Summer Module on Economics and Institutions in Europe

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"A new emerging idea from independent studies and top EU institutions to foster the European integration process is that ""United in diversity"", the motto of the Union, should be given more tangible institutional structure by balancing the goal of greater economic convergence with the need to valorise, harmonise, and direct to common goals the varieties of societies, economies and institutions that characterize Europe. In this perspective, the Summer Module on Economics and Institutions in Europe (SMEIE) will be a permanent international teaching module taught in English and based at the University of Trento (Italy), gathering scholars and students from all over Europe and focused on the thematic innovation of variety as a factor of greater strength in the European integration process. SMEIE will organize a mix of activities tailored to achieve the priorities of the call in order to: • promote innovative and interdisciplinary research for EU integration for up to 20 PhD students each year • create networks and partnerships, producing shared research and exchange of ideas, constituting the basis for future poles of European knowledge; • foster publication and dissemination of outcomes inside and outside of academia through dedicated webpages and events to be organised jointly with the International Festival of Economics of Trento, the local institutions, the press and local radios of students' associations; preparation of these events will be part of the students' training. SMEIE has been planned within, and will be grafted onto, the activities of the research group on Economics and Institutions in Europe of the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento. Local partners will be the University of Trento, and the Trento Jean Monnet Centre, granting continuity and access to funding beyond this JM Action. Enlargement to other European partners is planned through the subsequent editions."