H2020 Project by the University of Economics in Bratislava, Sciences Po Paris and the University of Liège
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The EDGE project – funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 692413) – seeked to increase and reinforce the cooperation between the University of Economics in Bratislava, Sciences Po and the University of Liège in the field of Environmental Diplomacy and Geopolitics.
This field of international relations is gaining increasing importance, as environmental issues have become an increasingly important matter in international politics. The three partner universities have all developed a specific field of expertise in relation to the topic of the project:
- The Faculty of International Relations of the University of Economics in Bratislava (EUBA) has developed a wide expertise in the politics of environmental resources, including its security dimension;
- Sciences Po (Sc Po) has recently launched a new research programme entitled Politics of the Earth, which looks at the new geopolitical challenges brought upon by the Anthropocene;
- The University of Liège (ULg) specializes in the human impacts of environmental changes, with a specific expertise on migration and security issues. In November 2016, it has launched the The Hugo Observatory, the first scientific research structure dedicated to the interactions between environment, migration and politics. The Hugo Conference 2016, the first of a series of three Annual Conferences within the framework of the EDGE project, marked the launch of the Observatory.
Thus the areas of expertise of the three partners covered a wide range of subjects related to environmental diplomacy and geopolitics: resources, politics and impacts. The key objective of this partnership was to bring these areas of expertise together to create a comprehensive and consistent cluster of research and teaching activities.
These activities included:
- A series of three Annual Conferences: The Hugo Conference was the first of the series;
- An exchange scheme for faculty, staff and students
- An annual summer school. The first summer school, on Politics of the Earth, was organized by Sciences Po in Paris in September 2016 and the second one was organized by EUBA in Bratislava in September 2017. The third and last Summer School took place in Liège in September 2018.
- A European certificate in Environmental Migration;
- A rotating chair in Environmental Diplomacy: in May 2016, Sciences Po and EUBA welcomed Clive Hamilton from Charles Sturt university.
- Joint panels and publications, such as The State of Environmental Migration series.
All activities under the EDGE project took place between 2016 and 2018.
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