CEURO Blog: A Host in Two Countries

By Cassia Smith

Jessica Mrase in Belgium

Have you been reading our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe blog? We've been posting blog entries and trip perspectives from our students who participated in our "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs" course during the 2018 Spring semester. This course is part of our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe (CEURO) program, which is one of the EUC's immersive learning opportunities for students.

This week on Across the Pond, we're sharing student Jessica Mrase's reflections on her role in the 2018 Spring School. As a native of Illinois, and as a student who had previously spent time in Belgium, Jessica describes her desire to help her Illinois classmates discover the best of Belgium, and to make her Belgian classmates feel welcome in Illinois.

Learn more about the Spring School, or the CEURO program as a whole, on the CEURO website.

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CEURO Blog: Bonding with European Classmates in KU Leuven

By Cassia Smith

Prince with her classmates in Belgium

Have you been reading our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe blog? We've been posting blog entries and trip perspectives from our students who participated in our "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs" course during the 2018 Spring semester. This course is part of our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe (CEURO) program, which is one of the EUC's immersive learning opportunities for students.

This week on Across the Pond, we're sharing student Victoria Prince's reflections on bonding with her European classmates during her visit to KU Leuven as part of the CEURO Spring School. Read about how the busy Spring School schedule still allowed for her to spend time getting to know her KU Leuven colleagues.

Learn more about the 2018 Spring School itinerary.

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CEURO Blog: Visiting KU Leuven as a Latino

By Cassia Smith

Have you been reading our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe blog? We've been posting blog entries and trip perspectives from our students who participated in our "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs" course during the 2018 Spring semester. This course is part of our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe (CEURO) program, which is one of the EUC's immersive learning opportunities for students.

This week on Across the Pond, we're sharing student Alberto M. Burgos-Rivera's blog on experiencing the CEURO program's spring visit to KU Leuven as a Latino. He discusses a lecture given by one of the Leuven professors (who is a Brazilian national) as well as social events from that day, highlighting how much the European Union has yet to learn about Latin America.

Visit the CEURO website to learn more about the schedule of the 2018 Spring School.

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CEURO Blog: The Leuven-hosted Roundtable

By Cassia Smith

Leuven panelists l-r: Prof. Michael Smith,
Mr. Alexandros Papaioannou, Mr. Richard Tibbels, Prof. Simon Duke

Have you been reading our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe blog? We've been posting blog entries and trip perspectives from our students who participated in our "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs" course during the 2018 Spring semester. This course is part of our Conversation on Transatlanticism in Europe (CEURO) program, which is one of the EUC's immersive learning opportunities for students.

This week on Across the Pond, we're sharing student Rafael Rodríguez's review of the roundtable discussion that students were able to attend during their visit to KU Leuven. He outlines his own perspective and that of several panelists on transatlantic relations, particularly between the US and the EU. The article provides an interesting snapshot of European perspectives in particular, as they stood in March of this year.

Find videos of the KU Leuven Roundtable on the CEURO website.

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Illini in Belgium

A delegation of students and faculty from the University of Illinois traveled to Belgium in May 2011 as part of the International Business Immersion Program (IBIP), which featured a course and study tour focusing on European agricultural production and business. The IBIP Europe Immersion Program 2011 was organized by Professor Andrea Martens and Meredith Blumthal, and sponsored by the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences and the College of Business, and co-sponsored by the European Union Center (EUC) and the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

Pictured above: IBIP Europe Immersion Program 2011 students are joined at a Friends and Alumni Reception, including Baron Piet van Waeyenberge (front row, center), a 1961 alumnus of the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE); Maurice House, Minister Counselor for Agriculture of the US Mission to the EU and ACE alumnus from the 1980s; and Professor Emeritus Joseph V. Leunis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and ACE alumnus from the 1960s. Also pictured are IBIP Director Andrea Martens (front row, far left); EUC Director Bryan Endres (back row, second from right), and CIBER Associate Director Lynnea Johnson (middle row, third from right). 

Below, IBIP students and organizers in the grand square in Brussels.

Illini in Belgium

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