE EU JEAN MONNET CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE | 05 Jean Monnet Activities are funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. They are JEAN MONNET designed to promote excellence in research and public outreach in the field of European Union studies worldwide. The activities also foster dialogue ACTIVITIES between the academic world and policy-makers with the aim of enhancing the governance of EU policies. The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is co-funded by a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Grant. The Centre also manages a Jean Monnet Network and two Jean Monnet Projects led by Centre Executive Director Professor Anthony Elliott.

business, policy makers and community (2) Analyse EU I4.0 policy in terms of efficiency, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, TRANSFORMATIONS stakeholders. Specifically, these activities will equity and sustainability in managing transitions AND SKILLS: ROBOTICS AND EU PERCEPTIONS address: EU innovation and cohesion policies; the to I4.0. diversity of region-specific challenges and (3) Promote engagement with EU policy processes opportunities around robotics; AI technologies and The project focuses on perceptions of EU policy and around I4.0 by European and 3rd country policy the redefinition of digital skills; and, the importance investment in advancing digital technologies - makers, business and civil society leaders, of EU perceptions for effectively implementing specifically, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) - academics and other stakeholders. policies aimed at the socially inclusive and its impacts upon workplace change, educational management of technological transitions. The (4) Promote EU studies through facilitating teacher retraining and new digital skills. The project is relevance of European approaches for Australasia, and researcher engagement with and capability in comprised of an international team working across and alignment of Australasian policy discourses relation to the analysis of EU processes Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, Poland, with EU policy and investment will also be explored. concerning I4.0 policy innovations and develop Finland, Japan, UK and Ireland. The field of robotics resources to help sustain research and teaching in and AI promises the most profound disruptive this field, as well as EU studies generally. technological shift since the Industrial Revolution. DISCOURSES ON EUROPEAN UNION The advent of supercomputers, intelligent machines, The core elements of the program are two European I4.0 INNOVATION robots and algorithms ushers in a world for which workshops, in Munich and Helsinki, each with representatives from business, civil society and policy many developed countries are not prepared, and makers. The Munich workshop will be oriented against which government policy and intervention - This Jean Monnet Project, Discourses on European towards establishing the current state of on regional and global levels - is increasingly vital. Union I4.0 Innovation (DEUI4I), disseminates development in EU I4.0 policy innovation, including information about the evolution of EU Industry Policy Focussing on EU policy in key areas of technological outstanding issues and concerns, and the Helsinki around facilitating and managing transitions to innovation and employment changes, the project workshop will identify future directions, including new Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and its role in EU integration, and centres on a suite of activities - workshops in three business models, cultures of collaboration, new jobs, asks what Australia and other countries can learn European regions and an international new skill requirements, social rights and the from the EU experience. DEUI4I aims to: multidisciplinary conference in Australia – bringing EU rethinking of education. The DEUI4I Project will also and Australasian academics together with industry, (1) Perform observatory and curatorial functions include End-user (policy, stakeholder and educator) gathering research on EU I4.0 initiatives and their briefings in Australia in for a wide range of target policy implications to prepare future political audiences – including the EU Delegation to Australia, leaders, opinion leaders and policy makers on policy makers, media, business, civil society and digital disruption of enterprises and employment. academics in EU studies.

06 HAWKE EU JEAN MONNET CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE | 07 JEAN MONNET NETWORK PARTNERS The University of NETWORK South Australia, Australia Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany Aalborg University, Denmark University of Canterbury, New Zealand University of Tartu, Estonia Keio University, Japan JEAN MONNET NETWORK - COOPERATIVE, CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED MOBILITY: EU University College Dublin, Ireland AND AUSTRALASIAN INNOVATIONS

The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence The research in CCAMEU is organised around three administers a number of Erasmus+ projects, including dedicated research clusters: a prestigious Jean Monnet Network on the topic of • The ‘Sustainable Mobilities Systems’ Research self-driving vehicles and global social Cluster. Among other things this will explore transformations. This Jean Monnet Network – titled the nature and scope of the disruptive impacts “Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility: EU of CCAM on existing mobilities systems, along and Australasian Innovations” (CCAMEU) - brings with the economic, social and cultural contexts together a consortium of Universities across Australia, in which these are embedded, and assess Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Japan and New Zealand policy options and strategies for managing to investigate the impacts of cooperative, connected the transitions. and automated mobilities (CCAM), also known as connected cars or self-driving vehicles. • The ‘Smart and Liveable Cities’ Research Cluster which will gather information and build CCAMs emerge as a direct result of the digital knowledge around the significance new CCAM revolution and involve major opportunities. At the systems hold for the vision and practice of same time the speed with which digitally enabled urban planning and design, and for everyday mobility systems, especially CCAM, are being life in cities. developed and deployed, along with the scale of potential positive and negative economic and social • European and 3rd Country perceptions of the disruption, present EU policy makers – along with leadership role of the EU in the field of CCAM: their state, regional local as well as global this addresses EU perceptions specifically counterparts – with profound challenges. It is through qualitative investigation into cultural therefore vital to develop a comprehensive systemic predispositions rather than only quantitative overview and analysis of emergent CCAM, a sound summaries such as Eurobarometer. understanding of their current and anticipated impacts upon urban planning and the mobile routines of everyday life and relationships, and a thorough assessment of EU and global policy and regulatory best practice.

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INDUSTRY 4.0 IN THE EU AND AUSTRALIA EU-AUSTRALIA CREATIVE INDUSTRIES POLICY MIGRATION, MOBILITY AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES BETWEEN THE EU AND AUSTRALIA Industry 4.0 refers to the emergence of advanced The category ‘Creative Industry’ covers economic manufacturing systems that integrate a range of sectors in which wealth and jobs are generated From the proliferation of global travel, tourism and physical and digital technologies (AI, robotics, sensor through the exercise of creative thought, skills and transport to the desperate dispersal of asylum technologies, nanotechnologies, computer talents along with the exploitation of intellectual seekers, refugees and migrants, the world has never simulation, blockchain, IOT, big data, 3D printing) property. While the EU has possessed historically witnessed such waves of human mobility. The global within machine networks that are in many respects deep roots in craft production, and has long included and regional migration of peoples, the transformation self-organizing and self-monitoring. Industry 4.0 is the arts, architecture and design, contemporary and negotiation of cultural identities, and the recognized as crucial to the current revival of developments, most notably digitisation have led to a movement of goods, ideas, and transport are all European manufacturing and forms a central plank in massive expansion in the range and the economic issues facing the European Union and Australia. They the development of Australia’s Digital Economy significance of Creative Industries – including media all bear upon European integration and EU-Australia Strategy and other initiatives designed to facilitate and new media, creative services (e.g. VR simulation relations and critically, they are all interconnected. and support the transition to new and for training/education) web services and new forms of These mass movements and cultural shifts are future industries. design thinking. The Creative Industries are also additionally interwoven with the use of new recognized as providing key links between the arts, technologies that shape the experiences of migration The Industry 4.0 in the EU and Australia research culture, business and engineering, that are necessary as well as bordering practices. theme will develop expertise, gather information and for underwriting innovation as an engine of growth. inform debate and engagement activities on Industry The Migration, Mobility and Cultural Identities 4.0 policy initiatives and concerns, including: EU-Australia Creative Industries Policy: will engage research theme will enhance the knowledge base and Regional and Sectoral differences in technology with Creative Industry policy debates in Europe and develop expertise on global and regional migration of adoption and engagement with global value chains; Australia, including the design of business models peoples, the transformation and negotiation of new business models, cultures of collaboration and and skills for digital markets and policy platforms for cultural identities, and the movement of goods access to resources and technology; and, new jobs nurturing local and regional creative economies. and ideas. and new skill requirements.

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AMBASSADOR LECTURE SERIES CENTRE STAFF AFFILIATED STAFF Professor Anthony Elliott Professor Martin Holland Executive Director Hawke EU Jean Jean Monnet Professor The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence’s the challenges that respective governments and Monnet Centre of Excellence and University of Canterbury Ambassador Lecture Series provides members of the populations face. Topics covered by ambassadors Jean Monnet Network Visiting Senior Fellow public the opportunity to listen to, and engage in include innovation and science, migration and Dean: External Relations and Research University of South Australia dialogue with, European ambassadors. The lecture mobility, the EU after Brexit and climate change. Research Professor of Sociology Professor Masataka Katagiri series focuses on issues pertaining to Australia’s University of South Australia Rissho University relationship with the EU and European Nations and Dr Louis Everuss Adjunct Professor Centre Coordinator University of South Australia and Research Associate Dr Yukari Ishii Hawke EU Jean Monnet Toyo University Centre of Excellence Research Fellow University of South Australia University of South Australia Dr Ross Boyd Associate Professor Malene Senior Research Associate Freudendal-Pedersen Hawke EU Jean Monnet Aalborg University Centre of Excellence University of South Australia Professor Sven Kesselring Nürtingen-Geislingen University

RESEARCH PLATFORM LEADERS Professor Michael Innes University of South Australia Professor Susan Luckman Research Platform Leader Professor Atsushi Sawai H.E. DR MICHAEL PULCH H.E. DR ANNA ELISABETH PRINZ Cultural and Creative Industries University of Keio Ambassador of the European Union to Australia The Ambassador of The Federal Republic Professor Anthony Elliott and Professor Fumitoshi Kato of Germany to Australia Professor Robert Holton University of Keio Research Platform Leaders Ms Mikako Suzuki Industry 4.0 University of Keio Dr Eric Hsu and Dr David Radford Professor Roman Batko Research Platform Leaders Jagiellonian University Migration, Mobilities and Cultural Dr Age Poom Identities in the EU and Australia University of Tartu Mr Bo-Magnus Salenius LearningMiles Oy Mr Ralf Blomqvist Main Dialogue

H.E. MR LARS BACKSTRÖM - FINLAND H.E. MRS NINETA BARBULESCU - ROMANIA Ambassador of Finland to Australia Ambassador of Romania to Australia

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EUROPEAN CLIMATE DIPLOMACY EVENTS

PUBLIC LECTURES

Prof. Gillian Triggs Baroness Janet Royall Prof. Loukas Tsoukalis

SUMMITS & WORKSHOPS

EUROPE AFTER THE RAIN: AN EXHIBITION WITH JOHN FOXX Kerry Packer Civic Gallery (July - August 2016).

Image: John Foxx, Through Gardens Overgrown, Photograph, 2016. Future of the EU Summit Migration Summit Regional & Rural Mobilities Workshop, Mount Gambier 14 HAWKE EU JEAN MONNET CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE | 15 DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT KEY PARTNERS AND CONNECTIONS

EUROPE NOW In the wake of global issues related to finance and economics, migration, trade and climate change, Europe Now is an online video series developed by the Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence to investigate the challenges facing Europe today. In this series, we look to European Ambassadors for their perspectives in response to these pressing challenges.

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16 HAWKE EU JEAN MONNET CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE | 17 Acknowledgement of Country CONTACT UniSA respects the Kaurna, Boandik and Barngarla peoples’ spiritual relationship with their country. Hawke EU Jean Monnet We also acknowledge the diversity of Aboriginal Centre of Excellence peoples, past and present. University of South Australia Artist: Find out more about the University’s commitment GPO Box 2471 Rikurani to reconciliation at unisa.edu.au/RAP Adelaide, South Australia 5001 Australia T: (08) 8302 2949 F: (08) 8302 2973 E: [email protected] unisa.edu.au/hawkeeucentre The Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of @HawkeEUCentre Excellence is supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union CRICOS code 00121B