Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg at the “BUES International Week” (6-10 May 2024)  

From 6 to 10 May 2024, the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (BUES) organized its “2024 International Week” – including a wide range of scientific, pedagogical and public events focused on the past, present and future of Europe at a time of crisis and transformation.  

Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (ED-UNILU) had the pleasure of participating in these activities by organizing and inaugurating on 9 May 2024, in cooperation with the European Documentation Centre at the BUES, the documentary exhibition titled “Shaping Europe: the Story of European Parliament elections” realized by the Archives Unit of the European Parliament. At the same occasion, was disseminated in several linguistic versions the publication  “Europe goes to the polls: 45 years of European Elections”, also made available of us by the Archives Unit of the European Parliament, which traces the history of European democracy through a wide range of (multimedia) archival sources from all EU Member States.  

The exhibition – which was inaugurated in the framework of a “Young Citizen’s Dialogue” that the students from the BUES had with the Mrs Adina Valean, European Commissioner (2019-2024) – has remained open to the public until July 1^st 2024.  

In her capacity of Research Scientist at the University of Luxembourg, Dr Elena Danescu, who is also Coordinator of ED-UNILU,  participated at several research and doctoral seminars, organized by the BUES and its interdisciplinary research clusters during the “2024 International Week”.