Congratulations to Professor Trisha Meyer, Director of the Research Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at the Brussels School of Governance, on her election to the Executive Board of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)! 👏 #BSoG #BrusselsSchool #EDMO

🍃 We’re delighted to announce the launch of "Climate Politics: Can't Live With It, Can't Mitigate Without It" by Caroline Kuzemko, published by Cambridge University Press. Join us on 9 March at 12:30 at the BSoG! 🔗 Register: www.brussels-school.be/output/event... #climate #climatepolitics

Join our next High-Level Lecture: “European AI governance: reconciling sovereignty with competitiveness?” 📅 26 Feb 2026 | 🕕 18:00–19:40 📍 VUB Campus We are pleased to welcome Lucilla Sioli, Director of the European AI Office. 🔗 Register: www.brussels-school.be/output/event...

We are pleased to invite you to attend the public #PhD defence of @marcogiuli.bsky.social on 9 March at 15:00 CET. His thesis is entitled The integration of energy security and #climate objectives in Europe’s external energy policy. Register: www.brussels-school.be/output/event... #EU #energypolicy

We are looking for two visiting researchers to spend two months at the United Nations University - CRIS in Bruges, where they will conduct research on digital sovereignty as part of the DSNS-ACT project. Apply by 26 Feb 2026. #BSoG #DigitalSovereignty

🎓 New #PhD opportunity! The Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the BSoG is recruiting a PhD researcher for an FWO-funded project: “The Weaponisation of Ideas: United States–China Competition in the Symbolic Field”. Apply by 15/03/2026. 🔎 www.brussels-school.be/jobs/phd-wea...

🚨 New vacancy at the BSoG! We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (with grant) to work on a project exploring the ideational and symbolic dimensions of United States–China rivalry. 📅 Apply by 15 March 🔎 More: www.brussels-school.be/jobs/postdoc... #BSoG #BrusselsSchool #Postdoc #Vacancy

We are pleased to share a new blog post by Dr Kata Dozsa published on the #ERC #CuriaeVirides Blog. The piece reflects on key developments and discussions surrounding last November’s Aarhus Convention. Read it here: curiaevirides.eu/2026/02/11/i... #MOP8

The VUB & BSoG invite you to a High-Level Lecture on #Ukraine and Europe’s security future. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Join Ambassador Vsevolod Chentsov for a keynote, expert panel, and Q&A on Ukraine’s European path, the #EU’s response to Russian aggression, and Europe’s security. 👉 www.brussels-school.be/output/event...

📣 Virtual book launch: A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe? Join BIRMM for the launch of this open-access volume on how racialized minorities are reshaping anti-racism in Europe, with contributions from leading scholars. 📅 18 Feb | 🕛 12:00–13:30 CET | Online 🔗 birmm.research.vub.be/virtual-book...

📢 Don’t miss the final conference of ReMeD – Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age on 13 Feb 2026 and explore the vital relationship between #democracy, #media, and citizens in the #digital age. 🔗 More: www.brussels-school.be/output/event...

📣 Call for contributions | EDMO BELUX 2.0 Submit papers, panels or workshops for the EDMO BELUX 2.0 final conference on countering disinformation in Belgium & Luxembourg. 🗓️ 7–8 Sept 2026 | ⏰ Deadline: 8 March 🔗 www.brussels-school.be/output/news/...

🌿 This article written by Sebastian Oberthür, Kati Kulovesi, and Leonie Reins, examines how and to what extent climate policy integration (CPI) has been legally anchored in the EU’s governance framework under the European Green Deal (EGD). #climatepolicy #EuropeanGreenDeal

In this new article, Dr Max Nagel combines insights from political economy and public policy to study how populist governments change economies and affect the regulatory state. Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What do COPs actually deliver? And why do they still matter amid climate backlash and geopolitical turbulence? Karin Bäckstrand & @janagheuens.bsky.social look back at COP30 in Belém to unpack who decides, who influences outcomes & what “implementation” means 10 years after Paris. Watch/listen👇

In her new blog post, BSoG Prof. Kristin Henrard examines how the #CJEU’s growing reliance on a broad margin of appreciation in religious matters risks weakening the protection of #religious freedom, non-discrimination, and even internal market freedoms.

🧊 Why is the Arctic — and especially Greenland — emerging as a geopolitical hotspot? 🎙️ In Episode 20 of the @greendealnet.eu podcast, Arctic governance expert Aslak Veierud Busch from the BSoG breaks down what’s at stake at the top of the world. 🎧 Watch or listen: www.greendealnet.eu/episode-20-A...

How is AI reshaping journalism today? 🤖🗞️ Prof Georgios Terzis recently presented his ongoing research on #AI and journalism at the 18th ARIJ Annual Forum, contributing to key discussions on #media, #technology, and democratic values. 👉 Read it here: www.brussels-school.be/output/news/...

🌿 What are nature-based solutions—and why are they sparking debate in environmental policy and science? In her latest piece, PhD researcher Martha Isabel Robles Ustariz (BSoG) explores the origins, potential, and open questions surrounding this concept. 🌍 defendbio.eu/nature-based...

On 16 & 17 December, Prof. Dr Jamal Shahin and Dr Nadia Tjahja participated in the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the Information Society (WSIS+20) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. 👇 Read the full story: #BSoG #research #WSIS20 #UN #informationsociety #digitalgovernance

The global trading system is grappling with high US tariffs, intensifying trade tensions. How has the #EU responded to these challenges over the past year? This question formed the central theme of the 8th edition of the #TDI Yearly Conference. www.brussels-school.be/output/news/...

On 11 Dec, the BSoG hosted the launch of The Rights of Roma in European Courts: Strategic Litigation and the Boundaries of Human Rights, edited by Professor Kristin Henrard and Lilla Farkas. #Roma #research #BSoG

Following last Monday’s Council deal on a highly restrictive asylum package, Dr. @frowinrausis.bsky.social (University of Geneva) and our PhD researcher @gaiaromeo.bsky.social explain the reality behind the EU’s two “safe country” policies on @euobserver.com: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

📢 Don’t miss the eighth edition of the TDI Yearly Conference, the key annual event for the EU trade law and policy community. Happening tomorrow! 🗓️ 11 Dec 2025 | 09:30–17:15 📍 VUB Campus (on-site & online) 👉 Register: www.brussels-school.be/output/event...

📢 Join us for the Online Winter School Policy Panel! 🌍 The #Geopolitics of Tech: Europe in an Era of Realignments? 🗓 Friday, 16 January 2026 ⏰ 15:00–16:15 CET 💻 Online event Don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion on the realignments shaping the EU’s digital strategy and global tech governance.

⏰ Join us on 11 Dec at 17:00 for the launch of The Rights of Roma in European Courts: Strategic Litigation and the Boundaries of Human Rights by Prof. Dr Kristin Henrard and Dr Lilla Farkas. 💻 The event can also be followed online. 👉 www.brussels-school.be/output/event...

Publication alert! 🔍 Our researcher @oberthuerseb.bsky.social and Kati Kulovesi recently published the piece "Shaping the EU’s 2040 Climate Target-Reforming the European Climate Law’s Procedural Climate Governance". Read here 👇 #BSoG #EUClimateGovernance #2040target

🍃🏭 Has the Green Deal become a “Clean Industrial Deal”? We reflect on one year of von der Leyen II: political realignments, omnibus ‘simplifications’. But also: what this means for ETS2, the 2040 target, democratic legitimacy & implementation. 🎧 Listen or watch 👉 www.greendealnet.eu/episode-23-W...

How can democratic debate thrive in an era of online polarisation, shifting political norms, and increasingly complex information ecosystems? Join us for Resilient Democracy Online, a three-day stakeholder event. 🗓 1 Dec – 3 Dec 2025 📍 BRIAS, Brussels Register: www.brussels-school.be/output/event...

Delighted to share that Tom Willaert, our Postdoctoral Researcher, has co-authored a new paper with Armin Pournaki, published in Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. #BSoG #BrusselsSchool #researcher

We’re proud to announce that, thanks to the coordination of Dean Prof. Dr @ftrauner.bsky.social, the BSoG has been granted the esteemed Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence status! 🇪🇺 Read more: 👉 www.brussels-school.be/output/news/...

🎓 Congratulations to @nathalievanraemdonck.com on the successful public defence of her PhD, “What Others Afford – Sociotechnical shaping of normative processes on social media platforms,” defended today at the #VUB. 👏 #PhDdefence #BSoG #BrusselsSchool

The launch of The Rights of Roma in European Courts: Strategic Litigation and the Boundaries of Human Rights by Prof. Dr Kristin Henrard and Lilla Farkas has been rescheduled to Wednesday, 11 December at 17:00! 👉 Register here: www.brussels-school.be/output/event... #HumanRights #Roma #EU

📹 In this interview with Ard Tagesschau, BSoG's Dean, @ftrauner.bsky.social, comments on EU migration in Germany. #Eu #migration #Germany #BSoG #BrusselsSchool

Harald Kümmerle (Japanese Studies in Tokyo) and Johannes Thumfart (BSoG) have co-authored a new article titled 📄 “From Data Universalism to Data Particularism: Epistemologizing Digital Sovereignty Based on Germany's and Japan's COVID-19 Responses”. 🔗 Read it here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Join the upcoming online Equality Talk on 17 Dec, where Kristin Henrard and Lilla Farkas will discuss their recently published edited volume, The Rights of Roma in European Courts: Strategic Litigation and the Boundaries of Human Rights. Register here: 👉 uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📚 New publication alert! BSoG Prof. Dr Ilke Adam, together with Prof. Dr Jean Beaman and Mariska Jung, PhD candidate at the #VUB, have published their edited volume: 📕 A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe? Racialized #Minorities at the Centre #antiracism #publication #research #migration #Europe

We are proud to announce that Dr @elieperot.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at the #BSoG and Programme Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in EU Policy Making, has been awarded the 2025 Global Strategy PhD Prize. Congratulations! 👏 #PhD #GlobalStrategy www.brussels-school.be/output/news/...

I just had an email exchange with a high school student headed to @bsog.be next year about my recent article with @luissimonn.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... She may have been being nice to her future academic advisor, but I'm still glad to see that open-access publications are

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Join the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Europe & LSE IDEAS for 🗣️ “The Future of EU–UK Collaboration: Taking Stock of Brexit & Geopolitical Strategy-Building.” 📘 With Prof. Dr. Richard Higgott (@csds.bsky.social, BSoG). 🕘 5 Nov 2025, 9:00–11:30 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/eu-uk-coll...

📢 TDI Yearly 2025 – EU Trade Defence and Increasing Geo-Economic Tensions 🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 | 09:30–17:15 📍 U-Residence, VUB Campus (on-site & online) 💡Attendance is limited to 100 participants. 👉 Secure your spot now: www.brussels-school.be/output/event... #TradeDefence #TDIYearly2025

Students from the BSoG’s Master in Global Security and Strategy have published an insightful analysis with Carnegie Europe, exploring what a second #Trump administration could mean for #Europe. 🇪🇺 🇺🇸

Policy Brief Alert! 🚨 For the past three years, we've been studying the ethical and legal impacts of AI. Our key takeaways are now available here 👇 We hope future AI risk assessments become far more practical — and truly actionable. Thanks to @titanthinking.bsky.social & @bsog.be

We’re proud to announce that #PhD researcher Marta Paricio Montesinos has been awarded a new #FWO PhD grant for her project “Loose Threads in the #EU’s Regulation of Mineral Value Chains in CAHRAs.” More here: www.brussels-school.be/output/news/...

We’re proud to share that researchers from the Brussels School of Governance’s Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) have been recognised among the 2025 #EUInfluencer Awards by ZN Consulting! Congratulations to our colleagues! 👏 #BSoG #CSDS More info: znconsulting.com/articles/eui...

🌱 Join us on 26 Sept for a conversation on what it means to be an environmental defender at the frontlines of protecting ecosystems and communities’ wellbeing. 📍 BSoG, Pleinlaan 5, floor -1, room Lisbon 🗓️ 26 Sept | 10:00–12:00 👉 ow.ly/GTTB50X08tb #BSoG #research #humanrights #environment

🔍 Researchers from BSoG's Centre for Environment, Economy and Energy led a landmark study on how Belgium’s industry can cut CO₂ emissions by 2040–2050. Analysing 90 technologies, the report shows that a carbon-neutral industry is within reach: #BSoG #VUB #research #decarbonisation #Belgium

🎓 We are proud to share that on 12 September, Nadia Tjahja successfully defended her PhD thesis "Meaningful participation in global and regional multistakeholder institutions: The case of the Internet Governance Forum". Congratulations on this great achievement, Dr. Tjahja! #PhD #BSoG #VUB #UNUCRIS

💼 Work with us! Our BA in International and European Law is welcoming applications for the following position: Adjunct Professor - Business Law (BA Course) ⏳ Apply by 6 October: www.brussels-school.be/jobs/adjunct... Curious about our School? ow.ly/YyM050WUYRg #BSoG #vacancy #businesslaw

📢 Save the date: 18 Sept The DEEPIN project workshop will dive into deep industrial decarbonisation and how Belgian industry can help meet EU 2040 & 2050 climate goals 🌍⚙️ Register here: ow.ly/3tZm50WTTWs #BSoG #research #decarbonisation #2050climateneutrality