UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD
Center for Advanced European
Studies and Research
 WESTFÄLISCHE Wilhelms-Universität MÜNSTER
Nottingham Trent University


European Studies across borders Project, 01.-15. 09. 2002 Summer School in Novi Sad


Introducing the EU: a crash course
From Community to Union? The political and economic development of European integration


Week 1: The Basics  
1) From Catharsis to Community: The EEC in the making 1945 – 1957 (Prof.Dr.Mike O’Neill, Nottingham Trent University)
2) Nothing succeeds like success: From EEC via EC to EU and beyond (Prof.Dr.Mike O’Neill, Nottingham Trent University)
3) A guide through the maze: The EU and its institutions (Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.R.Meyers, University of Münster)
4) The EU as a Governance System: How to define the nature of the beast. (Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c. R.Meyers, University of Münster)
5) Models of EU decision-making: The blind leading the lame? (Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.R.Meyers, University of Münster)
6) A people’s Europe? Participation, democracy, and legitimacy deficits in the EU (Prof.Dr.Mike O’Neill, Nottingham Trent University)

All day Sunday trip to places of interest or (near Novi Sad).

Week 2: Policy Areas 
1) Hanging together or hanging separately? The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU (Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.Wichard Woyke, University of Münster)
2) Mannah from Brussels? The Structural and Regional Policy of the EU (Lic.Laura Trofin, University of Münster)
3) Visas and all that! Third Pillar, Second Class? The EU, Justice, and Home Affairs (Dr.Wilhelm Knelangen, Dept.of Politics, University of Kiel)
4) “European Competition Policy and the European Competition Commission”,  (Faculty of Economics, Subotica, Dejan Vasiljev, postgraduate student- Humboldt University Berlin)
5) The Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (Faculty of Economics, Subotica, Prof.Dr. Koviljko Lovre)
6) “Organic Food in Europe- Challenge for SEE Countries”, (Faculty of Economics, Dr Tomislav Sudarević, docent)
7) Interactive element – Role game:
Negotiating entry: Serbia and selected chapters from the accession negotiations (Role game scenario and script Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.R.Meyers, University of Münster)
The idea of the role game will be not only to let participants play the roles of EU actors, demonstrating to them thereby, on the basis of an emphatic learning process, the scope and limitations of EU policy making. As well, they should negotiate the perhaps not too fictitious entry application of Serbia in one or two exemplary policy areas, thereby getting acquainted with the problems of the Eastern European accession candidates in general and prospects for and problems of a possible Serbian membership in particular. The role game will be introduced during one of the first sessions of the conference in order to give participants an opportunity to prepare their roles a little bit; for that, internet access to the EU websites is mandatory.

The School should be a mixture of lectures in the morning and course/group work in the afternoon and/or early evening. A small European Reference Library will be provided on the spot.