Webinar
Scholar-Practitioner Dialogues | Europe and the World, autumn 2025
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Online via Zoom.
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Meetings will take place via Zoom. Sign up via the registration form to access the link to join.
Are you a researcher active in European Studies, International Relations or a related field at one of Una Europa’s partner universities? Are you interested in better understanding Europe’s place in the world? Then join Una Europa’s next series of peer-to-peer learning sessions for inspiring insights and exchanges with counterparts!
This new series of online seminars, organised by the Una Europa Self-Steering Committee in Europe and the World, builds on the spring semester seminars hosted by KU Leuven. The series of four webinars address key challenges that European governments and societies are facing in a changing global order. They will bring in new perspectives from people who have worked in policymaking, as well as in universities.
Europe and the World: Intersections between policymaking and academia
- 2 October, 12:00 IST/BST | 13:00 CET | 14:00 EET Session one: ‘The Politics of European Defence’ with Professor Michael Clarke, King’s College London
- Michael Clarke has served as the Director General of the Royal United Services Institute. He has been a member of the UK Chief of Staff’s advisory board and the Prime Minister’s National Security Forum and specialist adviser to parliamentary committees.
- 24 October, 12:00 IST/BST | 13:00 CET | 14:00 EET Session 2: ‘The Constraint of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges for the International Legal Order’ with Professor Nessa Lynch, University College Cork
- Nessa Lynch is a member of Ireland’s Policing and Community Safety Authority Board as well as a member of New Zealand’s Emerging Technologies Independent Panel. She served as Chair of the New Zealand Government's Data Ethics Advisory Group, which provides advice on ethical use of data in the public sector in New Zealand.
- 10 November 12:30 IST/BST | 13:30 CET | 14:30 EET Session three: ‘Europe should get its act together but not beat itself up’ with Ambassador Bobby McDonagh
- Bobby McDonagh has served as Irish ambassador in London and Rome. He has had a long career in EU affairs, including service in the Secretariat of the European Parliament and the cabinets of two European Commissions.
- 13 November 12:00 IST/BST | 13:00 CET | 14:00 EET Session 4: ‘The Pursuit of World Order as a Foreign Policy Goal’ with Professor John Bew, King’s College London
- John Bew served as Foreign Policy Advisor in 10 Downing Street between 2019 and 2024. Bew led the No. 10 team which produced the Integrated Review of Foreign Policy, Defence and Security in 2021 and the Integrated Review Refresh of 2023. He was deeply involved in the negotiation of the Windsor Framework that addressed challenges in Northern Ireland following Brexit.
About the sessions
These scholar-practitioner dialogues form part of Auditorium Europe, an initiative of the academic committee driving Una Europa's Europe and the World Focus Area.
Auditorium Europe bundles a range of activities, including peer-to-peer learning, scholar-practitioner dialogues and mobility grants for early-career researchers. Some of these activities are implemented as part of the project 'Lost in transformation? Understanding Europe's place in a transforming world', supported by the Una Europa Research Acceleration Fund (funded by the Flemish Government).
The goal of this project is to jointly reflect on the dynamics that are transforming the EU's and wider Europe's place in the world.
This initiative was created as part of Una Europa’s Focus Area in Europe and the World and is part of the educational and research joint programmes of the Una.Futura project.