
On Tuesday 12 July and on Thursday 14 July, from 17h15 to 19h00, two panel discussions with high-level experts will take place at the College of Europe in Bruges, in the framework of the 18th Intensive Seminar on the EU - the College’s lifelong learning programme for international professionals.
Having in mind the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, Germany’s stand on nuclear energy – just to name a few recent events – the first summer debate, entitled “What kind of Energy for Europe?”, will gather on 12 July well-known representatives from the European private energy sector and the EU institutions. After short introductory speeches from the panellists, Mr Arno Behrens, Head of Energy at the Centre for European Policy Studies, acting as moderator, will open the floor for questions from the participants in the Intensive Seminar on the EU, some fifty to seventy professionals coming from all over the world to spend one, two or three weeks at the College of Europe.
The second panel debate, on 14 July, will focus on the EU’s future in its crisis context. Mr Pierre Defraigne, Executive Director of the Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation, moderating the debate, will challenge the panellists and the audience on the different dimensions of the EU’s crisis: economics and finances will be at stake; its foreign policy and the newly created EEAS – towards the revolutions in Northern Africa, for instance; its internal discussions on the future of Schengen as well as other elements of the “EU Acquis” currently being questioned.
The team at the Development Office of the College of Europe is confident that these events will offer an outstanding opportunity for the participants of its summer training courses to literally experience Europe. Seats are still available in the one- and two-week courses: registration is open until 13 June and more information is available on www.coleurope.eu/IS2011.
The ‘Lessons from Europe Learning Programme’ will provide opportunities for civil servants to better understand the impact and complexities of integration within the EU by drawing lessons which are relevant and applicable to the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS).
Professor Carol Cosgrove-Sacks will be the course director of a programme designed with a modular structure, combining different learning methodologies, such as lectures, case studies, workshops, integration exercises, panel debates and field visits to the EU institutions in Brussels. The core training sessions are divided in three modules: (1) introductory sessions on the EU; (2) comparative regionalism in the EU and beyond, exploring different worldwide examples of regional integration; and (3) EU sectoral sessions, focusing on main EU policy areas of interest for the GMS region, such as tourism, energy or transport, among others.
Dans le cadre de la coopération entre l’Institut d’Etudes Européennes (ESI) auprès de l’université MGIMO à Moscou et le Collège d’Europe, le service de développement organise à Bruges du 17 au 24 juin 2011 un séminaire pour une quinzaine de professeurs de français intitulé « Terminologie de l’Union européenne en français ». L’ESI collabore étroitement avec le Collège d’Europe depuis sa création en 2006, et c’est avec enthousiasme que le service du développement s’apprête à accueillir ce nouveau groupe de professeurs.
Au cours de cette formation, les participants auront l’occasion de perfectionner leur connaissance des termes utilisés en langue française dans les documents politiques, économiques et juridiques produits par les institutions européennes et utilisés fréquemment dans l’actualité internationale. La terminologie employée pour parler de la crise économique et financière actuelle, le vocabulaire relatif au commerce international et les secrets du langage juridique européen sont autant d’éléments qui seront au centre du séminaire.
Mr Xavier Estève, éminent spécialiste des questions de codification et de consolidation de l’acquis communautaire, complètera le programme de cette formation par une session consacrée à la question de la codification communautaire . Enfin, cette semaine se conclura par une visite de la DG Traduction à Bruxelles qui sera l’opportunité de comprendre les enjeux posés par les questions de traduction dans le travail quotidien de la Commission et dans le fonctionnement d’une Union de 23 langues officielles. Le service du développement espère que cette édition sera à nouveau un succès et souhaite aux participants une expérience enrichissante tant sur un plan académique que professionnel.
The College of Europe will organise a training programme on the EU for 32 senior administrators, coming from different line ministries in Taipei, Taiwan. The Seminar, “2011 Taiwan Senior Civil Service Seminar on the EU”, will take place in Bruges between 26 June and 6 July 2011 and is set up in close cooperation with the Taiwan Representative Office in the European Union and Belgium for the Central Personnel Administration of the Executive Yuan in Taiwan. Professor Frank Delmartino will be the Course director of a programme that combines a review of the main structural changes of the past years in the institutional structure of the Union, with topical EU policy fields of specific interest to Taiwan.