From February 1 to 12, the Brussels School of Governance, in collaboration with the Vienna School for International Studies organised its first Winter School on EU Policy-Making. The Winter School is the virtual counterpart of our longstanding Summer School on EU Policy-Making. Nineteen participants joined the two-week intensive online course to learn more about EU policy-making, governance and law, and its relation to other international organisations. The Winter School had a special focus on digital rights, touching on policy discussions related to freedom of expression, data protection, disinformation resilience and cyber-diplomacy.
A special feature of the Winter School during the first week was the simulation exercise. We invited students from our partner universities in the EUTOPIA alliance to join our exercise and simulated the EU ordinary legislative procedure for two days with more than thirty students online. The students took on alter-ego roles as European commissioners, national ministers, members of the European Parliament, tech executives and media and negotiated three articles of the recently proposed EU Digital Services Act for two days. In the second week, winter school participants had the opportunity to interact with practitioners in the EU institutions.
The Winter School and simulation exercise are prime examples of our School’s aim to provide in-depth theoretical knowledge combined with practice-embedded and experiential learning, even amidst a global health crisis. Both the Winter School and EUTOPIA project are made possible with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
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