In an effort to upgrade ELIAMEP’s involvement in traditional issues of foreign and defence policy in areas and fields such as European integration, the Balkans, Greek-Turkish relations, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, transatlantic relations and other important issues of international politics, ELIAMEP launched in 2007 a Research Fellowship on European Affairs with the support of the John F. Costopoulos Foundation. The fellowship aims to particularly promote the research and policy oriented activities of ELIAMEP in the fields of European integration and the future of the EU. ELIAMEP’s ambition is to launch more research fellowships aiming at educating a new generation of scientists, researchers and experts who will staff international organisations, public and private sector entities and university departments.
2010-2011
Having to choose between excellent candidates for the Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellowship, ELIAMEP decided to offer a part-time association to Dimitri Sotiropoulos, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, and Dimitri Katsikas, Lecturer at the same department. Prof. Sotiropoulos will be working on the impact of European integration on democracy and governance in post-communist South East Europe. He will also be in charge of a new activity called ‘ELIAMEP debates’, using the Greek crisis as an opportunity to launch public debates and contribute to the revival of structured social dialogue on Greek policies today. Dr. Katsikas will be working mainly on issues of global governance and the role of non-state actors, as well as on the relationship between European governance and developments in the international institutional environment.
2009-2010
Giorgos Glynos joined ELIAMEP as Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow in October 2009 and remained with the Foundation in this capacity for one year. He has worked for years as a senior official at the European Commission and has significant experience in the matters of the operation of European institutions, and the configuration and implementation of the Union’s policies, such as the economic and monetary, regional, social and the policy of enlargement.
2007-2009
Janis Emmanouilidis joined ELIAMEP in October 2007 as Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow. He remained in that position until September 2009. His research interests focus on the political and institutional reform of the enlarged European Union, the perspectives of differentiated integration in an EU 27+ and on issues related to the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy. Between 1999-2007 Janis was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Policy Research (C•A•P), Munich. Prior to that he was a Research Fellow at the Institut fuer Europaeische Politik (IEP) in Bonn.
