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.

Giorgos Glynos is the current holder of this position in ELIAMEP from 1 October 2009 and 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.

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.