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The European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID) project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research programme.

The EL-CSID project aims to advance the study of cultural and science diplomacy, and is led by Scientific Coordinator Professor Luk Van Langenhove at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Under the leadership of Professor Diane Stone, Warwick researchers in Politics and International Studies are contributing to Work Package 3 of the EL-CSID project on 'Cultural and Science Diplomacy: The Transnational and Collaborative Dynamic'.

On 7-8 March 2016, the first meeting of the steering committee was organised at the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The meeting brought together the members of the consortium to discuss the EL-CSID research agenda, work plan, output and agenda. Two representatives from the European Commission (DG RTD and REA) briefed the consortium on the H2020 programme priorities and the project management-aspects.

Visit the EL-CSID project website: www.el-csid.eu

Further information is available at: www.warwick.ac.uk/csgr/el-csid

Dzeneta Karabegovic, PAIS PhD Research Fellow with the ERC 'Contested Diasporas and Sovereignty' Project, has been selected to be a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

She will be finalizing her dissertation and presenting her work to the academic community there over the following few months. Dzeneta will also be presenting a joint paper with Maria Koinova at the ASN Conference held at Columbia University in April as well as chairing a panel she organized, "Between Disempowerment and Politicization: Exploring Nongovernmental Agency in Bosnian Politics" during her time in New York.

Congratulations to our 3 winners of an iPad Mini 4 - PAIS Finalists Rob Kraus, Gus Harris and Dani Marcheva.

These were won in a random prize draw after hitting our target of a 70 per cent response rate in the National Student Survey (NSS) by the end of week 2. We now need only 11 more responses to hit our 90 per cent response rate target and our big prize giveaway of an iPad Air 2.

All who complete the NSS online will also receive a guaranteed £5 on their Eating@Warwick card to spend in the Dirty Duck, Rootes Grocery Store, the SU and other campus outlets that accept the card.

Thank you so much to all our finalists who have completed the survey so far. Our 82 per cent response rate is an amazing achievement. If you have yet to complete the survey, please do so today at the direct link below. Your opinion matters and your feedback makes a difference.

http://www.thestudentsurvey.com/

So - will a PAIS finalist win the iPad Air 2, and if so, will it be you? Watch this space!

The Department is delighted to announce that Shaun Breslin, Professor of Politics and International Studies, has been elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences — Britain’s national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners representing nearly 90,000 social scientists. Its annual fellowships are given to those recognised by their peers for the excellence and impact of their work.

PAIS PhD student Jennifer Philippa Eggert has been invited to speak at the Warwick Human Right Forum this Saturday.

Jennifer will give a talk on "How to promote the human rights of Muslims and other minority groups" and will also sit on the closing panel.

Tickets are available from: https://beta.warwickhub.org/events/human-rights-forum/