Brussels Programme on European Foreign Policy

The Brussels Programme on European Foreign Policy aims to bring together students to learn and critically discuss issues and challenges related to European foreign and external policies. This multidisciplinary summer programme draws on the consolidated partnership between the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy (CSDS) of the VUB and the University of Southern California (USC), and has been running successfully for fifteen years.

Bringing together students has been a strong ambition of this programme. From the welcome reception to the design of the internships, we ensure that this summer programme and our student body mingle and learn from one another. Capitalising on its Brussels location and on its consolidated partnership, CSDS has so far offered a strong teaching team, which includes academic and policy pundits alike. By offering lectures and presentations by well-established scholars, think-tankers and civil servants from the European Commission, the European External Action Service and NATO, the programme offers a true immersion in the process of EU foreign and external policy-making.

In the course of this intensive 5-week summer school – which runs from the end of May to the end of June – students have the chance of visiting and attending lectures at the European Parliament, the European External Action Service and NATO.

In addition to attending lectures in the mornings, the students will attend internships during the afternoons at top think tanks and organisations from the socio-economic sector gravitating around the work of the EU.

For more information, contact Prof. Dr. Caterina Carta.