Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Andreas Maurer is Professor for Political Science and EU Integration as well as Jean Monnet Chair for EU Integration studies at the University of Innsbruck (https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/politikwissenschaft/jean-monnet-chair/). He directs the international PARLATRADE consortium for the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade as well as the Innsbruck Center for European Research (www.icer.at). He is visiting lecturer at UCL/St. Louis (https://www.usaintlouis.be/sl/952.html) and at the MCI (https://www.mci.edu/de/studium/master/soziale-arbeit-politik-management).
Master in European Studies (EN) https://uclouvain.be/prog-2024-euab2m
The Innsbruck Center for European Research (ICER), housed within the Department for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck. ICER aims to strengthen the critical and multidisciplinary analysis of the EU, examine the EU’s frameworks for poly-archic, multi-level and –actor governance, and to stimulate the debate and research on the EU. Research carried out by ICER focuses on three core subjects: Development of and theorizing the EU's primary law and its related socio-political bases; European “soft law” or “tertiary law”, i.e. inter-institutional agreements , rules of procedure, and other informal, inter- and intra-institutional arrangements as constitutive parts for developing European primary law; Interparliamentary cooperation with regard to the changing roles and functions of the European Parliament and (sub)-national parliaments; theoretical concept building concerning conditions, drivers and brakes for EU integration and disintegration. Decision-making processes, negotiation strategies and conceptual problems regarding the implementation of EU policies; Balancing EMU and reforming European Economic and Social Policy; Common Agriculture Policy and structural reforms in the alpine regions; International Agreements and the EU’s Common Commercial Policies; European Environmental Policy; Linking the Open Method of Coordination with traditional, legally binding instruments; Consistency of supranational and intergovernmental structures, instruments and processes in the EU's external Relations. Policy preferences of state and civil-society actors in the EU member states; Intercultural processes and conflicts; Meta-Governance and citizen Engagement in the EUSALP process; Processes of direct democracy in European Policy; Trans-Alpine and Trans-Arctic cooperation in European Policy ; EU policy making in Austria and inter-ministerial coordination
PARLATRADE provides research, consultancy for the European Parliament and its Committee in International Trade. Lead by the Jean Monnet Chair on EU integration at Innsbruck University, PARLATRADE consists of CEPS (Brussels), ISPI (Milan), IdW (Cologne), NUPI (Oslo), CASE (Warsaw), Milieu (Brussels), and LSE (London). Affiliated team members work at the universities of Bologna, Princeton, Vienna, Berlin, Melbourne, Lisbon, Valencia, and the EUI.