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THE PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT ON 2015 The President’s Annual Report on 2015 EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE REPORT ON CALENDAR YEAR 2015, PUBLISHED IN SPRING 2016 PUBLISHED IN APRIL 2016 BY THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE © EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, 2016 The European Commission supports the EUI through the European Union budget. This publication reflects the views only of the author(s), and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 7 PART 1. Reports on Academic Activities The Graduate Programme 12 Economics 14 History and Civilization 18 Law 25 -Academy of European Law 33 Political and Social Sciences 35 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies 42 Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies 50 Historical Archives of the European Union 56 Library and Institutional Repository (Cadmus) 57 Report on Publications 60 Academic Events - State of the Union 2015 61 Academic Events 2015 64 PART 2. Reports on Services 80 PART 3. The EUI in Numbers 91 PART 4. EUI Governance 105 PART 5. Annexes 112 Annex 1: President’s Decision no. 36/15 113 Annex 2: Annex 2: Framework Agreement with the European Insitute of Public Administration 128 Annex 3: Framework agreement with Le Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE) 130 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Figure 1 Cadmus Usage Statistics, monthly visits in 2015 59 Figure 2 Cadmus: Growth in Content 2010-2015 59 Figure 3 Total Publications in Cadmus, divided by type 59 Figure 4 Publications by EUI members issued in 2015, by type 60 Figure 5 Applications for Ph.D. and LL.M. Programmes 92 Figure 6 New Registrations in 2015 92 Figure 7 Total Number of Registered Researchers, by department 93 Figure 8 Gender Composition of all Registered Researchers 93 Figure 9 Defended Ph.D. and LL.M Theses, last 5 years 93 Figure 10 Applicants for Max Weber and Jean Monnet Fellowship Programmes (2011-2015) 94 Figure 11 Breakdown of Max Weber Programme Fellowship Applications, by department 94 Figure 12 Numbers and Departmental Affiliation of MWFs and JMFs 95 Figure 13 Gender Composition of EUI Post-docs 95 Figure 14 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellows hosted by Departments 96 Figure 15 Countries of Origin, Registered Researchers and Fellows 96 Figure 16 The Funding of the EUI: Revenue and Expenditure in 2015 98 Figure 17 Breakdown of Usage of Appropriations by sector, 2015 99 Figure 18 External Resources 2011-2015 100 Figure 19 Breakdown of externally-funded Research Projects 2015 100 Figure 20 EUI Budget Evolution, 1975-2015 101 Figure 21 Evolution of EU/Member State Contribution to the Budget 102 Figure 22 Evolution of Member State Contribution to the Budget 103 Figure 23 Member State Contribution to Budget, real values 103 Figure 24 EUI Sources of Funding Development 1976-2015 104 Table 1 EUI Dissertation Completion Rates, 2004-2008 cohorts 13 Table 2 EUI Administrative and Teaching Staff, 2005-2015 97 INTRODUCTION The Annual Report on 2015 covers the second full year of my respectively. Joint-professor in ECO and the RSCAS Fabio term of office. In addition to the usual business of ensuring Canova left his position in the Economics Department, becom- high-quality doctoral training and the delivery of high-level ing part-time only at the RSCAS. Ruth Rubio Marin, formerly academic research, considerable energy last year was dedicated a full-time professor in the Department of Law, became part- to internal affairs, especially governance and administrative pri- time. Donatella Della Porta left the RSCAS. orities and the new buildings strategy. Decisions on these issues In the Autumn the Department of Economics welcomed will have long-term effects for the organization of the EUI. two assistant professors, Axelle Ferriere and Dominik Sachs. SPS was joined by Professor Klarita Gerxhani. Deirdre Curtin, RESEARCHERS AND FELLOWS who will be a full-time joint professor in LAW and the RSCAS In 2015, we received a total of 1542 applications to our Ph.D. from 2016, arrived on a part-time basis in 2015. and LL.M. programmes, an increase of around 8.7% with re- Our faculty was also enriched by the presence of 28 spect to the previous year. SPS continues to be a highly in-de- Fernand Braudel Fellows at the Institute. These senior-level mand programme, with 636 applications being made specifi- scholars were in residence in the Departments of Economics cally to that department. Applications to Economics, History (8); History (7); Law (8) and SPS (5). and Law were 250, 234 and 347, respectively, with 75 appli- cants to the LL.M. programme. Of these applicants, a total of RESEARCH 99 were accepted and registered in the Ph.D. programme in The quality of the Institute’s research is attested to by its con- August: 18 in Economics; 32 in History, 18 in Law, and 31 in tinued success in obtaining external funding for research pro- SPS. 12 new researchers registered for the LL.M. programme. jects, the high number of research publications it produces, 110 Ph.D. theses and 11 LL.M. theses were defended at and the recognition of our academics as experts by govern- the Institute last year, and our overall high completion rates ment, civil society and media. should be noted. For cohorts 2001 to 2009, the average com- In 2015 external funding for research totaled €10,517,492. pletion rates have reached almost 84%, compared with an av- More specifically, the EUI hosted 11 major on-going pro- erage of just over 60% for the cohorts of the 1990s. jects funded by grants from the European Research Council. With regard to our post-doctoral fellowships, the popularity The latest ERC project, started in 2015, is run by History of the Max Weber and Jean Monnet Fellowship programmes Professor Federico Romero and entitled PanEuro1970s. The continues. 1145 candidates applied for Max Weber Fellowships EUI also continues to run numerous projects supported by last year, from which 49 new Fellows were accepted across the other public and private bodies. These funders include but four departments and the RSCAS. Nine Fellows from the previ- are not limited to the Directorate Generals for Research, ous year continued with second-year fellowships, and two fel- Justice, Communication, and Competition; the Horizon 2020 lows joined the programme with their own funding, completing Framework Programme for Research and Innovation; the the 60 spots available. Of the 81 applicants for the JMF pro- Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises gramme at the RSCAS, five were selected. The lower number (EASME); Eurocontrol and the International Organization for of applicants for our JMF programme reflects the new eligibility Migration. Externally funded projects, along with research requirements put into place in 2015, which aims the fellowship projects funded by the EUI’s Research Council, are described at academics at least 5 years beyond their Ph.D.. within each academic department. The Institute enjoys continued support for research chairs FACULTY funded by national governments. The Luxembourg Ministry During 2015 there was some turn-over among the full-time for Culture provided funding for the Pierre Werner Chair on faculty in the Departments and at the RSCAS. European Monetary Integration, and the Swiss Federal Office Professor Loic Azoulai and Professor Dirk Moses left the Law for Education and Science continued its funding for the Swiss Department and the Department of History and Civilization, Chair in Federal Studies. Negotiations are currently underway 7 PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT ON 2015 with the Norwegian Research Council regarding the contin- the profile of the new Human Resources Director, whose man- ued funding of the Stein Rokkan Chair. date is to develop the skills and career advancement of the ad- In May the Institute launched the Alcide De Gasperi ministrative staff. The new Director of the Human Resources Research Centre on the History of European Integration. This Service, Jens Behrendt, took up duty on 1 September 2015. A new centre, jointly-directed by the HAEU and the Department new Director of the Library was also appointed, with Josep of History, is meant to promote innovative research, facilitat- ‘Pep’ Torn entering into service on 1 October 2015. ing the use of primary sources and coordinating networks of A final issue important to the entire EUI community re- historians to stimulate publications on the history of European gards data protection, which has been an administrative pri- integration. ority since 2013. Under the excellent guidance of the Data The EUI also concluded an agreement in 2015 with the Protection Officer, we saw a further deepening of the integra- Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze for the creation of the Florence tion of data protection into the Institute’s daily administrative School of Banking and Finance, hosted at the RSCAS. The operations, as well as the development of a data protection re- FSBF will bring together practitioners and academics from the flex to ensure fair, transparent and lawful processing of the in- Banking and Finance sector and will be active in the areas of creasing quantities of personal data the Institute receives from policy events, training, and research. its members. In practice, the EUI centralized and rationalized In 2015, our academic community reported the publica- procedures with horizontal impact and coverage; we achieved tion of more than 1000 academic works, ranging from books broader use of privacy statements informing data subjects to peer-reviewed articles to research reports and working pa- about the modalities of the processing of their data and their pers. These publications, increasingly freely available in open- relevant rights; we provided solid guidance in the context of access, are in the EUI’s institutional repository Cadmus, which data protection screenings of research projects undergoing as of February 2016 listed nearly 17,700 publications by EUI ethics review; and we implemented the proper use of cookies members.