During his visit in Washington to meet the Association of Former Members of U.S Congress, the President Barón Crespo took the opportunity to participate in a lecture at the SAIS Johns Hopkins University.

This conference entitled 'Europe: Resilient or Doomed', was organised in cooperation with the European Parliament Liaison Office with U.S Congress.

The University of Cergy-Pontoise, France invited a former Member to participate in a conference on ESSEC Summer School about "The Global Manager in Europe" highly specialized in EU trade and economic affairs.

The Blaise Pascal University organised a conference about:"Europe and Sustainable Developpement".

The Blaise Pascal University organised a conference about:"Europe and Sustainable Developpement".

The University of Babes Bolyai, in Romania, organized an event about the European construction, its history and future strategy.

Thus, it wished to involve a former MEP as a keynote speaker, with whom it also organized more informal meetings with students.

De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom held a conference event with high school class on "European integration", lunch and network meetings, classes with law, politics and economic students and evening "European Question Time debate" attended by members of the public, University staff and students. The topics of interest were trade, human rights, foreign policy, monetary union and austerity.The attendees were high school students, BA and MA students, but also PhD students, academics and journalists.