The European Union in International Affairs (EUIA) Conference is a major forum for academics and policymakers to debate the role of the EU in addressing global challenges.
Location: Brussels
Dates: 21-23 May 2025
About the #EUIA conference
This 9th edition will focus on the theme Europe in a Fragmenting World and offer a forum to debate the different considerations of the EU’s relations within a fragmenting world in the past five years. In addition to academic panel discussions, the conference will allow for substantive policy dialogue through keynote speeches and roundtables with practitioners. Other programme’s highlights will include networking sessions, awards, and interactive events with leading academic journals in the field.
#EUIA25 is jointly organised by the Brussels School of Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BSoG-VUB), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), the Institut d’études européennes at the Université libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB), Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations, and the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) of the University of Warwick.
Call for papers & panels
The EUIA 2025 conference calls for submissions from established academics, practitioners, early-career researchers and doctoral candidates. Scholars from non-EU countries are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.
The programme is open to a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, as well as to interdisciplinary fields, in order to advance the debate on the EU's future priorities in the external dimension of its policies. Thematic areas for panels and papers include but are not limited to:
- the EU’s role in diplomacy, multilateral organisations, global governance, and international trade and investment and corresponding value chains;
- the international dimension of EU policy-making and its implementation (such as security, trade, monetary policies, energy, climate, gender, migration, digital governance and space);
- tools of European formal and informal foreign engagement (such as development aid, sanctions and migration arrangements)
- the EU’s relations with its neighbourhood as well as with other regional organisations around the world;
- actions and perspectives of non-European actors towards the EU
Call for Papers & submission guidelines
Important dates
- Paper/panel submission deadline: 25 October 2024, 23:59 CET
- Notification of paper/panel acceptance: mid-January 2025