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Opinion polls suggest that most Americans and Europeans believe that governments are doing a poor job selecting wanted newcomers, preventing the entry and stay of unwanted foreigners, and integrating settled immigrants and their children. Are they? This seminar focuses on the economic and social integration of immigrants who arrived as migrant workers. The US is more successful at getting low-skilled migrants into jobs, but not very successful at ensuring that these jobs generate above poverty-level incomes and access to work-related benefits. Low-skilled migrants in European countries with regular jobs, on the other hand, generally have above poverty-level incomes and access to work-related benefits. The question is whether flexible labor markets make it easier for immigrants to get jobs and harder for immigrants to access welfare benefits explain observed transatlantic differences? Details on the event to follow.
The Young Engineers + Scientists Symposium 2012 is a three-day event aimed at fostering industrial and research collaborations between the United States and Europe in the field of nanotechnologies and energy. The symposium connects young researchers (PhD candidates and Post Docs) and engineers from both sides of the Atlantic in order to develop long-term exchanges. This year's focus will be different domains related to energy (PV, battery, CCS, biofuels, energy efficiency, thermoelectricity, etc.…) around the use of nanotechnologies. Public policies, regulations, and other subjects which might have different sensibilities in Europe and the US will also be examined. For more information and to register, go here.
The European Union Center at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite educators from secondary schools and community colleges in the Bay Area and throughout California to the Fourth Annual Educator Workshop on the European Union. Come hear campus scholars untangle common misperceptions about the EU, examine the EU's status in the face of the current social and economic crises, and discuss the lives of Roma in post-socialist states. Featured Talks by UCB Academics Sponsored by the EU Center of Excellence at UC Berkeley. Lunch will be served. For more information and registration guidelines please contact Noga Wizansky at eucenter[@] berkeley.edu.
On October 27, 2011, the EU Center of Excellence and the Berkeley School of Law welcomed the Honorable Judge Thomas Von Danwitz, the German judge appointed to the European Court of Justice. His talk, “A Fresh Start for the Charter — Fundamental Questions on the Application of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights,” addressed the court's role in adjudicating legal disputes arising under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The primary purpose of this conference is to enhance undergraduate training in and knowledge of the European Union and US-European relations. In addition, the aim of the conference is to allow US students with expertise in different areas to interact with each other as well as with faculty, foster intercampus cooperation, and recognize the excellent work achieved by students. Envisioned as an intercampus undergraduate seminar, the participating campuses simultaneously offer courses on the issues relevant in Europe today, integrating the conference with the student’s curriculum to encourage student initiated research and presentations. Students will present and discuss their research in a panel format, each panel being composed of three or four students. Each presentation will be followed by questions and a discussion moderated by a faculty member. The conference will include a keynote address. At the conclusion of the conference, faculty participants will nominate and select the “best papers” of the conference. Selected papers will be published in a special volume of conference proceedings. In addition, the EU Center of California and the EU Center of Excellence at Berkeley at UC Berkeley will be offering awards for the top papers with study tours to Brussels and Rome over the summer. Students may pursue a wide range of topics that reflect their interest, expertise, and past research. Topics may deal with any aspect of European integration or transatlantic relations.
There are no conference fees and all approved travel related expenses for accepted participants will be coordinated and paid for or reimbursed by the European Union Center of California. Applications with abstracts are due February 15, 2012 via our website. Group papers (with more than one author) are acceptable. Final papers are due on March 28, 2012. Please contact Zaynah Rahman at (909) 607-8103 or e-mail with any questions you may have.
The European Union Center of Excellence at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce the award of a new € 300,000 grant from the European Commission. This funding will enable the center to continue the work begun with its establishment three years ago, of promoting a deeper understanding of the European Union and raising the level of dialogue and discourse on transatlantic relations throughout the State of California. In a period of growing American preoccupation with the Middle East, the rapid growth of China, India and Russia, and recent crises on Europe’s economic and socio-political fronts, this infusion of resources into education, research, and outreach on the European Union could not be more timely and important. The Center is a joint effort of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Together these Institutes also work in cooperation with the Schools of Public Health and Law, the Haas Business School, the Institutes of Governmental Studies and International Studies, the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, the Berkeley APEC Study Center, and Migration Dialogue. Over the next three years, the EU Center will support a number of activities related to the better understanding of and teaching about the European Union. Academic opportunities will include faculty research grants, curriculum development grants, pre-dissertation/dissertation fellowships for graduate students, research fellowships for undergraduate students, support of the annual Claremont – UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union and the Western U.S. Graduate Research Workshop, and a working papers series. In addition, the EU Center will support a visiting speaker series and a series of conferences and workshops on the following themes: Transatlantic Relations in a World of Competitors; The Union and its Neighborhood: The Challenges of Integration and Norm Diffusion; and Facing New Challenges: EU-U.S. Collaboration and “Best Practices” to Solve Global Health, Energy, and Environmental Problems.
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UC Berkeley's Winter 2012 
