@rscholtalbers.bsky.social
🎙️Comms Director at the European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social. Posts mainly about #research, #highered, #comms, #EU, and #Italy. Personal account.
In 2026, the EUI turns 5️⃣0️⃣
🎉 We’ll celebrate our journey with a year of stories, events, and dialogues — honouring the past and looking forward to the future.
🗓️ #Savethedate: 7–9 May 2026 for our anniversary celebrations.
🌐 Get engaged & learn more: https://loom.ly/nL7DWrA
#EUI50
"We will spare no effort to make Europe an AI continent." I listened live to this bold promise from an upbeat Von der Leyen at Italian Tech Week.
Curious to see how the announced single set of rules allowing tech companies to scale up across the EU will develop.
VDL speech: shorturl.at/2V8Up
La Flotilla ha ripreso il viaggio verso Gaza. Mettono a rischio la propria incolumità per fare ciò che governi e istituzioni avrebbero dovuto fare da tempo: esercitare ogni potere a loro disposizione affinché venga rispettato il diritto internazionale. Oggi su La Stampa
30.09.2025 05:47 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
📣 On 11 September, join us for a keynote address with Teresa Ribera, the Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition of the European Commission.
⏰15:00 - 16:30 CEST
📌 Palazzo Buontalenti
For more information and registration👉 https://loom.ly/XnwOlWk
The moment participants took the brief, made it their own and confidently took the stage.
16.08.2025 07:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🔍 Elon Musk doesn’t need to launch the “America party”, he already owns the digital tools to mobilise millions. Is this the future of politics, or its privatisation?
Read more in this @financialtimes.com op-ed by @eui-history.bsky.social Prof. Nicolas Guilhot 👇
loom.ly/P5DTd_0
🎉 Congrats to @jonadejong.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Linz‑Rokkan Prize for the best EUI thesis in Political Sociology! His work sheds new light on how social networks shape divides and reduce partisan hostility. 👏
Read more 👉 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
"When the noise is constant, clarity becomes radical."
@catherinedevries.bsky.social with some honest and clear advice about leaving the academic comfort zone.
(And 👍 on Orwell: I've always got his 24 little pages of writing wisdom on my desk as a reminder)
We presented our new Secretary General,Armando Barucco, to the press yesterday.
03.07.2025 09:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On my way back from Budva after a hands-on session on public speaking and interviews with civil servants from the Western Balkans.
I return energised, thanks to an excellent group and the realisation that we all can make great progress through practice.
@eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-stg.bsky.social
My new post. How current political science replicated my PhD thesis of 25 years ago. And took it further, in a paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social and other work, by @liesbethooghe.bsky.social, Gary Marks and @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social.
open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
Croatia is officially joining the EUI! 🎉
Today, the EUI's High Council voted unanimously to approve Croatia’s accession as the 24th member of the EUI. ✅🤝
This milestone further strengthens the EUI’s mission of fostering academic excellence and #EuropeanIntegration through #research and #education.
📺 Live now at the @eui-eu.bsky.social… a new episode of EUI Conversations on Didier Fassin’s latest book on #Gaza.
www.youtube.com/live/VCWvDrj...
📢 Now open for applications! The 2025 ERC Advanced Grant call for proposals. 📢
Are you an established Principal Investigator who needs long-term funding to pursue ground-breaking research?
The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you!
Apply by 28 August 2025 👉 buff.ly/f6FEXHk
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🏘️Why is today’s housing crisis so hard to fix? Balthazar de Robiano @eui-sps.bsky.social points to 3 challenges:
🔑 Renters vs. owners
📈 Rising costs
🌍 Price gaps across regions
His research shows how these problems are political & why better housing policy starts w/ understanding them. #MyPhDPitch
The conference 'An academic dilemma?' has come to an end! 🎓
Scholars gathered to explore how academic institutions can be entangled in issues like human rights violations, environmental destruction & genocide, while also serving as spaces for resistance, critical thought & transformative action. 🗣️
🇧🇷 Brazil wins World Cup 2026
www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...
President Antonio Costa this morning at the European University Institute 👇
08.05.2025 13:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This morning, we had the honour of welcoming António Costa, President of the European Council, to the EUI for a thought-provoking speech on #peace and #security in an era of geopolitical uncertainty. 🌐
08.05.2025 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0👏 "Europe will always choose science and Europe will always make the case for the world's scientists to choose Europe."
(From the full speech: www.linkedin.com/video/live/u...)
Screenshot of EUI Research Newsletter
Trump tariffs, diversity, but also vampirism and science...
The monthly newsletter produced by our Research Communications Team offers a snapshot of the outstanding work around the @eui-eu.bsky.social.
🔎 Have a look: eui.short.gy/NewsletterAp...
✒️ Subscribe: eui.short.gy/SubscribeHere
The 🇪🇸🇵🇹 blackout is making the headlines.
Our Florence School of Regulation colleagues explain what an electricity blackout is and how it can be resolved. They will updates as the situation in Spain and Portugal evolves.
fsr.eui.eu/blackout-hit... @fsr-eui.bsky.social
📆 On 8 May, the EUI hosts European Council President, António Costa who will deliver a speech on Europe's security amidst growing geopolitical turmoil.
Marking the end of WWII & just one day before #EuropeDay, the event contributes to decentralising debates on #peace & #security.
👉 loom.ly/BavFQDM
Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
07.04.2025 00:56 — 👍 5404 🔁 1483 💬 98 📌 53Nico Wilterdink has died. He was a classical member of the Amsterdam School of sociology. Historically oriented, strongly influenced by Elias. He was a very friendly colleague at @fmg-uva.bsky.social. He looked back with fond memories to the @eui-eu.bsky.social where he had been a visiting fellow.
05.04.2025 17:47 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
Book page with the text “Every age has its own Facism” Primo Levi
Seems about the right Saturday to take Madeleine Albright’s “Fascism - a warning” off the shelf.
05.04.2025 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tariffs are a tax on consumers, and fall more heavily on lower income households. If Trump uses these to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, this will be a massively regressive redistribution of wealth.
03.04.2025 05:23 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Martin Ruhs, one of the authors of the PRIME project study, gets you up to speed with their findings in just a few minutes in this new piece in The Conversation. 1/2
💡 theconversation.com/europeans-ha...
Is #migration simply a matter of "for" or "against"?
No, people have more nuanced views on migration management than they usually get credit for.
Our @mpc-eui.bsky.social colleagues surveyed 20,000 people across Austria, Italy, Poland, Sweden, & the UK to understand their policy preferences. 1/2
Fiesole Mayor Cristina Scaletti just revealed the logo of #Fiesole candidate 🇮🇹 capital of culture 2028. It kicks off a partecipatory process to define the project.
Project lead Paolo Verri: “you win with new ideas, not with heritage”.
An opportunity also for the @eui-eu.bsky.social community.
