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Helene Sjursen at ARENA and Sascha Frühholz at the Department of Psychology receive prestigious funding to explore the global role of EU and voice technology in artificial intelligence.

"It is a persistent democratic problem that Norwegian citizens have no  influence over laws and regulations that come from the EU and apply in Norway," says political scientist Guri Rosén. She has been the secretary leader for a government-appointed EEA committee, delivering its recommendations on April 11.

The RECON project's final conference was held in Oslo on November 24 – 26. The three-day event started with a public seminar on ‘Europe’s democratic challenge’, where research coordinators and affiliated scholars presented findings from 5 years of research to a large audience

Are you a researcher looking to enhance your career by moving to Oslo to do research and training activities at one of the leading research centres within European studies? Send your expression of interest by 12 April.

COMPLEX welcomes submission of papers for a workshop on coherence in multi-level orders in Oslo on 22 April 2024. Deadline for paper proposals: Friday 1 March. 

Researchers from the ARENA coordinated project EU3D explain the key takeaways from their research in short videos about main findings. 

Are you interested in migration or the interaction of Norwegian and EU law? ARENA offers two master’s grants of 20,000 NOK each for students submitting their thesis Spring 2024.

The EU3D concluding conference was spent looking back at four years of research – and discussing the reforms, challenges and future trajectories of the EU.

The NAV scandal showed several weaknesses in national agencies’ understanding and implementation of EU law. How did this happen and what can we learn from it? ARENA hosted a workshop to discuss these topics.

Joris Melman successfully defended his PhD thesis on the legitimation of the euro on 5 May. 

The IUROPA project launched the CJEU Database in January 2023. It is the most comprehensive research-oriented database on the Court of Justice of the EU.

EU3D coordinator John Erik Fossum held a presentation and engaged in discussions with students about possible scenarios for Europe’s future and what those might entail for Norway.

Which direction is Europe developing and what are the most likely scenarios for the Union’s future? And how does the war in Ukraine affect the outcomes? These were among the questions raised in the Future of Europe Debate in Oslo.

In a new project, researchers will examine what the EU can do to prevent democratic backsliding among its own member states. – We are happy that we can finally launch the project, says ARENA Director Daniel Naurin.  

A first-of-its-kind ARENA project compares political attitudes about internal-market governance in the EU and the US. 

Through the project DiCE, ARENA has launched the world's first comprehensive online directory on differentiation and differentiated integration - DifferentiGate. 

For four years, EUREX researchers have studied the ‘expertization’ of the political order. The recently finished project shows how more and more academics find their way to the public committees.

GLOBUS researchers have spent the last four years critically analysing the EU’s impact on global justice.

The project GLOBUS – Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice – has ended after four years of critical analysis of the EU’s global role. The final review of GLOBUS describes the project as “academically top-notch” and commends it for providing “a true value added for the research on the EU as a global player”.

Bringing together 20 partners across sectors and disciplines, the PhD network PLATO equips 15 researchers with innovative training at doctoral level. We asked our project partners about the benefits of collaborating with other sectors during a doctorate.

The dissemination event The euro: no legitimacy without solidarity? took place on 25 September 2020 and presented some of the findings from PLATO and their implications to a broad online audience.

'The EU has done exactly as expected: very little', says ARENA researcher Jarle Trondal, and explains why the EU has not reacted more quickly to Covid-19, and how European cooperation is nevertheless likely to become stronger as a result of this crisis.

Researchers from the ARENA-coordinated project GLOBUS will present key findings on the EU and global justice at a policy dialogue in the European Parliament on 3 March 2020. 

After the euro crisis in 2009, the common currency was heavily criticised by many politicians. But how do European citizens perceive the euro? Joris Melman studies this question in his PhD project.

Little is known about how governments put together and put to use policy advisory commissions. In her dissertation, Stine Hesstvedt seeks to find out if and how politics play a role in the Norwegian policy advisory commission system.