Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

Year 2 (2012-13)

Focus on Pubic Policy Issues:

Energy, Secession, and Identity

1. “EU-US Energy: Comparative Energy Public Policies and Technologies.”

(Principal organizers: CES and Cockrell School of Engineering)

2. “Reassessing EU/US Policy on Secession:

The Lessons of Yugoslavia and Georgia”

(Principal organizers: CES, LBJ, and CREEES)

3. “Comparative Politics of Identity in the European Union”

(Principal organizers: CES, LBJ, Govt., and CREEES)

Year 3 (2013-14)

Focus on Human Rights & Citizenship Issues:

Citizenship, Media, and Law

1. “Sexual Citizenship and Human Rights:

What Can the US Learn from the EU and European Law?”

(Principal organizers: CES, Law, and Rapoport Center for Human Rights)

2. “Comparing European Union and North-American Approaches

to International Law and Human Rights”

(Principal organizers: CES, Rapoport Center for Human Rights,

Women’s and Gender Studies, and CREEES)

3. “The European Public Sphere: Understanding the Role of Mass Media and Interpersonal Discussion in Shaping Today's European Citizenship”

(CES and the School of Journalism).
The nine conferences, as outlined above, will be organized in collaboration with departments, centers, and colleges across campus, including professional schools, such as LBJ, Law, Journalism, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights, and the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Finally, each conference will be led by a major figure in the field, such as Jamie Galbraith, the noted U.S. economist, who will in fact be leading the first conference, which examines austerity measures in select EU nations within the broader comparative context of EU-US relations.
II. EU Center of Excellence “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets” Summit Conference Series:
Hosted in Austin, the annual Texas EU Summit, “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets,” will provide small businesses, policy makers, and economic development professionals with an overview of how to target and expand business opportunities in Europe. The summit will focus on promoting and building the international trade capacity of Texas-based small businesses and economic development organizations while creating greater awareness regarding the benefits of exporting to the world’s largest market. The intention of the series will be to connect Texas businesses with their European counterparts to facilitate joint ventures and memorandums of understanding of mutual benefit.
Our target audience is small and medium business firms from throughout Texas, including new-to-export and existing exporters that want to grow their international operations, professionals from international trade assistance organizations, local and EU chambers of commerce, manufacturing associations, agricultural-focused organizations, technology incubators, renewable energy companies, and financial services providers. We plan on an attendance of 150-200 small businesses and economic development professionals from throughout Texas per summit.