Welcome to the JMECE Lab EuroBlogFest

Welcome to the EuroBlogFest, our online “Talk Area”, where participants with common interests can exchange messages and posts.

As part of the project “Europe in my Eyes” (supported by the European Parliament), we now have created a blog specifically for discussing visions of the EU.

What: We are looking for JMECE Lab EuroBlogFest contributors (authors).
What to write about: Any topics related to the idea of EU will be welcomed.
How often: you choose between two types of contributions, weekly or fortnight.
Moderation: The blog space will be open and moderated by the team leaders (Fabro Steibel and Stergios Mavrikis). Any article or blog posting MUST conform to University of Leeds regulations. The moderators have absolute discretion to refuse to publish material that does not conform with the regulations.
How to publish: You will have access to the blog to post your own material OR you can send the text/images to us and we will post it for you.
Who can participate: JMECE Lab members, University of Leeds doctoral students, and members of staff associated with the JMECE.

We look forward to you joining the group.

Please contact:

Stergios MAVRIKIS / Fabro STEIBEL

Institute of Communications Studies

Houldsworth Building

University of Leeds

Leeds

LS2 9JT, UK

Mob: +44 (0) 7900116588

Fax: +44 (0) 113 343 5808

eMail: cla7sm@leeds.ac.uk / Stergios_Mavrikis@msn.com / csfbs@leeds.ac.uk

More about the JMECE Lab:

JMECE LAB, is a platform designed by postgraduates aiming to create a research network among students, European youth movements and others sharing an interest in the future of Europe. See us on:

http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/jmecelab

We are the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jmce) at the University of Leeds Institute of Communications Studies site (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/index.cfm) with the following objectives:

NETWORK:

Objective 1: To encourage postgraduates and academics from different European countries as well as from different parts of UK to work together in the field of European integration.

Objective 2: To bring together postgraduate students at the University of Leeds concerned with European Union issues.

RESEARCH:

Objective 3: To provide a platform for collaboration and exchange of ideas between young researchers with an interest in the European Union, helping them to overcome the isolation and solitude of research.

ACTIVITIES:

Objective 4: to invite partners to play a full part in our work , including our website, meetings, workshops, speeches, events etc.

Objective 5: to provide up-to-date profiles of the people currently involved in this forum and build a research network to inform our work. We draw inspiration in wanting to share our research resources, questions and thoughts, from Jean Monnet’s legendary phrase: “we do not unify countries, we unify people”.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The participants of the JMECE Research Students LAB are invited to place their research projects in one of the following fields. Like our own research this is a work-in-progress and open to development:

• European e-participation, e-citizenship, e-governance

• European Citizenship

• European Citizens – European Netizens

• Enlargement

• The Lisbon treaty

• European democratic/communication Deficits

• Multiculturalism

• Europeanism

• European history, politics, law and business

• Post-national identities / supranational identities

• European public sphere(s)

• European audiovisual policy

• European public opinion

• European Communication Polyglotism

• EU internal and external security, liberty and freedom.