About the project
The objective of NORTIA is to develop, deepen and strengthen a global community of senior and junior scholars in EU foreign policy. NORTIA will capacity-build research and teaching innovation for a multinational cross-institutional network of scholars. NORTIA reaches out to a number of Global Network Associates, and provides a virtual outreach debating and dissemination platform. This will allow engagement with the wider international academic community, cascading knowledge outside the network partners and with foreign policy stakeholders and practitioners to increase opportunities for policy debate. The network promotes and builds the next generation of foreign policy scholars. It does so by integrating early-career researchers, through their professional development and through the active dissemination of easily accessible resources to promote EU foreign policy scholarship and debate.
The NORTIA scholarly goal is to apply lessons learned from 50 years of foreign policy cooperation to the challenges of a potentially fragmenting global order and Europe’s own existential crises. NORTIA unites scholars from different generational, geographical and methodological perspectives to build knowledge and exchange about the internal and external forces shaping EU foreign policy cooperation.
Principal Investigator at ARENA is Helene Sjursen. The NORTIA team further consists of Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Johanne Døhlie Saltnes, Johanna Strikwerda, Tine E. Johnsen Brøgger, and Anke S. Schwarzkopf.
Previous events
NORTIA roundtable: Covid-19, the EU and geopolitics
Time and place: June 2, 2020 2:00 PM, Online
Helene Sjursen participated in a NORTIA roundtable on Covid-19, the EU and geopolitics.
What lessons to be drawn from Covid-19 response about EU global actorness? What added value from EU foreign policy to get out of the crisis economically and politically?
Speakers
Ben Tonra, University College Dublin
Helene Sjursen, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Kolja Rauba, KU Leuven
Chair:
Federica Bicchi, European University Institute and London School of Economics
NORTIA's second Network Conference
Time and place: June 5, 2019 12:30 PM – June 7, 2019 7:00 PM, Wydział Nauk Politycznych I Dziennikarstwa UAM, Ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 5 (formerly: Umultowska 89ª), 61-614 Poznan
The education and research network on EU foreign policy, NORTIA, held a second network conference this June.
The conference brought together NORTIA's members for the annual research and teaching exchange on European foreign policy.
ARENA researcher Helene Sjursen organised the conference's research workshop, "EU foreign policy in a contested international environment". The workshop dealt with subjects such as EU's policy responses in contested regimes, climate diplomacy, and EU policy after Brexit.
The conference also features a teaching workshop, 'Bridging the practice-learning nexus in EU foreign affairs', organised by Karolina Pomorska (Leiden University)
NORTIA's first Network Conference
Time and place: June 6, 2018 1:00 PM – June 8, 2018 3:00 PM, Campus de la Ciutadella, Mercè Rodoreda Building 24.S18 - Polivalent
The education and research network on EU foreign policy, NORTIA, will hold its first network conference in Barcelona on 6-8 June.
NORTIA presents its first Network Conference featuring Teaching workshop on 'Why and how to use (primary) sources in teaching EU Foreign Policy' and a Research Workshop on 'A Re-nationalisation and De-Europeanisation of EU foreign policy?'.
The conference is organised by Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) Barcelona, where it takes place on 6-8 June 2018.
ARENAs presence
The foreign policy group at ARENA contributes with two papers at the event:
- Anke Schwarzkopf 'A Re-nationalisation and De-Europeanisation of EU foreign policy?'
- Johanna Strikwerda 'A defence research budget for the European Union. The beginning of a new era?'