We are delighted to announce that Federica Mogherini – the former EU High Representative and Italian foreign minister, now Rector of the College of Europe in Bruges – will give the first Europaeum annual lecture. This will be hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin on Friday 7th November, from 15.30 to 17.00 hours, at their campus in south-west Berlin.
The new annual lecture is an important initiative in the Europaeum’s ‘innovation agenda’. Each November the lecture will be held at one of the network’s member universities, on or around the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and coinciding with the autumn meeting of the network’s Academic Council.
If you would like to attend this year’s annual lecture in person, please email office@europaeum.org.
This year’s Europaeum lecturer:
Federica Mogherini was an Italian deputy from 2008 to 2014, before serving as the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in 2014 and as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Vice-President of the European Commission, from 2014 to 2019. As High Representative, she chaired the EU Foreign Affairs Council (of Ministers) and headed the European External Action Service (EEAS). She has been Rector of the College of Europe since 2020 and also serves (among many other roles) as a trustee of the International Crisis Group and a Fellow of the German Marshall Fund.
