Study Tours
Do you teach? Are you a multiplier? Do you need to know how the EU and other international bodies work? If so, TEAM study tours and are for you. Our next tour is:
European Study Tour to Brussels 10th – 13th April Visit EU Institutions and gain an insiders view of the Parliament, Council and Commission and much more. You will visit the UK Permanent Representation to the EU, NATO, BBC Brussels, EU external action service and hear from the Council of Europe and other bodies.
If you are interested please call 01189 262858 or email info@european-atlantic.org.uk
TEAM Application for European Study Tour 10th-13 April 2012
The cost includes travel by Eurostar and 3 nights en suite accommodation with breakfast at the 4* Hotel Carrefour de l’ Europe in the centre of Brussels, dinner on the first night, lunch at the SHAPE club and all travel in Brussels.
Shared accommodation £165.00p Single accommodation £295.00p.
Do you teach? Are you a multiplier? Do you live in the north of England or Scotland? Do you need to know how the EU and other international bodies work? If so the May study tour is for you:
Study Tour to Brussels 21st-25th May to Brussels with the University of Glasgow
Visit the EU Institutions and gain an insiders view of the Parliament, Council and Commission and much more. You will visit the UK Permanent Representation to the EU, NATO, BBC Brussels, EU external action service and hear from the Council of Europe and other bodies.
You have missed a recent tour which we hope to run again. It included visits to three senior European courts: the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg and The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.
The tour which took place from 5th – 8th December 2011, visited the ECJ in Luxembourg where TEAM attended a case hearing and was addressed by the British Advocate General, Eleanor Sharpston QC and by Judge Schiemann. At the ECHR in Strasbourg the Court’s Registrar, Roderick Liddel talked to us about the workings of the court and some of the cases including recent British judgements.
TEAM was given a guided tour of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. There were Q & A sessions with officials working in and with the Council including Ambassador Eleanor Fuller, UK Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe.
In Karlsruhe there was a guided tour and explanation of the role of the German Constitutional Court by one of the judges, Judge Friederika Lange, and her colleague. Participants learnt about some of the differences and similarities between the German and the British judicial systems. There was much talk of recent judgements from the two European Courts which raise constitutional issues for the Federal Republic.
Participants also enjoyed good food and some of Europe’s most beautiful and magical Christmas markets.
Thirty people including university professors, teachers and law/European politics students attended the study tour which was led by Dr. Martyn Bond, Visiting Professor of European Politics and Policy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is co-author of The Council of Europe and Human Rights – an Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights.
” The tour was immensley enjoyable and stimulating” – David Snoxell, participant
TEAM’s April 2011 study tour to Brussels last year took participants to the Permanent Representation to the EU, European Parliament, European Commission, BBC Brussels and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
See participant’s feedback about our April Study Tour to EU institutions in Brussels:
“I am back in the US and sorting through the documents I gathered on the trip. It was, as they say over here, like drinking from a fire hose. One of the most inspirational events of my (academic) career.” James Dinnage, School of Law,Villanova University
“The tour was informative and I got plenty of information to help teach my students about the EU. ” Janice Ruppe, Citizenship Teacher – Bradford College.
These tours have received generous sponsorship from the Financial Times, the European Parliament, NATO and the US Embassy in the UK.
