ACCESS EU represents a comprehensive strategy to create a community of well-informed opinion leaders, investors and citizens in the Hampton Roads region.
It builds upon the natural trans-Atlantic relationship long established in this major port area, enhancing awareness and interest through a systematically integrated, eighteen month program of educational, community and network building programs, forging strategic alliances between regional and European stakeholders.
The program is based at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Upcoming Event:
AccessEU European Union Simulation Conference April 20, 2012
How will the world's dominant regional organization deal with some of its greatest challenges? This event simulates a meeting of the Council of the European Union, consisting of the Foreign Ministers and State Secretaries of all 27 EU Member countries. The Council normally is chaired by the rotating presidency . In the ODU AccessEU simulation, the chair is EU President, portrayed by ODU junior Wesley Mayo.
ISSUES
EU policy on open borders and internal European migration
Action on Turkey’s application for membership
Unified responses to cross-Mediterranean migration
LOCATION: ODU Webb Center, River Rooms (behind the North Cafeteria). Please review the Webb Center Map and Directory and University Map for directions.
ACCOMMODATION: Overnight accommodations can be made at the Marriott SpringHill Suites, located on the ODU campus.For reservations, please contact the hotel directly at or visit their website at 757-423-4100.
Second AccessEU's Military Workshop Scheduled for June 1, 2012 - More information to Come Soon!
ACCESSEU's first Military Seminar Friday, Oct. 28, 2011: "The EU - A Military Actor?" exceeded all expectations. Nearly 100 participants from all walks of military life attended this regionally unique seminar, tailored to examine the increasing awareness of EU crisis management approaches and Europe's Common Security and Defense Policy.
The participants included a wide range of members of the Hampton Roads military community, including NATO'S Allied Command Transformation, the Joint Forces Staff College, the Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance and graduate students.
Internationally accomplished EU scholars such as Dr. Sven Biscop from the Egmon Institute in Brussels; Dr. Jolyon Howorth from Yale University, Old Dominion University's Dragas Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. Jan Joel Andersson and very own eminent professor and scholar Dr. Simon Serfaty discussed their research about the European Union as a military actor.
AccessEU: Upcoming Events
ACCESSEU Sponsored
Study Abroad Program Summer 2012
Europe and the European Union
BRUSSELS,
Düsseldorf, Berlin
May 14 -27, 2012
IS 795/895, INBU 695, 3 credits;
POLS 495/595
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Regina Karp: rkarp@odu.edu
Or visit: www.odu.edu/ao/oip/studyabroad
AccessEU: Past Events
World Quest Community Quiz
At the Chesapeake Marriott
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011