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Customised seminars

Covering all aspects of European Public affairs:

  • The EU Institutions: how do they work and how to work with them?
  • Policy-making: Legislative processes of the EU
  • Management of public affairs & lobbying techniques: issue identification and monitoring; internal and external action strategies; coalition-building, structure and methodology of a lobbying campaign
  • Negotiation techniques: A role play simulation of a Council negotiation
  • Information monitoring: references and bibliographical sources; EU information on the internet; research tips and exercises
  • EU grants and loans: territory for EU lobbying; types of EU grants and incentives; basic principles of tendering procedures
  • Major EU policies and issues: EMU; Environment Policy; Regional Policy; CAP; Social Policy; R&D: 6th Framework Programme; Judicial and Political Cooperation; CFSP & CFDP; ACP Cooperation & Development; Trade & Economic Affairs; Single Market; Taxation; Competition Policy; Transport and Energy Policy

The customised seminars are:

  • Developed on a case-per-case basis, in close co-operation with the client
  • Of variable duration (one day or more)
  • Delivered by expert lecturers (officials and top practitioners from Brussels) either at ETI (including all services: catering, handouts, etc) or at the clients' location
  • Organised in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian
  • Designed for corporate or institutional clients
  • Offered with working group exercises of real life case studies

So far, ETI has organised over 50 customised seminars. The list of clietns includes:

  • Students of various MBA programmes or universities:

    • PRIME of Erasmus University, Rotterdam
    • ESCP- EAP school from Paris
    • Maastricht Public Affairs Master's programme
    • Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)
    • Università di Siena
    • London Metropolitan University
  • Participants of the JEM Programme organised by the European Commission
  • Officials from the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture
  • Belgian Federal Ministry of Environment (EU Presidency training)
  • Senior executives from Dow Chemical
  • Managers of CEFIC (European Council of the Chemical Industry)
  • Members of EURELECTRIC
  • Canadian diplomats

Several customised seminars taught by ETI's Director of Studies, Robin Pedler include:

  • Presidency training for the Swedish Government
  • Presidency training for the Finnish government
  • Seminars for the European Commission: diplomats from the candidate countries
  • Presidency training for the British Government

For more information on customised seminars, please contact us or phone : +32 (0)2 400 77 30
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