The event had as its main theme "EU Environment and Climate Policy" and how the EU institutions work in practice and what factors shape EU's decision-making (concrete cases, e.g. EP-Commission relations, EP-Council negotiations, party politics in the EP), or the EU’s environmental/climate politics, or EU-Turkey relations.

The University invited a former Member to participate in the 3rd International Conference on European Financial Regulation (EUFIRE). The attendees were academics, researchers, students, practitioners, policy makers, business and civil society representatives interested in the topic of EU financial regulation.

A former member was invited to participate to the Summer Programme on "Parliamentary democracy in Europe", which was devoted to Parliamentary Elections and Democratic Accountability in the Age of Populism.

The XIII Congress of the Ukrainian Association of European Studies in Odessa developed a programme for academics, experts, civil servants, researchers and students interested in EU-Ukraine relations and EU affairs in general focused on: New Strategies For The Cooperation between Ukraine and The European Union in The Times Of Global Crisis.

The Georg-August Universität Göttingen invited a former Member to participate in the talks and discussions on: "The challenges to and of the European Union” & "The EU as an international actor and the changing role of the EU post-Brexit”