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EPS Spotlight
Look into the lives of current and former students


European Waves
- Jun 9
Life after EPS
What does life bring after EPS? First-year students Irina Percemli and Luisa Moratelli interviewed some EPS alumni to learn how life...

Beatrice Giovannoni
- May 29
The Ulaanbaatar Process: A Civil Society Approach to Building Peace in Northeast Asia
With a nuclear threat looming on the Korean Peninsula, civil society actors on the ground develop novel channels to promote peace. In...

Nicole Molinari
- May 22
Paradigm Shifts: Insights from the 2023 Oxford Spring School
Each spring, a group of EPS students has the opportunity to attend the Oxford Spring School hosted by the Europaeum. In this article,...

Hans Zdravko
- May 12
Visualising History at the Malach Centre for Visual History
8 May 1945 marked World War II officially ending on the Eastern Front of Europe. It was a war that took millions of lives on the...

Stoycho Velev
- Apr 18
Utopia in the Making: European Waves at Your Europe Your Say 2023
On 23 and 24 of March, Stoycho Velev took part in the annual Your Europe Your Say youth democracy dialogue seminar.


Kyra Prins
- Apr 10
European Novel(ties): FREE by Lea Ypi
This book is a must-read for EPS students. Lea Ypi’s tender memoir follows the complex political realities of growing up in Stalinist...

European Waves
- Mar 20
European Novel(ties): Pereira Maintains and Grand Hotel Europa
In the latest installment of our monthly book club, Gijs Verhoeff and Catherine Wood review two books that show the idyllic beauty of...

European Waves
- Feb 27
Underrated European Travel Destinations
Paulina Frank, Manon Heerts, Vivien Keenleyside, Kyra Prins As the end of winter finally approaches, you might be starting to think about...


Manon Heerts
- Feb 14
February Book Club: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
EPS’ers who will spend their second year in the heart of Catalunya, watch out for this book review of La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of...

European Waves
- Feb 6
Why European politics students should care about cybersecurity (and vice versa):
Thoughts on Black Hat Europe 2022 EPS students Bianca, Julian, and Catherine share their thoughts on attending the Black Hat Europe...


European Waves
- Jan 24
Good Press: EW at the EESC
Greta Scott and Nicole Molinari recently represented European Waves at two seminars organised by the European Economic and Social...

European Waves
- Dec 15, 2022
Into the heart of Europe: Reflections on the EPS Brussels Field Trip
On November 17th and 18th, the first and second years in the European Politics and Society (EPS) Joint-Master’s degree program gathered...

European Waves
- Dec 5, 2022
Warsaw Security Forum 2022
On October 5 and 6 the Warsaw Security Forum took place. This year, the conference - dedicated to transnational cooperation and security...

Catherine Wood
- Dec 5, 2022
A surging wave: top fives of our most popular articles and podcast episodes (so far!)
To kick off the new academic year, we round up the top 10 most popular European Waves articles and Common Room episodes so far. With...

European Waves
- Mar 15, 2022
Barcelona Research Seminar 2022
On January 17-18 the Barcelona Research Seminar took place. Over the course of two days, students from both the EPS first and second year...


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