Shaping the Change – How Can We Succeed in a World of Transformation?
Annual Report: Research Year 2021/22

Article written by Justinas Lingevicious as part of his fellowship; published in 'Ethics and Information Technology'

NDC Policy Brief 01-2023: Ukraine, NATO and the Black Sea , by Iulian Romanyshyn

A 25-page initial study on the research topic by the Academy fellows of 2021/22 Alexandra Campmas and Nadina Iacob (January 2022).

Article by Herr&Speer in: The Washington Post, 22 May 2022

eu!radio series featuring Miriam Mona Mukalazi, May 2022

Have a look at the new Charlemagne Prize Academy Report - On the Future of the Union! 

The damages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in all aspects of life are far-reaching, multifaceted, and incalculable. The present policy paper comes in support of demands for increased economic resilience and argues that shortened – petit – supply chains that stretch from Berlin...

Sophie Pornschlegel is a 2020/2021 Fellow of the Charlemagne Prize Academy, where she researches how the EU could foster solidarity after the COVID-19 crisis. She is also a Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre (EPC), where she works on democracy, the rule of law and civil society...

Comment written by our Fellow, Iulian Romanyshyn, on the EU's strategic autonomy in security and defense. It was published by 'Encompass' in July 2021. 

In this policy paper, Photini Vrikki provides an overview of  recommendations based on the European Commissions moves in the past few years.
These relied on the concept of digital sovereignty as it sources from digital infrastructure and data sovereignty. 

(GERMAN) Sophie Pornschlegel ist Senior Policy Analyst beim Brüsseler Think Tank European Policy Centre (EPC) und Projektleiterin von Connecting Europe, eines gemeinsamen Projekts des EPCs und der Stiftung Mercator. Dort arbeitet Sie an den Themen Europapolitik und EU-Institutionen,...

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the ever-increasing need for data flows within the EU and across sectors for economic and health recovery. Likewise, the European Strategy for Data, has outlined plans to develop an agile EU data economy, including the launch of Common European Data Spaces...

Policy Brief by Iulian Romanyshyn, Fellow of the Charlemagne Prize Academy and the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn. 

This paper presents an identification of the latest trends and the reasons for which companies move their production and manufacturing capabilities outside of Europe, taking into account labour costs, legislation, taxes and transportation costs, and a comparison to conditions in Eastern Europe.

Read the full article written by our Fellow Iulian Romanyshyn and published by euobserver!

Read and download the Academy's annual report here!

Dr. María Victoria-Mas analysed online news consumption trends during the two first months of the Covid-19 crisis in the UK. This factsheet aims to explore the interactions between news consumption trends, misinformation credibility for the audience, and trust in political and...

There is more than one solution to complex problems. While the EU struggles to solve the debate on asylum responsibility-sharing, Marie Walter-Franke proposes that rescEU, the European civil protection reserve, could become a complementary tool to face migration-related emergencies.

Seeking for a ‘fresh start’, the European Commission is working on a new Pact on Migration and Asylum. Among other issues, the future of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is at stake. For a genuine ‘fresh start’ in asylum policy, our Fellow Marie Walter-Franke -...

Study by Prof. Federico Fabbrini, at the request of the AFCO Committee: A Political Compact for a More Democratic and Effective Union?

Dr. María Victoria-Mas focusses on how Public Service Broadcasters (PSB) can foster audience trust and engagement in order to preserve democratic stability. This factsheet draws the attention on news consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, analysing how these trends may be...

This commentary of Georgia Petropoulou, Charlemagne Prize Fellow 2019/2020, focusses on the European response on the COVID-19 pandemic, annotates its impact on connectivity and EU integration and proposes future scenarios on a post-corona-society. 

Andreas Holzinger is currently conducting field research with the UN Peacebuilding Fund in Guinea-Bissau. His research towards new approaches on European engagement in West Africa is supported by the Charlemagne Prize Fellowship Programme 2019/2020. 

Georgia Petropoulou is Charlemagne Prize Fellow 2019/2020, researching on the effects of connectivity within the balkan region within the framework of the EU enlargement process. The objective of her research is to identify the correlation between the social, political and infrastructural...

Federico Fabbrini is Full Professor of Law at the Dublin City University, director of the DCU Brexit Institute and Charlemagne Prize Fellow 2019/2020. His working paper - an analysis on the plan to innovate the European Union - is published within the current debates on the...