On 22 April, Oliver Schwarz will be a guest of the Association for the Promotion of Advanced Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He will be speaking at the Essen campus on the topic of "Between deepening and enlargement: The European Union in the super election year 2024". The lecture starts at 14:00 in the Glass Pavilion. Everyone interested is cordially invited! Further information can be found here.

On 18 April, Oliver Schwarz and Michael Kaeding will take part in a panel on the future of EU enlargement. They will be joined by Boštjan Udovič from the University of Ljubljana and Danijela Jacimovic from the University of Montenegro to discuss the topic. The panel starts at 16:15 on the campus Duisburg in room LS 105. Everyone interested is cordially invited! Further information can be found here.

With the start of the lecture period in the summer semester, Oliver Schwarz's consultation hours will take place weekly on tuesdays from 10 and 11 am. Appointments can be made now via DFN scheduler. All appointments will take place via Zoom.

At the invitation of the Europa-Union Duisburg and the Young European Federalists Düsseldorf/Duisburg, Oliver Schwarz will speak at the Café Museum on 14 March on the topic of "Opportunities and risks - the 2024 European elections from a political science perspective". The lecture starts at 7 pm. Participation is free of charge. Further information on the lecture can be found here.

Oliver Schwarz is taking part in this year's UB|SchreibCamp, which will take place from 4 to 8 March on the Essen campus. As in previous years, the programme is focused entirely on academic writing. The workshop "Does ChatGPT write my term paper?" offered by Oliver Schwarz will take place on 8 March. Registration is now open.

On 20 and 21 February, Oliver Schwarz will take part in the kickoff conference of the Horizon Europe project "Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe" (InvigoratEU) in Tbilisi. InvigoratEU is a consortium of 18 partners. It is already the third Horizon Project coordinated by the Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute of Political Science. It is part of the ongoing ActEU project, which is focussing on regaining society's trust in democracy in the run-up to the 2024 European elections. It also builds on the already completed SEnECA project, which focussed on relations between the EU and the Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). Further information on the project and the kick-off conference can be found here.

The consultation hours of Oliver Schwarz for the lecture-free period in the winter semester 2023/24 are now scheduled and can be booked as usual via DFN scheduler. All appointments will take place via Zoom.