What is in it for you?

A paid traineeship of 5 months with the European Commission (or some executive bodies and agencies of the European Institutions like, for instance, the European External Action Service or Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation), starting on either 1st March or 1st October.

You will receive a monthly grant of approximately €1,120 and reimbursement of travel expenses. Accident and health insurance can also be provided.
Every year, there are about 1,300 places available.

If you are one of the selected candidates you get hands-on experience in an international and multicultural environment. This can be an important enrichment for your further career.

Calendar
MARCH 2017-JULY 2017 Traineeship
APPLICATIONS: 18 July-31 August 2016

Find more information on European Commission’s website

Annual Meeting of Chinese Association of Political Science & International Seminar

Time: Nov. 25-26, 2016
Co-Host:European Community Studies Association Taiwan (ECSA Taiwan)& Department of Public Administration, National Dong Hwa University

Call for Papers on EU Session: The situation of EU after Brexit

Contact Person: Novio Liu
European Community Studies Association Taiwan (ECSA Taiwan)
Tel: 02-2365-3457
Fax: 02-2365-7930
mailbox: ecsa.tw@gmail.com

Time：Mar. 30, 2016 (Wed.)
Venue:Briefing Room, National Central Library

Please return RSVP form to the Center for Chinese Studies of the National Central Library by March 27, 2016 via fax: (02) 2371-2126 or email: twjob@ncl.edu.tw

Time : Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Venue : VIP Room, Taipei International Convention Center (4F, No. 1, Section 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City)
Event Introduction :
With the support of Taiwanese authorities, the EU and Taiwan have been holding seminars on food safety annually in recent years to provide a platform for government officials, industry and academic representatives from both sides to facilitate exchanges on relevant issues. To strengthen bilateral policy exchange and experience sharing on food trade, the European Economic and Trade Office (EETO), under the framework of the European Business and Regulatory Cooperation Programme (EBRC), the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine (BAPHIQ) and the Agriculture and Food Agency (AFA) of the COA, EY, the Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), MOHW, the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT), MOEA, and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), are jointly organising this seminar on 9 March 2016.

The seminar will bring together government officials and experts from both the EU and Taiwan to share experience on four sessions: SPS audits and inspections in the EU and Taiwan and trading partner countries; animal disease control in the EU and Taiwan and regionalisation in the EU; border and behind-the-border measures ensuring food safety; as well as modern organic products regulation and best practices.

Language : English/Chinese (Simultaneous interpretation equipment is available with photo ID)

Event Registration :
Please directly click on Register Now or scan the QR Code and fill out the form.

URL: goo.gl/zOXvA0
The seminar is free of charge with online registration. Participants are kindly requested to register by 3 March 2016. The organisers reserve the right to bring forward or postpone the registration deadline.

Contact Person : Ms Chen | 02–2740–0236 #220 | info@ebrc.com.tw

The College of International Management and Business of Budapest Business School invites you to participate and submit your scholarly work in the 1st Scientific Conference organized by Budapest Business School in close collaboration with its Taiwanese partner universities and institutions. The conference is entitled as ‘The Current Issues of Economic and Social Integration – in Hungary and Taiwan’ and is dedicated to the topics relevant from the point of view of general development trends both in Hungary and Taiwan.

Date of the Conference: February 22-23, 2016
Venue: Budapest Business School, Budapest, Hungary

Submission date for the abstracts: January 15, 2016
Submission date for full papers: February 15, 2016

There is no conference fee. Budapest Business School will provide accommodation for many of the Taiwanese participants but due to our limitation the principle of first come, first served will be applied.

For more details contact: Prof. Janos VANDOR, Vandor.Janos@kkk.bgf.hu or the Conference Secretariat

The main tracks of the conference are as follows:

Section 1 Economic development and the factors of transformation

Section 2 Polity, politics and policies. Hungary and Taiwan

Section 3 Economic and trade issues related to the development of Hungary and Taiwan

Section 4 The media, the civil society, the questions of democracy and related issues

Contact:(02)2789-9875

The European Union Studies Association Asia Pacific (EUSA AP) is inviting papers for the annual conference and Postgraduate Student Workshop. The conference is entitled:

30 Years after the Single European Act
Wednesday, 29 June and Thursday, 30 June 2016 in Hong Kong


The conference will be multi-disciplinary in focus and we are inviting papers from a wide range of academic disciplines to look at findings in relation to the Single European Act and the Asia Pacific Relationship.

The conference proposed to discuss the following sub-themes in further detail:

External Relations of the EU
The Future of EU - Asia Pacific Relations: Competition or Cooperation?
Common Foreign and Security Policy: Problems and Prospects
The Eurozone Crisis
Future of EU Political Cooperation: Integration at a crossroads?
Limits of Institutions in solving cross-regional problems
Role of Cultural Differences in cross-regional relationships
Do Politics matter? - Domestic Political systems and the limits of EU-Asia Pacific relations
Energy and Security
Free Trade in times of economic downturn

Timeline

Call for Papers: mid to late September 2015
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 March 2016
Paper presenters will be notified of acceptance: 31 March 2016
Full papers to be submitted by: 15 June 2016

Postgraduate Students working in any area of EU and Asia Pacific relations or European Integration are invited to register as well.

Registration fees

A moderate registration fee of EUR 50 will be charged for paper presenters and Postgraduate students participating in the workshop. Registration for conference guests will be EUR 30. Registration fees will be charged via PayPal.The fee will be EUR50 per person.

Registration fees are non-refundable and will be charged at registration and submission of an abstract via PayPal. For more information and to register please go to www.eusaap.org

Time: 9:00-17:10, Oct. 22, 2015
Venue: Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance
Host: Ministry of Culture & Goethe-Institut