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Welcome Week WiSe 2025/26
Welcome to Magdeburg! From October 6–10, 2025, the European Studies team invites all new Master’s students to the Welcome Week with info sessions, campus and city tours, and social events. Join us to kick off the semester together!
New Chapter by Prof. Heidbreder on the 2024 European Elections
In a newly published book chapter, Prof. Dr. Eva Heidbreder and Dr. Daniel Schade examine the third application of the Spitzenkandidaten procedure. Their contribution appears in the edited volume The 2024 European Parliament Elections: A Turn to the Right in the Shadow of War (Springer, 2025), which analyses the 2024 European Parliament elections from various angles.
European Studies Master's – now also starting in the summer semester!
The English-taught Master’s program European Studies at OVGU is now open for summer semester entry. Choose between two specializations, study in small groups, and explore Europe through an interdisciplinary lens.
Apply by January 15.
More info: www.ovgu.de/European_Studies_Master
Master's Projects in Dialogue: Postersession at the Long Night of Science
During the Long Night of Science, two groups of Master's students in European Studies presented their current projects in a poster session. The first group focused on social cohesion in the context of Chemnitz 2025, while the second group compared EU enlargement discourses in Ukraine and the Western Balkans. The final results will be showcased in October during orientation week.
PROSPER Network Event in Magdeburg
Exploring Constitutional Dimensions of EU Fiscal Governance
On June 14, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg hosted the PROSPER Network Event “Constitutional Demands and Dynamics in EU Fiscal and Economic Governance” as part of the Long Night of Science. The event featured a keynote by Tiziano Zgaga (LMU Munich) and a discussion on EU fiscal reform, with the next PROSPER event to be held in Rotterdam.
