💬 The “Europe of Knowledge” meant different things to different people, yet still made coordination possible.

In her #EUIdeas essay, EUI Research Fellow Marina Cino Pagliarello shows how ambiguity can help actors work together, even without full agreement. Read 🔗 https://loom.ly/7PHjht0

#EUI50

📚 One week. Four opportunities.

The EUI Virtual Open Week gives you the opportunity to explore the full range of academic and professional paths at the European University Institute, across 4 days of live, online sessions.

👉 Register now and take the next step 🔗 https://loom.ly/50ZaVQM

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶?

You don’t need to have all the answers yet 🔎 Start by exploring your options.
Discover the academic and professional opportunities offered by the EUI at the Virtual Open Week.

Save the date and register🔗 https://loom.ly/50ZaVQM

@isabedoya.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social on how enslaved women in 19th c. Puerto Rico used colonial courts to negotiate freedom. Her research shows their agency & how legal strategies & networks helped challenge slavery.

📣The third call is now open for the Master in Economic Research, a programme focused on the development and practice of advanced research skills, inviting students from targeted EUI Widening countries to apply for funding in Florence.

🕒 Apply by 30 April (14:00 CEST)
🔗 https://loom.ly/Cgl_jSU

Gas security vs. economic sovereignty: can Europe have both? 🌍 In the latest @theconversation.com piece, Marzia Sesini @eui-schuman.bsky.social examines EU policy responses to a global gas crisis 🔗 https://loom.ly/86l_2D8

💡 What piece of knowledge transformed your research? #EUI50

In her #EUIdeas essay, @eui-history.bsky.social Professor Alexia Yates reflects on how David Harvey’s theory reshaped her understanding of the modern city.

Read more 🔗 https://loom.ly/hIuJYa8

On 8 May, the EUI will unveil its new flagship event as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations: EUIdeas.

Learn more and register here: https://loom.ly/D68cUso

#EUI50 #EUIdeas

🌍 #MyPhDPitch: At the @eui-eco.bsky.social, PhD researcher Daniel Prosi studies how foreign investment shapes firm growth in Rwanda. Firms buying from foreign investors grow faster, with wider spillovers across the economy.

💡 What piece of knowledge transformed your research? #EUI50

In his #EUIdeas essay, @eui-eco.bsky.social Professor Giacomo Calzolari reflects on how a lesson on medieval watermills reshaped his intellectual path.

Read more 🔗 https://loom.ly/PFL3nZs

How do films tell stories about human movement?

Migration has long been central to cinema, yet research often focuses on specific countries or genres.

Lorenzo Piccoli analysed films from 1940–2025 and found two key patterns.

Learn more: https://loom.ly/65_yiGY

#EUIResearch

Everyone uses the “essence” of rights.
No one defines it.

#MyEUIResearch with Anaïs Brucher @eui-law.bsky.social on how the European Court of Human Rights uses a concept that shapes decisions without clear meaning.

🔗 https://loom.ly/8lnyycc

How can universities shape the future of Europe?

From 7–9 May, the European University Institute invites you to explore this question as it celebrates its 50th anniversary in Florence.

Discover the rich programme and join the conversation: https://loom.ly/WGdu_Q4

#EUI50

💡 In this #EUIdeas piece, Alina Soloviova @eui-schuman.bsky.social discusses how local communities in Ukraine are reshaping energy security 🔗 https://loom.ly/ajEIwo0

Carolina Biliotti @eui-eco.bsky.social discusses how emerging research frontiers widens gender gaps in authorship. She reveals that in hyper-competitive environments women are often sidelined from key lead roles in new scientific fields.

🔗https://loom.ly/CJ9bAug

This is the time where “I’ll be productive this week” meets “Easter break is basically already here”. But don't worry every, word written still counts!

And if you need a little background music, check out our playlist 🎧

💚 Spotify: https://loom.ly/c4_iXeQ
🧡 SoundCloud: https://loom.ly/uSm_y6Y

💡 Marking the #EUI50 anniversary, we ask: what piece of knowledge transformed your research? In her essay, @eui-law.bsky.social alumna Síofra O’Leary shows how landmark court cases shaped her understanding of law, rights & social change: https://loom.ly/nGWxuZA

What if capitalism didn’t begin in the Atlantic world?

Maarten Draper (@eui-history.bsky.social) explores how European trading posts in Asia reveal a different origin, shaped through negotiation with powerful Asian economies.

https://loom.ly/8YXSl4c

📣 Applications open for the 2026 SPS Summer Academy at the EUI

For one intensive week, participants will engage with this year’s theme: Politics, Policies and Inequalities: Micro-foundations and Institutional Dynamics

⌛Deadline: 1 May 2026

👉 Apply here: https://loom.ly/26SzJLY

🔎 Read the latest #EUIResearch interview with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social on how a tiny lead – 51% vs 49% – can shape collective decisions, from elections to online trends 👉 https://loom.ly/oTkRm90

If AI can produce information, what is journalism still for?
Marie Palmer and Roberta Carlini on media, AI, and the risk of losing diverse voices. @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-media-freedom.bsky.social
🔗https://loom.ly/3_6xEjc

A co-authored study by @fredwindfeld.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social shows how Western media draws on Gothic storytelling to frame Syrian children as ghost-like and cities like Aleppo as haunted. 🔗 https://loom.ly/5LWV8Fc

🌍 #MyPhDPitch: Sophie Hölscher @eui-law.bsky.social studies how climate finance governance reproduces unclear rules, allowing responsibility to be shifted and action delayed.

Pier Luigi Parcu @eui-media-freedom.bsky.social argues the Media Pluralism Monitor helped Europe assess media pluralism at national level. The next step is measuring risks across Europe’s entire information space.

Read more on #EUIdeas 👉https://loom.ly/AIozwaA

Jule Hauf’s research at @eui-sps.bsky.social looks at what shapes career choices before people enter the labour market & why gendered patterns persist even when preferences seem to align.

Read the full #MyEUIResearch story 👉 https://loom.ly/qPebSfs

In the latest #uniquelyEUI, Arnout van de Rijt, Louise Dupont & Cathrine Kjaer reflect on 50 years of interdisciplinary research at @eui-sps.bsky.social & why asking better questions still matters in the age of AI. #EUI50

Watch the video👉 https://loom.ly/ZlwyV8A

EUI researcher Eva Franzmeyer @eui-eco.bsky.social discusses the effects of the last EU emissions trading system reform, revealing a critical trade-off between environmental goals and economic outcomes for industrial firms.

Read more 👉 https://loom.ly/FgmiSCw

What drives people to act even in restrictive political environments?

New #EUIResearch story with Margit Feischmidt, former Fernand Braudel Fellow at the @eui-history.bsky.social

🔗https://loom.ly/eOyunfI

How do ideas about race change over time? #MyPhDPitch

Roberto Larrañaga @eui-history.bsky.social studies how Spanish intellectuals around 1900 redefined race during a moment of crisis & imperial decline, framing it less as biology and more as national character.

What does it mean to de-centre Europe in historical research?

Find your own answer at the EUI Summer School: Decentring Europe: Doing History, 1500-present

👉 https://loom.ly/oIUq_Ls
📆 16-18 Sept 2026
🌐 Online
👩‍🎓 Open to MA students/recent MA graduates
⏰ Apply by 3 May 2026