CASE interns at the "European Week" (A.I. Cuza University in Iasi)

On 9 May, Europe Day was celebrated in the European Union through various cultural, educational or scientific events. Therefore, between the 13th and 14th of May, the seventh Jean Monnet Annual Conference took place at the „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University from Iaşi. The event was organized by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies during the „European Week”.

At the Students’ Scientific Session on European Studies, the Academic Club of European Studies was represented by four of its interns, students at the Faculty of Political Science (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration): Andrada Baraţă, Alexandra Coravu, Ioana Borcan and Luiza Soare. The works presented by the intern addressed issues related to civil society, the decision-making role of national parliaments, the rise of the European Union as an important global actor, or to the newly formed institutions after the Lisbon Treaty.

In addition to representing CASE in a National Conference by presenting their work in front of other students at bachelor and master programs, and of the scientific committees consisting of professors and PhDs, our interns’ work was appreciated by the jury. The paper „The national parliaments before and after the Lisbon Treaty. Analyzing Romania’s case” brought to Alexandra Coravu (second year student specializing in Political Science) the Second Prize. Moreover, for the paper „European External Action Service – a unique voice for the European Union?”, Ioana Borcan (third year student specializing in International Relations) received mention. However, this is only the beginning. In the future, we hope to support them in getting even more awards.

Meetings with NSPSPA Alumni for Strengthening the NSPSPA Academic Community

The first meeting - held on November 23, 2009 - had been honoured by Alina Dragolea as a member of the Curriculum Development and Gender Studies Centre: FILIA.

The second meeting was held in February 2010, the guest being Nicolae Toderaş, president of CeCOP-NSPSPA, of the European Information and Documentation Centre and Director of the NSPSPA Library.

A third meeting, held in May 2010, welcomed Gabriel Hâncean, Ph.D., Assistant within the Faculty of Political Science - NSPSPA.

Training Course on Media Monitoring on Issues of Public Policy

31 March 2010

This event, organized with the support of Associate Professor Mihai Paunescu Ph.D. as a trainer, aimed at preparing the members of the association to perform media monitoring on public poliy subjects. The beneficiaries learned about the types of information that such monitoring should contain, about significant sources of information and data collection, about how to structure and select relevant information. The second stage of this training, scheduled for May 2010, will establish media monitoring activities on public policy issues within the Academic Club of European Studies.

Academic Writing Training Course

The training is intended to familiarize the students with the academic writing norms. Using the Chicago Manual of Style, the students are taught how to avoid plagiarism by correctly citing the information sources used in their academic papers. The skills and information offered through the training are useful to both first year students, who are confronted for the first time with the academic rigors, as well as for older students and even MA students, as the training explains the way to correctly cite in a variety of cases, from the simplest like a book with one author, to the most complex, like books and articles without authors, electronic publications, speeches and lectures, CD materials etc. 

This training course is repeated periodically.

Jean Monnet Module’s Students Visiting the European Parliament (Brussels)

19-21 November 2007

The conference „Elected! Deputy of Romania” on November 9, 2007, organised by the Jean Monnet Module’s students due to the proximity of the first European elections in Romania, has been followed by the appreciation of the students’ efforts and academic results. Thus, MEP Daciana Sarbu invited some of the conference’s organisers in a visit at the European Parliament’s meeting place in Brussels. The visit took place from November 19 to November 21, 2007, giving the students the opportunity of directly coming in contact with the MEPs’ activities. During the three days visit, the students participated in a detailed discussion on the European Parliament’s structure and role, as well as on how Romania contributes to its composition. They also assisted to the plenary session on November 20, 2007, and in the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee’s meeting, getting acquainted with the European Parliament’s activity in a practical way.

Jean Monnet Module’s Students Visiting the European Parliament (Strasbourg)

2-6 September 2007

After the conference “Challenged by EU. Preoccupied by its future” organized by the Jean Monnet Module, which took place on the 31st of May 2007, MEP Daciana Sarbu invited some of the students of the Module, considering their exceptional academic results in the JMM, to participate at a visit organized at the European Parliament. The timeframe in which the Strasbourg visit was conducted was 2-6 September 2007 and its purpose was to get our students better acquainted with the European Parliament and its functioning. Hence, the students who took part in the visit at Strasbourg assisted at the EP’s plenary session from the 4th of September 2007 and, moreover, they had the opportunity to assist at a highly specialized presentation of the European Parliament’s activities.