European University Institute
Budget
€79,653,702
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
4
0.7 FTE
EU Grants
€24,325,164
Mission & Goals
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate teaching and research institute. Set up in 1972 by the six founding Member States of the European Communities, its aim is to provide advanced academic training for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and to foster research in fields that are of particular interest for the development of Europe. The EUI opened its doors to its first researchers in November 1976. Today, there are 24 contracting states to the EUI, and it hosts an international community of more than 1100 people. The three pillars of activity of the EUI are: Training of Early Stage Researchers through excellent research, Policy-Relevant Research, and Postgraduate and Executive Education. In all three areas, the EUI delivers real benefits to European societies by reinforcing Europe’s higher education and research area, and its policy-making abilities.
EU Legislative Interests
EU policies: Climate, Energy, Education Topics: 21st Century world politics and Europe; Integration, governance and democracy; Regulation of Markets in the EU; Impact of the Covid pandemic on the Green Deal ; Education in the EU
Communication Activities
In 2025, the EUI will strategically showcase the Institute’s added value to European societies through excellent research, teaching, and training, and the exchange of ideas and experiences. The Institute will tell stories on how it contributes to critical issues of our time, including climate change, artificial intelligence, and social inequality, increasing its efforts to reach the broader public. EUI outreach and dissemination will pay specific attention to European themes, including their global relatoins. EUI communications and marketing will promote inclusiveness, striving to increase the diversity among recruits and participants in its activities. Our outreach efforts will also focus on sustainability, not only as a research topic, but also as a joint community effort to make the EUI campus and activities more sustainable. The Institute will also continue communicating its efforts to support academics affected by conflict, in collaboration with the Scholars at Risk network and other partners. EUI aims to communicate to specific audiences and the broader public through a balanced communications and marketing strategy building on digital communication channels, events, visual storytelling, news and blog writing and pitching content and expertise to the media. The EUI will strategically showcase the Institute’s added value to European societies through excellent research, teaching, and training, and the exchange of ideas and experiences. In terms of institutional channels, the EUI website attracts an average of 200,000 unique visitors and over 1 million page views per month, while the Institute’s social media channels have a combined audience exceeding 500,000 (covering 94 accounts across five platforms: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and X) showing consistent year-on-year growth. The new EUI website launched three years ago has been enhanced by an innovative Web Information System technology, representing a cornerstone of the Institute's modern institutional technology, with academic profiles generate over 250,000 high-engagement monthly views, effectively connecting visitors to PhD, master’s and fellowship programmes, events, research projects, executive courses and research topics.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
n/a
Organisation Members
N/A
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.