WG 2 Coordinator

Ariane Landuyt, University of Siena

Since 1980 Ariane Landuyt is full professor at the University of Siena, where she is also directing the Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca sull’integrazione europea (CRIE) and the Punto Europa of the same University. Since 2000 she is Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration. Her interest for European studies dates back to the early eighties when she promoted a pioneer Seminar on European Integration at the Faculty of Law (degree course in Political Sciences) in the University of Siena which was followed by the holding of a “Jean Monnet” interdisciplinary module.

In the field of European studies, since 1986 she is the Co-ordinator at the University of Siena of Erasmus/Socrates programs of Contemporary History/European Studies, that group together more than 20 Universities. She is one of the promoters, and member of the teaching board of the Ph.D. in “Istituzioni, idee, movimenti politici nell’Europa contemporanea” which was established in 1988 by the Universities of Pavia in cooperation with the Universities of Genoa, Florence, Turin and Siena. Since 2000, she is also the director of the Master in European Studies “The process of building Europe” promoted by the University of Siena in cooperation with nine other Universities: Robert Schuman Strasbourg III, Panteion – Athens, Hannover, Salamanca, Coimbra, Jagiellonski Krakow, Montpellier I, Oradea, Maribor. In May 2007, she got the Silver Lifelong Learning Award in Berlin given by the European Commision for her top level research and for developing of the above mentioned trans-national, interdisciplinary and multilingual Master program.

As for her official charges at the European level, in 1999 and in 2007 she was nominated Academic Expert by the European Commission. In January 2008, on the invitation of the European Parliament’s President she is joining the committee of academic experts who is supervisioning the European Parliament Visiting Centre set up.

She is member of the following relevant bodies: the academic board of International Relations of the University of Siena, the Italian section of the European Community Studies Association – ECSA/AUSE and the CEIS 20 of the University of Coimbra.

She is co-director of the Scientific committee of the collection “Fonti e studi sul federalismo e sull’integrazione europea” for the publishing house “Il Mulino” (Bologna) and she is director of the collection “Europa, socialismo, democrazia” for the publishing house “Franco Angeli” (Milano). She is the President of the Scientific Committee of the review “Imago Europae” printed by the Europe Direct Service (Firenze Municipality) in collaboration with the CRIE.

She published several articles and books on European Integration History in Italian, French and English for Il Mulino (Bologna), Franco Angeli (Milano), Sedes (Paris), Quarteto (Coimbra), Editions Ouest (Nantes), Giunti (Firenze, Protagon (Siena). She is currently working on the development of the EEC/EU social policy (historical perspective) and on a collective project aiming to illustrate the EU 25 member States’ approach towards European Integration in History.