When it was inaugurated in 1834, the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) had 96 students, whereas it now has over 18,000. The number of faculties and schools also increased in response to the emergence of new disciplines and an ever greater number of specializations. Today the ULB provides teaching in all the main disciplines. It runs several teaching hospitals and administers research-oriented science parks.

As a university which is resolutely open to the world, the ULB is involved in numerous international research and development programs and cutting edge research projects. It has been honored by many awards, including three Nobel Prizes (Jules Bordet, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1919; Albert Claude, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1974; and Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977), several Francqui Prizes (in the pas ten years alone: Marc Parmentier, Mathias Dewatripont, Etienne Pays, Gilbert Vassart, Jacques Urbain, Marc Wilmet, and François Englert and Eric Remacle & Paul Magnette who received their prize for their research done at the IEE) and a Fields Medal awarded to Pierre Deligne. The ULB is a university of international standing which has carved out a leading place for itself in the international academic community during its 170 years of existence. It today enjoys a place as one of the leading French-speaking universities in the world.

Created in 1963, the Institute for European Studies of the ULB is one of the oldest research and teaching centre totally dedicated to the study of the European Union. It has delivered over 3500 specialization diplomas in European law, economy and politics, in over forty years. There are many Institute alumni in European Institutions, national and international public service, as well as in the private sector, businesses, research centers and the media. The Institute is proud of counting among its former students a European Commissioner, a judge of the Court of first instance, several Members of European Parliament and national Ministers.

The Institute is also a Research Center and a venue for Higher Studies on the European Union. About twenty teachers from the ULB take part in its research programs, along with twenty colleagues coming from abroad. Every year, the Institute welcomes a dozen visiting researchers from other Universities in the Union, from the United States, Latin America and Asia. Since 1998, the Institute is the Jean Monnet Pole in Brussels, and takes part in many research programs that are funded by the European Union, other international organizations and federal and regional Belgian authorities.

• 75 professors, accounting for over 15 different nationalities
• Over a 150 graduates every year, coming from a thirty different countries
• Near to 3000 graduates over the past 40 years of instruction
• A dozen specialized research teams
• Near to two dozen visiting researchers every year
• 1.273.140 euros in research contracts in 2002
• More then 50 theses are currently in preparation
• A dozen books and over 200 scientific articles published each year
• About 50 colloquiums, conferences and research seminars per year.

• Constitutional reform and the Union
  (coordinator: Paul Magnette)
• States structures and electoral systems
  (coordinators: Gérard Roland et Micael Castanheira)
• Political Parties and European Integration
  (coordinator: Pascal Delwit)
• Enlargement and Public Sphere
  (coordinator: Jean-Michel De Waele)

• Lega land economic aspects of competition
  (coordinators : Mathias Dewatripont, Marianne Dony, Patrick Legros)
• Asalum and Migration
  (coordinators : Emmanuelle Bribosia, Philippe De Bruycker and Anne Weyembergh)
• Micro and macro-economical chocs
  (coordinators : Lucrezia Reichlin, Marc Hallin and Philippe Weil)
• International Finance
  (coordinators : Marco Becht and Mathias Dewatripont)

• New Regionalism, globalisation and International order
  (coordinator : Mario Telò)
• International Trade, industrialization and development
  (coordinator : André Sapir)
• International Relations and Security
  (coordinator : Eric Remacle)

• Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Institut d’études Européennes

• WP4: Network of PhD Schools
• WP 5.1.1: Europe as a model of Regional Governance
• WP 5.2.1: Normative issues of regional and global governance
• WP 5.2.2: International Law, Sovereignity and Global Governance
• WP 5.2.3: Theoretical Issues on the EU, UN and Global Governance
• WP 5.3.2: Global and Regional Security Governance: Security Threats and Institutional Response

• Mario Telo (Coordinator WP4, WP 5.2.1, WP 5.2.3)
• Frederik Ponjaert (Junior Coordinator WP 4)