The EUNMUTE Scientific Short Stay Grant (SSSG) is a research mobility scheme that aims to promote interactions between EUNMUTE Centre of Excellence (CoE) and foreign universities by funding short-term visits. It notably supports collaborative research projects as well as research in domains covered by EUNMUTE.
The SSSG scheme is developed for junior and senior researchers who wish to make a scientific stay IN or OUT for a period of one to three months.
2023-2024
IN Grant – Katharine Throssell
Katharine is a contractual researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, at Sciences Po Bordeaux in France. She completed a PhD in political science in 2012, before moving out of academia between 2013-2023. During this period, she worked as a specialised academic translator, helping francophone researchers to publish their work in English. She recently chose to return to a more active research role, to continue the work on political socialisation and nationalism that she began in her PhD (later published as a book Child and Nation, 2015).
Her current position on the ETPAF project extends these research questions on the transmission of political belonging, and specifically national belonging in the family environment, through the conceptual framework of banal nationalism and national habitus. Indeed, these issues related to children’s learning of pollical identities, citizenship, and belonging appear more relevant than ever in a contemporary context marked by rising political extremism, nationalist and populist movements, the climate crisis, and the emergence of (very) young political activists on the public stage. The emergence and influence of technology, social media, and AI as potential forces in political socialisation – alongside traditional actors like the school, peers, and the family – urgently needs to be explored empirically.
Dates of stay: July 1 to 7, 2024
OUT Grant – Sophie Jacquot
Sophie Jacquot is Professor of political science at UCLouvain and Director of the Institute for European Studies. She is a member of the EUNMUTE team. She specializes in EU and gender studies. Her research interests focus on the transformation of EU gender and anti-discrimination policies, on the Europeanisation of social and gender policies, on the evolution of European social dialogue and on the influence of Eurobarometer surveys in the design of EU policymaking.
In May 2024, Sophie went on a research stay to the Centre Jean Monnet de Montréal (CJMM), a joint project of the Université de Montréal and McGill University.
During her stay, Sophie presented her work on EUNMUTE during a research seminar with colleagues from the CJMM and a master class for students. She presented her research on the implementation by the von der Leyen Commission of a public action programme for the voiceless, i.e. victims of discrimination in the European Union (Roma, victims of racial discrimination, people with disabilities, women, LGBTQ+, etc.), as well as the findings from a research project she is conducting with Céline Belot on how the voices of women and young people are taken into account in European policies through long-term Eurobarometer surveys.
During her stay, Sophie also took part in a panel organised by the CJMM as part of the 14th conference of the European Community Studies Association – Canada (ECSA-C), which was held at Carleton University in Ottawa from 23 to 25 May 2024.
IN Grant – Chloé Bérut
Chloé Bérut is a MSCA fellow at Ca’ Foscari University (2023-2025) and associate researcher at Pacte. She previsously worked as a postdocotral researcher for the Research Programm on risk and uncertainities assessment (PARI) at Sciences Po Paris (2022-2023), and also at the Printemps research center and the French Ministry for Health (2021). She obtained a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Grenoble in 2020, which was awarded with two PhD prizes (the Grenoble Alpes University prize and the French EU studies association PhD prize).
Her main theme of research is health policies in the European Union, with a focus on digital health policies. She conducted research on the influence of the EU on member states’ digital health policies, and she has also worked on the issue of the access to health databases. Her work has been published in international and French scientific journals such as West European Politics, Governance, or Gouvernement et Action Publique.
Dates of stay: April 1 to May 10, 2024.
IN Grant – Julia Vassileva
Julia Vassileva is a PhD researcher and lecturer in International law and Security studies at the School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallin University, Estonia. She previously worked in Brussels for the EU Commission’s DG NEAR and the EEAS; and holds degrees in Law and IR from the University of Oxford, the College of Europe, and Vienna University. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in Tbilisi and at Bilkent University in Ankara; and a researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and the UN-ILC in Geneva.
During her stay, from September 1st to 30th, Julia Vassileva worked on the role of the EU in including women in peace processes in its neighborhood region and beyond. She will also analyze the frequent exclusion of women, which the EU must be aware of and address, in order to give a voice to women in peace processes (to ‘unmute’ them).
Her working paper is now available here
IN Grant – Andrea Delestrade
Andréa Delestrade is a PhD student at the European Institute, LSE. She focuses on philosophical discourses in Modernity and in phenomenology about Europe, mainly through the contradictions of the incarnation of Europe in philosophies of History.
She explores the tensions between a universalistic discourse of rational subjects ‘without a face’ and the embodied exclusions from that discourse – particularly on the basis of race, gender, and class.
Dates of stay: September ‘ to 29, 2023.
IN Grant – Oriane Calligaro
Oriane Calligaro is an associate professor in political science at ESPOL (Université catholique de Lille) and visiting professor at the College of Europe. She is associate researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (CEVIPOL) and co-director of the journal Politique européenne. She has extensively published on the EU’s actions in the cultural and academic fields and on the role of values in EU governance.
Her current research deals with the role of civil society organizations in the EU anti-discrimination policy.
Dates of stay: July 3 to December 22, 2023.
She published the monograph Negotiating Europe. The EU promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 and co-edited with François Foret the book “European values”. Challenges and opportunities for EU governance, Routledge, 2018.
2022-2023
OUT Grant – Amandine Orsini
Amandine Orsini, Professor of International relations at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, is an expert in International and European Studies with an internationally recognised specialisation on environmental issues. She is promotor of the YOUTH EARTH (2021-2024) research project and Jean Monnet Chair EUGLOBALGREEN (2022-2025) and since 2016 she coordinates the POLLEN programme, labeled as Jean Monnet Module (2016-2019). She is member of the EUNMUTE project, Jean Monnet excellence center at the Institute for European Studies.
She carried out research at Laval University (Canada) from February 2nd to March 22nd, 2023.
During her stay in Canada, she was invited to the Department of Political Science at Laval University to present her research on young people in international environmental policy. She has also been invited to the Jean Monnet Centre in Montreal to present her research on the European Union in international environmental policy.
Her working paper is now available here.
IN Grant – Serena D’Agostino
Serena D’Agostino is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice (CMDJ) at the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is the coordinator of the VUB Strategic Research Programme Enhancing Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE). She regularly serves as a commissioned expert to the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) for its annual Fundamental Rights Report (chapter on Roma Equality and Inclusion, Belgium).
Her research interests lie at the crossroads of (political) intersectionality, activism/social movements and minority politics and rights, with a focus on Romani (gender) politics and Roma (women’s) rights in Europe.
Her work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, the European Journal of Politics and Gender, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, among others.
