Gerald Knaus was invited to attend a dinner with the Russian opposition activist and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
ESI organised, together with the IWM and Erste Stiftung, its third Hittisau Seminar, gathering a small group of concerned Europeans in Hittisau in the Austrian mountains to discuss how impactful writing might change politics in Europe.
Kristof Bender will speak on 15 September 2022 at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) on a panel about “Ukraine, the Western Balkans and How to Revive the Broken EU Accession Process”.
Gerald Knaus was invited for a discussion on migration, EU asylum policies, borders, and human rights with a group of Dutch MPs from the foreign affairs committee at the Dutch embassy in Berlin.
Kristof Bender, Adnan Cerimagic and John Dalhuisen were invited to the European Forum Alpbach in Austria where they presented ESI's analysis on a revived EU enlargement process and on human rights advocacy.
Gerald Knaus was invited to participate in a panel on “Opening the internal market on the way of the EU accession? Opportunity for Ukraine”, at the Prague Forum 2000.
Gerald Knaus was invited to set the scene for the “Article 17 dialogue seminar on the humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine” at the European Parliament