Executive Trainings Our Executive Training Seminars are collaborative courses which combine scientific expertise with hands-on learning. The seminars are aimed at high-level professionals in policy, diplomacy, NGOs, international organisations, media and the private sector. We invite the most prominent experts from around the world to deliver courses tailored to specific policy-fields. Each seminar lasts between two and five days and combines knowledge transfer with practical case-study sessions and skills sharing. The interactive experience cultivates debate and partnerships between participants of different but complementary backgrounds. Upcoming Executive Training Seminars Trainings in 2021 Date: 30 April – 21 May 2021 Place: Online Course instructors: Senior academics, policy-makers and practitioners Deadline: 16 April 2021 An Online Academy co-organised by Oliver Wyman and the EUI's Florence School of Banking and Finance, in scientific cooperation with the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance. It addresses risk management for a recommended audience of EU officials, EBA, ESRB, SRB, national supervisors, financial stability and research departments of central banks, financial institution professionals, lawyers, PhD students and post-docs. READ MORE Date: 26-28 April 2021 Place: Online Course Coordinator: Teija Tiilikainen (EUI-STG and The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats) Deadline: 16 April 2021 Beginning with a focus on the critical gaps brought to the fore by the pandemic, the goal of this training is to explore the EU’s hybrid threats in an interactive manner. It intends to uncover their transnational linkages for examination in order to facilitate the assessment of existing policies while recommending any needed reforms. READ MORE Date: 17 May - 25 June 2021 Place: Online Course Coordinator: Jos Delbeke and Peter Vis (EUI-STG) Deadline: 7 May 2021 Ideal for policy-makers and practitioners working on the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of the Paris Agreement, this executive training offers a full introduction to the instruments and policies that have been developed within the EU. It provides useful insights and reflections on transnational climate cooperation, negotiations, and action at the international level. READ MORE Date: 19-21 May 2021 (afternoons 4pm -7pm CET) Place: Online Course instructors: Jean Pisani-Ferry (EUI Robert Schuman Centre); Brigid Laffan (EUI Robert Schuman Centre); George Papconstantinou (EUI-STG); Alexander Stubb (EUI-STG); Wolfgang Wessels (EUI-STG,College of Europe) Deadline: 12 May 2021 Early bird: 15 April 2021 This executive training will focus on the new EU budgetary arrangements, governance and funding tools developed to help the EU recover from the Covid-19 economic crisis. The interactive seminar will enable participants to better understand the substance, key processes as well as the organisation and impacts of the EU’s new budgetary instruments. READ MORE Date: 26-27-28 and 31 May 2021 (afternoon) Place: Online Course Coordinator: Leila Hadj-Abdou (EUI-STG, University of Vienna) and Giulio Di Blasi (Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative, University of Ottawa-Refugee Hub) Deadline: 15 May 2021 Early bird: 18 April 2021 This Executive Training is about developing and strengthening migration management skills. It provides a unique opportunity to deeper understand migration both in its theoretical subtleties and as a very practical subject. Participants will get insights into the complexities, challenges and trade-offs of migration management. READ MORE Date: 2-4 June 2021 Place: Offered as hybrid format, online and on Campus (European University Institute, Florence, Italy). Course Coordinator: Ruth Rubio Marin (EUI-STG and University of Seville) Deadline: 22 May 2021 Early bird: 30 April 2021 Ranging from the gender specific roles within terrorist groups to the gender implications of state response to the threat of terrorism, this executive training will explore the gender dimensions of terrorism and counter-terrorism. READ MORE Date: 21-25 June 2021 Place: Online Course Coordinators: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (EUI - STG) and Alain Lempereur (Brandeis University) Deadline: 11 June 2021 Early bird: 16 May 2021 This online Executive Training addresses the challenges of complex interactions and communication across cultures and sectors, while engaging multiple stakeholders. Participants will learn how to become more aware of their unique and personal negotiation styles, so they can develop ways of influencing others more responsibly. READ MORE Date: June 2021 Place: Online Course Coordinators: Claudio Radaelli (EUI - STG) and Gaia Taffoni (EUI-STG) This Executive Training will focus on the many pathways to robust evidence-based policy-making. It will deliever the best available and most realistic knowledge on how individuals and organisations make decisions throughout the public policy process. Accompanied by addressing a wide-range of approaches and instruments, participants will actively work on a suite of case studies and practical testimonials from the field. READ MORE Artificial Intelligence: Intensive Online Policy Lab co-organised with Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence Date: 10 - 14 May 2021 Place: Online The EUI- STG and Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence designed a new Intensive Policy Lab that aims to equip policymakers from the U.S. and Europe with the knowledge and tools they will need to ensure that the benefits of AI are widely shared, and their risks mitigated. The Lab will bring together policymakers with top-level experts on the challenges and opportunities of AI and related digital technologies. Summer Course 'Integrated Regulatory Management: Reforms and Tools' Date: 7 - 10 September 2021 Place: European University Institute, Florence, Italy Taught by world-class experts with considerable research and policy experience, this Summer Course provides capacity to carry out regulatory reform, how to use and evaluate policy instruments, and how to measure the performance of regulatory oversight in courts and via specialist bodies. The training will provide in-depth cross-country and cross-sector knowledge and know-how of the whole-of-government regulatory reform in light of the Agenda 2030 objectives for Sustainable Development. Private Actors in Transnational Governance Date: 16 - 17 September 2021 Place: European University Institute, Florence, Italy This Executive Training Seminar aims at teaching the advantages and the challenges of the trust vested in private actors through forms of self- and co regulation. It answers the question of whether private actors live up to citizens' expectations and what could be done as to the safeguarding of citizens' interests. The training will explore how private regulation and enforcement are (or should be) embedded in the law. The 2022 Annual Series on 'Leading Public Audit Institutions in Times of Change' This series of executive training sessions, co-organised with the European Court of Auditors, are designed to be both forward looking and collaborative. Four related multi-day sessions will be offered throughout the year covering each of the following scientific areas: Winter 2022: Public Policies and Finances in Europe: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Public Audits Spring 2022: Strategic Planning for Public Audit Institutions Summer 2022: Harnessing the Potential of Digital Government: the Implications for Public Auditors Fall 2022: Fostering Accountability in the Public Sector: Role and Responsibilities of Public Audit Institutions