The Department of European Political and Governance Studies organizes various conferences and numerous guest lectures on the future of Europe.

With a continued commitment to academic excellence and community engagement, the department recently organized a series of noteworthy events:

   Conferences

• 08/10/2026
  Title: POL Annual Conference on EU Theories
  Organiser: the Department of European Political and Governance Studies 
• 15/04/2026
  Title: Applications and Implications of International Law in Gaza
  Organiser:the Department of European Political and Governance Studies 
   
• 01/12/2025
  Title: European Night roundtable discussion on European-American relations in and after 2025
  Organiser: The event is held under the patronage of the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana) and within the research programme "Slovenia and its actors in international relations and European integration" (P5-0177), and within the research project "Growing cultural distance and stereotyping in small transition countries: the case of the countries of the former Yugoslavia" (J5-50173), both funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) and the Department of European Political and Governance Studies (collaborator).
   
• 20/11/2025 
  Title: Women at the peace table: a conversation with Francesca Albanese
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   
• 17/11/2025
  Title: 30 years in the EU: Looking back into the future
  Organiser:Permanent Representations of Austria, Finland and Sweden in collaboration with ECFR, SIEPS, and the Department of European Political and Governance Studies (collaborator)
   
• 02-03/10/2025 
  Title: The POL Simgame Anniversary Conference: Simulations of EU decision-making, from the origins to the digital world
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   
• 10/09/2025
  Title: Debate on the State of the Union Address 2025
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies & College of Europe Library
   

• 05/04/2025
  Title: High-Level Conference | Rotating Presidency in Action
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   

• 06/03/2025
  Title: The European Council 50 years On: Explaining the Rise of the EU's (Im)Perfect Lead Institution
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   

• 11/02/2025
  Title: Conférence Justice sans Frontières
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies + CEA, Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace
   

• 11/02/2025
  Title: Conférence du Rhin supérieur
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies + CEA, Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace
   

• 04/02/2025 – 05/02/2025
  Title: Delors Conference - 75th Anniversary Event
  Organiser: College of Europe (All departments)
   

• 30/01/2025
  Title: Someone is watching: Debating the proposal on transparency of third country interest representation in the internal market
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   

• 14/11/2024
  Title: Guide or Guise: How Theory Shapes European Integration
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   

Roundtables

• 30/04/2025
  Title: TellUs - Plenary Roundtable
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies + DG RTD
   

• 19/03/2025
  Title: POL Career Perspectives Series: POL Alumni Working in European Political Economy
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   

• 19/03/2025
  Title: POL Career Perspectives Series: POL Alumni Working in EU Institutions
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   

• 11/02/2025
  Title: EU Voices: MEPs in Dialogue with the College of Europe
  Organiser: Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   

Book Presentations

• 14/10/2026 
  Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Wolfgang Wessel and Prof. Didier Georgakakis
  Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
• 13/10/2026 
  Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Thibaut Kleiner, Prof. Eric Peters and Prof. Didier Georgakakis
  Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
• 18/02/2026
  Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Michael Kaeding and Prof. Didier Georgakakis
  Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   
• 08/10/2025
  Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Martin Westlake and Prof. Didier Georgakakis
  Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   
• 01/10/2025
  Title: Library x IDEAs – Book presentation during lunch break with Prof. Hussein Kassim
  Organiser: Department of Inter-Departmental European Advanced Studies, Library of the College of Europe, & Department of European Political and Governance Studies
   
• 28/04/2025
  Title: EU Council Presidencies in Times of Crises
  Location: Council of the EU Library